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...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...
...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...
...simplicity that rebukes our habitual elaborate settings, and the oriental atmosphere is reproduced with striking intensity. The actors attain a degree of effectiveness in characterization even of minor parts that is unique on our modern stage. Miss Konstantip excels in the portrayal of the passionate animal spirits of the slave-girl, while Mr. Orlofi, as the hunchback is peculiarly successful in showing his pathetic despair. Though "Sumurun" may invite the banal criticisms of a spasmodically moral censorship, it is the most distinguished play seen in Boston this year, and as an artistic achievement deserves the unqualified support of an appreciative...
...sons were champion of the slave...
...United States Senate on May 19, 1856, fully a million copies were circulated. It was reprinted and widely distributed in England. In this respect it may be said of Sumner: "He fired the shot heard round the world." This speech was never answered in debate. The bludgeon of the slave power in the hands of Preston Brooks was the only weapon by which it was not assailed. But the attack on Sumner awakened the slumbering conscience of the North and tore off once and forever the mask under which slavery had so long concealed its real character...