Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-02-09
official Paper OF City ana Count,
A Few Points on White Slavery

One Of the leading topics of today
and Of coming history is the great
fight against White Slavery. The
Christian people, you and |, against
those base men and wicked women,
not women but wretches who enslave
young girls and make them prisoners
of their vile resorts. To remain silent
and let the work of these Williams con-
tinue is crime and l have vowed to
do all in my small power to help in the
fight. Why can we not all do our
share in helping the "Great Purity
Movement.
Mothers do you want your daugh-
tiers to help make up the 60, 900 inno-
cent, girls wanted this year to fill the
places of those that are dying? Are
you willing to sacrifice your daughters.
l hear you all answer no. And like
the mother who saw the danger sign,
she put her protecting arm about her
daughter and cried "for Gods sake
save my daughter. Can you blame
her?
The smartest young women have
been made captiVes and held at the
mercy of these brutal fiends. There is
not daughter, or sister who may not
he in danger. The main pander of the
white slave trader is the love plot. So
experienced in this work are these
brutes that it is impossible to detect
them. They do not work their scheme
in two or three days or week, but it
lasts for months in which time they
have so gained the confidence of the
young lady that she will trust him with
her life and she is sold for ten or fiji.
teen dollars. These traders are gen
orally well dressed nice looking young
men, travelling for their health, and
their father, whom they generally say
is rich banker or stockholder foots
the bills, etc. There are any number
of devices with which to gain their evil
purposes that these fends are daily
practicing. They are men with hearts
of stone, they respect a dog more than
the innocent girls they have ensnared
and if at any future time they turn
from their path of sin they are well
coined by all, when the young woman
if by chance escapes from the prison
this same man has dragged her to and
returns home she is stamped with the
"scarlet letter" and no one cares
whether she lives or dies She is look
ed down upon by the people that she
supposed were friends and that are
now ready to drag her down still far
Their. People like these are not doing
all they can in the fight against evil
although they may be against it.
Have you ever heard Clifford G.
Roe probably and without question the
greatest leader in the fight against
white slavery, lecture? He is we'll
known illustrator and lecturer ard is
deyoting his life to the task of running
down and prosecuting the white slave
trader and is meeting with great sue
cess. He has written great book on
white slavery which is educational and
in which he says: because in part
truth has been clothed in mantle of
mystery and facts have only been whis
pered in secret, traders in human souls
have thrived and grown rich. The:e
arch enemies to society, the lowest of
the lowly creatures on this earth,
dwell in darkness; they welcome Sc
crecy, ignorance and false modesty;
they abhor light; they stifle truth and
trample upon innocence.
There is just one way to solve the
social evil problem and that is the way
of education" Mr.. Roe is correct.
Find out all you can about this topic
and educate the young people to abhor
such cruelty to human nature.
Let US all join in this great war on
white slavery" and down it. 1t will
be topic in the worlds history that
will be looked upon as one of the
greatest fights. Hoping that | may
talk to the people again, am
Yours in the fight,
hI,r,,