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Show O.VLY SIX THOl'sAXDI Dr. Newman, in the Tabernacle, od Sunday afternoon, repelled as a blander blan-der the statements that are frequently made with regard to the extent 01 prostitution in monogamous countries, lie said : "I can prove that the figures representing prostitution in monoga-mie monoga-mie countries are all overdrawn." This was one of the very many things that he ''could prove," but didn't. lie goes on: ''They are overdrawn in regard re-gard to my native city, that tho gen-tleman gen-tleman brought up, New York, and of the million and over population he cannot find six thousand recorded prostitutes." pros-titutes." "Recorded," mark the word, and there is no registiation law in New York. The present census, returns re-turns show that New York has a population popu-lation of 814,000. Probably that is over a million according to the gentlc-mau's gentlc-mau's mode ef computation. It would be as correct to bay so, as were many other statements in which he luxuri-atad. luxuri-atad. Lot us examine his own statement, state-ment, by the aid of arithmetic. Two things must be remembered. We are not a clever mathematician, like the revereuJ Dojtor, and tho "recorded" prostitutes of Ne York do not number num-ber one in three of those actually engaged en-gaged in illegitimate sexual traffic. It' this latter point should be disputed, the proof will be forthcoming. By the census of lSod the entire population of New York county was 801. OSS, y.-e "census of the United States, 1 $60, "page 323 of which number num-ber liSJ,419 were chi.dien under fifteen years of age, or over one in three. The same proportion of children for the city New York now would number num-ber within a fraction of 285,000, leav ing a population ut o'J,lAW over hi-teeu hi-teeu years A' aae. There were, also, in lStiO, in New York county 58,503 persons over fifty years of a;e, none of whom, of course, could lie counted in the reverend gentleman's roll of ,-ix thousand; and the same proportion would give New York at the present time a little over 5'J,400 let u- .-ay M,0O0. Tho.-e under fifteen an 1 thine over fifty deducted from the entire population of New York, would leave an aggregate of about 170,000 As the gentleman claims the sexes to be equal this would givo New York 235,000 women between the very low age of fifteen and the extreme aa for the anbject under cjn-idorutio n of fifty. Of the-e the Rev. Dr. J."P. Newman says there are only 6,000 "recorded prostitute-;" that is, he claims it as a condition of purity in a largo c ty, where only one female in every thirty-nine between the extreme ages given is a "recorded prostitute ! I j ven laakiii-r due alio v, me ; for the prepouden'tn e of female-, it would te more than one in forty. But this us the u 'iit'emaii's ov.ii ftateiiicu", ai.d one at variance w"h facts. Tin rr a t; over tiri.!' : thoii.i ind kuo.ui pre-u:uo - in N..-.V o,k; while it is -ate to tot down the. uuruWr el women who are piivately kept by wealthy men, and ttho are i,ot oj only recognized as lewd women, at six ihou-fund ihou-fund more ; which would Liing the figures fig-ures down to or.e toman in every thirteen, thir-teen, in New Yoik, living in a state of unrighteous sexual Communion, and forced thereto ly unj 1st laws framed by men, which give man in every way the advantage over women, and force upon her too often the drcadl'ul alter native of starvation or an unvirtuous course. Ho low a vahie is set by law upon woman's virtue, and so high a premium is offered by society and winked wink-ed at by law for the gratification of li ccrtiounss in man, that tho stato of things described is forced to txi-t. We do not ca't the b'ame upon the noble women of New York, nor upon thu no ble w.inen throughout the nation, and exempt Trim the b'.une of sueh are suit ninety-rime, out of every hundred of the nnfortiria'e w ni"n themselves, while ce-tin:; tie o liiim where it be-Iodl'-', upon men who have produced ueh a roei.d l ondition, including men who have lh" audacity to Hpeak of r.vciy tbii le -n h w Mean in a reat city, liviii,' in 1 o . iolai ion of l lie luwi ol ri' ' ii-! :. il l '111 .on, t a model ol p ' : ! A 1 : 1 li her 11. i erabli I e . v- i 1 : employment, to find f . .1 . 1 ! 1 1 1 1 r s, ; 1 ; 1 I it a K-s t . ;. 'I ,..,. r ;, I ,er i: 'I abort loni ,1 e l'i r. . .11 . I. : I. f 10 publ.c. eon ii'!'' a'e n irl ;. l ,f. o' ,)ie revel 1 1 i , ' h . !. .i, '. .1 1 1. M i . - eall .it v l: ' I," I 1- (: .' . ly, :,. liou fir I e 1 I '10 "in h v., I ii " tin I ni'itti'i'y hi e I,. 1 It 1 ,o;i II,! fir : h"ir leu I 1 ,11 , ! 1 i 'I he vi-i;i m ,11 -ail t Int. I-' i . Loni w.l.i a population lias b six hundred and fifty courtesan.". Either the St. Louis police, who have just made the registration, are incorrect, incor-rect, or the reverend Doctor is. They say their books, show more, by hundredsprobably hun-dredsprobably Dr. Newman knows much better tha" they do. Dr. Newman also said: "You may go through tho length and breadth of this land, and in villages containing from one to ten thousand inhabitants, you ennnot find a house of prostitution. What land does the gentleman refer to? Utah? Oh, no. Probably the United States. Put give it a wider range, and we challenge the reverend Doctor to name one village ef five thousand inhabitants the average of what he has given in the United States, in England, in Franco or in Germany, where there is not found a woman who sells her person for hire. There may not be a "house," but the implication in the gentleman's remarks was, that prostitution did not exist in them. We are free to confess, this morning, that we never heard a man in debate deal so liberally in broad and unsus-taincd unsus-taincd assertions, nor one who made in the time more declarations palpably untrue. He is a man of talent and ability, yet even he, with all his ability, could not weave his web of sophistry so close but it was transparent to the most limited intellectual vision. Very probably we are not yet through vith the reverend Doctor. O |