The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1909, Page 4

Member of the United Press. Mahed daily by tug Co White Slaves of more | startling or will receive more instant public attention than| that of the senate investigating committee on white slavery That selling of There (magination and : this shameful traffic. Undoubtedly the men, as well as the women, will at once Gemand that congress do something to stop this traffic. Our blood boils when we see girls sold as cattle, There is gomething tangible in a report that shows their value to vice The sale of a girl, whether French or Japanese, for $600 is a Matter that will at once bring forth instant and insistent de- mands that the exploiters of virtue be curbed, and if possible suppressed. It might be more effective if these same senators who bave done such valiant work in this matter had probed fur er. They might have delved into the slavery of American | @irls and brought forth the fact that they are sold MUCH MORE CHEAPLY than those imported from abroad who framed Perhaps no public document recent years i America will long countenance the buying of and girls into slavery is unbelievable that that stirs our ‘ouses in our hearts a purpose something about report is to wipe out Perhaps this is too much from senators a tariff bill that will add to the long procession of girls who are walking the same path along which these foreign girls are driven Unfortunately we have not before our eyes the tangible, | concrete form of a slave driver and exploiter, but the girls | who take the path know that the slavery is just as complete, | even though poverty, low wages and the robberies of Privilege | are the influences which SELL her honor and her body. The} Aldrich tariff bill, for instance, added to the price of clothes and those articles of wear which have become almost an essen- tial to the working girl. Her food has increased in price, that the sugar, flour and meat trusts may grow richer. American In Seattle, as well as other places, if she supports herself, she finds the cost of living increased by outrageous charges Her room rent is higher, because rich tax dodgers escape their payment of legitimate taxes, and her landlord has to charge higher rents. If she works, she is met with low wages and long hours The women who will undoubtedly come to the rescue of the foreign girls who are sold as chattels would do well to go farther. True, some of them may find that THEY, THEM- SELVES, are almost in the same business as these open, venal parasites who traffic in human flesh. They may find that their) purchases from institutions which underpay and overwork | their girls is accomplishing the same result as is obtained by these importers of slave girls. They may find that the few pennies they save in that manner is carned by the tears and the blood of the girls, who turn from conditions that spell starvation and hopelessness to competition with these other girls who are lured from for eign shores. Injustice, oppressions, the exploitation by Privilege turns a dozen American girls into white slaves for every one imported. The time has come to stop both. If the grand jury does all the; Leopold leaves ali his fortune to reporters have promised, prepara-| his morganatic wife tions should be begun immediately keep money away from the Mor for “pointing with pride.” eans. Comparatively speaking, there is| In probing the sugar frauds to the still time to do your Christmas bottom It seems that the men on shopping early top were entirely overlooked aes MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS He Visite the Earth as a Special Correspondent and Makes Wireless Observations in His Notebook. SAW QUITE YOUNG EARTH-BEING You can't! R THE STAR THE THIRD READER BY FRED SCHALLER GEO. FINCH AND JOHN SNIGGS. the emi for two Tt ts a busy day in the law office of Jacob Brief, nent legal practitioner, The place is entirely deserted young errand boys, Geo, Finch and John Snigge, who a discovered engaged in forming those babitudes of life which make for future success. George is tying red tape around legal documents, and John is assiduously catching flies Need it be sald that George is the son of a poor widow, and therefore an honest, industrious boy, while John is a mendacious, abandoned fellow whore ac usefulness is to enhance by hia low, boisterous conduct the many rare virt of Geo, Finch? It ja therefore not surprising that at this moment John knocks over an Inkstand, the contents of which flow over a freshly drafted demurrer in the case of Spedewaki va, Periwinkle. To no purpose does John seek to stanch the sable flood with George's immaculately laundered kerobief. The mischief is done! There was never a blot so large. a rieerel || “O, now you will catch It,” exclaims George, horrified, It ought to be stated that he means catch something else, not the fly Pooh, there is naught to hinder me from telling our employer you are the culprit,” replies John, with a rude laugh, “because you are such a muff and have such squeamish notions that you will glory in being a martyr Upon hearing this, George casts his gaze to the ground, know. ing that wt John has told the truth about something. All of which teaches us that in the battle of life, Geo. Finch has a fat chance. MR. JELLY’ FISH ‘7% Yoo Nand, narr Vie Lerma do ur ~ \ | Washington, D. C., Dee, 13. | Dear Dad During the first two | States forestry department. I didn't | count them. Matches are construct: | days’ of con-\ed from pine, linden, aspen, white | greas two per-|cedar, poplar, birch and willow.