Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-13
HTS 1T WHITE
 SLAVES CHAMPIONS
Vigilance Association Exposes influences of the
 Under World

NAAA teANaft AAt-i tL A---s lhAAAE tt
 position to the white slave bills nov pending in the Illinois logisla- tuge. declared to be ,jn behalf or the
 underworld, was sigorously de .. nouReed by the Illinois yigilauce as
 sociation iu ppbIlc waning to ea- ssssi'~se tho activities cf White slave .,--..Iers. some of whom musterec powerful political influence. Recon mendations of the National Vigilance | association were also endorsed ad- yocating a fourth measure proposed 1 by lhe WCmihs World and side : hold property good for ofcenscs oi white slavery
 "The two bills recently introduces into the Illinois State Legislature by 1 Representa- Lederer relating to tho white slave traffic. one making | it a felony Co secure support in l whole or iu part from the earnings rI a prostitute. he other making it 1 felony Co GGtaiu any woman iu a dis orderly house for any claim or debt, are yer necessary prices of leg-sla | ton. declared the Illinois Vigilance ! iassCeiat4or Illinois is behind other states in laws of this character. Hold ing as she does lhe gigantic City Q ! Chicago with her FaiTad and compli Cated populations. Illinois ought IC rank first ir jaws that make pOss ble the stamping out of the white slave traffic. l. vas to be expected thai : the underworld and Its champions would skBEuiIy and cautiously op- | pose Ehe enactment of such laws. Such OppOseTs are either directly in terested in the uEspeakable business aga nst which the laws are directed or are so friendly with the infamou
 trade as to be on the same low level
 with the promoters themselves.
 Good and necessary as are the bills herein referred to they do no,
 go far enough. By recent New York statutes the children of the tenements | ar protected against the presence of prostitutes and the property itself is
 liable for judgments. It should be
 possible to punish the Thele brood of men. from the highest to the low est. who make commerce or girls. As Secretary Strauss has recently
 said "It- is highly necessary that l this disboliCal traffic, which has at
 ta ned International proportions.
 should ba dtait with in manner ad. l ageuste to conpass its suppression
 No punishment is too severe to inflict
 upon the prpcgrerS iu tlis vile traf
 ifc'7
 New York's aci, so commended wss outlined by Secretary James i. 1 Bronson ReyHolds of the National : Vigilance association in endorsing the measures framed by Assistant ] United States District Attorney Par kin and proposed by the Woman's
 World, who said: .'The practical wis , c0Tn Of Mir Parlin is further eyi
 denced ln lis proposal of penalty : not to exceed $1o00 to be imposed g Gqon the keeper of house of illre Il pEte. and the making of such penalty 7 6 lien upon the premises involved q Ii happens that in 1900 I was a mem { Der Of New York State Tenement ? ! house commission. appointed by Pres C ident (then GOyernoT9 Roosevelt, and - was chairman of a subcommittee CT E tsc nOT;I conditions in tenement
 houses. Our subcommittee approved 2 ia suggestion oe our counsel, Mir. Ed 2 issnd zi Eekifoty. to make it per q aits for any landlord to keep wo t1san 04 immoral character in tene
 1 ment house after he had been formal v notified by the police of her char acter. Tae penalty imposed wal
 inaue a lien on the house, to be col l. | locted from the rents, irrespective O s | ownership. This recommendation
 vas approved by the commission an
 became law. IL resulted in the al
 most immediate cleaning or of womei co Of undesirable character from tene i mfnt houses in New York City. Near l is every ease taken 10 court has beei \ | successful It struck 9 most deadh | blow at inmorality in teEemen | houses ] am. therefore. able to con | .qlrm. through the I-raciical cNperl , ence Of New York. thc feasibility an' | success Of this particular recon | meEdatiou. or at least the vafhe Q z the penalty imposed"