| Show ADDRESS ON Ell TRAFFIC H kj V HiTE HE SLAVE With the tho declaration that an aver fiver average ago age of oC one ono hundred girls n a day enter unwillingly a n life of shame In the United States Mrs Irs Virginia irginia IJO l Braadt Burg In her address on White Slave Traffic at the Tabernacle Fri Friday Friday day night before an appreciative read some very ver startling figures which had been taken from Crom prepared by U government In Inspectors sPecters The FIre address delivered In Inan Inan inan an eloquent and able ahle ahl manner manlier gave proof that lint the tho speaker had given Ien much study to lo the tire Work ork as National Worker for foJ the Iho lh Crittenton Rescue homes as aswell well vell as In tho tim th interests of o the crusade against tIre the white slave shave traffic which the United States Government has haG re reo recently recently taken up tie After Acter a boort Introductory address by hy Rev ne McCroery McCreery of the Methodist church airs Irs Burg Burc prefaced her re maiUs with the statement that no one wants ants to believe that white slave traffic Ito fic exists and most people think those who have huo talked upon the matter here heretofore heretofore heretofore were drawing upon their Imagination nation to a great extent But when hen the actual statistics arc presented by bya a government with officers Investigating ting ling conditions people then begin to believe that there must he be something some thins to the tho statement that white girls arc are being sold bold Into a life lire of shame Mothers of England Engl Weep England the speaker stated first learned of ot the trafficking In lu white girls girl after aCler William T Stead had writ written ten several articles and presented pres sta sla statistics as an well as the names of or girls who had fallen and their procurers Then a t number of oC the tho British cabinet stated staled eta led that the disclosure caused the motherhood of or England to shed more tears than over before beCore Mrs Burg then briefly referred to what the time Eng English lish lIh government Is doing as well wehl as tire the United States Government to ex ox exterminate terminate the time white slave traffic Two hundred and thirty thousand girls err In America every year ear and of this number thousand are arc seduced educed or deceived It Is almost one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred girls a day that enter the tho life unwillingly Thus ThuG spoke Mrs Mra Iri Burg Burgas Bur Bura ae as a she rend from statistics furnished by b the th government and continuing silo said It means that one hundred of our American girls are arc sacrificed dally daily dall upon tho the altar of vice Ice Those girls are sold from 25 2 to by b those who act as procurers Girls Shipped Away Avay AwayAn An Incident of the sending of girls In lu Buenos Ayes Argentine Ru Ro public South America In twentynine t days das over ovel half of whom were Amer American American ican Iran girls girIs was given ghen as an example by b the time speaker of how brow the tho girls are disposed of by Imy the agents who secure them in Europe as well as America deceiving them under tho the promise premise that they the will be he given employment at high wages If Jr they the will leave their homes A method employed by b the traffickers ers In the tho United States Is that of or alluring newspaper advertisements ls is which w offer special Inducements to ie girls to come to the city elt and accept positions as stenographers or learn dressmaking In this connection a number of Incidents were recited Ono One case ir ii particular was during the Worlds Fair Fall at St Louis Louts In 1904 when six hundred girls from Europe were brought to America but were saved sayed In time from leading the life lIfo of debauchery and shame sham through tho the eferts of Adolph Busch tho time St Louis L millionaire brewer and Miss Helen lichen Gould of New York Girls Driven to Shame Sh The speaker then referred to the tho pin money mone girls whom she termed the girls who though they have ha e homes and everything they wish accept po positions In lit stores and elsewhere to get spending money mane and thus keep the girls who are arc In need of the tho positions from getting them She also referred to the girls who work and toll Lou In stores and factories for about aboul 4 a week and who are expected to clothe and anti support themselves upon this amount In this connection Mrs Burg told of or her experience In working in ina Ina I Ia a large largo department store of o Chicago to study stud tho time question She Sho made the tho statement that it was surprising to 0 know how many of oC he girls lend lead a n life of or shame In order to secure enough money on which to live JIve anti and dress TIme The girls who work in tho the department store at 4 J a week the speaker termed wage girls Although the prices of goods and are arc high their wages never neer increase A solution of or the question of or saving girls from sin eln the time speaker announced as advanced by Miss 1165 Helen Gould was waa the time paying of o girls etter than star starvation ration wages The liquor traffic Is the cause of or two million men not working and their wives and daughters are aie compelled to work vork to lo support the tho family faintly The girls with the palo and haggard looks books worn vorn and pinched faces the speaker said BallI were found Cound In sweat shops and In almost any an community of o the South and slid the iho East Mrs Burg said that whenever she saw those peor girls sho she thanked God Goll that wt they will willdie willdie die some time and escape their per perpetual perpetual perpetual suffering Liquor Is a Factor America the speaker said la hr h not the land hand of the free or the tire home of or time the brave brac where whore all nIl men amen are born free freo and equal If H It were we would not have hae white while slavery slaver such as DS exists In America knocked out black years ago but has not yet ct out ourt while white slavery which la is laone hone isone one million times blacker than thun that of or black slavery slave y yin In closing Mrs Burg spoke of or the of Christian women When they do heir shopping In a astore astore store a few kind words from rota them would do much to brighten the ho lives of the girls who stand all day behind tho lie counters and at night arc are so tired Urell and worn that It Is little wonder that they are ready rend to do something des desperate Tho The of Christian women has bas damned many girls Ladles Lades when hen you OU meet the tho work workIng workIng Ing girl In any establishment be bo kind to her he and God Cod will reward you ou Drink the speaker said sold was tho time cause causo of or as ns many downfalls among girls ns os many maD men under tho the Influence once ence of or liquor arc demons who other otherwise otherie wise ie In their sober Rober minds are arc honor honorable honorable able and worthy worth As a parting word Mrs Burg said that parent should teach their chil children dron dren physiology and the tho problems of oC life and not let them then grow STOW up In ig ignorance J norance to find out conditions thorn them themselves selves seles Briefly reviewing tire the subjects bho 1 b haul had spoken upon Mrs Dull Burp con concluded concluded eluded and aud received generous ap op applause pIa use from a Il most appreciative au audience audience audience |
