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Show TWO STRONG POINTS OF VIEW - Society Dlvldsd Into Camps en Quss-tit Quss-tit a Tst Has Always Bee Con sldersd Important x"" No work under heaven la more Imperative Im-perative than the rescue of young and Innocent girls; no crime la more dastardly das-tardly than the sale of their youth and Innocence; no charity Is greater than that which lifts the sinner from her sin. Hut the fact that we habitually apply the term "white slave" to the willful prostitute as well aa to the entrapped child, shows that a powerful power-ful and popular sentiment la absolved from the shackles of accuracy. Also that this absolution confuses the minds of men. The sentimentalist pities the prostitute as a victim, the sociologist abhors her as a menace. The sentimentalist conceives that men-prey, men-prey, and women are preyed upon; the sociologist, aware that evil men and women prey upon one another ceaselessly and ravenously, hss no measure of tenderness for either. The sentimentalist clings tensclousty to the association of youth with Innocence. Inno-cence. The sociologist knows that pven the age-llmlt which the law flies is a boundary line of Innocence haa no corresponding restriction In fact. It Is Inconceivable that so many books ind pamphlets dealing with this sub-ect sub-ect -books and pamphlets now to be Found on every library sh!f. and In Ihe hands of young snd old should lare to Ignore the bslnnce of deprav-ty. deprav-ty. the swaying of the pndutum of rice. Atlantic Monthly. |