order. So I expected to find society
in a still worse moral condition now. I have been here
six months, and, in justice to truth, I must state the
facts even if they show that my previous opinions were
incorrect. To those who study the people closely in
regard to sex matters, I can say truthfully that sexual
excitement has fallen fifty per cent., and that obscene
pictures and stories have no attraction for the people.
The low places of amusement, that used to be run under
the name of 'Variety Theaters,' and other such names,
are closed up, for the reason, as a former proprietor
of one of these resorts expressed it, 'A leg and bosom
show has no attraction for the people since the C.I.
has been in operation.' Houses of prostitution are
less in number by forty per cent., so the chief of
police informed me, and I saw a large number of them
closed. The low dives are closed, and places where
girls made exhibitions of themselves for the sole
purpose of exciting passion in man are no more. They
died for want of patronage. The forms of each sex are
looked at now with eyes which see purity and beauty.

"I notice, also, the conversation among young people
has improved greatly, being of a higher and purer kind.
Now I practised the C.I. myself, and came in contact
with many of both sexes. After very careful observation
in Los Angeles, and other towns in Southern California,
I feel I am in a position to know and I can state that
I now consider the C.I. is the greatest reform movement
that the world has ever seen.

"Yours truly,
"ROBERT DAWSON."

In about a year later the four progressive States known as Kansas,
Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, had removed all barriers from woman's
political freedom and placed her, in the eyes of the law, where
California had. The C.I. having become the predominant thought, it was
lived throughout these four States. The C.M. received a great impetus
when they fell into line with the other advanced States.

Penloe and Stella, with Barker and Brookes and other workers, had worked
for over a year in Illinois, and now they were concentrating all their
forces in Chicago, the other part of the State being all right. It was
in that city that a great battle for reform had to be foug