The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-07
CLOSING LETTER TO ANTLSOCIALISTS
Dear Friend

bring your by the newspapers that
the people of England interested present in the matter of
white slavery. believe has been passed making lawful to
og white SLAYER when caught at his trade What should like
to ask is this Why stop at the white aver2 He is product OF the
present cruel system Of society as much as the poor girls he traps
og those who enable the white SLAYER work they will
be merely the keeper of the houses of ame to whom he sells
WE ] fbey et nc more rent this wy than thew would thew
let these houses ordinary people admit would be shock o
folks nobleman fogged for such act
but is not reasonable hoggng the white SLAYER who he
noeman and others like him. had not let this property for such
@ @ w"d not nave o @R ' o Pa y go Boe % the
property og higher still for permitting
in England # you consistent foogng the members Of
both parliament because they what shall and what shall
will be ogging
said white be ogged Nor you stop there
parliament law until he crown has
sened to it, so you must fog the allowing
work their wicked will But after ALL the King only guehead
he represents all the authority of the people boiled down into one
personality all responsible and must og each other
cey responsible outrageous traffic. you
wish punish the fountain head of the evil must punish society
G% mus" mpos society," TURN upside oo" anu MAKE "H'0
am clad that the English legislature has given the world this
object lesson by suggesting the abrdy of oggng savers
way stop evil They might well attempt dam up
ns and then proceed to shovel dirt with these childish tools into
Foggng white relieve conscience
but does relieve you of the responsibility of having that evil
rampat applies the States Within the last few
one Init the shame and bv6ocrv Of the Whole thing is
those Chicago churchmen draw the exobnt
rentals for their still used for immoral they did
accepted worthy citizens while the white
SLAYER parah outca and when caught jail bird Either
the whole thing and everybody connected with it, ought
without distinction be cast into the social garbage they
say then society is to this thing very
for people howl and shout about the which sweaed
live the miserable pance them for their work 1t
is all well sit in comfortable church and that
God will miraculous all and together
when the time there sits in the behind who
large income from houses rented for and who
not at all desrou spite of his SNUG churcant to let go of that
white slavery The nine ta though painful implement of
ica the evil the first place remember hiatt does
hot Ss nn% neF % % h H
say honestly that do not believe that one woman in 10000
the force of Space from making other
@ 1 hTf n t e d o
removed continue to be lewd but she will not
then that prostitution not problem but economic prob
lem People who msnrmed lay great emphasis the
Gated They repeat this often that others med by their
time when prostitution did not exist 1t was those
that referred in former letter. before fell into the Of
owning private property the persons OF slaves 10 Illustrate the
truth of this let me call attention fact that has been noticed
titute woman? He that solution
of the veXed question of the social evil The Indian be
man. for the simple reason that they live in the ratena tribal com
muna form of society that anterior the private ownership Of
the OF livelihood The bag of Lewis and Clark fame an
exception
The conclusion of the that would eradicate the
social evil in Europe America elsewhere shall not do by
brute force IKE oggn nor by coercion but by dealing with the
matter Scentca do not propose that we should put the clock
OF back the of baram when remote oeathe
mad no knowledge OF either prostitution nor the convenience OF the
electric light What do that should be given
her place society that alongside of his equal and
economically independent of him. So long treated
being who IS more or less dependent on man for her living SO long
will have to battle with the social evil What then the
tc way Of dealing with this problem what going
her freedom? 1t IS this: Give woman the full value OF what she
Produces And how she this while she works long hours
ptance and while her employer rich harvest Of profit
Of her toll Woman slave today because she has
the the tools she her
the mill factory office and works for another with his tools
and in receives enough starye What
Europe what America,
those mills and factories and all other tools of industry from the
Then have ready the OF livelihood and
She will receive the full value of her labor Exploitation OF
will then the sWeated labor question will vanish viii
walk alongside of his equal and independent OF him
ironically The question being solved do think