| Show women work in new orleans the city council of new orleans having baying passed an aa ordin ordinance anceto to license the social evil the women of that city took the alarm and under call of mrs E L saxon convened in mass meeting mist florence huberwald Hn berwald called the meeting to order miss kate nobles was elected chairman and miss elsie cage secretary mrs saxon at the opening of the meeting read a letter from mayor fitzpatrick tac k in which he stated his intention to veto the bill whereupon resolutions of thanks to the mayor and the press were passed mrs saxon who is the pioneer in social purity parity work in the united states made a most earnest address addres the bill was rightly stigmatized as aa tending to further torture and degrade a class already degraded and oppressed as opening appo opportunities rt unities for blackmailing and extortion and as punishing only one offender leaving leaning the other unlimited opportunity with impunity mrs saxon said that 99 09 per cent of these women were driven to their lives of shame through want and the perfidy of man As she pictured the present and future of tho outcast on least twenty six sir women fit that class who were present sobbed wildly overcome by her eloquence and touched with longing for a better we lite tribune |
