The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-14
EMMA GOLDMAN,
| ON WHITE Slaves
Poverty, She Says, is Nemesis
of Girls Working
& in Cities.
CANAL ZONE VICE HOTBED
EXPORT OF DisSoLUTE cHARAc-
TIERS ALMOST EQUALS IMPORT.

1t was indeed woeful picture Of
american womanhood that Emma
goldman. the acknowledged woman ex-
ponent of anarchy, painted in her lee
ture on the so-caIled white slave traffic,
at Eastman's hall last night. She talked
plain about the affairs OF unfortunate
women, but in summing up she charged
all their misfortunes re economic con-
diuons and their ignorance of matters
of sex.
She said that there was not one Amer
lean mother out of a thousand who
would stand by her daughter when in
trouble. OF course this extraVagant
declaration, like others made by Miss
Goldman, was applauded.
As usual Miss Goldman paid her re-
spectS to the police. Her remarks IN
this respect were aprOpos TO those made
by her manager, DR.. Ben Reitman, who,
in introducing her to the audience. said
that they were glad TO be in Salt Lake,
where the presence and lectures of
Miss Goldman were Lot subjected TO
police censorship or interference. He
referred TO their unpleasant experience
in Cheyenne, where the mayor of that
city had instructed the police 10 forbid
Miss Goldman to lecture.
No sooner had Miss Goldman ap-
peared uEon the platform when she re-
pudiated the liberal construction placed
upon the attitude of the police authOri-
ties of Salt Lake in relation to her
presence and lectures in the city. She
said that their nOn-interference was
not due to any disposition to recognize
the constitutional rights of free speech,
but that the salubrious ozone of the
climate worked well on their empty
heads.
Miss Goldman questioned the good
faith of President Taft in his message
20 Congress calling attention to the
white slave traffic, and the apprOpria-
ton of $4,000 for its suppression.
This is a mere subterfuge, a side
issue as it We're" said the speaker ito
avert the attention of the people from
the more vital issues of the day. The
appropriation of $50 900 was more TO
create fat jobs for politicians than for
the suppression of the traffic in I'M
fortunate women"
Poverty Their Nemesis.
In support of her theory that
economic conditions Sre responsible for
a large percentage of fallen women,
Miss Goldman referred TO DR.. Sanger,
who for many years has been a physi-
clan on BlackwelPs Island. in New
York. She said that DR.. Sanger has
written that of 1000 women who have
been driven into a life of shame 1890
were reduced to that deplorable level
by the want of sheer necessities OF
life. She declared that the 6,000,00
women wage workers in the United
Stetes received, on an average, 81 a
week. out of which they had to pay
60c for carfare. She spoke about girls
who work in the large department
stores in big cities, who, she said, re-
ceive their first inspiration to do
wrong by waiting upon society women
who paint and powder their faces and
who revel in wealth.
She declared that a large percentage
of young girls do not understand their
sex. She blamed conditions which, she
said. held it wrong and immOdest for
mothers and teachers TO enlighten girls
in this direction.
1t is all right" said Miss Goldman,
for young women TO know these
things after a priest or a preacher
munfSies something, for which he re-
ceives 81, and a girl is married to a
man with an empty head and bank
account
Miss Goldman was rather hard on
the married men. She said that 70
per cent of these who contributed to the
conditions which turned women into
lives of pitiable shame were so-called
respectable married men. She further
made the statement that the export
tra1ftc IN White slavery was almost
equal to the importation of these women
into this country. She cited alleged
authority for the statement that many
white women were being imported out
OF the cultured city of Boston to the
Panama canal zone for immoral pur-
poses.
In introducing Miss Goldman, her
manager stated that many people, and
particularly the police authorities OF
some of the cities of the country
charged Emma Goldman with RESPONSE
bility for the Haymarket riot in Chi
cagO, the death Of President Mckinley
and many other acts of violence. He
said that Miss Goldman was but IA
years old when the Haymarket riot
occurred in Chicago in 1896. and that
the New York police, after spendine
$4,000 in an effort to connect her with
the assassin Czolgolz, finally, had {
exonerate her.