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Show THE WAGES OF SIN. A young girl, born here and educated in our schools, with her parents' consent frequented, night after night, the pleasure resorts and dancing platforms plat-forms of our summer attractions. At one of these resorts f-he met a young man who accomplished her ruin. Each party to the pitiable affair assumes all the good manners, the politeness and virtures of young Americans, and the public is regaled with long and prurient accounts recording the girl's shame and downfall: The girl in a public court unblushingly enters into the details of her reduction, and the scoundrely young man with coolness and deliberation gives his side of the wretched story, declaring that the young woman was to blame. Only a few days ago another young girl made an attempt on her own life in a Saltair batliing stall, unwilling to face the shame of her condition, condi-tion, and on last Thursday a girl, 18 years of age. attempted suicide for the same reason. Well, what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Only it occurs to us to point a moral. The parents who willingly permit their daughters to do as they please, keep company with 6trange young men, and go where they have a mind to go. must, if they be not fools, expect their young daughters to lose their good name. The parents who allow their daughters to keep company with any and every young man who knocks at the front door, who arc indifferent to what resort and with I whom they go, and care not. at what hour the young girls return home, cither knowingly, or ignorantly I ' ' ' accept the certainty that shame, disgrace and sorrow sor-row will sooner or later enter their home. However How-ever harsh the prophecy may sound, it is only a question of time when the daughter or daughter will not be marriageable. If it be not in November, Novem-ber, 1909, it will be in June, 1910 not longer. The drunken man who sleeps on hot coals must nurse his blisters, and the father who is blind to his daughters danger welcomes a broken heart. With the Scotch poet he may "wave the quantum of the sin' but he and his family may not escape the inexorable fate of public opinion. Let the parents who love their daughters keep them at home o' nights; or, if young men be permitted per-mitted to escort them to places of amusement, let the parents know something of the character of the young men. For the birds of prey who lie in ambush for the fledgelings as they leave their home for the first time there ought to be no room in society. These night-hawks threaten the social fabric at its foundation. The man who will entice a young girl from the path of duty and virtue, who will ply her with liquor to more easily accomplish her ruin, is a devil. There is no apology which he can make; no reparation, no apology, no remorse is expected from his devil nature. If he pleads in extenuation that the girl tempted him, he should know that she tempted him to play the basest role assumed by Hindoo thug or Corsiean assassin. Innocent or guilty, according to his own canons can-ons of conduct, he is still a monster feeding on female prey and living at the dire expense of social so-cial peace. |