Cañon City record., 1900-11-01

yestigntion showed that property was
not as safe as formerly, and the sup
pressed reports OF robberies would 60
to prove 1t. Isn't nll this low standard,
as revealed in police-court records,
costing flesh and blood? Couldn't some
OF 1t be averted by decent enforce
ment OF the laws? Would such enforce
ment OF the laws Interfere with the In
come Of Tammany men? Ask certain
state senator whose name Is heard all
over town rs the collector for the pool
room blackmail. Ask any Of the ward
men" who mny be seen going into the
office Of Adams, the policy king. what
they go there for. Ask certnin police
commissioner who was annoyed as he
looked out of his back windows at
home by seeing directly into q policy
shop. and who asked II they couldn't
move II on some distance, not 10 much
because a church near by objected ms
because he didn't like to be reminded
In SO pointed wny OF certain sources
of his income.
Women Dccoyed to New York.
Nor is this the end of the Indictment
against Tammany Hall ms q destroyer
OF human lives for personal greed.
"
ton In the matter to n man whose busi-
ness It is to send out agents to scour
the country for girls who, under prom
Use Of good situations. are brought to
ise Of good situations. are brought 20
was that business more fiourishing
than at present In June. 1899. one OF
these cases got Into print Fifteen
young women were brought to this
city from the neighborhood Of Allen
town, Pennsylvania. Most Of them
were sent home, their presence having
been detected through agencies seeking
to stop this work. Those cases got into
the courts; hundreds do not. The de-
tails OF this commerce are the most
shocking of all that flourish under
Tammany rule. II Is n traffic that in
vades the sanctIty OF the home hun
dreds OF miles away. II tugs at the
heartstrings OF mothers. Does Tam
many stop II? No; somebody is mnk-
ing money out OF It. Nor Is II confined
to the white rnce- ! know d good
woman In whose veins there runs negro
blood. who was the friend OF the great
Frederick Douglas, and In whom such
n man as the late G. p. Huntington
trusted; who IL the friend OF Booker T..
Washington: who Ia known fnr and
wide in her race as a person OF unusual
literary talent; woman refined and
delicate rs any Of her sex--who gives
up most OF her time In working against
the designs Of the trnppers of negro
women shipped here by the score from
the South. ! have the authority OF this
woman for saying that pictures OF girls
who have gone OH the stage are shown
to the comeIy IIght-colorcd women OF
the South and big wages are promised
to others. Scores are brought here.
When they arrive they must work n
certain time to pay for their transpor-
tation here. They nre placed In houses
of shame. held prisoners there. and
when they emerge they go into what
are known rs camps Of which there
are about 200 in the city OF New York
alone. The women do the robbing for
these camps. have to go to jail when
caught, while the man head Of the
camp swaggers around the Tenderioin
in fine clothes and idlcncss. Tammnny
Hollis police know all about these
negro camps. Their attention has been
called to them time and again. / can
produce the persons who have asked
for relief, who have asked that these
negro and white girls brought here for
wrong purposes be turned back by the
police when they arrive by steamship
and train, who have met with stony
stare by the police, and have had to
fight the vile agents unalded. I could
I'LL page after page with the most dis
tressing stories taken from the records
of this terrible trnffic. And why Is II
not stopped. Ask the men who profit
by 1t. Ask them whnt political organ
ization they belong to. Ask them to
whom they pny money for protection.
II one could obtain vivid idea of the
cost In Aesh and blood OF the Tammany
idea Of politics, namely, make money
anyhow and anywhere you can 80 long
as you cover up your tracks, let him
visit any OF the half dozen refugees for
unfortunate women and children in
New York City and hear the stories
that their managers can tell Of their ex-
perience In the last two years. Every
one Of these plnces hns been overrun
with applications for shelter and help.
Women who go there usually wait un-
til every other avenue IL closed to them
before they apply to that kind of chari-
ty. The most pitiful OF all tales Of hu-
man depravity and suffering are un-
folded there. The managers Of every
ono Of these institutions, with one ex-
ccption, told me that they hnve had to
turn applicants aside, that there novor
was such = demand for their help, that
never havo they heard such shocking
talee e n1issry. These manaeors At
tFfhukn thln condition NJ oXafrr a fl.n