Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-12-24

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subject of this character. Its SEN
satfonalism is personally repellant to
me. NOn the other hand, no matter
how carefully the public prosecutor
may pneserve the legal viewpoint.
and the legal temperament, his
work may lead him into situations
where Che feels that he cannot, in
commdb humanity, withhold from
the public knowledge of the things
which he knows cannot fail to be of
actual protective benefit to many
homes; that to withhold the facts
and disclosures which have come to
him as an officer of the law would
be to deprive the innocent and the
worthy of a protection which might
save many a home from sorrow dis
grace and ruin. 20
Again: The results of this legal
work and of the explanation of the
conditions uncovered in my former
: article has brought to me a graft
flying knowledge of the practical
rescue work being done by the set
Element and the Stun" workers of
Chicago. They are not only spe-
cialists in this field, but they are as
devoted as they are practical. More,
perhaps, because of their urgent as
surance that giving to the public a
statement of actual conditions has
been of great service to them in
their hand-to-hand fight than for
any other reason, | am moved to
make another statement.
When the editor of the Woman's
World urged me to write of THE
White Slave Trade of Today / felt
that | had an official knowledge of
facts which the fathers and moth
ers of the country had a right to
know in order to prevent the pos
sibility of their daughters falling
victims to the most hideous form
of human slavery known to put
aside my strong personal feeling
against appearing in print in connec-
ton with a subject so abhorrent.
Many results of that article have
made me glad that / did so-and
those results have also contributed
TO overcome my antipathy to a fur
Their pursuit of that subject. But
in following this topic in a second
article | shall again emphasize the
fact that | wish to say what seems
to be needful in as unsensational
way as possible, and that / also
wish to do that from the viewpoint
OF a public prosecutor who has, in
the ordinary discharge of his duties.
encountered this appalling situation
and not at all from the standpoint
of the sentimentalist
So far as the matter of sensa-
tionalism is concerned, that may be
disposed of in the simple statement
that the naked recital, in the most
formal and colorless pnraseology. of
the facts already brought ta.-iii,uiir.,ss
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are in themselves so sensational that
the art of the most brilliant orator
or the cunning of the cleverest writ
err could not add an iota to their
sensationalism. And it may as
well be said here that it Is quite
impossible to event hint in public
print of the revolving depths of
shame disclosed by this investiga-
tion. Behind every word that can
pe SAID IN print on this topic is
world of degradation of which the
slightest hint cannot be given.
II there are any who are inclined
10 feel that the term white slave"
is little overdrawn, a little exag-
gerated, let them decide on that
point after considering this state
ment; Among the white slaves
captured in raids since the appear
ance OF my first article is a girl
VINO Is now about eighteen years of
aSe. her nome was in France and
wlen sne was only fourteen years
ola she was approached by "wbite
SLAYER" who promised her emnIov.
ment in America as a ladv's maid
or companion. The wage offered
was far beyond what she could ex-
pect to get in her own country-bnt
lar more alluring to her than tha
money she could earn was the pic-
lure OF the life which wouId he
ners IN free America. Her snr-
roundings would be luxurious, she
would be the constant recipient of
gifts of dainty clothing from her
mistress, and even the hardest work
she would be callep upon to do
would be in itself pleasure and
an excitement.
Naturally she was eager to leave
her home and trust herself to one
who would provide her with so en-
chanting a future Her friends OF
her own age seasoned their fare
wells to her with envy of her rare
good fortune
On arrival to Chicago she was
taken to house or i'll fame to
which she had been sold by the pro.
curer. There this child of fourteen
was quickly unceremoniously "brok.
en- inn to the hideous life of de-
pravity for which sne had been en-
trapped. The white SLAYER who sold
her was able to drive a most prof
table bargain, for she was rated as
uncomomnly attractive. In fact, he
made her life of shame a perpetual
source of income, and when-not
long ago-he was captured and in
Ndicted for the importation of other
gfTls, this girl was used as an ag-
encY of providing him with $4,000