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Show WHAT EXPERIENCE TEACHES. Fresno; California, in response to an agitation for the wiping out of places of immorality, drove the demimonde from a definite district. dis-trict. After the crusade, the discovery was made that an indescribable indescrib-able condition existed in rooming houses and the police of the city have been called on to do something to lessen tho evil. One of the leading ministers of Fresno felt duty bound to re.r.ark that the spread of vice was due to the over-reaching effort's of good, but misguided, mis-guided, people who attempted to entirely stamp out the affliction, and he advocated the setting apart of a segregated district as a protection protec-tion to the daughters of Fresno. From a community nearer home, we receive the same complaint. The Box Elder News of Brigham City, says : "But this is not the worst of it. Young people with such ideas of themselves, are not the kind that are willing to take advice of their elders, and consequently the counsel of father and mother is disregarded when it conflicts with their notions of how they should conduct themselves, and the result re-sult can be but one thing trouble. "In conversation with one of our physicians the other day, he stated that those who do not know would hardly believe the condition existing among some of the young people peo-ple of this city morally. He stated that things were becoming becom-ing alarming, and unless something was done, and done quickly, there will be many aching hearts and checkered lives in this community. And this condition do-s not asply altogether to the young people, according to the medical man, but it has made inroads in families wbn-e husb?nds are fathers of children and wives axe mothers of innocent babies. "It is an awful fact to admit, but who cm deny the facts, and parents can well be alarmed over these conditions." condi-tions." Any one who closes his eyes to the frailtie3 of human kind and proceeds to start a reform must sooner or later awaken to his blundering, filled with regret and misgivings. Towns like Brigham City, where there are no houses of vice, and cities such as Fresno, where the plague has been scattered, are sad examples of a Puritanism Puritan-ism which ignores the experience of the ages. Vice may be checked and lessened by bsing confined to a restricted re-stricted district, but it is only increased by being distributed over a community under the cloak of respectability. |
