Word: slave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the most interesting works already published are the "Harvard Historical Studies." These essays comprise twenty volumes by different authors and vary in subject matter from "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America" and "The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Line of Suleiman the Magnificent" to "Nominations for Elective Office in the United States" and "Burgage Tenure in England...
...first proved the futility of remedying the social evil by segregation, which, he says does not stop the white slave traffic. A social evil law to better the situation is hopeless, for it is unconstitutional. He summed up the fallacies of our present ignorant system as follows: "We turn the entire problem over to police, giving them three distinct powers which they abuse. They are allowed to make pseudo-laws to regulate vice; they are then expected to enforce these laws and punish offenders...
...Clifford G. Roe will speak on "The White Slave Traffic" at the meeting of the University Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. Roe is a graduate of the University of Michigan and was for several years assistant district attorney of Chicago. He resigned his office to take up the crusade against the white slavery in Chicago and is now recognized as the leader in the fight against that evil in American. Mr. Roe has made an extensive tour of the country and has already spoken at several of the larger...
...Christian Association meeting in Brooks House. "The White Slave Traffic...
...management. Indeed it may be greater where the management is not too scrupulous. The stockholder, therefore, is essentially in the position of the absentee landlord; and the suffering falls on the persons with whom his corporation is brought into contact,--as it falls upon the tenantry or the slave gangs on an estate,--not because the stockholder is malicious or hard, or even indifferent, but because he is an absentee. He is not himself responsible for the management, or ever aware of its problems...