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to wreck the future of our nation, and not
our nation only but other nations which
have not had the sense to study the matter
and take preventive measures. In Germany
a soldier who contracts a certain disease or
transmits it to another suffers at the hands of
the law three years' rigorous imprisonment.
Sensible Germany! In England soldiers back
from Eastern countries drift about our towns,
marry quite decent girls, and launch upon the
nation scores of children who ought not to live
and often do not live. Poor innocent victims
of their parents' crimes ! Not this only, but
rich and well-to-do men contract the awful
disease and give it to their wives and children.
The results blindness, weak eyes, throat and
other diseases are apparent in thousands of
homes. We need not dilate upon this point.
Consumption is child's play to the evils under
which we are suffering. But, for some inscrutable
reason, consumption is considered
rather a romantic disease, and people are quite
pleased to fuss about trying to eliminate it.
But, alas ! The terrible disease this book
attempts to lay bare is more deadly than the
worst form of consumption, for not only does
it kill the body but it destroys the souls of
thousands of innocents. Eor what ? Eor
money. Yes, whilst it kills our young girls
it keeps in almost affluence thousands, and
many thousands, despicable perverts of manhood
wretches whom the law and the false
modesty of some well-disposed persons shield
by refusing to believe the unfolded truths and