| Show THE SOCIAL EVIL A profligate san XAN CE in the tilo last weeks independent win vm lloyd lioyd garrison has a slashing article against the st louis social evil ordinance we ure copy a few paragraphs its object is to prevent the tile spread of a certain contagious disease arising from profligate sexual intercourse but instead of dealing t with the cause it takes cog cognizance cognizant nizan ce only of the effect and for no other reason than to secure to male libertines as faras far as practicable exemption from personal risk in the un unbridled indulgence of their lusts it is a regulation of lewdness in the guise of a wholesome sanitary provision but really in the interest of lewd customers and patrons nor is it merely a regulation but it is an official legalizing of I 1 houses of ill fame and of assignation and also of all bawds balds courte and prostitutes within tho the city of st louis provided they comply with the rules laid down for their thein observance this ordin ordinance arice alice is one sided invidious proscriptive prescriptive in violation of sacred personal rights and an abomination in the sight of heaven but the unjust no shame for it the tho professedly christian city of st louis crowded with churches and busy with religious rites and ceremonies is is responsible yet so low is public virtue within its circuit there has hag been no strong moral uprising on the part of the inhabitant inhabitants for the immediate repeal of this tills demoralizing edict woe woo woe woo unto them that decree unrig unrighteous ni itchus decree sand that write grievousness which wl ilch lich they have prescribed I 1 no matter matten what may be the law of license in st louis bouls L oui whoreson who whoremongers remon 9 ers and adulterers aa god will judge for whom are these houses of or ill iii fame and of assignation to be licensed and guarded but for men men afen of sensual desires and lewd practices men of high gand low estate men false to their marriage vows men who hold out liberal pecuniary inducements to pro caresses cu to be on the alert to inveigle unsuspecting and innocent maidens ler ier is especially if without parents or guardians into their quarters qu aiters alters being the way to hell and going downto down to the chambers of death that the pleasures of a fresh debauch may be theirs men insensible to shame or Pr wearing a virtuous mask 1 n public while secretly engaging in fornication or adultery men who are as desti destitute lauto of all true respect for woman as they are of personal chastity these yea all of the tile mas masculino masculine culinS gender aie are permitted to indulge themselves according to the measure of their carnality for them there is to be no reg rog registration istra tion or espionage llo pio JIo nage 0 no physical exploration no rio b barrner barrier to lascivious cohabits i tion however personally diseased no identification or publicity no brand of infamy as in in the case of frail and fallen women yet there is not a house of ill III fame famo or of assignation si nation for which they ale alo are aro not directly responsible and without whose patronage it would not be sp speedily cecily closed the guilt gulls is mainly theirs forin for nor in most cases pases they are the seducers and a score of them may be counted for every courtesan they have one standard of virtue for themselves and a different diffie rent one for women if one of the latter wanders from tle tie the path of vi virtue I 1 etue no matter mitter how extenuating extent at ng the circumstances cum stances they bitile pitilessly ssi y misuse her and then give ner her her over to damnation but they tiley may debauch themselves and yet aspire aspile to respectability ability and gain it too regarding the opposite sex as having hawing no ruglas rights which they are bound to respect any further than they prease please A somewhat similar ordin ordinance anco in great britain with particular reference to enlisted id soldiers diers has awakened such a storm of moral indignation dionas as has never before been witnessed millions of tho the virtuous women of that island bland belna beina moved t to call for its repeal by every consideration of decency justice and equal right let american women prove themselves to bo not less lees deeply concerned or less lest earnt earnest than their transatlantic trans trang atlantic atlantie sisters in the same righteous cause |
