The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-18


looked in the business district Is al
most within a stones throw of the
state house and capitol of Massa-
chusetts.
Taking the biography of one hun
dred girls in disreputable houses at
random. it was learned that about
one-third come to Boston from Can
ada. mainly Nova Scotia.
ITO one who has made the study of
the white slave traffic the first ques-
tion when one finds so many disor-
derly places is where do they get the
girls from? Why do so many come
from one locality? Is the supply
equal to the demand? Are there
enough persons entering into such a
life voluntarily each year to keep
the places going? The average life
of one of these girls is about five
years, according to the best statis-
tics.
Boston and the other New Eng
land cities have the cadet system
meaning men and boys living from
the earnings of girls engaged in this
unlawful business Most cadets pro-
cure girls and that is the question for
New England to solve Are the Ca
dets' there engaged in the business
of trading in girls? Yes. 1t is said
that certain Bobbie b. we'll
known cadet in Boston. procured
about seventy girls to be sent to Pam
anna. A certain Lena D., who was
born in Quebec is known to be pro-
curing girls from Lowell, Mass. and
the country districts for the fast life
in Boston. She perhaps is the great
OF in on, 1c in
New England. According to her own
wise This woman once worked in
Jewish and Italian procurers are not
! as in other American cities. The
"a new way of procuring girls has
developed in Boston. Wayward ones
who have offended the law in one way
or another are placed on probation.
The cadets go to the court records.
find the names Of the girls who are
probation. and persuade them to run
away in order to evade parole and to
secure freedom from the probation Of
ficers. There are instances where
! these girls have been sent into hous-
es at Lowell, Portland, Worcester. to
the road house ut Corderville and to
other towns.
"Over two and half years ago
Chicago was told that there was a
white slave traffic and the people
were indignant. 1t seemed romantic
and unbelievable. But Chicago
knows it only TOO we'll today. Boston
must be awakened in the same way
People will say it cannot be true. In
deed it is hard to find because secrecy
is its success. 1t keeps hidden in the
darkness. Someone in Boston will
drag it out into the light and the
"Womans World" committee stands
to aid in any way we can. White
slavery is the system of making good
girls bad. or bad girls worse. 1t is
the modern method by which men
live from the loathsome earnings OF
disreputabl0 women.
Let ME tell you of a twenty-one
year old girl in Boston. She was
born in New York City. Her father
is dead and her mother is an actress.
She is pretty and we'll educated. This
girl, by living disreputable life,
supports Jewish cadet who is
coarse and vulgar and who beats her
when she fails to bring back to him
as much money as he desires. Many
Of the girls come from or go to Wash
ington. There seems to be sort OF
an underground roadway between
Boston and Washington which many
OF these girls travel.
"In examining the laws of Massa-
chusetts relating to procuring, we
find the same flaws which exist in
Illinois and the other states before
the recent passage of new laws. In
the revised laws of Massachusetts of
1902, vol. 2, page 1885, section 2. the
procuring must be fraudulent and de-
ceitful and the woman must be un-
married and of chaste life. If the
procurer marries the girl to circum-
vent the law, he cannot be prosecut-
ed. IL the girl makes one mistake
in life she cannot be protected from
being procured. In many cities the
evidence in the cases shows that
cadets are paid to marry girls by
white slave traders so that prosecu-
tion may be avoided and they may
thus crawl through one of the many
loop-holes in moss-covered laws
made before pandering became a
curse upon civilization. Because a
girl is not of chaste life is no reason
she wants to become prostitute
One wrong step and she is no longer
chaste and then we say, according to
the law, let her shift for herself We
all make mistakes, so let us be
charitable. The words previous
chaste life should be erased from the
law and all female persons should be
protected from the traders"