The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-22
TAMMANY GETS
IN SPOTLIGHT
Is Accused Of Dealing In
White Slaves.
MAGAZINES ARRAlGNMENT


Producing Traffic In Young Girls
Into New York City to Provide
Work For Cadets Rendered Idle by
Decsdenee Of ambling--Practice
Rapidly Spread to Other Cities.
New York. Oct. 22. George Kibbe
Turner, in an article in McClure's
for November entitled "The Daugh-
ters of the Poor" builds long and
unpleasant story on Tammany's d.
rect participation in and prohting in
the white slave trade.
"Tammany," declares the writer,
organized and systematlzed the bus.
mess of corrupting girls, and Tam.
many leaders formed associations TO
recruit and exploit poor and friend.
less Jewish girls of the East Side.
Tammany found it a good business
for two reasons, McClure's charges.
The decline of policy and poolrooms
and the general decadence OF gam.
bling made II necessary for the lead
ers and their underlings to develop
new source of income. SO many
cadets appeared, each with a certain
amount of influence. that Tammany
needed their assistance In repeating
and in buttressing the organization.
There are now" says McClure's,
three principal centers 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
ard Russian Poland, headed by Lem.
berg; the second is in Paris, and the
third the city of New York In the
past 10 years New York has become
the leader of the world in this class
of enterprise. The men engaged In
Il there have taken or shipped girls,
largely obtained from the tenement
districts of New York. to every con.
tinent on the globe. They are doing
business with Central and South
America Africa and Asia. They are
driving all competitors before them
in North America And they have
established directly. or indirectly, re.
cruiting systems 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 organlza-
tion its extension from there
through the United States and Its
shipment of women to the -four cor
ners of the earth is a strange ones it
would seem incredible If II were not
thoroughly substantiated by the rec.
ords 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
knowledge of the people of the East
Side tenement district of New York
| whose daughters and friends have
been chiefly exploited by IT,"
There has been no business man
agement Of prostitution in this city,
the article continues, until Tammany
realized the advantages and profits
OF the trade.
The articles describe In detail the
recruiting Of ignorant immigrant
girls from East Side dance halls, em
ployment agencies and the streets by
cadets. The cadet grown from a
cowardly weakling into the swash
buckler of the East Side streets, Is
the only hero, Mr.. Turner writes
that the most of these girls know
Many of them are persuaded into n
life of wretchedness by promise of
marriage, others by hope of employ
ment. The girls are Systematically
degraded and kept enslaved, the arti.
! Gle saws