The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-30
GOLDMAN SNEERS
AT FIGHT AGAINST
WHITE SLAVE EVIL
Reformers, She Declares, See
Fat Jobs in the Battle
Against Vice.

Against Vice.
New York. Dec. 3O.-Emma Goldman.
who is about to start on a tour to ele-
vate the west, delivered a final lecture
in New York before her departure in
the women's Trade Union hail. Her
subject was the white slave traffic. Ad-
mission was rs cents. Men and women
from youth to gray hairs heard her.
and so did at least one girl whose hair
was hanging down her back In a braid.
Our r~cformers,'' said Emma, Sud
denly have discovered something that
all the world long has known-the white
slave traffic. 1t is significant that. al
though the social evil. so-called. has
existed probably zinc the world began,
and every child in New York probably
knows it exists, yet little has been said
about 1t until lately.
why Is this? Whenever the public
mind is to be distracted from some
ways raise a hullabaloo over some side
issue. 1t seems to me the reformers
are the hyenas of our c~apitalistic So
cial ~regime-they circle around an6
howl and finally devour their victims.
Labor Conditions Impossible.
Labor conditions in America In the
last few years have become so terrible
1t is hard to discuss them. The re-
formers discuss first n thing and then
another to distract attention from the
main issue, the main trouble-anything
to give the baby people a toy issue to
keep them diverted for a little while.
They Won't go to the bottom of any
cause.
There is such a thing as economic
prostitution. Prostitution la the result
OF economic slavery. The people who
not separate from the present economic
regime-not the cadets nor the import
ers of women nor the prostitutes them
selves.
Prostitution originated not with the
poor. but with the respectable. Moses
seemed to think the greatest protection
Of the Jewish young woman lay in per-
hitting the Jewish young men to have
intercourse with foreign prostitutes of
many nations, and he seemed to have
connived at their Importation.
Women's Ignorance q Menace.
"The majority of women are ignorant
of sex physiology and sex psychology.
I attended a conference at Clark uni
versity not long & inc heard a We'll
lesley woman professor Of 40 talk of
the strange unrest of boys and girls
IL NdIlU 10 Years, II0 TcdSOIlS
for which she did not know. and yet
those a are the most important in
human beings lives, and a teacher
ignorant may spoil a life. Ignorance
is one Of the causes Of the traffic.
Now we have heard that women are
imported ! n the white slave trafac to
New York: imported from Europe. I
don't know what would become OF
America II she didn't have Europe to
lay all evils to. You are 30 %virtuOus,
you Americans. II you could not lay
these things to Europe you'd be % yir-
along with you. Well, it must Be Id
United that some women are imported
here, Just a. some men are imported
FOR the lumber camps on promises that
they o will become rich ana then
ARE kept in. slavery in those camps or
"a few dollars q week.
Material Hers at Homo.
But the reason tina the majority of
women in prostitution in New York
ARE foreign 10 that New York is a for
;;eign city. In other cities. In Denver,
where women vote, the majority are
native American. I deny absolutely
that most of h foreign girls here in
prostitution were prostitutes before
they came here. There is no need OF
this importation business-the economic
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there is abundant material at hand at
home.
..The agitation over the white slave
traffic is only another attempt to open
places for political parasites; to make
more places for political job hunters.
We know that even u president lately
recommended that $4,000 be spent in
fighting this trafac. Why? Merely
to give fat jobs to political hangers-on,
who won't do useful work..
Police Organized Cadets.
1.-THE cadet system was created by
the police when by excessive demands
in graft they prevented women from
keeping houses Of Ill fame and drove
the girls to the streets. where they
found it's necessary to find and sup
port a man as the only possible person
who would go to a police station on
their behalf and keep them from being;
ground to pieces. The police are re-
-sponsible for the introduction Of the
cadet
THE only possible thing under pres
ent conditions that a be lone is to
let the prostitute alone, as they do in
other countries. show her great hu-
mainly. and let her see she is part of
our great family life. Let the prosti-
tutes alone and their number will de.
crease and the evil will diminish"
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