| Show tar tab missionary LABORS new drw aud nud add arid chicago havo have both waked up op to the immoralities which i have been foursome for oon time concealed in their thein opium dons dens they arego are going to work with praiseworthy alacrity to root out the tho evil it is to be hoped that the virtue thus displayed will prove to ha ba something eom bom ething bettor bottor than the spasmodic exhibitions of omm off iclal official vigor which usually characterize their attempt attempter ir at vocial social reform at utho same time timer that chicago was vas was wag going wild mccause bebau se bome some men ig hi utah were permitted to live in peace with more wives than one and the clergy of all ali denominations in new york were urging legislation to punish istEr ts in the territories in addition to the regularly established permitted and recognized social bodal beille in their own those cities pelo peio harboring nests ot of immorally that am are sickening to read about father earry barry vim lim CA catholic tholie priest who has been pointing out the places where those these horrors exist in gotham chami declares that hs xa knows of a hundred lu girla who ha hayo bayo 0 meen beell teen ri alried inthe in tha opium dens dells of ono one street mott street within a year trials this thia is the testimony of one man only la in regard to a single street the great cities of this chriatian iund lund A little reflection upon wb what whai at Is known of the effects of the stape tying drug in which the mongolian most moat delights and which white folks are adopting to a very great extent in the eastwell East will sue bue suggest agest how grea gren great tare are the opportunities afforded for one of the worst abominations in the dens devoted to its indulgence A new york merald berald reporter gives somo bome shocking details and says it the facts ascertained about the modus operands ope randl by which scores of girl girn have been lured to physical and moral ruin are startling in the ex in one den don in pall street which Is conducted by a hag of th the most moad depraved type there have bez been girls of from ten to twenty years of age ruined in a murky back room UD no a still murkier flight of stairs is ii the den while the front room serves as a sort boit of parlor here it Is that little girls are induced to first tate the fell drug which is in tended to pave the way to worse vorse sin in the victim Is coaxed upstairs by some one who knows herand once in am among ong the haggard slatternly young creatures who have already been wrecked they are induced to try a pipe of opium the delights of the trance are described and anci the girl tries out of curiosity her first few pipea are smoked in a ceremonious way with every one looking on and urging then a young Chinaman who knows how to roll the opla opium m and fix the pipe is introduced bbs a companion As soon boon as the girl has become addicted to the opium habit her ruin luin ls is is 19 easily accomplished complis hed and thus it Is s that the mournful wree wrecks ks of 9 girlhood girlhood sit bit in the darkened room in poil eeli street and waste away their young lives J helpless hel hei pless plesa victims of the uhlmer den dan keepers and their customers customs rs A school trustee who lives in pell street another resort of the opium fiends stated to the reporter that he personally knew mew of many little girls who these dens said he ril rii 1 I have only to look out of my windows and into the windows of the houses across the street to see bee sights that are actually actu setu ully bily blood curd ling these chinese dens are the moat most dangerous places for young g girla ris in the city and the tho r batem they employ in decaying decoying deco ying victims is astounding in its evil results I 1 am ik a father myself and I 1 would not make charges lightly but one halt hait of the terrible iniquity of chinatown has not been exposed i to break up the resorts of tho the devotees of this deadly vice is good work for the municipal authorities in every place where it is practised practiced and to teach the people to avoid the evils which abound in the cen tres of civilization would be a much better work for so BO called ig christian t ministers than inciting their phara pharn saie sale followers to ineffectual warfare upon a comparatively pure and untainted community like the sa mormons cormons Mor mons 72 7 and even bupp osing the people of utah are as heathenish as the genteel egotism of christian orthodox intimates the following remark of the new lew rew york key Ker herald aldIs alais Is very apropos in this connection tion to keep wea vea weak k but respectable girls from being drawn by curiosity and greed into the criminal classe sr may not be as romant romantics la work to the sentimental religious eye as sa coaxing a few heathen into changing their belief but butitta it is far more like true missionary effort |
