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234 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
not to be accosted one's self. It is a very dis-
for women to wait about a
agreeable thing
railway station. There is always a liability of
being spoken to by strange men, and these
wretched foreigners of bad character are very
difficult to throw off.
Girls who are travelling alone ought always
to be warned that, if they have to wait for
any one, or for their trains, they should
always wait in the ladies' waiting-room. It
is the only place where they will be out of
reach of those who prowl about stations.
We want to kill off the human wolves who
destroy girls and women, and it is for this
purpose that this book has been written as
anything which has been written on this
subject must have had for its object the
out of this evil. But it is the
stamping
constant dripping that wears away the stone,
so we hope to press the matter on the public
conscience, and bring it before the public gaze
repeatedly, until the nation says, " Enough !
this evil must cease." Then the work will be
done. In this way only can we hope to have
the law amended and new and necessary laws
passed regarding this traffic; and also new
and necessary precautions taken at our cost
and our charge yours and mine. I am quite
willing to pay my share. If I were not, I
would not ask you to help to destroy the
plague-germ and to make free the Christian
slave.
Mr. Willis further suggests some drastic
measures which he, in common with many