The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-02
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 people of Philadelphia in the old days were wont to exercise their minds, their voices and their pens over the woes of the slaves of the South. We have not yet forgotten how some of them could hardly sleep at night be- cause down here in this Southland of ours there were human beings held in bondage. It mattered nothing that these slaves as c class were better of than were many of the white people in the slums and alleys of Philadelphia they were slaves. and the soft-heart- ed phiIanthropists of that city mourned over them with an exceeding great lamentation.
 Nor have they entirely lost the knack of it yet. There are some of them who spend much of their spare time inditing essays about the dis franchisement of the poor negro and frantically calling on Congress and the North to do something to right the alleged wrongs of the colored brother. Are these people as righteous as a people should be who set themselves up to judge others? Let this indict- ment by The Philadelphia Public Ledger answer:
 At the very bottom of the well of in- iouity is the White Slave Syndicate. The White Slave Syndicate buys. sells immoral purposes. The organization protects the White Slave syndicate in It's awful business for and in consid- eration of thousands of fraudulent votes boiled. and for other crimes in cident to the absolute control of the political affairs of the city. Without the active and intimate support of the organization the White Slave Syndicate could not continue in business over night. Without the aggressive coop eration of the White Slave Syndicate the organization could not poll the thousands of fraudulent votes re- Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Wards.
 Every white slave house in the city Is well known to the police. A cor rect roster of these places is on file at City Hall. and the lieutenants of police who permit them to exist know the places and the proprfetors as well as they know their own homes and their next-door neighbors.
 There is a good deal more of the same nature, some of which we would not care to print, but the substance of it Is that these girls are bought and sold at prices ranging, according to signed to a living death in the brothels of that great city. It is a record of horrible brutality that Is hard to credit, but the charge Is deliberately made by one of the most prominent journals of the city and we have no choice but to believe that it is true.
 Not the least damning feature of this business Is that it is carried on by an organization which, if not part of the political power controlling the city, is certainly In collusion with 1t and works in harmony with it. It Is well known that the foulest political rascality known in the country Is found existing and flourishing under the Republican machine in Philadelphia. It Is so blatantly notorious that little attempt Is made to hide 1t because they know that denial Is wholly useless. That. however, is politics, and while 1t Is wholly disreputable 1t can bear no comparison with It's ally, the White Slave Market, so plainly discussed by The Public Ledger. And yet this is l the city and some of these are the peo- pie who have the. impotence to criti- else the South for its treatment of the negro! Does 1t not look like the ex- treme limit of Pharisaical imperti- hence?