Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-01

let her trunks g freely out. AS impounding their hats, shoes and street
wraps fr pretended debt wa almost the last resort of consuan, the relief
the escaping girl requests it they must take her to the commissary-caled
ad patronage. Or if she demands it,. the policeman aus let her call a lab
and go her way. Liberty to go her way holds all the effectiveness oft the
law.
constratnt when it comes out, rarely. They know that TO make an inmate,
the girls good will nus first be o Even passive resignation is lot shl
for II capital act great with destiny, to dodge which is to risk har-
boring a sWl Wlnout a card rinse enoerate act Wlthoa Whrh nc girl h
be safely kept a wee as boarder willing OF unwilling, is her independent
visit to the prefecture of police, to make her sad choice and demand a card.
A fatherly party reads the applicant o a solemn lecture, bids her Mediate
and return in a week. h is told what the card is-a slavery of it own.
The card is, nevertheless, a tower of defense for the innocent against
straint.
Whenever the London officers Oft the International bureau intercept a car
&C ofw white slaves from France, they find either cynical odh hands perfectly
war Of their destination O else innocent girls counting O. a situation
Mr.. Coote complains bitterly of certain French intelligence offices Recently
four girls, we'll brought II p and respectable, were thus sent to London. Each
understood that a situation awaited her Yet no sooner had they arrived
tina their money ws taken from them on the preteXt of changin it; ad
Mr.. cootes agents got hold oft them just in time He seems to be persuaded
that violence would have been possible in London. Surely the French in
telGgence office should have been prosecuted" he writes, but nothing was
done. However well the French law nay be administered att home, it seems
o be relaxed when expectation is in question"
He is right. ne Of the reasons is that the detective brigades in the
great French cities lave been fully occupied with their specially. Ihey are
only too glad when old hands willingly seek foreign shores And those who
ire not old hands have not con under their observation. Intelligence office
frauds hav not been n the line of these brigades, because the ecruiingw vas
not being done for Paris. At the i'm of the frtc conference, in 1902, France
suffered from a special form of cafeconcert slavery peculiarly insidious, in
that it had a public amusement blind for its customers and could lure limo
cent girls with the promise to put them on the stage. They imagined that
they We're going intoh honest vaudeville entertainments. The first step wa.
shire III over France even in comparatively mall towns. n ne
third step was ruin on the spot by drink and bad example, because they
mus sita n CONSUME with the audience between turns.
Once they got started, the special brigade wiped out thu checoncert
slave trade promptly. 1t "a a trade of the middle aged, posing a. theatre
cal managers and agents. 1t had been able to grow Up because it va not
in Paris.
Present international white slavery is similar new work. for the special
brigades. It's chief hrei is tn employment agency. Its chief blind fol the
police is at present. he ole standby OF Kidding Paris of enale Undesirable.
But the special brgades have had their eye opened, and as the operators
are butt ature rescals of both sexes ripe for Jail a single conviction will be
sufficient for each. France will cease to hold the exporting record Of
the white slave trade.