| feetly good in-| Doors, sash and posts are the by BéFORE SHRINE OF SEVERE CON - STRUCTION, WHEREON SAT SMALL 1201, ~~~— BROUGHT GIFTS AND a r, THE MINSTREL MIDGETS “Listen, Rastus. foh office?” “Lemme see. Ob, yes, becaze bof ob dem need suppohters, yah, yah, yah!” “Ef de orchestra will fall habd against de openin’ bars, we will Why am a pair ob loose hose lak a man runnin oblige wif: “Mah Wife Am Back at Bread Now.” = WOULD Work Agin, Ah'm Eatin’ White “Why did Gwendoline choose to marry such an oid man?” ‘She says she took him because his old college friends wore 3 | barous and inhe- vestigations| products of the match mill. were dumped | ne into Speaker) hur B. Shelton is down in the} Cannon's gar.) pu records as clerk of Senator | bage box. I re-)Aldrich’s finance committee and seo fer to the res} retary ot the) olutions to in monetary quire into the} mission Query sugar trust and Does Shelton do into the Ballin jthe work for the A SATURDAY, jof all, he spat on her. | The way the newspapers go on about | Aa If the pole was ever lost! com-| DECEMBER 18, 1909 “Kdgar waa silent a minute, then he spoke up very defiantly “No! he declared, ‘the devil might have put me up to the slappin’ and kickin’, but the spittin 1 thought of all myself,’ ” NEW bridge few YORK, 1B-—At whist party in the Bronx a Dec a afternoons ago three mothers of families were seated at one of the tables when the playing ceased and the food was brought out Naturally, they got to telling stories about the Hue ones. ‘You know I always try to give fldren @ reason for anything them to do or not to do,” said Mra, A “1 want them to stand why they must obey yesterday afternoon my little Bd guar, years old, had « tantrum while he was playing out In the yard with hi ine, who ta! only 4. To wai ut of the window and I saw him slap her! and then kiek her and then, worst | I rushed out and hauled him into the house. I did not whip him, but I began to talk to him very seriously | para “‘Hidgar, 1 daid, ‘don't you know} “De let me have a bu that you should not slap and kick|me over, Mr. Shubert, fc your little sister and spit on her?” | tion to all my troubles I have told Yes, mamma,’ he finally ad-|you about, I fell out of a taxtoab mitted last night and was almost instantly ‘Do you know why you should | killed not?’ Well,” sald No.’ | manager ax } Why,’ I told him, ‘it is because |a handy waate basket those things are very wicked; it ia|make out whether she is dead or the devil who puts them tnto your | alive, but in either case 1 don't be head | Hove she needs the money QANTA CLAUS an dhe & NORTH POLE Ha, hat She Was Almost Instantly Killed. Lee Bhubert picked up a daintily addressed envelope, marked “Per sonal” in the corner, and opeved it suspiciously First he turned to the last page, and found the name of an actress who had been hard hit by the recent theatrical de pression, She had picked up a job now and then, but as the show had always “blown up” and as her tastes had been expensive, her w paid bills had vegun to be some, and she wanted to negotiate 4 loan, The letter was quite thetic, and Mr, Shubert had almost Well, graph, which read an follows fred to tide famous young 1 can't quite Ho, ho!” roared Santa Claus, “it really makes me weary La ant Peary And Dr. Cook, and which one wae the first to find the pole— Well, well, upon my soul! Don't I hitch my reindeer to it just outside my loeberg palace, } That flashes back the glory of my Rory Bory Alice? And as for bringing gumdrops here to feed the Eskimo. When I keep them by the icebox full! Why? Goodness only knows! Why, you can Jost ask any littl And after hearing what they'll say, you surely will not doubt it; For they often come to see me-—it's a very simple trick 1 send my dreams to fetch them, and they do it double-quick! girl or boy about it, I show them through the workshop where the fairies make the toys, I show them my Good Children Book, where names of all good boys And giris are plainly written down, an well as the address, Then fill them up on sugar plums, | may as well confess ‘The Dreams then cuddle them up close and whisk them to their beds, With heada still fall of Irish matie, and dotls, and bright red sleds, And then sometimes they talk, andwake their mother in a trice, And she'll say, ‘You've kicked the covers off, your feet are just like ice.” ‘This Cook and Peary, so they say, consulted instruments To tell them when they'd found thepole—now that don't sound like nenwe! i And if they come around again, I hope it will not vex Thetr feelings when I offer them a pair of magtc specs!” REDIT wer Pinchot monetary com controversy They went ww} Cannon's “com-| mittee on rules.” 