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Mrs. Warren s Profession 185
themselves as to discuss my business affairs or your
mother s.
Indeed, no lady or gentleman would discuss the
profession of Mrs. Warren and her confreres.
But they partake of the dividends. When the
evil becomes too crying, they engage in vice cru
sades, and call down the wrath of the Lord and
the brutality of the police upon the Mrs. Warrens
and her victims. While the victimizers, the
Crofts, the Canterburys, Rev. Gardner
Vivian s own father and pious mouthpiece of the
Church and the other patrons of Mrs. War
ren s houses parade as the protectors of woman,
the home and the family.
To-day no one of the least intelligence denies
the cruelty, the injustice, the outrage of such a
state of affairs, any more than it is being denied
that the training of woman as a sex commodity
has left her any other source of income except to
sell herself to one man within marriage or to many
men outside of marriage. Only bigots and inex
perienced girls like Vivian can say that
"
every
body has some choice. The poorest girl alive
may not be able to choose between being Queen of
England or Principal of Newnham; but she can
choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, ac
cording to her taste."
It is astonishing how little education and col
lege degrees teach people. Had Vivian been
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