Show i I Human Beings Still Stil Sold at Public A Auction Only Action Only White Flesh Though I Ask AsIc the first man you meet mop upon the I street what he lie knows about slavery Ia and ami andI and I JI its odds of or ten to one that hell he'll smile arnild and pityingly I inform you ou that I such uch a n thing is unknown In these United States since Question him further a as to when he last heard of ot n n. human being sold upon the block at nt public auction and if he ho doesn't call an nit officer hell he'll make tho the same answer an an- that he did to lo tho the previous question And in both hoth instances hell he'll bo he wrong True O weve Improved on the crude erode I brutal auctions of the tho dark suk days as a's before the civil cl war We Ye do things now along a a. amore amore more moro refined and cultured line for tor its white flesh and white white- ne flesh iesh h exclusively el that wo we trade in In and we wo do it openly and SC seem to be proud of Jt it it or at 1 least If wo C arc are not we devote otc columns of ot tho the newspapers to each sacrifice and stir countless hearts to throbs of ot either cither envy jealousy or anger Take one da day last autumn when n one of the fairest dall daughters of or this sturdy re republic republic re- re public deliberately stood up to the a lice nce In a building devoted e to the worship of or God and exchanged her lien virgin puri purity find and lien her dollars for Jor a third rate and tarnished tarnished tar tar- coronet n coronet that came from Hungary and went and went back there Take that day and look at the streets street Streets lined with human beings s. s en eager r. r curious I and half frenzied with tho the excitement of ot the occasion Look at the batteries of camera artists all nil waiting u with tense nn lingers fingers crl clutching i their bulbs for the tho purchaser and the I slave sll to lo enter entel into range Look at the crushing tearing screaming women that sweep the stalwart policemen a aside Then watch the same lamp policemen beat the crowd crowt back striking with heavy hean night ht sticks careless of or whether the they hit lilt man or woman woman wom worn an anIt It is jf a n riot lot of ot snobbery toa toadyism snobbery toadyism what hat you OU will wll Down the sli street some miles are Wa waiting i Ing newspaper presses straIning attaining like hounds bounds In leash A telephone sl 81 signal nal l will wll set pet them whirling and the editions will be bou bought ht up like hot cakes b by the swarming mob and then then another another International interns interns- sacrifice has been accomplished Yes It Il has Jias been going going- on tot for some years and will wUl doubtless go o on to lot for lotmore I more and it Ij Is nil all to for l' l a price Yes a price You say mone money money perhaps but It Is Ismore Ismore ismore more than that lint We i can spare the thin mone money for tOI are wo we not the richest and greatest g nation In th the world Do not the slowly awakening nations take us for their models models mod mod- els Are Aro we C not an example In progression sion slon to the lie rest of the universe That That price Is our daughters It sounds lound queer doesn't it An American Ameri can girl sold for a title It sounds moro inane queer each time it Il occurs Usually In a bargain of or sale all all' alland and barter there is 11 a a. quid I pio 1110 quo lUO in return for tor which the mane money Is made In this instance however it in lJ different The woman oman Is to get the worst t of it H. considered rom from an any angle She is the chattel first t and last t. She Sho is hi ex exchanged cx- cx changed chang d sho sho and her money money for for a n. title tIthe and to the sane ordinary everyday man manof manof of affairs it surI surely passes all nil understanding understand understand- in ing why in such uch an enlightened ago age as this huts twentieth century a title should have n I my any a attraction whatever cr There are arc French and Italian counts on ever every hand there are Austrian barons to be found upon the street corner comer and who shall shan say say- that one of or them is Js worth a real al mans man's I consideration How does it happ happen n that my any man or ot woman for that matter mattl sh should uld be willing to trado trade a R. rag carpet tot for one of these shopworn out at titles Look about at our world We have ha er e every modern Improvement that can he be invented In just as soon as its Ils up need in is made mado apparent and vet yet we run wild over o an anaemic ass with a useless usel-J n H and worthless title attached to his hula name It happens er e every few tew months and the arra array of these mc a would fill a respectable little volume Its It's an old EtOI story this International international Ions sale salo and barter in human flesh but Its It's rapidly rapId becoming a 3 serious story story story-so so serious that nowadays we wc a have o to he be shown b by a man who ho has studied the worst of or the tile case cose RO so serious that this man and his friend have found it necessary necessary sary to put pul It before us upon a 1 sta stage o and moko mako us swallow o a bitter pill pm with ah plenty plent of or sugar coating in the wa way of ot national pride to make It go JO down don Coming to too the Ne Now New Shubert tonight I. I Is The Tho Man From Home wrItten deliberately atel h by Booth and Harry HarryL L Leon on Wilson for the theer er very purpose of or showing us what things we wc do o. o It is a astory story er very cold blooded in its theme that exhibits the tue frustration of Just such uch a proposed alliance Analyze It a little and it becomes a a. satirical rebuke l to our American snobs and It Jt is Jg timely Indeed el Take rake another look at th the tho that thiat are arc made Can you ou N see sea e one of ot them that In In Instance instance in- in has turned out happily happ er e every stance lias s not bitter trouble scandal al and even oven dl disgrace grace resulted from tho lie auction that took place Hardly two months old oldIs olds Is III s an International aff affair lr that became a joke loko and a stench in the nostrils of any decent community And still the they go bO on thirdly Hardly a century removed t from the lie vices and anaemia of the old world and we wc arc are hurrying our dau daughters back Into it The el very ery things 8 a against which our forefathers and sh shed th their lr blood for are arc toda today the tho desideratum of or earthly happiness happiness- for or a certain cla class s. s |