Arizona republican., 1909-08-23
.BOSTONPS HYPOCRISY
 CHILLED BY PROSECUTOR
NEW ENGLAND coMPLAcENcY
Assistant States Attorney Roe De
 clares That Vice Is Rampant.

Chicago. Aug. 15.-The complacency of Boston, and New England in gen eral, in the belief that no barter and sale of girls and women exists there and that the white slave traffic" is chiefly in the west gets a grilling by Assistant States Attorney Clifford G. Roe in Chicago in the "Woman's World" for September, as the result of investigations made by MT. Roe in Boston and other New England cities. Under the title, "The Boston Hypoc- risy," MT. Roe declares that the New England complacency is like the os- trich that hides her head in the sand and thinks because she cannot see anyone. no one can see her.
 The investigations of the conditions which exist was undertaken because the governors of Massachusetts. New Hampshire and Maine informed the committee chosen by the "Woman's World" to secure legislation against the white slave traffic that they be- lieved their states were exempt from the mOnstrous systematized evil which has been found to swallow up some 65,OOO girls each year in the United eNldltS- ATON liOl IibuNN bl wrote the committed: "If the people of this state were convinced that such traffic as you speak of was being car ried on there would be absolutely no question as to what they would do re- garding it. T, personally am not will ing to believe that girls are sold the way you seem to think they are. If so, I have never heard of it in this state"
 Governor Draper of Massachusetts, when urged to secure new laws direct ly aimed at white slavery. wired the committee: Revised laws of Massa- chusetts chapter PIP very stringent in matters of crimes against chastity, morality, decency and good order"
 MT. Roe has prosecuted scores of white slave cases in Chicago and has for two years warned the public, from his official knowledge. that innocent girls were being systematically hunt aed, captured and sold to houses of prostitution. After a careful inquiry of several weeks in which he had abundant assistance, MT. Roe declares both that the traffic exists flagrantly under the shadow of the Massachusetts capitol and that the laws are very in adequate.
 Boston and other New England cities have all the clements which make a traffic in girls quite certain" MT. Roe declares. "by going to the bot tom and getting information from those who know the business from the ground up. who live in it, and work in it, some very reliable facts have been gathered. However, a walk down Washington. Fremont or Boylston streets in Boston at night from say 8 until 10 o'clock, disclose the first symp- toms of something wrong which any visitor cannot help but see. In Hay ward place, One-half block from Wash ingtOn street. the main shopping street of Boston, under the very nose of one of the largest retail stores are two places such as would only be tolerated in the lowest redlight district of any city. One has but to pick up the tele- phone directory and find the numbers there of at least 200 houses of H. repute- Chicago. one of the acBnowl- edged centers of vice, does not toler- ate that, nor can you find such places as the Hayward, Epicure, Dreyfus or Palm Garden in the principle shopping districts of Chicago. One of the most glaring examples of disOrderly places which the good citizens there over looked in the business district is all most within a stones throw of the state house and capitol of Massa- chusetts.
 Taking the biography of 100 girls in disreputable houses at random. it was learned that about one-third come. to