9.  THE ONLY REMEDY.—­But when the feeling of women has once been driven to indignation with respect to the position which they occupy, it is to be hoped that they will compel men to be pure before marriage, and they will remain loyal after marriage.

10.  WORSE THAN SAVAGES.—­With all our civilization we are put to shame even by the savages.  The savages know of no fastidiousness of the sexual instinct and of no brothels.  We are, indeed, likewise savages, but in quite a different sense.  Proof of this is especially furnished by our youth.  But that our students, and young men in general, usually pass through the school of corruption and drag the filth of the road which they have traversed before marriage along with them throughout life, is not their fault so much as the fault of prejudices and of our political and social conditions that prohibits a proper education, and the placing of the right kind of literature on these subjects into the hands of young people.

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11.  REASON AND REMEDY.—­Keep the youth pure by a thorough system of plain unrestricted training.  The seeds of immorality are sown in youth, and the secret vice eats out their young manhood often before the age of puberty.  They develop a bad character as they grow older.  Young girls are ruined, and licentiousness and prostitution flourish.  Keep the boys pure and the harlot would soon lose her vocation.  Elevate the morals of the boys, and you will have pure men and moral husbands.

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THE ROAD TO SHAME.

1.  INSULT TO MOTHER OR SISTER.—­Young men, it can never tinder any circumstances be right for you to do to a woman that, which, if another man did to your mother or sister, you could never forgive!  The very thought is revolting.  Let us suppose a man guilty of this shameful sin, and I apprehend that each of us would feel ready to shoot the villain.  We are not justifying the shooting, but appealing to your instinctive sense of right, in order to show the enormity of this fearful crime, and to fasten strong conviction in your mind against this sin.

2.  A RUINED SISTER.—­What would you think of a man, no matter what his wealth, culture, or gentlemanly bearing, who should lay himself out for the seduction and shame of your beloved sister?  Her very name now reminds you of the purest affection:  think of her, if you can bear it, ruined in character, and soon to become an unhappy mother.  To whom can you introduce her?  What can you say concerning her?  How can her own brothers and sisters associate with her? and, mark! all this personal and relative misery caused by this genteel villain’s degrading passion.

3.  YOUNG MAN LOST.—­Another terrible result of this sin is the practical overthrow of natural affection which it effects.  A young man comes from his father’s house to Chicago.  Either through his own lust or through the corrupt companions that he finds in the house of business where he resides, he becomes the companion of lewd women.  The immediate result is a bad conscience, a sense of shame, and a breach in the affections of home.  Letters are less frequent, careless, and brief.  He cannot manifest true love now.  He begins to shrink from his sister and mother, and well he may.