adulterers, we are reaping also,
in individual physical ugliness and deformity, that which has been sown;
the puny, ill-formed and mentally weak youths and maidens, men and women,
to be seen in large numbers in our principal towns and cities, represent
the widespread nature of the curse which has, in a marked manner, impaired
the physique, the morality, and the intelligence of the nation.

5. DAILY PRESS.--The daily press has not had the moral courage to say one
word; the quality of demoralizing novels such as have been produced from
the impure brain and unclean imaginations; the subtle, clever, and
fascinating undermining of the white-winged angel of purity by modern
sophists, whose prurient and vicious volumes were written to throw a halo
of charm and beauty about the brilliant courtesan and the splendid
adulteress; the mixing up of lust and love; the making of corrupt passion
to stand in the garb of a deep, lasting, and holy affection--these are some
of the hideous seedlings which, hidden amid the glamor and fascination of
the seeming "angel of light," have to so large an extent corrupted the
morality of the country.

6. NIGHTLY EXHIBITIONS.--Some of you know what the nightly exhibitions in
these garlanded temples of whorish incentive are. There is the variety
theatre, with its disgusting ballet dancing, and its shamelessly indecent
photographs exhibited in every direction. What a clear gain to morality it
would be if the accursed houses were burnt down, and forbidden by law ever
to be re-built or re-opened; the whole scene is designed to act upon and
stimulate the lusts and evil passions of corrupt men and women.

7. CONFIDENCE AND EXPOSURE.--I hear some of you say, cannot some influence
be brought to bear upon this plague-spot? Will the legislature or congress
do nothing? Is the law and moral right to continue to be trodden under
foot? Are the magistrates and the police powerless? The truth is the
harlots and whoremongers are master of the situation; the moral sense of
the legislators, the magistrates, and the {425} police is so low that
anything like confidence is at present out of the question.

8. THE SISTERHOOD OF SHAME AND DEATH.--It is enough to make angels weep to
see a great mass of America's wealthy and better-class sons full of zeal
and on fire with interest in the surging hundreds of the sisterhood of
shame and death. Many of these men act as if they were--if they do not
believe they are--dogs. No poor