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HAUNTS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRADER V3<br />

hope to present this evil as a national disgrace<br />

and clanger, and Members of Parliament,<br />

be their party what it may, can join<br />

issue here and act together for the defence<br />

of our womanhood and Christian womanhood<br />

the world over. We do not make our appeal<br />

to party politicians, but we are making it<br />

on behalf of these poor slaves to the people<br />

of this country, and to all just men irrespective<br />

of party or creed.<br />

Even America, democratic though she may<br />

perhaps be, is in many ways a less free<br />

country than this country is. Germany is<br />

police-ridden and aristocracy-ridden; Russia<br />

has hardly emerged out of barbarity as yet.<br />

But here the voice of the people is the<br />

only thing that really counts, when all is<br />

said and done. It is the people who send<br />

men to Parliament, it is the people who<br />

decide what salary the King shall receive,<br />

and it is as well that the nation should<br />

keep before it its ideals of freedom, and insist<br />

upon justice for the humble and great<br />

alike. Therefore, we ask the representatives<br />

of the people to enlighten the people, and<br />

ask their support for new laws to be enacted<br />

to meet present and future conditions.<br />

In dealing with these profoundly pathetic<br />

tragedies which affect the poor and obscure,<br />

the unknown, and the ignorant and the weak,<br />

we would like to give the people the story<br />

of their woes, and we ask them to shelter<br />

and protect the innocent and the helpless.<br />

We put this case before the nation, not before

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