Show r 0 AO CARE HE ron hOP WOMEN O t ft I Chita Chicago g o has a problem of or engrossing tt Importance Somehow women there y are not protected rhe They are arc nut not cared caret t t 4 for Ol with that degree pf QC sentiment jj which w makes offenses against the themi them i Y i to the the offender The Chronicle Chronicles s l y of at that city is a a conservative paper Iti It I i L ls j has always ays been Leen so It I is not moved by 4 political or partisan prejudice and antl andr r r what it says in the following para para- par par- r l graphs Is probably the exact truth There is no diminution whatever In 1 i the number of assaults on women and g girls ls in this city 4 J ill All Al the indignation meetings all al the theS 4 S- S protective societies te the increased liquor liquor license and antl the enlarged police polee J force the Indirect results of or the Hol- Hol lisle r murder have havo done no good good at att lster f t all Brutal assaults of this kind are arc 1 of or daily occurrence and one was ryas wa pero perpetrated per- per X o on Sunday in front of a a cath- cath k Ii edral Dunne and Chief Chie Collins Colins affirm af- af firm that Chicago is the be best governed 3 city in the country that there is less Jess here crime than titan in other clues cities and less les than the there there- ru has bus been even here in lu other years ears The he people on the other hand who have nothing to guide gulde them except except ex ex- that are arc committed the outrages all around them every evelY day feel sure al that this Is the worst st governed place I in Jn America that women are arc treated worse here than In an guy any other civilized country y and that th a t crime is on QI the Increase Inis In- In crease crease difference of or lamentable This is is a opinion because the ilia complacency with wih view this de depravity tle- tle the city which shows that no effort will be Iw wi made to effect a a cure curd It I seems beems certain certain certain tain that Mayor laor Dunnes Dunne's s administration history as dl distin distinguished tion will go down in 1 J of or treatment for the barbarous women on the Ute of ot Chicago Writers on sociology teach that the criterion of or civilization Is the tho position of or woman In n society and ant they would all a agree g roc that a city in which probably I women tromen al and girls arc are outrage outraged and the he murdered almost daft dally was In ht need of or r r. government of or Mrs Holler liol- liol mentioned case Rh The he e ordinary so li ter ler is so out our of the ly Iy unaccountable on the thy usual grounds grounts that It must bo accepted as a n condition of or public sentiment toward towar women The They t tell felt 1 us us us-lt It may tay bo be a beautiful tradition tradition-of tradition f of the Irish maiden maid en who walked the whole length o oher of her native island w wearing nearing about he heneck het neck acct a a string of costly costy pearls on and compelled compelled com com- b by the command of oC a brutal tyrant and oppressor sor to wear near no gar Car By obeying obeyinG his Iris command shenon sh she won non release for far h. h her r people And the rite SO story tells us that for fOl the whole Journey Journey Journey Jour Jour- ney never e eye e of man rested upon herAt her ller ter At a distance camo came her he women clad cIa 1 and anc praying for far her Before her went wen the herald lolling eln of or her hel approach An And not the lust for or money stoney that the pearls would provoke nor nOl the crueller crueler lust first for a sight Ight of her hel unhidden beauty beauly beau beau- ty ly could break down the native delicacy delIcacy del del- of or her hOI countr and antl the countrymen men they paid to her sex the tho highest tribute that lies les within the power of man The tradition may he be founded on 01 fancy faney alone along But It ft I Is a u t fancy none the loss beautiful none the less valuable as an illustration No o o woman In n Chicago Chicago Chicaro Chi Chi- cago caro could have met the fate of Mrs Irs Holster If even a modicum of or that lino chivalry had possessed the souls soul of or its Is ts men It IL I was because of the long long- continued d habit hahl of nit lyt caring carinE that a aman aman aman man could seize a n good woman oman In a a public street In daytime murder her hel herand and ant leave leav her abused body on a a pile pie of refuse at the door of his stable And Antl that Is the case Chicago has been very busy malting making mone money It I has been the tho ruling passion through all al the years ears of that city's life Jo How on long Jong It l will wI continue no one can say Sy But the better beter trend has not nol yet et changed ged the brutal nature stature of men Wren It I has been a