The log cabin Democrat., 1914-03-06
CHARGES NFCLECI
 BY GIRLS MOTHERS WHITE SLAVE LECTURER
DECLARES RAILROADS ARE MORE THOUGHTFUL THAN
 MANY MOTHERS.

Describing vividly the terrible de- tails of the white slave traffic in the United States and charging to the neglect of mothers large share of esponsibility for the evils. Dr. $. F.. Betts, former pastor of one of the leading Methodist churches of Okla homa City and now lecturer of the International Anti White Slavery As sociation, spoke to crowd of about l50 at the First Baptist church last night. Dr. Bettes' subject was White Slavery-What and Where, and What it is Doing"
 Dr. Betts also spoke to an audi ence of women only at the same place at 3 o'clock this afternoon, his sub ject being The Blast and Blight of Beauty Tonight at 7:30 o'clock he will speak to men only on the subject. "The Lime Light of Lust
 We will win the white slave fight because the government is with us, MT Betts said last night. The bus mess men are behind it, the secular press is with us and the churches are working for us.
 Few persons realize the enormous power of the white slave syndicate It started in Constantinople in 1857. Then it moved it's headquarters to Paris. From Paris it sent sixteen thousand girls year into the United States and the average price for each girl was S16.50. We met this with the aid of the government by getting the standard of immigrants raised Then the syndicate moved to New York. It now also has agencies in Chicago, San Francisco and San Antonio.
 And how about the toll this syn dicate eXacts from our girls? Do you realize that one hundred and eighty girls each day go to the potter's field by suicide because of this white slave organization? We who have investi- gated it know that we cant blame business conditions for their deaths. There are F million fallen women in the United States today and only F per cent of them ever worked for wages. Only one girl in five occupies her present position from choice. The average price the syndicate collected collected for these girls was $65.
 We are out to organize every church against this evil. Next Octo- Der in Kansas City the International Anti-White Slavery Association will meet and give to the world more start ling information than was ever dreamed of.
 Already we know that the syndi- cate has the name of every high school girl in the United States be- tween the ages of 15 and IS years They know her habits and inclina- tions. And the syndicate is busy. They have contract to supply fif- teen thousand girls for the Panama Exposition at San Francisco.
 Nearly every day some young girl is reported missing in every city. You mothers should be careful in rearing your daughters. Why, the railroads are more thoughtful of the girls than many mothers. Only recently all trains out of Chicago were placarded warning young girls travelling alone against chance acquaintances. The syndicate has it's representatives in every class.
 We are going to ask every state in this Union to pass a law that will make landlords responsible for the conduct of their tenants. That will do more to stamp out the evil than any other one thing. But she fact remains that motherhood has been wofully neglectful in this problem"