Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade [electronic resource] : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ... . s and railway stations would re-nuire to know several languages, as well asto be possessed of much common sense anddiscretion. To undertake this work this Asso-ciation offered to engage a large numbex oladv workers, possessing a knowledge euEuropean languages, if the Government womdauthorise them to do so. This was agreed to,and the National Vigilance Associa
Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade [electronic resource] : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ... . s and railway stations would re-nuire to know several languages, as well asto be possessed of much common sense anddiscretion. To undertake this work this Asso-ciation offered to engage a large numbex oladv workers, possessing a knowledge euEuropean languages, if the Government womdauthorise them to do so. This was agreed to,and the National Vigilance Association com-menced a work which they earned on for thelast five years, during which time their work-ers have met at the railway stations m Lon-don, and at several of the most important ports, 16,000 young women. 80 per centof whom have been of foreign nationality andauite 40 per cent of whom would have been?n moral per il had it not been for the assistancerendered by the workers on their arrival in England. , _ Thus Article 2 has done much more thanestablish a clear and definite metnod of pro-tection for young travellers. It has roused tneheart of Europe, and drawn the attention ofthe people to the need of being m attendance. 0 ^3 <4-l O w <D « 1 a o H itifulwith w NG G 1—iW PQ £ 0 5 0 a bo « — ^ H CO 7- — & O « 0 0 O 4-1 0 W — 9J W H ~ s fl 0 H 3 a, O * 05 £ 0 CD NO W * ? O. HE «s .4. cu co1 CO• 1-* 0 (D H -*-» W .5 a Q 0 EC a >* O CO W TH 0 0 S BISHOP OF LONDON PREACHING IN WALLSTREET, NEW YORK The best loved man He preaches in theslums at midnight, and in his cathedral he pleads withthe leaders of his church and nation against the falsemodesty which keeps young people in ignorance of thewages of sin. WHITE SLAVE TRADE 39 at the railway stations to assist young women,and to protect them from the men and womenwho frequent those places for the purpose ofdecoying them from the path of virtue. The Society Les Amies de la Jeune Fille,in
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