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Show j THE KAKK.NS CASE. Anetter terrible warning has been given to parents in the license allowed young girls in tin1? country. This Karens child, it iB said, a few months eince had a disagreement at home and went to Salt Lnke, it seems, without relatives or others to interest themselves them-selves in her late. She was a forward, well developed girl of 16. She was ultimately ul-timately enticed into a house of shame and ruined. Thus has another soul cone down to ruin which, with, proper parental care, would be today innocent inno-cent and pure with the promise of usefulness use-fulness and honor to the cad of her davs. In this case the worst sinner is not the vile hag who enticed her to the realms cf 6in, the keeper of the brothel.nor yet the unmanly beast into whose lustful arms the poor girl fell ; but the unnatural father who permitted per-mitted his inexperienced child to go off alone to a city to become fair game for the immoral men and women who ply their filthy trade where men do congregate. con-gregate. The law should lay unrelenting unrelent-ing hands on him. The relaxing of his parental care even, for a dny ought to be made a felony and punished by all the severity of an outraged law. We have two much of this thing in Utah. Children are permitted too much liberty. We often 883 young girls playing on the streets at night, away from the restraints of home. We see young girls going to dances with young men before they are out of short dresses aad while they are yet but mere misses. We would use this awful case of the Karnes girl as a loudmouthed loud-mouthed warning to parents. Discipline Dis-cipline your children. Respect them, govern them and beep them at home, or under parental restraint until they I learn how infinitely wor3e man aeam j is euch a fate as the one wnich has I overtaken poor Clara Karene. We dis- I like to admit that there are men so lost J to honor as the man Lynch is. Yet so J it is. 2So parent fills the measure of ! his parental duty who suffers his I daughter to meet euch men as this 1 Lynch or who does not exercise the ut- most care to preserve her from all danger of that kind. Stricter watch should be kept upon gins tnan Doya, 0 because ruin of this kind is far worse than anything which can ever overtake ! a boy. In this way it is that parents should be far more careful of their girls than of their boys. We would earnestly earn-estly use this dreadful occurrence to awaken an interest in the breasts of parents to the end i hat we have fewer of these Bhameful occurrences to report, re-port, Kot for all the money of Inde ;' would we sit down in that parent's chair with his reflections for one hour. Keep 5 out daughters pure and the world will be all the fairer, happier and brighter for it. The children of this I generation have too much freedom, too I many privileges. I |