Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-27

sonal grounds or in protest against
unsound state administration but OF
giving Iowa political classification
either with Dolliver and Cummins or
with Aldrich and Cannon in public at
fairs. Our senators are not In the
running this year, either OF them.
Since no>other way is afforded for the
people to approve or condemn their
public conduct the vote for governor
must tell the story. Long before the
primaries progressive republicans and
standpatters as well will understand
what this test means in state control
and in national policies and this is the
sheet anchor of progressive confidence.
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR"
'srhey were the children of very poor
parents"
Such is the description OF the dozen
little girls, none over Is years of age.
who are held in Brooklyn as witnesses
against white slave" dealers who held
out the tempting sight of free moving
pictures as a lure for these babes.
Such is the description most often
found whenever a look, be 1t casual or
Thorough, is taken at the girlsand wo
men who furnish material for this
traffic in human flesh.
So constant is this condition that the
wonder is that long ago humanity has
not recognized the very close relation
tship between poverty and sin, and in
stead Of centering its efforts to reach
out hand to the "prodigal daughter"
tried to remove some of the causes.
For 10 centuries the doctrine OF
brotherhood has been taught. Cathed-
raj and humble mission have united
tajr in, In ir,in
of love. Mountains of dollars have been
raised to shout the same message
across the seas. Noble lives have been
sacrificed 10 spread its joyous note.
And vet at the end of this time we
find that 1t is possible for dozens OF
little girls in short dresses to be sold
into a worse form of slavery than ever
existed in the south. To be in more
terrible stress than the chidl widows
of India.
They were the children of very poor
parents"
The little daughters of the poor,
turned over as victims to some lust
full brute, is the last price demanded
iby the powers of privilege.
The parents of these particular little
girls, the ones in Brooklyn. live in the
squalid tenements- foul. darkened
rooms on which some landlord mas
lodged his taxes and spent the money,
perhaps, in the lavish splendor of
palace.
The food, scant and coarse, has been
made more costly by trusts, protected
by tariff, the extortion of which, per-
haps, went for a banquet at Delmon-
ico's.
The same story, perhaps in less
brutal detail, might be written in any
city,
Every special privilege leaves Ats
scars. 1t may not always demand the
little girls bodies. 1t may only ask
for their labor before maturity. 1t may
only ask for the dolls that would have
joyed their little hearts. 1t may only
ask for the outings in summer, away
from the heat OF the city with the
fresh air tina would enable them to
grow strong. But as long as greed IS
armed with the weapons of privilege,
there will be these tragedies. and to
the procession Of these little white
slaves will be Joined those other white
faced half starved and stunted souls
above whom win be written the ban
ner:
"They are the children Of very poor
parents"