There is no need nor is it desirable to have masses of people suffer unnecessary misery by a knowledge of the exact nature of this disease—which leads sometimes to morbidity and often to a frenzied desire to do something at once, before they really know anything about the question and what has been done.
There are three questions that ought to be answered in the affirmative before any legislation or preventive treatment is decided on.
Will the proposed action apply equally to men and to women, to rich and to poor?
Will it tend to increase and not undermine the powers of self-control?
Will it improve morals in the nation and elevate them?
Repressive measures by themselves achieve nothing. Preventive measures of every practical and sound kind we want, but most of all we need to inculcate the truth that "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead man to sovereign power."
It is not enough to prevent and teach. We should be willing to help up, to save, to love, and we should never be self-righteous in our help.
Who among us has the right to cast the first stone?