New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-22
TRAFFIC In SLAVES
rs THE SOURCE OF
TAMM4NY. POWER.
Protects Cadets IN World
eide Traffic, Declares NC
Clure's Magazine"

Tammany Hall has made New York City
The leading centre OF the white slave indus
try % the world. according to George Kibbe
Turner IN The November number OF 'Mc-
Cures Magazine" Not only. the writer
declares. IS Tsmmany's power sn this city
based largely on the traffic IN young girls,
but the system OF political cadets has been
spread throughout the principal cities OF the
country with headquarters here, ana Il Is
fourishing to-day as never before. Follow
ing this article Is one hy ex-POlice Com
missioner Bingham on ''The Organized
Criminal OF New York. in which he rein
forces the statements OF Mr.. Turner. S. S.
Mcclure completes the arraignment OF what
Mr. Gaynor calls ''the local organization in
Manhattan" by an editorial article on '@The
TsmmRnyizing OF Civilization"
There are now three principal centres
CT the so-ealled white slave trade-that is.
che recruiting and sale OF young girls OF the
poorer classes by prOeurers." says Mr.. Turn
er by way OF Introduction. The first is the
saoup 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 last ten years New York has become
The leader OF The world IN this class OF en-
tefprise. The men engaged in 1t there have
taken or shipped girls largely obtained
from the tenement districts OF New York,
80 every continent on the globe: they are
row doing business with Central and South
America, Africa and Asia. They are driv-
ting an competitors before them in North
America. And they have established, d.
rectly or indirectly. recruiting systems in
every large city Of the United States
For support Of his statements the author
refers 20 the records of recent exposures
m half dozen American cities made by
two independent federal Investigations.
The Jewish procurer. known the
'ksftau," was the pioneer operator here.
lie gathered his victims in Poland, Operat-
Ing through the Eastern markets. always
taking girls from the homes of the very
p0or ana exploiting them largely in new
countries. in the camps of male laborers.
He opened up the South American field,
particularly the Argentine Republic. where
on the outskirts of BuenOs Ayres there
grew up a considerable colony of these
traders and their slaves. The HAITIAN
operated very little in New York. but
planted here examples Of his evil methods
The maQuereau Onackerel), the prOcurer Of
Paris, first developed the trade in North
America, when in the SOS French prose
eution drove him over the world. In New
York he found the greatest freedom, and
by 1870 the trade of the procurer became
an organized business.
THE RISE OF THE CADET.
But the maquereau was foreign and re-
msined so. He had no political influence,
but paid money FOR his protection. He
was soon followed BY the cadet, who. Mr..
Turner says. has since been an important
factor in the Tammany machine. OF his
evolution the writer adds:
In the freedom OF the Van Wyck admin
iStration Of the late SOS the latest type OF
sum politician that New York has de-
NelOped demonstrated further his peculiar
value 70 politics and the great rewards OF
Politics for him. Like the saloOnleeper be-
fore him, he had large periods Of the day
10 devote 10 planning and developing pO-
litical schemes: there were a great many
dependents ana young men connected with
the business, and there grew up in the
various political and social centres Of The
East Side so-called 'hang-out Joints"
saloons and coffee houses. where these men
came together To discuss political and bust
ness matters. II soon became evident that
these gangs were exceedingly valuable as
pOlucal instruments in repeating" or
casting great number OF fraudulent votes
YET IN spite Of this growth of an entirely
new element Of political strength Tam
many Hall was defeated in the election OF
iSu, largely because Of a reVulsion of popu-
ar feeling against some phases OF the
white slave trade This feeling was esDe-
ciHly directed against the so-caIled cadets
% name now used across the world to
designate the masses OF young men en-
eased IN this trade IN and out of New
York. exactly as the name of rna0uereaY \,
is usec 10 designate the Paris operator.
Mr. Turner reviews the organization ~
political bodies among these cadets. such
associations becoming part and parcel Of
1alnmany and towers Of strength at cleo
tion time. Among them was the Max
Hochstim Association. known to the I.exow
Investigators as the Essex Market Gang &"
including among Its officers Martin Engel.
leader OF the Sth Assembly Ditrict in the
late 9O's. and with him Tammany men who
controlled the Sd Assembly District along
the Bowery 20 the east. The red light dis
trict was then paying some OF these men
s2o.o00 and $4,000 a year for this traffic.
and the minor politicians began 10 ind Il
more profitable than the gambling and sa-
Icon businesses
THE EXPORT TRADE.
The export trade from New York, accord
ing 10 the writer was begun in 1883 bv a
man who later became a leading figure in
the Tsmnsny organization Of his district
He took a few girls TO Buenos Ayres. and
since then several hundred have followed.
South Africa. however, proved richer field.
and there. Mr.. Turner declares. many New
YORK men have made fortunes IN the bust
meas and are now proprietOrs Of Raines law
hotels or gambling houses here. There are
stu New York colonies there. he says, but
the English government has prosecuted the
business so actively that il is not, fIuorish-
ing a. formerly. Taking Up the traffic
here. he says:
A detailed statement % the spread Of
activities OF the New York dealer and
cBssr through The United States since
the exodus from New York after 1901
would serve as a catalogue Of the munich
rsl scandals OF the last half dozen years
sn6 would include the majority Of the large
citeS q the country. The New York Jew