The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-19

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poses of transit to South American
ports, where the trade still flourishes.
A tratficker may entice a girl from
Poland and Galicia on the promise of
marriage or work; indeed every police
officer in Europe has a list Of men
thus engaged. The countries from
which women are procured are believ-
ed to be mainly Hungary, Galicia, Po-
land and Rumania; the. countries to
which they are carried, Brazil, Argen-
tina, South Africa and the Levant."
1t was found that there exists an
extensive trade in fallen women to
meet the demand of underworld re-
sorts, and back of all the Grass COM
mercialism Of the cadet and the dis
orderly house-keeper, promoters of an
industry deliberately cultivated by
third parties for their own profit"
While public opinion is slowly
changing for the better, Mr.. FIexner
believes, he still finds that there is no
social inhibition as regards immoral
ity in man. Europe has been a mans
world" he. writes-"rnanaged by men
and largely for men-and cynical men
at that-men distinctly lacking in re-
spect for womanhood, especially of the
working classes. The military, the
aristocracy, the student, are all con-
coded their fling. Women, whose in
fuence might have been exerted re-
strainingly, have, been trained not to
pry into the pre-matrinlonial records
of their husbands; fathers fashion
their sons, as a rule, after their own
image. ...
Amid conditions, az they exist in
Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and the
smaller towns like Geneva, which as
pire to be world cities by being licen-
tious, growing youth is characterized
not by a normal. healthy and natural
development, but by al over-stimulat-
ed and purely artificial excitation Of
| instinct.
In the hands of the good women
lies the power for REFORM says DR..
FleXner. Though no cumulative
evidence Of improving morality can
be given, various movements supply
proof that opinion is undergoing a
change which must in the end affect
conduct. Custom once practically
constrained the French student in the
Latin quarter to swim with the cur
rent; now it has become possible TO
lead a blameless life without incur
ring contempt for his idiosyncracy; an
lmpassloned literature appealing to
the German student has made it's an
pearance. The WOman'S movement
will unquestionably destroy the pas
slVlty OF German women in respect to
masculine irregularities. The task of
developing confluence in nations
haoltuated to Indulgence is one of in
eXpreSSlble difficulty; but it NAV be
fairly said that now for the first time
1T has been deliberately faced on the
continent by a small but band
OF men and women bent upon the pur-
~ification of life"
The volume treats at length Of the
inscribed or registered women of
various European cities, plying their
Trade under police license, and brands
or these women are enrolled. e
"Moreover," he says "the streets
from which the licensed one has
agreed to withdraw are not infre-
quently those where she is most al
home; and a large 1oophole for police
favor and corruption is thus created
by the existence Of rules only occa.
sionally and capriciously enforced. But
other consequences follow. What is
allowed to the inscribed cannot be
forbidden to the uninscribed; it is no
human nature to forbid to the one
what is so freely allowed to the other
The very fact that 5000 inscribed wo,
men are legally entitled to patrol mos
streets in Paris and are suffered t
patrol the others, makes it Impossible
for the police to act vigorously an
continuously against six Or eight time,
as many clandestines who avail them
selves of the same privilege.
"In respect to street order, rregulatio.
is, therefore. In my judgment, a hind
rance, not a help, for it is at war wit
its own avowed object. C~onsequentl
no regulated city possesses streets a
free from scandal as the streets O
Amsterdam. Zurich and Liverpool-al
n~on-regulated cities, in which a con
sistent n thoroughgoing course Q
action bearing on all women alike /
To the licensed house, Mr.. Flexns
says, public opinion In Europe la be
coming increasingly hostile. AT tn
United in France, Belgium, Austria
Hungary and Italy; forbidden in TIL
German Empire, Holland, Switzerlan
excepting Geneva), Denmark, NORWAY
sweden n Great Britain. In Franc
will under any circumstances be, grant
ed; ana whenever. such a place closes
t%inction."
The vast majority of depraved wo
control, Notwithstanding the licens
system, says the Investigator. Thi
Skaters the prevalent idea that Iicens
ed resorts effect segregation. "Segre
cation is not undertaken In any Euro
pean city from Budapest to Glasgow
Segregation is, therefore, impractic
able; more than this, any attempt L
bring it about is also 2recognized 10 b
inadyisable. Inathe first place, the inn
possibility of thoroughness. creates al
obvious opportunity for police corrub
segregated may for an adequate con
sideration induce the police to overIoo,
her: and as hundreds are bound To b
overlooked anyway the chances OF de