Show A GREAT EVIL evly aa AND 1 at tg r renedy REMEDY eaird r THE new york berald is ig bertlie fertile ins nj re remedied medeA medes for advil it tit has al ways a I 1 ommer offer tor for e every very problem keav blat that teat is i narl leate if thie the icess uc ess tut tot its were vere vere equal lo 10 ethe athe the facility faculty with which they are produced be one ono orthe greatest benefactors of ol tee the raco race that has hm ever directed unremitting efforts towards the welfare of mankind but many of 16 rm remedies edlea fall fail when they come fo to be tested its prospective solutions often come far car shor short of problems intended to make cie clealand cle clear arand and its plans are sometimes ivery impracticable I 1 the berard herald 0 of f the ath dinst had an article anthe great moral problem of the gge age ago age the social evil eil ll 11 I 1 that called forth several place pace was found in its columns the corres pon dente deute like numerous others and a vast number of journalists seem to think they have havo discovered the causes and remedies of this terrible moral plague one ascribes the immorality of skew york to the boarding houses of that city in the female boarders are said to be gb arcely scarcely anything more than tousand toy sand band to the alln AlIn insane sammi passion for dress which ghie hns has is manifested by the women another places the bl blame biame ame with the police and asserts tb that thai atthe the first step to redeem nedeem lost women is to have a complete change in the police Ir department begin beginning nin g with the head P while a third who is an I 1 anti antl womans woman 8 rights old bachelor believes that the laws jaws are so framed as to greatly age marriages because they put an intolerable burden anthe on the male mate sex to sup pup port punt female vanity and love bof dress I 1 and holds that the surest way of pre 1 venting the evil is to edurge marl biages 11 this individual who signs himself morton hits nearer the truth over his fictitious name than nineteen out of every twenty amel amei orators of the evils under which mankind suffer perhaps no one thing shows BO so plainly the impotence of the leading spirit of the age in exerting exer exor tinga la t ruly truly purifying and elevating influence t than ban the attempts made to correct and restrain prostitution and remove the causes w which ich daiy dally increase its magnitude and make it more difficult to deal with plans are proposed and schemes tried by the hundred to keep the evil within bounds and prevent its terrible consequences but they are like ilke applying simple salve to the surface of a deep root ed and deadly ulcer trying to heal the outside of the sore sore to the eye while it continues to spread beneath ano and eat away the very life of the sufferer the fact is the age with all its boasted progress is still the slave slava of vf tradition and while smooth lipped priests klests deal in sugared and well weil turned P een ben sen en teecea garnished with tropes and ni metaphors tap hors and the abe mass of the people are led captive 1 in the bonds of this bradl tion with their eyes blinded so that they cannot see bee ee the truth as it I 1 Is s in its beauty there is little hope that anything effectual will be done by the nations of christendom to remove the cause of the 11 social evil the sin maybe may be decried from the stand and through the press pres as laws measurably inoperative eay gay be passed against it while legislators legista tors covert covertly lk and openly are its patrons institute institutions ions lons may be formed to recall back to paths of virtue the unfortunate sinners whose frailties necessities and confiding natures have made them the victims of masculine lust but while the causes exist which give birth to it the root of the evil is url ull untouched and irwill grow aia ana aid and in increate increase crealo creale in spite of every thing bo dodie dodde for its suppression suppress loni ioni an old heathen practice grafted bri bix anto to christianity with other lother asand absurdities bal atrit aught in pure kriby any of the been tie tle pleased ased to communicate to his servants servana 6 this thing has become a part of pt the be ilef lief of the nations which profess faith in christ and it hab haa produced a moral disease tha thai t has coit corrupted apted the foun roun fountains talus of ilfe life spread its baneful effect over thie the globe and thre threatens atena abe very existence of the ine rage race in those coul countries birle birie where it flourishes with greatest vigor monogamy is not taught in nor embodied in that christian code on which th the e ethics and jurisprudence of christendom are ostensibly sib fib founded un ded restrictions as contracted and unwise as they are contrary to the purity of the he gospel have been placed in the way of oti marriages and men have through tradition and narrow mindedness placed so go low an estimate upon the relationship lation hap ship of the sexes chilt that properly regulated regula ted plural marriages arb are viewed fro from m a standpoint stand point ino higher than that which marks the low groveling sensualities that reign paramount through the nations if the social evil ii is to be over overcome gome pome it must be by r the illiberal iberal ili lil and u unchristian cehris tian restrictions which now prevent marri marni ages and the passage and enforcement of stringent laws for lor the protect protection loi lor of female virtue and chastity Ift if herd there is a perfect equality of the bexes sexes and all desire to mate with single part partners nersi let it be so ethere is women or if a portion of the men med choose not to fulfill the great command to lawfully prorogate their kind let the statutes BO so stand that every woman may become a wife I 1 if she desires to do so whether she shei be the only wife or tile the additional wife of the man of her choice and throw the avenues of occupation open to td woman that she may employ the talents and abilities with which she is endowed for her own benefit and advantage do these and the natural purity of woman will manifest itself so conspicuously that her traduce traducers rs will be put to shame and that heartrending heart rending terrible sight a woman will cease to exist the temptation that leads ruin will be from fromherz hen her when she has a home and an honored wife and when the fear swift and condign punishment lascivious mon men from seeking her destruction ti truo truc tion J |