New-York tribune., 1909-10-29
BACKS UP TURN ER
DIR. JANNEY TALKS.
Marshall Says Story Cannot
BE Used against Barnard.

In dispatch yesterday from Baltimore
Dr. E. o. Janney. chairman OF the Ma
uonaI Vigilance Committee. backs up
george Kibbe Turner's article on the
white slave" traffic and also gives some
adoluonal facts DIR. Janney says:
The traffic has become very extensive.
immigrant girls are secured in Europe
ny agents. who ofrer them easy positions
IN America at high wages. When they
reach our shores. they are promptly placed
In immoral resorts as white slaves" They
are kept prisoners by means of locked
oeprivation OF their clothing, often by
board
The route followed by the traders is
from New York to Chicago. Omaha, Den
Eer psi, ana san Francisco, with branches to
Philadelphia and Pittsburg, New Orleans
and Seattle. There is a longer trade be-
tween New Orleans and Panama: not to
u me Ca canal Zone. however. as thar district
action OF Colonel Goethals.
Naturally, you will ask, II there is an
ing the law. why are they permitted to con-
tinue to do so? The answer is that they are
useful to the politicians, and when arrested
and women who are we'll paid are active
IN the traffic, working in many localities
in this country and abroad while smart
when arrested. The victims of the trafic
can be numbered by the thousands. The
enough to touch every heart.
1t is difficult for the average citizen TO
be made TO comprehend the extent OF the
white slave traffic and the completeness of
its organization. Our researches do not
lead us TO the belief that there is one great
central organization or syndicate which
however, that each city has It's distributing
centre or centres. and that there is perfect
understanding between these centres in diff
ferent cities, as to meet the requirements
locality There
the employment agencies are made effective
In this way. Many cases of record prove
this.
New York City is the chief white slave
market. Vigorous efforts to stamp out the
evil are being made in Chicago. but they
must prove largely ineffective while the
evil is so rampant in New York.
This condition OF things has so aroused
thoughtful people in Europe that an inter
preston OF the local and international
white slave traffic has been organized IN
Ge9nnn Gegmany: G. Belgium iI' Denmark. marx. Spain.
gal, Russia, Sweden. Norway, Switzerland
and Austria. the United States forming
Its committee in September. 1906. Its head
York City. The headquarters Of the inter
national bureau are in London.
Congressman Bennett received the fol-
lowing letter from Louis Marshall, the
lawyer. yesterday:
I have read with much interest your ad-
Imirable statement concerning the article
In McClu-e's Magazine" which is now,
by the opponents of Mr.. Barnard into
an attack by him upon the Jews, in order
to- 10 divert IT against him, a fancied resent,
you: as his campaign manager, a purpose
so fatuous, is in itself preposterous. The
very fact that you declined to circulate
Mr.. Turner's article as a campaign docu-
ment makes discussion impossible.
To hold Jews. as such. responsible for the
Smoking manifestations n
very" which are in evidence throughout
ne world. and OF which they are too often
6ne ye3s fo has a never am confident
modern civilization that It Is insidious @ iS' a1d nd
upon to Investigate it oficialiy. as you
and I have. are firmly convinced.
monsters who exploit the unfortunstes at
whose misery the whole world shudders,
are found among the Peopp Of every race
sickening, trade. far from being largely
followed by Jews, is practised principally
by non-Jews. When the Investigations Of
disclosed the participation of some Jews
in this traffic, members of the Jewish com
munity az once undertook measures to aid
in the suppression of that crime which
in all ages has been held in especial alb
horrence by those of the Jewish faith.
While the motives of the writer Of the
article in ''McCIure's" cannot be oues-
toned. he has doubtless. been led into ex-
and by the supposed requirements of liter
ary composition. But for that you are not
accountable, nor does II affect the duty OF
every good citizen to cooperate in the
effort 10 crush the malefactors who partici-
pate in the crime, which has been so
graphically depicted, whoever they may be.
You may rest assured that nothing will
he more futile than the present efforts to
swerve our Jewish citizens by any false
outcries. TO create in them lack of
confidence in Mr.. Barnard, or in you. of
whose sympathic friendship they are fully
convinced.