The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-02-06

present Ii Is worse to get money
drunk than TO get whiskey drunk. II
man gets whiskey drunk today he
will likely sober up tomorrow or the
next day. Some men after a drunken
spree will sober up and not so oman
otner spree for three, six or nine
months or Il year E9ut when man
gets money drunk he is tight all the
time.
In speaking of the city problem"
he said our cities are great centers
OF wickedness. They furnish every
temptation aud facility to lead young
people into vice. Vile dens are open
seven days and nights in the week.
in the face of worthless officials WAC
have secret understanding with sa-
loon Keepers, gamblers and keepers of
houses Of i'll fame, TO let them alone
in their lawlessness on condition that
they divide the spells All our cities
could be scleaned up Were it not for
The influence of the worthless, graft
maladministration of municipal at
fairs in many of our cities has become
an awful scanda, and the disclosing
of the ruttennesS aac .Nade iltnicipal
rule stencil In the nostrils of the
civilized world. Here is an ey nAple
of the grade Of intelligence that ned
office in New York for years. When
Theodore Roosevelt was police com
missioner of that city applicants for
appointment on the police force were
subjected to a civil service eXamina-
ton. In answer to the question.
Name five Ct the six New England
states one replied England, ireland,
Scotland, Wales and Cork
Asked TO tell what they know
about Abraham Lincoln about twenty
said that he was president of the
southern Confederacy About forty
thought he was a great general in the
Union army. One was sure he won
the battle of Bunker Hin Many
bought he was assassinated BY Cult
teau and one said the deed was done
by Garfield and another said il was
lone by Ballington Booth
Charles Bonaparte in an Article In
the Forum told of q young lawyer In
'Gliimore who asDired TO be school
commissioner but was toll by the
politicians that he could not have t. .
nomination as the boardng GUS :
nrst have a representative on the
school board"
In many cities we see t,at the fer,
eign population have fore ignizcd
Americans far more rapidly tnan
Americans have Ame,icalized the
foreign population.
White Slavery
Among the modern problems none
are more horrible and infamous than
the white slave traffic in women and
girls. This trade is the capturing and
selling OF girls by low, vile, unprinei.
pailei. constituencies men AMI wo-
men who go into hanlets. towns and
''tits looking after pretty gir,s in
ONES, stores, restaurants, hotels, fac
cries, and who hold ont al Kinds OF
nduceme hts and make all sorts of
promises to tnem of fine positions.
high wages and delightful entertain
nents if they will so with them to
| the city.
Getting them into the city they are
scd in5o life of shame that no Ian.
suage can describe AMI no clean
mind can imagine There is no great
er disgrace to American civilization
han the white slave trade The vii.
famous human vultuures who engage
in this traffic are deeeitful above all
| other wicked people, for they assume
he guise of friends who are anxious
% help girls by getting tAem better
| HoSitions when their supreme object
10 to ruin them. The burglars and
| loli-ups are high minded gentlemen
| In comparison. Their cruelty gives a
new meaning to the word liend.
If the masses had been told three
years ago that there was slNh a
thing going on as the white slave
| trade they Wodld have declared the
statement unbelievable AMI pronounc-
| I'd it romance.
| There IL not a person mere but
would be struck with anazcmcnt If
| they knew the vast number Of girls
who have been captured in foreign
Countries and imported to the United
States and lodged in white slave lens
t"l these are but a small part OF the
number who have been recruited from
the home fields. The average life
! time OF the women who have thus
surren tered themselves Is estimated
to be about five years Those Of the
voluntary and involuntary numbe
| i Ger are estimated to be 100000
and OF these 10000 die annually in rh
life Of shame
II has been ascerained hat a ma
idrity OF the young women who have
been led away, from country towns
villages and hamlets. III country
girls are in greater danger than the
city girls, because they are mose un
suspecting. Courtship and q falls,
marriage is one of the mclns EN-
lployed by procurers.
Instruct Children.