Vilma Glücklich writes to Jane Addams enclosing a statement on the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's financial situation and tells her that Bartha Lutz could help with propaganda in Latin America. Glücklich also thanks Addams for the Chinese gifts forwarded by Miss Graves.
Addams argues that if the rulers of European countries lived among their people, they would see that labor and commerce were what made nations, not its military might.
Arguing that white slavery requires an organized movement to defeat it, Addams provides examples from cases in Chicago. This is the first in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.
Addams explores the economic plight of young women that often drives them to prostitution and white slavery. This is the second in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.
In this narratively rich article in McClure's, Addams reflects on her meeting with Tolstoy in Russia in 1896, on her admiration for his principles, and on her pragmatic approach to good work in the urban, industrial context of Hull-House and its diverse surroundings.
