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of prostitutes, and the issuing of health 

 certificates, under the severest penalties, 

 and thus remove the danger to themselves 

 and to the unborn? This is the only way 

 to prevent the decay of our Nation; and 

 anyone with an atom of common sense 

 must know it. Will not the mothers of 

 daughters, who are to marry our young 

 men, do the same and save their daughters 

 from a fate that as surely as death awaits 

 them? 



Such cases should be locked up and 

 treated by the state until they are well and 

 harmless. It should be a most serious crim- 

 inal offense for such a leper to have con- 

 nection with an innocent person. 



Prompt and effective measures are now 

 being taken by communities and the states 

 to combat epidemics of Infantile Paralysis, 

 Measles, Scarlet Fever, Typhoid, Cholera, 

 Small Pox and other diseases ; but Syphilis, 

 the ever-present, ever-spreading scourge 

 of our civilization, which is doing a dam- 

 age a thousand-fold more than these epi- 

 demic diseases, is spoken of only in whis- 

 pers. And why! It is because it is so 