part o of that ruling passion that a tine fine care acre for women has been lost lost The They have rave been beets forced d b by the tte very cry pitilessness of oC the situation Into competition with wih men for breadwinning ning and then have been placed on a physical level le el with men In Jn all al the walks of life A cabman woman ma may work If Ir Irhe f shy he will wi though the assent Is Js grudgingly j g-j given But she must stand up In fu Inthe II the street car unless she lights fights Ih first t to the seat seat And Antl If IC she stands she must take lake the risk of pressing her body Jose dose against that of any man who may have the price of or a ride Ilde Street cars on the surface and antl elet elevated are crowded at the rush ruh hours with wih th the elements clemente of unnumbered tragedies It I is not alone that the primal passions o of or men are cultivated by the contact but It ItIs I Is the sadder lowering o of the native refinement o of the woman She must know know and and openly confess hot her knowing know know- ing the ing-the the things over O Cl tt which refinement draws a yell veil vei the things v which care cre for lor women rumen would conceal from her if it it could The TIe sentiment is not oat alone In the cent cent five cent street car That That mone money hunger hunger hun hun- ger gel which dominates the city sense sens destroys de de- etro's the care o of or rich men for far women Manag Managers rs of or great establishments steel their hearts against appeals for Cor bracer better I w. it h u welcome wol- wol elcany el- el come cany to women but which tt would cost money And even the thy capitalist capi capi- whose fortune is Js s Increased from irom the labor of the woman tt whom hom he does not consider tells her trot frankly she must mast expect to win twin easier life lre b by easier virtue He Is not consciously infernal Infernal He le simply does not express the finer Iner thought because he does not know it t Crimes such as s white men commit almost dally In Its Chicago are not possible possible pos pos- sible in its the southern states because e use men there have never burned up with wIh the money passion their chivalric care tor women They have not nol made so s much mone money The They hat have o perm permitted ted untold untold untold un un- told natural resources to lo go undeveloped But Dut they have done one a better beter work for the world for tor Ute they have kept themselves pure from that brutalizing ing dehumanizing sentiment which does not permit a care for fOI women It I Is not trot that CHicago Is hopeless hopeless hopeless' If I some Lot were ere to to plead wih I Omnipotence Omni Omni- for the saving o of that sit cl city and antl were given Its Is ts release from impending im Im- pending pEntling destruction if Sf he would find Ond half hai a a dozen dozen or dozen r or halt half a a thousand thousand- who like Ilke himself feared God and ant did right the city would be saved sved There are arc in n its Is homes high and ant low torn man many and many men with wih the fine clean ce n I thought which Is womans woman's defense defenso and antl I blessing blesing Bul But opposed to their influence Is the active unrestrained commanding command command- ing InE sentiment of or brutal selfishness of or barbaric Indifference I of or be bestial tal prey- prey Ing It I is Js deep seated and fixed by bylong bylong long JonE custom And Antl it Jt I may require a alesson alesson alesson lesson such as will wi rouse the rho first sentiment sentiment senti senti- sent sent- ment on which hope can cn be built the built the bui-the the sentiment of fear of of personal punishment punishment punish punish- ment swift and terrible Heaven preserve pre pre- servo serve the tho laws Jaws but God Cod save the women And Ant If Ir It I be necessary to express express express ex ex- press In morgue statistics tho rho condemnation condemnation con con- of Chicago's Chicago's manhood for tor forthe the men who do not care then cars then law late lawand and antl men and nd women omen will twill wi bo be the shy better beter aw and antl the safer for the renovation There here is only one ono other wa way And that Is slow It I Involves the united effort of ot many men for the te protection o of women openly expressed d st sternly stated and antl not concealing tho rho the tl cure b by blood and antl Iron ton If Jf the lesson les- les son be Le not learned It I will twill wi mean the elevation of a better bolter beter motive than that o of mone money getting It I will wi mean moan the of women and antl the re restoration re- re oraton of ot men For tor they have rave gone far tar from Crom their their own estate when they can deserve the awful characterization the Chicago Chronicle has given them |