Giving to all young men and women honest means of livelihood with
extra times and resources for the cultivation of their talents
and their better selves, honorable marriage would be preferred to
prostitution in nearly every case.
[Illustration: THE PACE THAT KILLS]
There is no hope for moral purification among the wealthy until such
time as they will use their time and talents in useful work. An
enormous field for missionary work would be for some one of ability
to convert the wealthy world to the religion of useful work. As a
self-evident truth, no able-bodied person has the right to live off
the labor of another person. Instead of the many working to the last
notch of human endurance that the few may live in luxury and idleness,
there should be labor for all, and enough for all. Money, however,
is without love, or patriotism, or kindness--is all-powerful, and
is fawned upon, and catered to by those possessing it in limited
quantities.
The remedy for prostitution, as well as other evils, lies in the hands
of the American people themselves, if they only knew it. Just a few
years of intelligent voting and legislating for better conditions for
the many, instead of for the few extremely wealthy, would tend to
overcome all injustice and inequality. The social evil would be weeded
out because people would then have time to obey the injunction, "Know
Thyself."