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Show ! SOCIAL OSTRACISM- 7 In final analysis, the only excuse advanced lv? the advocates of race suicide and of divorce is individual indi-vidual sensual gratification. In considering these questions the utter lack of modesty and the coarse vulgarity of these same advocates if not always in diction at least in thought give them a marked advantage over defenders of the right. Decency prevents the latter from following to the low levels of realistic discussion to which the former descend. de-scend. Iteration and reiteration seem to have calloused cal-loused the ear of decent people. Statements and talks which ought to call forth the severest rebuke as utterly unfit subjects in the presence of modest or merely well-bred people are allowed to pass without with-out censure, iust imagine a supposedly reputable magazine styling itself "The Ladies' Home Journal," Jour-nal," which prints over a million copies, which are read by five million persons of all ages; a magazine maga-zine that purports to be a teacher of refinement and a prophet of light and sweetness, coldly, brutally asking one hundred unmarried ladies to "express some opinion on the subject of large families" and summarizing the answers thus: "Large families not very popular." "On the whole, large families seem not to be greatly in favor, and yet many of the girls express themselves warmly on the subject." The condition of blunted moral sense which makes it possible for a fashionable journal to makes these inquiries as though it were a proper subject is ap palling. The matter-of-fact nature of the answers reveals a worse situation! Pagan Eome, in it3 worst days, did not go much farther. There are crimes against morality which do not admit of ordinary analysis They arc simply declared de-clared crimes, and, when proven, punished. So should it bo with the class of offenses under con-sideration. con-sideration. It is high time for the good, moral people of this country to act. The duty is, if possible, pos-sible, more incumbent upon the women than the men. They should assert the superiority, the rights of virtue over vice. They should proclaim that virtue vir-tue is respectable and must be respected; that th social evil, public or private, is an abomination and ! must go into hiding at least. The good women have an irresistible weapon with which they can knock out this evil in public. It is social ostracism. Let every known immoral man or woman, let any person per-son who fakes a second so-called wife or husband during the life of the former partner, let every public or private advocate of race suicide (an euphemism eu-phemism for child murder) be placed under the ban. , Let all good women in every social rank refuse to have anything to do with those people, and in a short time wc will hear no more of them. If they do not reform they will bcharred from respectable associations," they will, be compelled to flock by themselves. Poison, when properly, labelled "'poison' "'pois-on' is not nearly so dangerous as the disguised article. ar-ticle. Women! have tho courage of your virtue and compel virtuous woman's rights respect. You have the power, therefore to lead this crusade for true moral reform. . f |