The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-12

things" says the masculine trust CLOSE the
play!" But 1t is women's business. White
slavery the forcibe imprisonment of women,
the placing of children's feet in wrong paths
not womens business7 Then what Is women's
Plays have been written about the white
save. am glad that is SO. for persons go to
pays who have little time or inclination to
thaq Inc newspapers The warming lesson Is
mere. II they go to the theatre they cannot
escape 1t. Such plays show that girls and
women can be kidnapped and sold into a slaY.
cry worse than that from which three years of
Wat were needed 10 free the negroes
The aocalled white slaves" says woman.
Struggling her shoulders. That woman is a
she doesn't know. Let the PLAYS teach her
since she refuses to read the newspapers. Let
ner learn from the stage what the Stanley W.
FINCH report would tell her did she ever read
his report-that every year 60 600 women dis
appear and are sold into slavery in the United
States
Many are skeptical about the possibility
OF girls and women being kidnapped as their
parents and grandparents were OF brutality to
the blacks. Yet know Of young woman, the
wife OF New York business man who was
stolen bodily and sold into white slavery This
woman, young and beautiful, a wife and mother.
TOOK train from their country home in an.
swer to her husbands telephone to Join him
IN town and go to the theatre. He fingered a
little too long at dinner and was late at the
depot He arrived In time TO see crowd OF
passengers walking up the platform His wife
was not among them. He asked the trainmen
and passengers IL they had seen his wife They
SAID they had seen her, handsomely gowned
BOARD the train at her home station. Two men
OF dark complexion, evidently foreigners. took
seats Immediately behind her. The conductor
came through the car from the rear, and be-
fore he reached the seat occupied by the Young
woman. the two quietly told him that the
woman was In their charge that they would
pay her fare and he should pay no attention
II she made disturbance. The conductor
Ignorant OF the ways Of the white slavers and
having often carried passengers TO sanitaria
and insane asylums believed the story.
he accepted her fare from the men ana
when she tried to pay It, ignored her The
station at which she got on tho train having
been closed for the night she had been unable
10 buy ticket she explained. and offered him
the money. He told her her passage had been
paid for.
en- In such lives after they have been kid.
Mapped This is what Stanley W. Finch. chief
OF the Bureau Of Investigation Of the Depart.
ment OF Justice. the man who knows hest
says about 1t: If there Is one thing above an.
otner which 1t seems to be difficult for peonle
generally to understand It is with regard "a
the manner In which these girls are led n
continue In their immoral lives and TO sur
Iehder their earnings to their masters after
'ae nrst physical restraint Is removed
Ihese creatures also frequently represent
70 theif poor slaves. whether truthfully or
not Is not for me TO say, that they .s.tIt =.
with the police authorities and are able and
READY at all times to protect them from arres.
OF 10 secure their release by furnishing 5b.-fi
or otnerwise in case OF arrest provided they
do their bidding. They also threaten to carsa
their arrest and Imprisonment IL these moor
victims fall to do their bidding.