Arizona republican., 1909-10-30
PHoENLX. ARIz., OCTOBER 90, 1909
The White Slaves of New York.


 It has been the lot of magazine writer to put the lacking ginger in the New York city campaign. Pol- ticians of the democratic, republican and Hearst-fusion forces were unable to arouse much interest until Me Clure's Magazine for November ap- peared The magazine article, writ ten by George Kibbe Turner and en- titled. The Daughters of the Poor" has stirred New York as it has not been disturbed in years The article is an exposure of the white slave traffic-the traffic in girls for i'm moral purposes. MT. Turner outlines the scope of the traffic in these words:
 There are now three principal cen- ters of the so-called white slave trade-that is. the recruiting and sale of young girls of the poorer classes by procurers. The first is the group of cities in Austrian and Russian Po- land. headed by Lemberg; the second is Paris: and the third the city of New York. In the past ten years New York has become the leader of the world in this class of enterprise. The men engaged in it there have taken or shipped girls. largely ob- tained from the tenement districts of New York. to every continent on the globe; they are now doing business with Central and South America, Af- rica. and Asia. They are driving all competitors before them in North America And they have established, directly or indirectly, recruiting sys- tems in every large city of the United States.
 ''The story of the introduction of this European business into New York. under the protection of the Tammany Hall political organization. it's extension from there through the United States, and its shipments of women to the four corners of the earth, is a strange one; it would seem incredible if it were not thor oughly substantiated by the records of recent municipal exposures in half a dozen great American cities, by two independent investigations by the United States government during the past year, and by the common knowl- edge of the people Of the East Side tenement district of New York. whose daughters and friends daughters have been chiefly exploited by it."
 MT. Turner then proceeds to detail the various features of the traffic in New York. The teeming East Side" of the great city is the home of the working poor. most of whom are for eigners. Their daughters are the vic tims of q powerful organization which is part of the political machinery of Tammany Hall. The East Side swarms with the agents of the organization cadets" So called, who are degener- ate young men. These creatures, flashily dressed and having a veneer of good manners. pick their victims among the working girls. Having won the attention and then the con- fidence of a chosen victim. the cadet" proceeds to marry her. and forthwith deliver her into disreputable house, whence she cannot escape. or into the hands of other agents of the organiza- tion who ship her to the best mar ket.
 The revelations are so startling that Tammany Is really alarmed by the public sentiment which has been aroused. It has never been possible to defeat the democratic organization of New York city except on a moral issue. and this issue may lead to the election of Hearst, who is making the most of the situation.
 Curiously. however. some observers think the sensation may have the final effect of strengthening Tam many. Judge Gaynor, and the other democratic speakers are making fran tic appeals to the voters of the East Side to 'rebuke" the traducers of their people. and this style of cam paign is making some headway in that quarter
 At all events. New York at last has something to talk about, thanks to a magazine writer.