One letter which reflected particularly upon the cupidity of our K. C., U. S. A. citizens, runs: "I am giving it to these little Kansas City suckers strong. I expect to be able to send you $1,000 the last of the week."
E. C. Talmage, George D. Talmage and E. S. Barnum were placed on trial before Judge Brentano for swindling the Rev. Peter A. Baart, Marshall, Mo., out of $500.
E. S. Barnum was discharged and the Talmages found guilty.
A new trial was secured for George D. Talmage. His father, E. C. Talmage, on May 10, 1907, was sentenced to an indefinite term in the Joliet penitentiary.
[THE SOCIAL EVIL.]
The treatment of the social evil is one of the most difficult problems with which society has ever been confronted. Until society is thoroughly regenerated and the consequent purity, both of manhood and womanhood, has become a permanent fact, illicit relationship between man and woman will exist.
The attraction of the sexes is as mighty as it is mysterious. No legislation will weaken its inherent force.
The man who can come forward with a cure for this great curse is, I fear, yet to be born.