The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-16
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cltles and ports are utilized for pur-
poses Of transit to South American
| pCrts, where the trade still flourlshes
traffcker may entice a girl from
Poland and Galicia on the promise Of
marriage Or work; indeed every
police office in Europe has a list Of
men thus engaged. The countries
lrom winch women are procured are
believed to be mainly Hungary
Galicia, Poland and Rumania. the
countries to which they are carried
Brazil. Argentina, South Africa and
the Leyant."
1t was found that there exists an
extensive trade in fallen women 10
meet the demand of underworld re-
sorts, and back of all the class com
merclalism of the cadet and the dis
orderly house-keeper, promoters of
an industry deliberately cultivated
oy third parties for their own profit.
While public opinion is slowly
changing for the better, Mr.. Flexner
believes, he still finds that there is
no social inhibition as regards i'm
morality in man. Europe has been
a mans world he managed
by men and largely for men-ano
cynical men at that-men distinctly
lacking in respect for womanhood.
especially of the working classes. The
military, the aristocracy, the student. |
are all conceded their fling. Women, |
whose influence might have been |
exerted restrainingly have been
trained not to pry into the pre-
records of their hus-
bands; fathers fashion their sons, AS
rule, after their own image
Amid conditions as they exist Ia
Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and the
smaller towns like Geneva, which
aspire to be world cities by being
licentious, growing youth is charac-
Lerized not by normal, healthy and
natural development, but by an over
stimulated and purely artificial ex-
,i'ation Of instinct"
In the hands of the good woman
'es the power for reform" says DR..
-lexner. Though no quantitative
evidence of improving morality can
De given, various movements supply
1roof that opinion is undergoing a
'hange which must in the end affect i
onduct. Custom once practically
the French student in the
ATTN quarter to swim with the cur
ont; now it has become possible TO
cad blameless life without incurring
ontempt for his idiosyncracy; an i'm
assioned literature appealing to the
'erman student has made its appear
nee. The woman's movement will
destroy The passivity
hei man women in respect to mas
uiine irregularities. The task of
eveloping confluence in nations
abituated to indulgence is one Of
lexrressible difficulty; but it may
2 fairiy said that now for the frs.
ne II has been deliberately faced
the Continent by small but earn
't band of men and women bentl
con the publication of lfe." III
The volume treats at length of thelE
soibed or registered women OF
lfious European cities. plying their
ode under police license. and brands
e system failure. only fraction
these women are enrolled. A III
Moreover" he says, the streets
1m which the licensed one has
reed to withdraw are not infre-
ently those where she is most at
me; and a large loophole for police
sor and corruption is thus created
the existence OF rules only oc- -
sionally and capriciously enforced.
{ other consequences follow. What Y
allowed to the inscribed can not