THE GIRL THAT DISAPPEARS
"Certainly," I would say, "and where would you have me drive them?"
"I don't care where you drive them, but get them away from my church you must."
"How would it do," I have asked these men, "for me to drive the street-walkers over to Dr. So-and-So's church?"
And that is the way such conversation always must end. It's very well to say "drive prostitution out," but out where? It exisits. It is a fact. You can't kill a fact, but you can do something with it. And friends, as long as we fail to do something with it, we each and every one of us are guilty of participation in the social evil, for I assure you, that if prostitution were properly handled—I will make that stronger and say, wherever prostitution has been properly handled—the white slave traffic has been killed, and prostitution itself has been reduced to the minimum.
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