Show The White Slave Agitation An Ex Expert ert Opinion on a q Sensational Subject A REVOLUTIONARY TASK TASS I It 1 la ls sheer b er foolishness t to to suppose that when we raise rall our lI d as a's In the path ofa ora great stream rut strum stream of ot human uman Impulse th that t ta a stream ream eam forthwith flow low calmly back to lt I M source We must make our new dh channels channel n el concurrently n with w Ith th our dams Jt It f w wt t t to- to Influence I n nc proK prostitution w Wn we must oUt our laws lawa and modify our whole conception of the tho sexual r Mia Mia- V lp In tho 10 meanwhile wo 9 can an at least begin t today ay a task tuk of ot edu education lurel undermine undermine undermine under under- which must slowly ly though surely mine the tho white while slave lave trade traders trader's s 's stronghold Such un edu education needs needs to t be not merely instruction in tho the fa facts s of ot f sex ex and wise guidance concerning all aU the dangers and risks of the sexual life lire it must also in involve tn- tn Volvo volve a training of at tho the will a a. development development development develop develop- ment ot of the sense ACome of ot responsibility such ox JUI can never be 6 secured by shutting our young people up un In a hothouse sheered sheltered fr m every fortifying breath r of the tho outs out Bide aide world Certainly there are arc many among us us and precisely the most moat hope hpe less leas persons parsons from Irom dUr present point of 1 view who can never grow crow row into really real responsible persons Neither should they ever have havo been born and it Is le our business business busi busi- ness nells to see Ice that thoy they are not born and that If they are arc they th are arc at least placed under duo social guardianship so 1 that wamil wo we mil may not be he tempted to make mako laws for tor so society society so- so det In general which are only needed by these feeble and Infirm folk tolk Thus It ItIs ItIs Itis is t that lat when we wo seek seck to deal with the tho white slave trader and his victims and his patrons wo 0 have to realize that they arc all very much as aa we have have 0 made them molded by their parents before birth nourished their mothers mother knees The task of ot malting making them over O again next neat Urn time tamy and making them better Is a n revo revo- revolutionary task but it begins at home homo and there Is Js no home in 10 which some Rome part of oe the tho ta teak task lt cannot he carried out It Is la possible that at nt some me period InI in inthe tho the worlds world's history not anI only will the tho I white while slave slavo traffic disappear but even prostitution It lr and It ll l is III for us to work toward that day da But we ma may be sure lure trat the social state which Heel secs the last Jaet of ef the tho social evil ovll will alit bo be boa bea a social state very cry unlike ours oun White Slavery Defined During the tho last few lew years we have witnessed a remarkable movement Never Oe before has there been so vigorous so o popular so International an attempt to deal with that ancient SP sexual evil C which has lias for some ome time limo boon been picturesquely picturesquely pic plc- described d as the tho white slave traffic less Less than forty years ago aso Prof Sheldon Amos wrote that this subject can scarcer scarcely be bo touched upon by journalIsts Journal- Journal la ta and can never form a R. topic of common conversation hes societies Journalist hI tors tore have hll all Joined the ranks of or the thu agitators Not only has there been no voice olce on the tho opposite side Hide which was wan wanto reel to be expected for expected for thero there has lias never er been an any anxiety to cry aloud In housetops but housetops but thero there has been becq a new and noteworthy conquest over indifference and over that t sacred silence which was WM I supposed to encompass all aU 5 sexual topics topics' with suitable darkness The banishment of at that silence In the cause aU e of social hygiene hy hY- hYI I glens giene Is indeed not the tho least significant feature of this thin agitation The white slave blavo traffic IK is not prostitution it is ItS tho the commercialized exploitation tion of prostitutes The rhe independent prostitute living alone alono scarcely lends lend herself herselt to the white sla slave c trader It ison la is laon on houses house of or prostitution where tae fic less Independent n and usually weaker minded prostitutes 8 are segregated ate 1 that the tho traffic traffic tra fic nc Is based Such houses houe cannot even exist without such euch traffic There Thero is little lit little little lit lit- tle inducement for a girl to enter such a abou ahouse bou house boun n th full fun knowledge of what hat It in involves In vol volen on en her own Initiative le The proprietors pro of such uch houses must orders ordera for tor tho the roods they o and It is t the e business of ot procurers b by persuasion misrepresentation deceit intoxication to supply th them m. m The whit slave traffic aa as Kneeland states state lI is ht thus not only f a hideous reality but a reality almost L wholly dependent on the existence of houses of prostitution and anda andas a aa as tho the authors of The Social Evil II add It Is the most shameful species of business busi busl- ness nebS enterprise In modern times The Folly of or Furor The fiery zealot in a fury tury of at blind rage strikes wild wildly at the tha evil he has Just discovered discovered dis dis- covered ered and then flings down weapon glad Flad to forget all about his Ills momentary momentary mo mo- rage and the tho errors errOr It led him Into It Is not so that ancient evils are destroyed evils it must be remembered that derive e their vitality in part from human nature and In part from the tho structure of our society By insuring that our workers w and especially our women omon J workers are dc doc decently paid oo so that t tho they thoy can live comfortably on th their lr e. e we e shall not indeed have R abolished prostitution which Is more than an economic cono c phenomenon lu but t. t wn we n t shall more eff ally check tho white slave trader than tM by tho the mot most le the most m Imaginative vice crusader over o devised And when we Insure that these nano niO mO workers have ample time and opportunity nit for tor free tree and Joyous recreation fIe we v shall hav done dons more to kill the aa ln Uon Lion of ot the tho white Waite slave 0 traffic t. t than Anu bi i I endless police regulations regulation for or the tho mor monk i supervision of at tho the young oun Ua H Ellis in the tho February Metropolitan 9 |