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

III lut country buOulu ItIueIlDeI. lndI
the white slavers' are busy on the
make 1t point to "cut out" an at
tractive girl whenever they can.
This cutting out process q use
the technical term) consists of maxi
ing the girls acquaintance, gaining
her confidence and on one pretext
or another, inducing her to leave
the train before the main depot is
reached. This Is done because the
various protective and law-and-or-
der organizations have watchers at
the main railroad stations who are
trained to the work of "spotting,"
and quickly detect a girl in the
hands of one of these huban beasts
of prey. Generally these watchers
are women and wear the badges of
their organizations.
| But suppose that the girl from
the country does not chance to fall
IN with the "white SLAYER" on the
train, that she reaches the city in
safety, becomes located in posi-
tion-or perhaps in the stenographic
school or business college which she
has come to attendant secures
room in a boarding house. No hui
man being, it seems to me, is quite
so lonely as the young girl from the
country when she first comes to the
city and starts in the struggle of
life there without acquaintance. All
her instincts are socoal, and she is,
for the time being, almost desolate-
| ly alone in a wilderness of strange
human beings She must have
someone to talk tot is the law
of youth as we'll as the law of her
sex to crave constant companion
ship, And the consequences? She
is sentimentally in a condition to
prepare her for the slaughter, to
make her an easy prey to the wiles
of the white slave wolf
The girl reared in the city does
not have this peculiar and insidious
handicap to contend with; she has
been-from the time she could first
toddle along the silewalk-educated
in wholesome suspicion, taught that
she must not talk with strangers or
take candy from them, that she
must withdraf herself from all adj
vances and, in large measure, regard
all save her own people with dis
trust AS she grows older she
comes to know that certain parts of
the city are more dangerous and
more wicked" than Others; that
her comings and goings must al
ways be in safe and familiar COM
pany; that her cquaintanceships
and her friendships must be scru-
tinized by her neutral protectors and
that, altogethe&s there is definite
but underlined Ringer in the very
atmosphere of&F city for the girl
or the ybtF IN which de-
4 mands 81 &protectiva
IsIiSterTI}e ''-'-- -
This No. Il Utmost wholly
absent in. eHV ~ Of the country
! girl; she is not educated in suspi-
cion until the protective instinct
acts almost unconsciously; her in
tercourse with her world is compar-
atively free and unrestrained; she
| is so unlearned iil the moral and
SOCIAL geography of the city that she
is quite as likely, if left % her own
devices, to select her boarding place
| in an undesirable as in a safe and
desirable part Of the city, and, in
word when she comes into the
city her innocence, her trusting
faith in humanity in general, her
| ignorance of the underworld and her
Loneliness and perhaps inconsistencies
conspire to make ner a ready and
| an easy victim OF the white SLAYER.
In view of what have learned in
the course of The recent investiga-
ton and prosecution of the white
slave" traffic, can say in all sim
cerity that if j lived in the coun-
try and had a young daughter !
would go to any length of hardship
land privation myself rather than al
! low her to go into the city to work
or study-unless that studying were
to be done in the very best type OF
an educational institution where the
girl students were always under the
closest protection. The best and
the surest way for parents of girls
} in the country to protect them IRON
J the clutches OF the white SLAYER
is to keep them in the country. bu'
} If circumstances should seem tc
: compel a change from the country
to the city. then the only safe way
] lis to 20 with them into the city
: but even this has its disadvantage:
; from the fact, that in that case, the
] lparents would themselves be unfam
: liar with the jusages and the pit
i falls of metropolitan life and would
7 mot be able to protect their daugh
/ tiers as carefully as if they haC
3 spent their own lives in the city.
Z One thing should be made Yer,
) clear to the girl who comes up t.
: the city and that is that the ordinary
1 ice cream parlpr is very likely t
Y be spiders web for her entangle
4 ment This ID perhaps especial,
a true of those lie cream saloons AM
S fruit stores kept by foreigners
! scores of cases are on record wher
: young girls have taken their frs
e step towards white slavery" II
y places of this character. And 1t !
y hardly too much to say that weel
D does not pass in Chicago without tn
? publication, in iseme daily paper, 0
: Tho "details of 4 nnlica court case II