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Show WHITE SLAVERY. A Chicago city magistrate has teen found guilty of illegally releasing fall-eu fall-eu women confined in the workhouse and of endeavoring to bribe reporters fcr the dally press to suppress exposure ex-posure of the practice. The dispatch, does not state whether the white slave dealers of Chicago should have been prosecuted as accessories. Tho j.istice has been removod from oiUct by fhe appellate court; but will not puffer Imprisonment There tho incident inci-dent officially closes. Those not familiar with the method' employed in holding these women in brothels, says the Butte Inter-Moun-rain, would consider Incredible a plain recital of the truth. Even where courts are not corrupt the women ar" almost at the mercy of their masters. If recalcitrant, charges of disorderly conduct are preferred and they are i.?ually convicted. When In prison, if the slave dealers can procure their release, they make terms by which the women are worse off than before their incarceration. It will not continue forever. Gradually, Grad-ually, a kindlier view of such poor cieatures is prevading the nation. Tho day is dawning when American Christians Chris-tians imitating Christ will look upon up-on such, more as victims than guilty ones. Certain it is that our present attitude Improved as It is ovr the attitude of the past is both ab&urd and Inhuman for it permits to flour Ish in the thadow of the courts and under the spires of tho churches con ditions beside which those which caus-co. caus-co. the civil war were tolerable. |