To the Editor of the "Norta-Carsa Datty News."
Sir,—The statement of your correspondent, S. J. Calder, in today's issue of the ''News" that "Prostitution is a necessary evil" cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged It is true we tome-
As regards the girls of tender years'like cattle and forced to lifo they who, in Shanghai, are forced into! might never know except for the vice, it is pitiable to suggest that brothel system. Prostitution, I be. their action arises from '"'unconquer-lieve to be always an evil, but it ie able physical requirement."
No surely less so if entered upon that argument is special pleading; voluntarily and with the option a for the man, and again leaves the ceasing at any time rather than by woman unjustly dealt with. To' the slavery and compulsion due tw call passion an "'unconquerable" physical requirement is to forget the great numbers of both men andj women who daily conquer, and who} live chaste lives; such language only serves to encourage those who are} glad of an excuse to take the easier the brothel system—a disgrace te present-day Oivilization, and a hindrance to the upward progress of humanity.
I am, etc.
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