Arizona republican., 1909-03-12
ATTACK ON THOSE
 OPPOSING WHITE SLAVERY
WORLD INFLUENCES Ex-
 POSED BY ASSOCIATION.
Propose New Measure Designed tc Hold Property for Violations of
 the Law.

Chicago, March 11.-Skulking oppo- sition to the white sslave bills now pending in the Illinois legislature. de- clared to be in behalf of the under world, was vigorously denounced by the Illinois Vigilance association in a public warning to expose the activities of white slave dealers, some of whom mustered powerful political influence. Recommendations of the National Vigilance association were also en- dorsed advocating a fourth measure proposed by the Woman's World and sidestepped by the. legislators, de- signed to hold property good for of lenses of white slavery.
 ''The two bills recently introduced into the Illinois state legislature by Representative Lederer relating to the white slave traffic, one making it a felony to secure support in whole or in part from the earnings of prosti- ute. the other making it a felony to detain any woman in a disorderly house for any claim or debt. are very necessary pieces of legislation" de- clared the Illinois Vigilance associa- tion. Illinois is behind other states in laws of this character. Holding as she does the gigantic city of Chicago with her varied and complicated pop ulations. Illinois ought to rank first in laws that make possible the stamping out of the white slave traffic. It was to be expected that the underworld and it's champions would skillfully and cautiously oppose the enactment of such laws Such opposers are either directly interested in the unspeakable business against which the laws are directed. or are so friendly with the infamous trade as to be on the same low level with the promoters them selves.
 Good and necessary as are the bills herein referred to they do not go far enough. By recent New York statutes the children of the tenements are pro tected against the presence of prosti- tutes and the property itself is liable for judgments. It should be possible to punish the whole brood of men. from the highest to the lowest. who make commerce of girls. As Secretary Straus has recently said: It is highly necessary that this diabolical traffic, which has attained international pro portions. should be dealt with in manner adequate to compass its sup pression. No punishment is too severe to inflict upon the procurers in this vile traffic 9
 New York's act, so commended, was outlined by Secretary James Bronson Reynolds of the National Vigilance as sociation in endorsing the measures framed by Assistant United States District Attorney Parkin and proposed by the Woman's World. who said: "The practical wisdom of Mir. Parkin is further evidenced in his proposal of penalty not to exceed s1,000 to be imposed upon the keeper of a house of ill-repute. and the making of such penalty lien upon the premises in volved. It happens that in 1900 I was a member of a New York state tene- ment house commission. appointed by President (then Governor) Roosevelt, and was chairman of subcommittee on the moral conditions in tenement houses. Our subcommittee approved . suggestion of our counsel, Edward M. Whitney, to make it a penalty for any landlord to keep a woman of i'm moral character in a tenement house he had been formally notified by the police of her character. The penalty imposed was made a lien on the house, to be collected from the rents, irrespective of ownership. This rec