Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-02
1921 CHAUTAUQUA
TERMINATES WITH
TON|GHT'S PROGRAM
GEORGIA EX.coNGREsSMAN AND
TROUBADOURS WILL BE FEA-
TUREO AT GETAWAY DAY
ASSEMBLY DECLARED TO HAVE
BEEN SUCCESS.

The 1921 Ottawa chautauqua, which
has been very great success, comes
to close tonight William d, Upshaw
OF Georgia who has served two terms
as a United States Congressman, and
is one of the most noted orators Of
the southland, will deliver the closing
address which will be THE Amer
icansm that will save America"
At the close of the talk the Nene-
tian Troubadours viii give program
OF Venetian street music. They will
appear in the costumes worn by the
street musicians tourists see in
Venice
The closing program promises to at
tract a very large audience. This af-
ternoon a good sized crowd gathered
at Chautauqua park to hear the con
cert given by the Venetian Trouba-
doris The company which is com
posed of four members delighted the
audience both with their instrumental
music and with their quartet select
ions.
Last night 1000 ottawans Gathered
to hear the evening program The al
dress was delivered by Hon. Clifford
G. Roe of Chicago, former states at
tOrney OF Cook county. Mr. Roe chose
for the subject Barriers Burned A
way He spoke of the evils that have
been menacing society for SO long
the panders and trailicers in girls.
MIR. Roe has generally been given
credit for coming the expression Tho
white slave" and was the first man
in public life to start a great fight to
convict and punish the men who are
responsible for many girls leading
lives of shame He explained last
night that when he started his work,
he found that there were no adequate
laws whereby these men could be
prosecuted He drafted Il pandering
law, which was adopted by the law
makers at Springfield. Illinois he
stated was the first state in the union
to adopt such an act Since then he
claimed that every state has copied
and passed the Illinois pandering law.
It is generally understood that Roe
was responsible for the Mann act, and
induced Congressman Mann to intro
duce this bill into congress.
The three barriers, he stated which
have been burned down by the
smoldering indignation Of humanity,
were the double standard OF morals,
false modesty and the conspiracy OF
silence. He state that the burning
away of these barriers had made it
possible to rescue hundreds of girls
from their lives of shame, and prose
cute many white slave procurers,
+le claimed that many men, who
were deprived of big incomes by the
making it possible to prosecute them
for white slavery We're again trying
to build these barriers up, and to
instill into the public a false modesty
and double standard of morals. which
would prohibit the prosecution OF
white slave procurers
Mr.. Roe stated that he himself had
the honor of conyicting 546 white
slave procurers. He told of how back
/ in 1906 when he started his work, the
| evil element had sneered at him,
1 baked him by false modesty and
when they saw that ridicule would not
work had tried to offer him large sums
OF money to quit work Not being
able to buy him off their next step
| he stated was to make threats against
his life
In Flint. Mich he stated when the
iurist sentenced man to the state
prison after conviction for white
slave procuring he said I apologize
to all the murderers, robbers and con.
fdence men in Marquette prison for
sending you into their presence"
He made a strong plea for a single
standard of morals, and accused the
women of helping keep double
standard because they accepted men
whom they knew to be bad as friends
For Gods sake he exclaimed II
you are going to forgive the men for
give the women as we'll"
Thruout his talk he told many clever
stories, and made many curt remarks
which were found to be very amusing
by the audience At one iuncture he
Reclaimed "Red is a danger signal OF
that railroad over there. on a mans
nose and on a woman's cheek"