Stopping the White Slave Traffic
By Editor
Stopping the White Slave Traffic.—Last week we noticed a new book on the white slave traffic. Just recently an international conference met in Paris to consider its suppression. It has gotten to be so serious that the very nations themselves are becoming aroused to it. The congress was opened by a speech from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. Good work done was reported, and yet the feeling seemed to be that the work was only begun and that stronger measures should be adopted by governments, placing under the heaviest punishment the men or the women who will give themselves to this vile trade, which in many cases brings its sponsors much dishonest gain. The conference brought out the fact that this work is carried on in a regular way between European countries, between Europe and South America, in the Orient and elsewhere. Under promise of employment at good wages, and easy work, thousands of girls are lured from their homes to end life in constantly sinking degradation and a death of shame. Such revelations ought to grip the very heart of the world and to lead to prompt and decided measures to root out the infernal traffic.