Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 357, 31 December 1891 — The Same Subject. [ARTICLE]

The Same Subject.

Onr Tiii-dey'f! artU'ir on 4 Soi-tal iti Kosi.o?u»n,-na«sf?d qini»' n r amoi!g •!)»• ' Klir»\ Voi wc s- .1 not v ,/ho fouriii of \vhat ii •/ u-en «iviv <i»itv lo ;uul T *. woui'l lv usefuī «a t»? rv» »f:*o • v»(iiflferent enuei!* *i f Ui> gn>\vlng , b'ut oup $}ruw 1« in:i<ii.'qnrtte f .: »uch a ūiek; there i.- !iowov«r

one "reasoa, for*th«*Ho&<jluiu <3lspravity, whieh ought to l>e qtiicklv meiat;oned for one , i\nd that is thf faet of a sea-port. All sea ' ports and naval station« are cursed in a like maniier; only the harm is greater hene, because it not on!y per&eates through the eomnjon «aikir, into the lower strāta of but it also reaches more fatally, through the elegant and petted officer, into the highest l- fleur'' of our kl elite,f whieh is getting mcrally and physically rotten. It ean be stated as an axiom. that nearlv all the ladies of our population . who £re so crazy—ao hungry, and so openly, for the compariy of naval officers, and who make. so mueh of them, eveu running after them, are really and practically of the most doubtful moral character, even those who so carefuliy cover up lheir feracts as to give but tittie i occasion forj>pandal or gossip; wo- , manly virtueand naval flirtatioo are: incompatib le, and we must r*peat ] here that "so degeaded is the sense j of honor in some of the men of tbis| town," that they seem to deligh* these liaisons between their fen.. relatives and our naval cdnquerors, and to encourage them by all the means at their command. Well also ean it be T9peated that: 4 *could thegrainsofeand at W aikiki speak,'' | stories woald be teld, by the side ! Uie*'tales of Sodom and i Gomorrah would be tame. It would | not be difficult to point out to some i very fashionable residences in the j eastern suburbs of our city, where all and every naval officers receive a "proverbial" weleome, and where, ;asa consequence, the eoeial evil, | though not public, is said to be | just as mueh of a curse as in the 1 vilest hell-holes. What ean be said ; of the fact reported of officers of ; ships lately gone, introduced as jperfect strangers to the lady of the house at tour o'eloek in the afteri r»oon. and seen crawling out of my lady's bed-room window at eleven ; o'eloek, followed by others later on ; in the night ? Yet these iadies are ; tx>nsiderBd as of the highest fashi ionahle society and might propably | be intimate friends of some of our }'njinieters/ i But tho grea r test' danger of our j ! society hes in this, that it eoun- ; tenances or treats lightly of social ievi!e in high circles, wHiist thunjdering against it in its lieenaea and ! regulated aspect. The married lady, who. just for the caprice of it, gets aequaiijted in the afternoon i with soine brass-button fools, and j invites thein to her bed at night, j in the abse:ice or with the eonni- i vence of Ikt hu.sband.-—eamal lovej at s!«riit. — is styled here u hone.«t | and ac<'<;nipiisabd: while the poor: wreteh of a tallen woman, who, i from i)iisery tnid in order j togfiin h r <i;i'ly supporV er ihe; mainlenanee of u *qi:alid famiiV ■ whieh the missionary charities £>:!; reaoh.— is obhged to 10' the «une eamal love at sight — for| tnoney —is oalled a til thv j rosti-} tuti\ who i? to he dnmned by ev»M-y i o'V\ bvi r!-kkt the bVuBB-1' hutton iady btir«g el*vi loudost in j ner «liMiuneiaiinii and i>ruHishness, J ThuK, in thi« toWn. pri>Bt.!tut- ; on: r»n n:.paidon-!ble i »'ij) iiini % ii.v. b"ut |)i ; Mvsii;'Uitm fr<»ni { e.;i»nee n;id dcvii«ry cr v'ci-i ; y .e>y\ ;s d« on ed an «?r.-=Uiy—tar «\vh < profit by lt. Th s is Mu sLit»> of thirtgsagainßt whieh pahiie opinioi» ought x*> i firm >tuiid, and we probably •

raight then not on!y restore virtoe i>r at least some sense of shame married !adies,'— * but also ; save our girls who are fasfc fol!ow- ! ing tho exaropie of the:r elder, as | iilustrated by the ireport of a |lady lately married % who unexi peetedly presented her liege atter a eouule of months, with r.ri ofF- : spring whose father eonlei be no other but a departed naval destroyer of virtue. CoaBeqtienti} r , let the men of our society faee the problem; let those who are v blind aiid who sincerely ignore the danger, open their eyes and become & little more eircamspect of naval eompany both in their own homes and on board; and let those who do know feel a little oaore shame at their luck of morality and manhood.