| Show BABY BUTCHERS chicago claims an unenviable r dominenco among C agthe the large cities J of the union kastlie wast as the lie one w which bich has assumed the most scandalized aira airs about the he wicked mormons cormons Mor mons its politicians have undoubtedly ft a covetous eye oa on the offices in alie territory i its preachers are envious of the spread of the gospel of the lat as compared with the decline of faith in the sectarian ranks tan J land 71 it ita nen newspaper N men are arc cither either co to ignorant t to sec the tile true status in utah or too malicious to tell it to read the righteous resolutions of the politicians the pious protests of the pulpit performers and the virtuous editorials of the journals one might think P that chicago was the eldorado of virt virtue lie the paradise of morals and the abode of righteousness but professions of virtue are too cloak of practices of vice more than one cloven hoof is bidd hidden in under a priestly robe and more than one donkey occupies an editorial tripod the garden city when appears in a I light ight illy comporting comforting com porting with the pretensions of f righteousness as we have had bad ti k occasion to show before this one of the most execrable blotches blotcher blot ches in the social life an ulcer that is slowly poisoning the society r aice I dyste the sanctity of family in chicago arc are the horrible practices of abortion and infanticide antici i tl three of the most fatal fata I fruity of the e tree of immoral aty it appears that Chi chicado chicago cao t aspires to a sorrowful superiority in those deflating desolating vices hardly a day passes but what the papers record new nm cases and it is reasonable to conclude that the cases which I t obtain publicity are the small exception cep tion the cases that are made public however form forma a picture horrible enough to make the lover of his kind shudder the t t instance that has come to the surface of the daily topics is is the discovery of the terrible traffic in womans comans virtue anNn fant life car r ried on for a long time dime in the vicinity A a r of center avenue and van buren street by a woman named van this habitation i s seems e to have eave be been en a house of the most heinous horrors it served as place of assignation where men and women outside of the mar ariage relation would meet for inhere intercourse ourse to tin this s house came women by scores and many if not must of them belonging to the wealthier and refined social BMW strata to secure abortion cither either to hide bide the consequences of sin or to avold the unwelcome troubles of maternity from this haunt of crime also infants bom born under unde rits its vice protecting roof were taken out opt and laid at the doorsteps jn in distant parts of the city all these dreadful doings had been fai many months lust duider murder r vice and sin reveled undisturbed in this mansion of misdeeds the tile neighbors though it s ireci seemed ed impossible that they could long have remained in ignorance of the infamies amies going on in that domicile of diabolism refrained from making any unpleasant disclosures of the transactions they could well suspect was very neighborly exhibited great wealth tho si sin nand and patronized ie the grocers 11 g lit butchers chers and bakers in A a i i i i the neighborhood with a liberality which secured her their silence when at last the veil was lifted from the palace of pleasure alper d a horrible condition of thin things 98 was reveled and the investigation vesti gation is still proceeding unearthing ear thing more and more rottenness an d depravity itis it is to bo be hoped that the guilty woman and her accomplices will receive the heaviest penalties of tha law for her criminal course but this case from center avenue and van buren street is by no im means eai ns a an ln is isolated case the evil li has as octopus like lilice spread out its slimy arms all over the city and per pervaded vadd e all classes and ranks of society A well known doctor connected with rush medical colle college e told a reporter of the dally daily news that it was the experience of every physician that many of the diseases JY J Y na women U men which they are called u upon P to treat were the results of bf mig mis carriages and abortions showing allowing the alarming prevalence of the practice to prove that we arc are not purposely trying to paint the picture of chicago a moral decay blacker than it is in reality we quote the words of the doctor as reported by the contemporary named if women are informed cf of the dangers and of the serious effects it invariably had bad on their health they would not resort to cuch h means no reputable physician would eyer ever pen form an abortion except in cases where the life of the mother could he be saved by no other means and no reputable physician would ever advise a woman to RO go to auch such a place as that which mrs van appears to have kept there was no doctor docto r probably who had bad been long in in practice but who had been visited by women w who ho sought relief I in n this mani ner go so common was tho the crime that a physician ician who would yield to these requests could in a few years make an independent fortune but sooner or later retribution waa was almost certain to como come in the loss of lionor bonor and respect if not indeed life in the penitentiary pen tf tent iary those alo thus sought physicians were not a as s sometimes supposed unfortunate unmarried girls alone but were very frequently married women often in well to do if not affluent circumstances generally aly ho however weyer they were poor and only resorted to the physician boon cause they could not afford to leave their work the doctor said that of his own knowledge be had known of two women who had died from the effects of abortion which they bad tried to perform themselves and the picture it ho drew of tho the lasting evil consequence which inevitably ensued even though tho life of the tile woman might igat be saved was not a pleasant one n |
