Show A REPROACH TO MEN IN THE early days of settlement when mormon rule held sway away and civilization is said to have had bad no influence in those mormon PY barbarism and lack of gentile fl refinement people never locked their doors at night and a woman could travel on foot or in a vehicle alone at say ny hour by daylight or in the dark without the slightest danger from man any departure from the strict ru rules lea of virtue was so rare that a ewe case of was a shook to the whole community that stirred society to its depths and caused greater sadness than a death the change that has come needs no description from us it is sometimes unsafe for a man to travel alone at night in salt like lake or ogden ond no woman ought to be abroad after nightfall without an escort we were led to these brief reflections by the following in the worth morth Amer american ioan review for january by oscar omar pay adams which shows up a state of affairs that is really a reproach to nun men and a disgrace to so called civilization iza tion think for a moment what is implied in the single fact that in no part of the world is it deemed safe for a woman to so go alone after dark nor in many localities 81 MI by day even it is not enough to aply that wo woman must have a trustworthy loa aculine escort because she is timid why should she ahe be timid under similar circumstances a man may fear the personal violence of an enemy or the loss lo 10 of his money and valuables A women woman has to dread mans wildness and the chances of the dark I 1 in plain words she fears that if man will seek to rob her of her honor and is in not thia fear of hers an arraignment of civili itself how much halter better does civilized man show above his savage brother in relation to this matter it may be urged that it is unfair to hold all men responsible far the lawlessness of a minority but bun what is this but to confess that the majority are powerless to restrain the minority or to ay that improvement io in this regard is ini p ow b le if in the vicinity of every lay large w e town in the united states there lurked r ed a dozen or more fierce wolves that after nightfall went into the town and ad banqueted ou on such of the citizens as they could secure we may without much doebet assert amert that such a state of things when once found to exist would come to a speedy speed termination termini tion yr Y for r ever every man would 2761 reel that the common safely safety of all demanded the exertion of his bis strength in the contest with the wild beasts but let it be understood that the honor of every woman is endangered when she goes from place to place alone at night and we accept the fact as no reproach on our common manhood but merely fancy that all requirements of duty are satia fied if we provide defenseless women with a responsible male escort |