Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-12
Outside Point of View

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days about the white slave traffic
ana the agitation in pulpit, press. and
ny state and governmental associations
Is round to lessen the evil. The same
Is true of the white plague" and many
other things that affect humanity. Blu,
IN all these needed reforms the ten
dency ON the part of the public is 10
put the cart before the horse" TO offer
remedies but fail to remove the cause
we always have an epidemic of typhoid
before we analyze the city water And
SO What follows refers TO the cause OF
what is known as tine white slave
traffic" Exceptional cases TO the con-
/ trary, this fact stands out, that a large
percentage of these white slaves" are
daily and hourly being prepared for the
| life they are to follow We need not
go out of Iowa for Statements of fact
TO prove this theory.
For instance, tonight in the cheap
| 8 and 10 cent theaters as well as III
the higher priced places of entertain
ment, are thousands of young girls from
the age OF u up TO the so-called years
OF discretion, absolutely without any
parental guardianship. They are free
TO associate with whom they please,
stay in the theater or go out anywhere
with male or female companions, good.
bad or indifferent. If they arrive home
close to midnight any such plausible
excuse as The show was a long one. =
or L walked home with Jennie" goes
with the parents. And II is not the
'heaters that are to blame This kind
OF parental carelessness was shown a
Aunured times III Marshalltown during
the Billy Sunday meetings. \ large
number of mothers in Marshalltown al
lowed their daughters 10 attend these
meetings. and neither knew nor seemed
10 care whether they were in the tab
erhacle or somewhere else NOW Is the
season OF the skating rink. an inno-
cent amusement of itself. but how many
parents go with their daughters TO the
skating rink2 And to leave out en-
tirely the mention OF public places
how many parents know what their
girls are doing every day. between the
time school is out in the afternoon i'm
supper time? Do those parents know
where these girls are SATURDAY after
noonso
The probabilities are that by the
time some good mother has read so far
she exclaims, why we can not make
slaves OF our daughters. We can't i'm
prison them al home or be continually
with them abroad. we mus. give them,
some liberty, we must trust them out
o. our sight We can not raise our
girls as Thy DO young woman in
Turkey. or have "duenna'' as in Spain
American girls are taught to take care
OF themselves and rarely abuse their
privileges. Just so. Its The system
that is being attacked For this is
true Nature has so constituted Young
girls that at a certain age. they do need
to be enslaved and imprisoned by their
parents Nature always fails 10 pro-
tect even while inlplanting tendencies
toward wrong doing. One can go
further and claim that the average girl
OF Is or ls actually is not conscious of
motives that irnpel her 10 do nd saw
Things that she is Mortified 10 notice in
her own children twenty years later.
And another factor in filling the
ranks Of the white slaves Is the age we
live in The modern play. tire one that
draws the crowd while scrupulousiv
clean in language is utterly vile in
underlying plot and suggestiveness
our girls see things done on the stage
notice the familiarity Of the actors
towards young actresses, hear of the
deception practiced or the old chan bv
MS young wife, and laugh with us over
lAis Very funny business The Blue
Mouse me beauty spot this PLAY is
thoroughly understood by every L.
year girl who sees the play The
best selling novel. the book most called
for in our public library is the one that
IS so realistic. And Your daughter
and mine understand exactly the mean
ing the these two words. And onc.
more. in every town in every state and
more especially in our larger cities. are
CERTAIN arrangements between men and
women received in the best of society.
frequently prominent church people.
that everybody knows about Including
our daughters. matters of common tax
"nlcn our daughters hear, and VET a
situation society and church fails to
notice or condemn. as long as the out
side proprieties are observed
There's nothing new in all this. Its
what cranks and prudes nave said and
talked since the first social gathering
in the garden Of Eden lis nera re.
cital Of conditions tina. exist. and an
explanation of cause. Congress NAV
pass stringent laws concerning "tba
white slave traffic" but it will not end
the evil as long as the slaves are
being educated for the life that ;s in
volved. II requires more than a 1.,.,..,-
smith parade thru the red light d;stri,..
u ohicago. 70 make it white light
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