Show SOURCES OF defilement kocz startling fact facts were developed in a lease case examined today to day before U S commissioner mckay it is referred to in our local columns the charge against the accused being threatening to kill the case itself is not so serious merim as the developments alluded to it appeared with more or less plain adaa that there exists in the nort northern hern wt of this city a house bouse which is a sort of moral pest furthermore that isa is a I 1 rendezvous for a number of men or lads the reason for tort beir being attracted there must moat be too obvious to be ignored in the tes 1 1 adduced the names of several i ot of that class of frequenters frequenter 8 were given all of the parties being members of respectable families of this ci city ayi the place is evidently one 0 of those unclean dens that operate as radiators to dispense a moral miasma to poison the status of young people over such dens the courts not only wield a species of protectorate but they also hamper the lesser local authorities la in their efforts to extirpate them whatever ver power may be left the subordinate bordi nate authorities raould however be exercised to the fullest possible extent that such moral cesspools ces spools may not ot be e permitted to flourish it is impossible to estimate the harm they are calculated to produce not blot only do they exercise an immediate sinister influence but every young man contaminated becomes a centre of moral contagion among his companions and thus is the number of estraya from the path of purity liable to constant multiplication the tie increase of the t e dangers augers to which w ic the youth are exposed ex ased I 1 is tied sad to contemplate te late an and every means eans that can b be conceived conceive by the good pure and thoughtful to decrease and mitigate them should be applied at presents present their obliteration is an impossibility |