The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-30
W. G. I. u

These letters are doubtless
to most readers, but how fau "allis
know what the Womans Christi. really
perance Union is doing. Their len.
an organization on earth SO ia, - Dot
ing and uplifting. It enc;ro, reach.
globe, having sent several miss;oa the
to every country and established fles
among all nations regardless Of anl0ns
color or previous condition. creed,
Scientific temperance instruct;o.
important branch. established th.u an
its first Superintendent, Mrs. MarvH Iuush
is largely responsible for tho aat
prohibition wave now sweepin, great
our country. o'et
Laws have been passed in eyerv -.
to teach the effects of alcohol ana 1'a'e
baeco on the human system and ~, w.
dren under instruction in tbe ns I'M
schools have become voters who raonc
pointing in ballots that represent -. ats
principles. "Aef
At the King county institute hold
short time ago, new departments wa.a
recommended to be represented bv c %ae
petent superintendents-First r. ~
tend Juvenile courts and especially ,o ~.
after children of drunkards and
phans; also see to having detent;o.
homes where girls may be taught ~
become useful citizens. Second ~
perintendent to see that child loho.
laws be enacted and everything tbs,
will promote the best interests Of ths
present generation be carried into ~
fective operation.
Mrs. Platt, state president, urged 81,
to buy literature for distribution. esns'
cially recommending the leaflet cop;pd
from Woman's World, written BY Dis
trict Attorney Sims, of Chicago. DIV
ing account of the white slave trade in
America.
All European nations, except Turkey
met in Paris in 1904 and their renre'
sentatives signed a treaty banding
themselves Together for the suppression
OF the White slave trade.
This same year in St. Louis the great
fair was held, to which people went
ignorant of the fact that when every.
thing was owe and people had had
time to return to their homes 700 bean.
tiful girls and young women could not
be found
What became of them? Ask con.
verified saloonkeepers, procurers and
rescue workers who would hear of and
try to locate them, only to learn that
they had been spirited away to other
brothels, for, as soon as there is an at.
tempt to rescue a girl, the agents Of
the syndicate of vice transfer her to
some distant city and she is totally lost
to the outside world.
Rev. Synedy G. Kendall began in.
vestigation in Los Angeles with Wylie
J Phillips, editor of the California
Voice and they found conditions 50
shocking they pledged their all to
freeing the 500 whom they found in
bondage. This being accomplished Nj.
Kendall then started East to lecture,
investigate and set in motion a plan
similar to that carried out in Los An.
geles.
He visited every large city, invest
gated conditions, conferred with lead
ing reform workers, and finally sue.
ceeded in starting a movement against
the white slave trade in America. he
joined with B. s. Steadwell, edivor Of
The Light in organizing the National
Purity Federation, Mr. Steadwell max.
ing his magazine, published at La
Crvosse, Wis. the official organ. Purity
congresses have since been held in
Amreica and delegates sent to foreign
conferences, and such pressure has
been brought to bear that in June,
1908, after two years work by the Ma
tional Vigilance Committee, the
treaty of 1904 in Paris was proclaim
ed by President Roosevelt.
Federal officials have taken up the
matter and prosecutions have been
made in various cities wherever public
sentiment has been aroused, and tbe
traffic suppressed in that city.
Congress passed laws in 1907 provo.
ing for the prosecution of procurers 0!
alien women, but it remains for escn
city and state to make it's laws protec,,
ing our own girls from this diabollc@
business, which fills go. 900 graves
annually with the most beautnu
women to be secured.
In 1907 statistics gathered by feder'
al authorities showed 5000 foreagu
girls were imported. but we, as yeN
have no means of knowing how man!
American girls were shipped to o'ne'
lands.
F. D. Tyrrill, author of "The snans
of the Human Race gives facts apa
statistics showing work done BY "s
federal officers that all should reaa
they would guard the womanhooc. -
America, for, he says, in many cl'' =
Of the Orient to be an American
considered to be a prostitute, Decau :
of the large number of girls shlppeu"
these cities for immoral purposes
Think Of our beautiful little orp'au y
gathered up in our large cities az @ %s
early age Of ten years and kept Oy
syndicate's agents until the rlghs p sssn
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