The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-11-26

i Use of high wages, or girls sent init
evil resorts unknowingly and KEEP
prisoners, of girls misled by falls,
| friends at railway stations, Of vas
numbers of immigrant girls cruell.
victimized. We could tell OF the Gem
etery outside one of our cities where
SCI nameless girls rest.
F! What you must be assured Of Ii
that the traffic is widespread, reach.
ing It's arms out into the country fol
victims and even across the seas, and
selling these victims In all Of oul
cities. That these traders find theil
business extremely profitable Is EVIL
dent, receiving from SIS to 50, 900 fol
each girl or woman, and many oil
them making an easy living off the
nightly gains OF their victims.
You must be assured further thai
no girl Is safe; your daughter or lit
tie sister may be the next victim
From every city the agonized cry oi
these prisoners OF vice goes up. Why
do we not hear it? Because we
do not put ourselves In the way OF
hearing it. Those who work in the
slums hear it. The Salvation Army
workers hear 1t. The police hear 1t.
The aisles OF the juvenile court. room
ring with it. 1t Is heard in the wards
Of the hospitals and the insane asy-
lums. But for the most part 1t is
smothered behind thick walls and
heavy doors, or crushed into silence
by threats and blows.
Peril is Great
BE assured that this peril Is too
great to be easily exaggerated. 1t Is
at our doors. It is deadly. There is
no cause that should appeal to you
more strongly than this.
In the face of situation so terri
Bile as this you will ask what steps
are being taken to suppress the evil.
Let us turn to the constructive
work that is being done.
I'm this country the situation is
being thoroughly investigated, as a
first and necessary step. There is
always, the hope, a hope that is prov
Ing itself to be well founded, that
when ourpeople become well inform
ed concerning the present situation,
they will act, act promptly, intelli-
gently and efficiently. We must be
able to feel, and make our officials
feel, that we represent the moral sem
timent Of every state In the nation,
for we are sure that the people of
this nation will not tolerate this evil
much longer
The federal government is earnest
in Its endeavor to suppress the white
slave traffic among immigrant girls.
Its officials in New York, Baltimore,
Chicago, and Denver have been ac-
lively at work and have accomplished
much, although hampered by recent
decision of the Supreme Court which
limits the activity OF the Federal gov
eminent to cases among immigrants
on board ship and at ports of entry
to the direct importation from
abroad. We may confidently count,
however, on splendid cooperation
from the government through the de-
partment of Commerce and Labor.
Quite number Of associations
have been organized with their object
the limitation or suppression OF white
slavery A type Of these is a Jewish
society with members in New York
and Chicago, who keep track of each
girl passing from one city
to another and see that she reaches
proper destination.
Another is the National Vigilance
Committee, organized in each civiliz-
ed nation, which aims at the suppress
sion OF the domestic and the inter-
national traffic. 1t Is this committee
which now appeals to the members OF
the National w. G. T. U. for moral
support and cooperation in Its work :
Or. Janney presented copies of a
model law" designated to meet the
argent need Of proper legislation COW
ering the traffic in women, and urged
he active support of these laws by
he w. G. T. U. through its depart
nents Of Purity and Rescue work.
Copies of the law may be. secured by
addressing the National Vigilance
Committee, 207 E. 18th St., New
Ybrk City.
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