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Damaged Goods
sir, that that should be allowed? Aren t there enough
police to prevent children of fifteen from being seduced
like that? I ask, is it right?
The poor man, in his ignorance, did not know
that
"
these women "
are the most victimized, as
demonstrated by the doctor himself in the case of
the poor girl of the street. She was both ig
norant and innocent when she found a place as
domestic servant and was seduced by her master.
Then she was kicked out into the street, and in
her endless search for work found every door
closed in her face. She was compelled to stifle
her feeling of motherhood, to send her baby to a
foundling asylum, and finally, in order to exist, be
come a street-walker. If in return she infected
the men who came to her, including her erstwhile
seducer, she was only paying back in a small
measure what society had done to her, the in
jury, the bitterness, the misery and tears heaped
upon her by a cruel and self-satisfied world.
It is to be expected that a political representa
tive of the people like Loche should suggest the
same stereotyped measures as his predecessors :
legal enactments, prosecution, imprisonment. But
the doctor, a real social student, knows that
"
the
true remedy lies in a change of our ways."
Doctor. Syphilis must cease to be treated like a mys
terious evil, the very name of which cannot be pro-
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