Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-17

though there 80 tAoos who would b
quick to take advantage Of any relaxa,-
ton Of vigilance on the part q gov
ernments. the police. and the private
organisations constantly on the alert.
In the cases to which. from time "a
time, attention has been sensakionaily
called, the women involved are neither
innocent nor deceived. On the othea
hand. there Is evidence TO suggest that
European cities and ports arc utilised
for purposes OF transit to South Amer1-
can ports, where the trade still
flourishes. A trahicsr may entice q
girl from Poland and 0alicia on the
promise Of marriage Or work: indeed
every police office In Europe has q list
OF men thus engaged. The countries
from which women are procured are
believed to be mainly Hungary. 0alicia,
Poland and Roumania: the countries to
which they are carried. Brasil. Argen-
tina, South Africa ana the Lsvsnt"
Europe . NAME World.
It was found that there exists an
extensive trade In fallen women 70
meet the demand Of underworld resorts,
and back Of all the Grass commercial
ism Of the cadet and the disorderly
house keeper, promoters Of an indus
try deliberately cultivated BY third
parties for their own profit"
While public opinion 10 slowly
changing for the better. Mr.. H1exneF
believes he sim finds that that there
Is no social Inhibition as regards inn
morality in man. Europe has been Q
mans world" he writes-"managed BY
men and largely for men-and cynical
men at that-men distinctly lacking IN
respect for womanhood, especially OF
the working claeses The military. the
aristocracy, the student, are all con.
coded their fling. Women. whose in
fluence might have been exerted to
strainingly. have been trained not 10
pry into the pre- matrimonial records Of
their husbands: fathers fashion their
sons, as a rule. after their own image
amid conditions as they exist IN
Paris, Berlin and Vienna. and the
aspire to be world cities by being
hcentious. growing youth is character
lied not by a normal. healthy and
natural development. but by an over
stimulated and purely artificial excita-
ton of instinct
Woman's Influence Needed.
an the hands Of the good women
lies the power for reform" says DR..
F1exner. Tho no cumulative EVIL
dence OF improving morality can be
given. various movements supply proof
that opinion Is undergoing q change
which must In the end affect conduct.
Custom once practically constrained
the French student In the Latin quar-
ter to swim with the current; now II
has become possible to lead blame
less life without mourning contempt
for his idiosyncracy; an impassioned
literature appealing to the German
student has made its appearance. Tho
woman's movement will unquestionably
destroy the passivity Of German women
in respect to masculine irregularities.
The task Of developing confluence In
nations habituated to Indulgence Is one
Of ine1pressible difficulty; but it may
be fairly said that now for the first
time It has been deliberately faced on
the continent by a small but earnest
band Of men and wimen bent upon the
publication Of life"
Tho volume treats at length Of the
inscribed or registered women OF vari-
Gus European cities. plying their trade
under police license. and brands the
system . failure. Only fraction OF
these women are enrolled.
Moreover" he says, "the streets
from which the licensed one has agreed
to withdraw are not infrequently those
where she IL most at home: and a large
loophole for police favor and corrup-
ton 10 thus created by the existence of
rules only occasionally and capriciously
enforced. But other consequences fol-
low. What IL allowed to the inscribed
can not be forbidden to the unin-
scribsd: It Is not in human nature to
forbid to tho one what Is 30 freely al
lowed to the other. The very fact that
5000 inscribed women are legally en-
titled to patrol most streets in Paris
and are suffered to patrol the others.
makes It impossible for the police to
act vigorously and continuously
against six or eight times as many
clandestines who avail themselves OF
the same privilege.
Public Opinion Changing.
To the licensed house, Mr.. F1exner
says, public opinion in Europe is be-
coming increasingly hostile. "At the
present time. he says they are per-
mitted in France. Belgium. Austria