unreal shadow, a
something utterly unlike themselves. The real facts should be
brought home, the sympathies of men awakened, and awakened to such
a degree that they will go and see how these people live, see how
they work, see how they suffer.

_Question_. Does exposure do any good?

_Answer_. I hope that _The World_ will keep on. I hope that it
will express every horror that it can, connected with the robbery
of poor and helpless girls, and I hope that it will publish the
names of all the robbers it can find, and the wretches who oppress
the poor and who live upon the misfortunes of women.

The crosses of this world are mostly born by wives, by mothers and
by daughters. Their brows are pierced by thorns. They shed the
bitterest tears. They live and suffer and die for others. It is
almost enough to make one insane to think of what woman, in the
years of savagery and civilization, has suffered. Think of the
anxiety and agony of motherhood. Maternity is the most pathetic
fact in the universe. Think how helpless girls are. Think of the
thorns in the paths they walk--of the trials, the temptations, the
want, the misfortune, the dangers and anxieties that fill their
days and nights. Every true man will sympathize with woman, and
will do all in his power to lighten her burdens and increase the
sunshine of her life.

_Question_. Is there any remedy?

_Answer_. I have always wondered that the great corporations have
made no provisions for their old and worn out employees. It seems
to me that not only great railway companies, but great manufacturing
corporations, ought to provide for their workmen. Many of them
are worn out, unable longer to work, and they are thrown aside like
old clothes. They find their way to the poorhouses or die in
tenements by the roadside. This seems almost infinitely heartless.
Men of great wealth, engaged in manufacturing, instead of giving
five hundred thousand dollars for a library, or a million dollars
for a college, ought to put this money aside, invest it in bonds
of the Government, and the interest ought to be used in taking care
of the old, of the helpless, of those who meet with accidents in
their work. Under our laws, if an employee is caught in a wheel
or in a band, and his arm or leg is torn off, he is left to the
charity of the community, whereas the profits of the business ought
to support him in his old age. If employees had this feeling--that
they were not si