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184 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
hai, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Burma, India,
Siam, Japan, and China proper. Her individual
merchants in the East are respected
and trusted by the Asiatics. Indeed, no
commercial effort is spared by "Uncle
Sam " or his " great trading sons " to impress
the Asiatic's mind with the fact that
the American is the right man in the right
place in the East. Why, then, are all these
splendid efforts so miserably discounted by
the great Republic allowing a flood of brazen
American prostitutes and low-down " pimps "
to descend upon the East and, by their presence
and their terrible traffic, to taint the
Asiatic mind ? Let Americans pause in their
hustle and their " dollar hunt "
pause for a
small breathing space, and take stock of the
number of their daughters who are yearly
done to death in the East. At each harlot's
death in the fearful Asiatic Babylonian dens
a big percentage of American influence over
the Asiatic mind is lost.
As lovers of that land where freedom lives
and flourishes, may we ask the authorities at
Washington to stop, once and for all, American
prostitutes and " pimps " plying their " profession
" in the East ? Surely it is the duty
of the Legislature to do a great right, even at
the expense of doing a little 1 wrong If women
of ill-fame are kept out of the East and lose
their unsavoury trade, compensate them with
coin nobody will miss, and save the honour of
the nation and the reputation of the womanhood
of the nation in the eyes of the Asiatics