And yet ball-rooms, where this corruption germinates, flourish and are
countenanced by many preachers of the gospel, and attended and
encouraged by church members whose pastors have not the moral courage to
condemn the evil, for fear of offending some of their members who dance.

The ministers, in a great measure, set the standard of morality in our
land, and when they will rise to the occasion and make a long strike, a
strong strike, a strike altogether against this ball-room curse,
Christian people will strike with them. Then, and not until then, will
this evil be wiped out.

It is at the cause and not the effect that the strike must be made.

In some cities the advisability of closing all the houses of
prostitution by laws has been discussed.

One might as well try to stop the Mississippi river from flowing by
damming it at its mouth, as to try to stop this great stream of vice by
closing the doors of the brothel.

To dam the river at its mouth would only cause it to overflow its banks
and seek another outlet, and to close the doors of the brothels on one
street would only drive them to another.

To stop this great tide of sin we must begin at its source. To close the
doors of the brothel, close first the doors of the dancing school.