Show M A suggestive INCIDENT hor horrible rille situation of poor huldah SiH ionson the unsophisticated corwe gian girl an account of whose ruin ap pears in our local columns colam ns is suggestive as a warning to young women it should also prompt those who are interested te in the welfare of the unwary liable to become a prey to the low unscrupulous and debased to take measures to prevent so far as possible such beart fearful al occurrences it has been held up as a reproach upon the latter day saints that they were opposed to to young girls inexperienced in the ways of the world hiring out to families who ate are not in the th church we are afraid that that which was intended as a reflection but which seeing it could only be prompted by a pure motive is rea really ily a credit is not as deserved as it ought to be whatever influence has been used in that direction has been that the objects of solicitude be shielded from dangers to which they were liable to be exposed of which the case of huldah simonson 31 monson is an exemplification it is tot not because there is an idea that there are not moral upright and i respectable pec table families outside the pale of the church A view of that kind would be incorrect but the question of danger or safety is not easily e ascertained a S c therefore as a rule asilla it is I 1 a safer ater e for girls who hire out to ao go into families of their co religion ests the danger which has been frequently exemplified I 1 lg any other course may not nea me 1 21 exist in the family who engages engage eal ane services of a girl but from consequential associations ciati ons more liable to be formed from the connection than if she went among those of her own faith who directly as a religious duty are interested in preserving her from moral injury and it may not be denied with truth that there is a class of debased creatures claiming to be men mea in this city who look upon mormon 11 girls as their proper prey in this regard we have looked upon employment offices as being unsafe places for young and unsophisticated girls to td apply to when they desire to procure procure situations those who conduct duct that chat kind of business however well die disposed posed they may be are not presumed to be very exclusive in ia relation to the class of persons they undertake ke to supply with female help through their agency doubtless doubt legs numbers of young women have formed associations t one that have made of their faith their virtue and all their earthly prospects as well as jeopardizing their eternal well being it would not hurt our feelings if leading keiL ding people of the church men and women in the wards should take a courso coursie to be a little more de herving berving of what has been hurled hurleda at the latter day saints as a reproach A degree 0 of exclusiveness when it is in the interest of the protection of ef the innocent to prevent them if possible from ung being led into temptation they are unable to resist is not only pardonable but commendable and only the senseless and depraved will denounce it whatever is done don should be systematic otherwise it will be ineffectual to protect the innocent from becoming the victims of the vile is a sacred and responsible duty since the foregoing was written we have received word from froin a gentleman who has taken an interest luter ssi in the subject of a startling state of facts which sustains fiu stains the view we have taken and urges the necessity lor for the taking of protective steps and precautions an investigation shows bows s that during the last few years there have heen been in two wards alone in this city the and twenty cases of illegitimacy the victims being mormon girls and aad the seducers non mormons cormons I 1 our informant is in possession of the names of the victims if this startling showing will not awaken the latter day saints to a sease ense of toe the d danger anger to which young women of their faith who hire out as helps are exposed surely it would take something skin akin to an earthquake to produce me effect |