Show FRUITS OF MONOGAMY the inhabitants of the city of cat sago have exhibited a great deal of vanity over the of isolate census which gives their city a kioa of over half a million souls tl alaio cenna baa however re healed some facts and features f the social life of the metropolis f the northwest over which there will hardly aa much pride be manifested A recent writer in the times has applied the unwavering lancet ot fearless criticism all th enormous ulcer of the social evil which is festering in rank growth on tho eo cial body of the world ingene raland of chicago in particular ilia unsavory investigations have led him to the alarming conclusion that including professional conventional and fashionable prostitutes there I in chicago abathe present day at least on lewd woman to every ten or fifteen adult miles such a ratio Is certainly something appalling indeed tho fountains of life must ba thoroughly poisoned chan amount of impurity and that in a city where from and hundreds of belfries the bells toll convoking the congregations to divin e worships and thousands of ministers of christ preach what they erroneously call the word of god delicate as the subject is we will enter into gome of the details of the disreputable tearing the mask of hypocrisy and the veil of sham from the hideous body of vice from a statistical statement it is learned that tha sum total of open prostitutes in chicago is 1200 which s at the rate of about one to every sixty adults males of the total population ula tion considering Corsi dering thu sum total with reference to the entire population it is at the rate of one of these orf orri women to every residents and estimated with respect to the voting strength there is let woman to about every fifty of tier sex in london there is one avow ed prostitute to every sixty men in paris that sinkhole of sexual impurity one to every fifteen and in large cities as a rule one to every fifty two this would seem tf make a relatively good showing for the morality ot the garden city but a closer inspection of the real condition of things will tell us that chicago is not much if any superior to the french capital only small proportion of the women who follow tho nefarious traffic live in bouses together and their number the above stated 1200 the ahmet writer a and wo think with veracity that the majority of women who follow prostitution as the sole or chief means of their livelihood is mado up by such who are found in apartments by themselves and benca it is perfectly fair to put the entire number of professional prostitutes to some twenty four hundred which will reduce the ratio to at least one of these women o thirty or thirty five of the adult population of the stronger sex but evan lne catalf 2400 does nolby any all those women iri chicago who are defiled oy connection with the profession of between the pro fessio ual prostitutes living in bag or in and the virtuous element there is a broad territory which is thronged thron ged by another class who are sarlota lar lota in every thing except the name and the open practice of courtesans courte sans this class Is made up of women of every grade of goci efy whore to pro tit ution from an inconceivable num her of motives therb are sewing girls clerks servants and others of hiis tiis grade iglio have an occupation and with whom harlotry is episodic arid who resort to it in ahe gaiu to add some dollars to their meagre honest earnings they live at home as a rule or in respectable boardinghouses but they have an arrangement with some of an iMs ignition house and are for when wanted above thin clasa in social standing but infinitely below it in morals is another which is made up of women who occupy respected positions in society and who have lovers apart from hair legal husbands tome times with thir connivance there are women who not being able to satisfy their excessive and eapen sire tastes with the means provided them by their husbands will bor row money from their gentlemen friends with the tacit understand ag that they are to repay the loans ot n kind but in such favors as ft woman can accord to aidan lia ibis claa influence IB bo most an fatal o the welfare of society and the sanctity of be domestic which society will be disintegrated and the state eventually crumble away counting en in we would assert that there i in chicago one woman to every ten or adult ni alafi sni J s co nii aj tipra lily n one of the chief of commerce and industry in a caty filled with wealth and constantly adding number of its inhabitants and the abundance of its riches no wonder that crime disease and mortality orta lity ro on the bod and gomorrah tyre and nine teli of old babore lucli corruption in yala are be chufa cro wiled on a goodly number of their frequenters belong to the very caw who defile manhood and ly tho celms narce connive at it and wink at it tey gay it ii if an evil a my evil and llie mortn radical mean pro posed for its control ia to register 11 ll ali arid have by physicians at regular intervals the glaring evil fl la hideous faco on the and the ircle of society tender youth and iiii arge aro blighted by i and ina ron seven dmd lo 10 it no lc than male sinn cra truly it requires alie satirical pen of n juvenal or the thundering voice of a john tho baptist to depict or dc the grosa enormity atthe corruption and hi is a christian country these are christian hoople thai arct proud cathedrals and ele gant chapels hiro tongued ministers and join in stereotyped prayers and believe they can deceive hiim eye penetrates all shams and through the and from such too arises the cry and halloo the cormons mormons Mor mons and their unholy nn holy practice of polygamy from such the crusade against this practices tend to purify became they are of divine origin Foel icide abortion seduction adultery fornication are the fruits of their christian monogamy and diseased children with the germs of early death are it purity and virtue in tho domestic ciralo largo numbers of healthy strong bright children absence and freedom of the evils and vices of the world are the fruits of celestial marriage or as they call it polygamy indeed th light chineth in the darkness and the darkness comero compro henneth it not they have eyes and seo not they have oars and hear not they at least the advanced and unprejudiced of their thinkers acknowledge the evil excrescences and consequences of monogamy in general still they deny and d bounce the efficacy of the only remedy the only panacea which will restore life and vigor to families and durability to society |