1 would suggest | that the name of this committee be changed #0 as to read “the com | mittee which rules." ] or does i lopes from the Tnited States jovernment? “oo © It is rather hu yus, but it’ is ec a slg nifieant fact, that quite a numberof people have been around to see me jlately to learn if possible who is | managing the “Return from El jconspiracy, with a view to becom Finally retired from the house of “ representatives our jolly old friend, Pete Hepburn of lowa, has come back to Washington as a member of | the third house. Ratiroads need ing a competent representative to look after desirable or undesirable legislation have only to recall the fact that Col. Pete was for many | years chairman of the house com. | #slinatt mittee on interstate commerce. He | RATH |is well acquainted with the mem-| REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. bers of that committee and the| |members of the house and senate jand there is no trick of the com-| | mittee room or the legisiative hall] A man tries to control his which Col. Pete know, | dren before either by observation or expertence. | tro} himaelt. No charge for this reading notice. | We get. no commissions | Wish | knew When we don’t know how to ap preciate a thing we sneer at ft hil does not he has learned to con One of the justifications for the | way a girl makes a fool of a man is jhe never dreams it Speaker Cannon is peeved at Se-| A compliment to a reno Payne, and declined this year| promissory note to pay to name Payne ss | more or she'll think one of the honor her. able committee to. {tell the president lthat the house was assembled and ady for his message, Payne has had this as signment wince the year one, and it must have been something very naughty he did to | be made the vic tim of this har her ten you cheated Furniture Gifts lamp. mirror sewing stand magazine rack desk and char. great easy chair Or, perhaps a sewing chair. A handsome itbrary table. One of the beautiful book cases, Any of the beautiful rugs offerdd. A jardiniere or a vase for flowers. A cabinet to hold an overflow ‘of treasures Desk or writing table fittings to barmonize with other furnishing. A framed photograph, an old pint or a fine reproduction of a ‘amous painting. man punishment +e * of the 24 hours there are 4,000,000 matches struck (or stricken) For this informa tion I am indebted to the United Every minute jing charter members of the @r-| 4 1 Jain. | oman is a Larger Boy anyt Dis is me friend Mike, Mr, Grocer, mg in your tine, ye kin trust him as fur as yer Hk oo pee oo STAR DUST JOSH WISH SAYS: Ef he wants because it has never been found po sible to get the news all the round. Thus it appears that some | places have been regularly deprived a New Year Some congressmen have been try- Jing to frank furniture through the mails, Yet each one was prociaimed & patriot when elected. an advertisement taken from & morning paper that shows to what a pass genius may come in a great city "Wanted—A collaborator, by young playwright. The play ix al ready written; collaborator to fur } nish board and bed until play is pro- duced.”—Succens, Here's 4 Facing a 15-year term, “Ice King” Morse broke silence | to aay a few things merely ki tutions a few financial insti 1 things. Now is the time to beware crook who tries to collect for pald express package the pe A Phrase Explained. a pre Chichgo boy adopled by grand {father ‘omes brother to his parent. | Does this make him his mother La brother-in-law? Weetttin “Let one man stand at my right | hand,” Horatius quoth, quoth he. | one abide at my left ade and the bridge with me. Three men, 1 wot, can make It hot for catiff foes like these; and when we write about the fight, we'll share the — Courier-Journal | Thoy cot Prince Ito's assassination jon a moving picture film. At that, {t's doubtful if Ito wore the proverb- lal pleasant look, ‘The naval observatory says the annual stunt of flashing the advent of the new year around the world by telegraph is somewhat of a myth, trouble: | pa-| thawed, when he came to the last) in addi-| the letter into | A Warning The Waltham Watch Company in order to preserve the reputation of their watches and in order also to pro- tect the people who buy Waltham Watches, hereby warn every one in- tending to buy a good watch, Waltham | or any other, that it is not safe to buy a watch by catalogue from any of the mail order houses. 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