Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-21
MANY SPEAKEAS
AT BURLINCT ON
ROE TALKS OF WHITE SLAVES,
HAMERY OF RED LIGHT AND
PATTON OF CANNON.

Burlington, Oct. 20.--More candid
instructions for children in the rela-
tionstsip of the sexes was the. tteme of
several speakers at today's session of
the American Purity congress.
James H. Patton of Boston turned
his attention to Speaker Cannon of
the national house of representatives
in the passage Of certain reform laws.
He declared that pressure should be
placed on congress to get needed leg
islation and stated that Speaker Can
non was not alive to the changes that
have come over this country
Burlington was the victim of an at
tack by Mrs. Il. ID. Shaw of Grand Rap
ids, Mich and Mr.. Pressing of Des
Moines, who declared the city was
not fully appreciative of the import
ance of the congress and should con
tribute literally in cash to it's inter
ests. Pressing said the Burlington peo-
| pie ought to be charged So a seat to
listen to the addresses of the con
gress.
| On application, the Women's Prohi-
| bition Club of America. the New Eng
| land Watch and Wait society, the New
York society for the Suppression of
/ Vice, over which Anthony Comstock
presides, the Christian Catholic church
of Zion City. ILL.,, the Young Peoples
| Correspondence Purity League, the
Christian League for the Promotion of
Purity at Cleveland, and other minor
organizations were taken into mem
bership in the purity federation.
c. G. Roe Bames Parents.
Clifford G. Roe of Chicago, formerly
assistant states attorney of Cook
/ county, in an address on the white
slave traffic, brought the parents face
to face with their responsibility II
the matter He declared that ignor
ance of many girls of the things they
ought to know caused them to be an
easy prey to the procurers.
Fathers" he said take more care
of their horses, their sheep and tlfdii
cows than they do of their daugh
ters.
Girls who think it smart to flirt arc
lin constant and deadly danger. Ambi
tion in girl is one of the things
which bring them to their ruin"
I He charged the low wages paid tbs
girls in the big city stores as being
the cause of many girls downfall ant
said that it is impossible for girls tc
live on some of the wages paid ant
they choose the easier way
Bishop Spellmeyer of st. Louis als'
spoke on the work of the purity organ
izations from the standpoint Of thu
churches.
The congress. after listening to Nh
Roe's address, adopted the followins
+ resolutions presented by Ernest
Bell Chicago:
"The National Purity Congress il
session at Burlington, Iowa, hereb
: records it's great qualification at tn
present activity of national and stat
authorities against the loathsome, tel
rible commerce in girls known as tn
white slave traffic.
!, I'VE urge upon all citizens of tn
nation. especially upon the officers 0
the government, sworn protectors o
, the people, to take necessary meas
: ures to end the traffic in girls, tn
{ worst disgrace to civilization"
]. L. Hamery of Des Moines, super
( intendent of public safety of that city
declared that since the red light dii
: trict in Des Moines had been wipe
: out the morality of the city had nj
tticeably increased.