Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
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The Chicago India famine relief COM
mittee sends US circular based on.
the statement OF Rev. Rockwell Clan
cy, missionary just returned from Ala
habad. to the effect that sixty millions
are suffering, thirty millions are in uire
distress and only five millions are get
ting government aid. Conditions are
worse in the country, for so per cent of
the population is agricultural. Folks
sold the doors and furniture in their
houses to get food sold everything and
then began to sell their children. The.
circular is headed Selling Their
Daughters" Boys sell not at ALL But
the Mohammedans buy the girls for as
little as 80 cents a head. h
But this practice is not singular.
From time out of mind the rich classes
in Europe and Great Britain have sold
their daughters. Spanish. Italian, Ger:
man, French and English novels, which
are pictures of society, are fun OF ac-!
counts of these sales. The girls are not
consulted: there is no sentiment about
1T: 1t Is matter of sordid business.
parents In cold blood draw the con-
tracts. stipulate the doWry or dot. FIX
1.-THE settlements and deliver the goods.
viz: the passive chattel daughters, sell
! ing them into the captivity of matri-
6mony; sell them as mistresses to rakes.
gamblers, fools. blacklegs, sots ct al.
4 Why, 1t is regular business They
| do not call these captiyes mattresses
but that's what they are; they are not
wives; there is no love in these alli-
| ances: they are business transactions.
i Nothing is thought of 1T; 1t Is the GUS
tom.
Why shudder. then. at conditions in
India?
This custom OF selling daughters has
Hong been known. even in the United
4 States Everybody has seen many
cases where sordid. grasping families,
ltho "professing' Christians. have
urged a daughter and sister to marry a
good -for-nothing fellow who happened
! to have property. tho he hadn't any
,character or brains or anything else
but an aptness for frivolity and vices
fellows that they wouldn't wipe their
shoes on IL they had no property: fell
flows that they are really ashamed Of:
| yet they do not hesitate to sacrifice the
4 happiness and life of their daughters
and sisters for the sake of getting that
I property into the family. hoping to be
able to steer the owner and do" or
cinch him. It would be amusing, the
maneuvers to snare these black sheep,
Il 8if II were not SO serious for the girls
that are thus sold in all so-called civ
4 ilized and Christian communities. Why,
i girls are more largely dealt in and
jtrafticked and sold than any other form
OF chattel, whether real estate or man
ufactures, or live stock. or mines, etc.
Every day in the year they sell them
selves, or are sold" in more senses
than one. and the matchmakers and
promoters do not profess to see that
4 they are compelling the girl Ito become
a mistressfor their benefit, or she vol;
unfairly plays that low and vulgar role
No. let's not pity the India girls too
much. who are bought for 30 cents
Buying 'em in all Christian lands for
A 10000, or 100000. or s1.000, 900 is nc
more respectable. It Is prostitution
I no more. no less. whatever the price
paid.
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