[77] Children as they go to and from school are waited for and watched until the time has come for running them down.—Report of the Secret Commission.
[78] It seemed a strange inverted world, that in which I lived those terrible weeks, the world of the streets and brothel. It was the same, and yet not the same as the world of business and the world of politics. I heard of much the same people in the house of ill-fame as those of whom you hear in caucuses, in law courts and on ’change; but all were judged by a different standard, and their relative importance was altogether changed. Mr. Stead.—“Pall Mall Gazette.”
[79] Report of Secret Commission.
[80] An immense number of public women congregated at Nice during the time of its Historic Council, which settled the genuineness of the books of the Bible.
[81] So fast has this class of pecuniarily independent single women increased within the past two and a half decades, women who prefer a single life with its personal independence, to a married life with its legal dependence and restrictions, as to call from the “London Times” the designation of “Third Sex.”
[82] The statistics of prostitution show that the great proportion of those who have fallen into it have been impelled by the most extreme poverty, in many instances verging upon starvation.—Hist. European Morals, 2, 203.
[83] Belgium and Holland entered into an agreement a few years since for its suppression.
[84] When Hon. Henry Blair presented a petition, asking for the better protection of girls, he said: “Our civilization seems to have developed an almost unknown phase of crime in the annals of the race, and today the traffic in girls and young women in this country, especially in our large cities, has come to be more disgraceful and worse than ever was that in the girls of Circassia.”
This Christianity of ours has much to answer for.—Woman’s Tribune.
[85] It was at one time proposed to arrest all women out alone in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., after 9 o’clock in the evening. Had the ordinance been enacted, a lady of mature years and position was prepared to test its legality.