Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-06 | Page 16 | Passing of Another Wave

PASSING OF ANOTHER WAVE In spite of all the horror eloquently expressed by advocates of repression of the white slave traffic that topic seems to have haye been abandoned The wave of Interest st In been diverted to o other channels and the white slaves will be left le In practically the same po position position position they were when the crusade be began began gan gan gah ganFor For one thing It has been found that women coming from Europe to Amer America AmerIca ica ca for tor the purpose of living Immoral lives Ives were wre living that sort of life ute before their emigration For another thing it has ms been discovered that large Eu European European cities are infested with women of Immoral living In poverty and squalor who were only too willing willingto to embrace the opportunity of living comfortably in a life of ot shame in this country couz try It li needed no ghost come came from the dead to tell toll us that It needed no congressional con congressional congressional gressional commission It did not even need a trip across the seas Unfortunately conditions in most American cities are so harsh and difficult for the poor that countless women and nd many of ot these without Immoral imm ral tendencies are forced to lives that would be berated berated berated rated Immoral They have their choice of ot hunger and crushing labor and all misery on the one side and at least food and comfort on the other And there here will be no end of the white I slave traffic until labor is properly paid to dwellers in cities And that time will not arrive so long iong longas as the present pressure of population In the cities and the consequent aban abandonment abandonment abandonment of the country shall continue