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Show A CROWING EVIL. A icvoluii'-n !..')!': tin in :ti ro I.O-- 1 K'-UiM tii:ui ill -it jf ll.! l'jri-(Juliiluuin-, i' nj-'tr-lli ill ll.'i U: ,uhlic of ill.: L'i.iii-il St:.:-., u .ported ly iiiornry, l,iliry and a rapidly iiiuriai iiu p-.f.i-o i .fii.'j '- ' I'. i a rcv luiiuii ftLiuh a.mi al owrtuiuiiiK t!.-wjci.il t!.-wjci.il y -l. m, i'l 1 I r.,ji e-il,li.il.-, iii).' a con'liiioit i.t - wKi' li ii " liallinlrii au' 0 p i lu a. I " jr lli:ori't. that lli : ii.-T.: ptl-uln " .-it .i tlri fir., .t I- jn. It n ay li tli'iivlit ll.ut a.-.; cmjiriii-: u;i an iu.;iiii.iiy f-jx c'm: i.l' .-'.il, iiii'l riiiini; llie try ill' r' V'i!uii iti In ii ili. ro i no f.mii.Jatiori f r vi.:li mi ii un.pti.ji., liui lltt:re rn tmI ai.l liioo-iin-n r:voiu-ti'H.i r:voiu-ti'H.i ai iin"rliiit t p'iii'-al ai.d Ll.io.ly on.:?, an l ilii.i tlrtt n.!'.r tu ii of lli': f.irin'-r Lii.'l. Tin: nuw.-.J olj-.-t if c.riuiii J it v aiuton (.!' ii.'! woman' a rijiti qn.-.-i-lioii, daily li.o.m.i', in. no tidily pro uouuccj, U llial of liaun t lit: mar riuf (Mveiiaut oliijip' J nf a!l il-i jjorc'liu-v aii'l Lindiiirf tl.ai:i'iir. I: in fiuiiLly aniKiuni-i'l, in W'iotllut'1 it Cl'idiii'i W'ctk'y, tliat " lova uiu.it La I'ne," Kicli in ii.ii If ii coinxt choukIi; out wlicn al'ii. 'l t the p.iiui.m lliat llir lime Uiuar at Laud wlicn a uiutL.r mil rent under id Hii:uia i'..r b'jinjj a mother will. out BuJI.uk, ami tliat women will liuve tlio rrciitfiiizi'd ri.nlii to choo-e tlio lailii-rs fir tlicir children aii'l a ililTcn nt lail.cr for each child il they feel mi di.-poxd, llio viruj coniain-rd coniain-rd in tin: w.nih " lovo tmi-t te free" in apparent. TIi'h is " IVco luvu" ol the broaJoil uuJ moat undi ui-cd ; kind, and lliu woman ttho lliuj plainly advocate it ii reiu-u ii d as a leaJir among tlio woman's 1 iliti parly. Apait from tin: t-ocial bcaiinij ol the nul'ji'i't it lias usiuuicil a poiilical as-lull, as-lull, ami tiuit lie trcatcj ll.'i any uiIkt poliiicul (pii'ilioii. It ailviKMtes aro daily aii-menting tlicir stii'iiKili, and upi'iily propo.io a ri'Volution of this .iwei'ping charai'tcr. It may he deemed 1 proper ly tome, lo .-neerat thee women eonvenliui., and eall I In m ''women ihrieUT.V " erowiin; Intiri," "strong-minded," "strong-minded," e-., hut the iiillueuee ol women l'"i- g.md or evil, in it i-direeted, i-direeted, ii u lu.iti. d hy all men ol intelllpdiicc and ,-ound .-en-e. Iho wo men of the pu.-ent generation mold tlio (lioii(;lil.i and iulhienee the eoui.-e of tlio next (;eiier.ilioii, and if sueh ideus of nioraliiy or immorality are openly uuJ lro:'.ii'.y udveeated and iu-culeated iu-culeated now, what will he the result when the present r.iee el li-pins liule ones fhall Ivive leaelud years when they, too, will individually set thiir parts in the yn.il drama of lilV.' 'e have ever been an udvevaie of weio:. n I'lijoyii's' tl'.e ino.-t exiended rights ivmpaiiUo wiili her ea'iaeiiy. That is: wo lavor her havini,' the riitlit of snlVruge, and tliei i.lu to enter upon aud fellow any employment for whieh fho has mental and physical ability, her pay for work to bo as mueh as men revo'ive in the mine line who do no nioro work and do it no bi'tter. But this kind of "right and liberty," advocated by Victoria C. Yi'oodhull, is not liberty; it is liceme, aud leads to tho uiot ignoble slavery that of the appetites and lusts. It is a proposition to sanctity by approbation approba-tion a loosene.-s of morality whieb would reuuho a keen casuist to show a distinction between that and prostitution. prosti-tution. It vreu'.d render the martial relationship a farce, destroy tho bo'y ties biudir.g father an 1 offspring, and open a door for a tbod of fearful evils to overflow the earth. Nor e-iu it bo legislated away. It must be met on its own ground and its hideous deioiuji.ies ciposed, by tearing from it the web of sophistry in which it is sovght to be enveloped. Aud there are none so Ct to do this as the noble, virtuous women wbo?e purity and integrity are thus assailed, mud whose yeuug daughters are grow-in? grow-in? up to be exposed to this deadly mwal verus. In them lies the power for arresting a revolution with such baneful objects; at.d future generations genera-tions will have reason to b'.ess or ban them as they perform this duty or shrink back aud leave it unperformed. |