The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-15
ITS ANNIHILATION DETERMIN-
ED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Has Planned a Great Coup-All in One
Agents Will Swoop on White Slave
Dealers-Trained S1euths at Work.
Census of Women Already Compiled.

The Times Democrat Washington spe-
cial says that with one sweep of its long
arm the Department of Justice hopes to
annihilate organizations of white slave
traders, and stop traffic in women IN the
United States The machinery which
the Attorney General and his assistants
will use in this nationwide battle con-
sists of a corps of trained sleuths who
have long been in the service of the de-
partment and engaged in running down
the worst kind of criminals and break
ing lid the most extensive fraud schemes.
This corps of agents will soon be turned
loose in every city i'll the country. Every
employment agency, every dive and rem
devious in each of the cities will be
fine-tooth combed by these human fer
rets. The work, investigation and pros
ecution will be done under the Mann
law, passed at the last session of Con
gress, known as the White Slave Act,
and which covers the traffic, interstate
as well as federal territories.
For months several of these agents
have been in the field making prelimi-
nary investigations. They have visited
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New
Orleans, Galveston, Seattle, El Paso and
the cities on the lakes In each of these
cities, according to the reports these
special agents made to the Attorney
General, evidence was found to indicate
that a business of trading in women ex-
lists.
Employment agencies appear to be the
fountain of the trade. In every city vls-
tied it was reported that white slave
traffic is carried on through these med
iuns. Only in New York was it found
thai there is no real headquarters, but
that the business is done there through
interstate methods, which makes the
stringent law of that State all but use
less. In Pittsburg and Chicago it was
| found that the greater part of the busi-
mess throughout the country is mapped
out. It is from here that the trade is
disseminated
The agents also found that along the
Mexican border traffic in Mexican Wom-
en- exists of almost a wholesale charac-
ter. At El Paso, Eagle Pass and other
points of entry along the Rio Grande
women are brought into the country ev-
cry day to be sold to the highest bidder
All the towns in the southern part OF
Texas have for years been receiving
their quota of this trade, while some OF
it has gone as far north as St. Louis ane
Chicago, and as far eastward as Atlanta
and New Orleans
Simultaneously, when the department
lis ready to act, these special agents viii
start work On the same day the agen
starts in New York, the men on th'
coast and on the lakes and on the gul
will begin Already the department ha
/ a census of the women in this countr.
who have been brought in from foreig1
countries, or who have been put out il
the United States, and when the da
comes for the stroke, every one of thos
Iwomeff will have to answer for he
whereabouts for certain period, an
tell of any new additions to the rank
iof the fallen that ought to be added t
the census.
Work of this character can not B
done by raids, as was done in the bucke
shop cases and other swindles. Tn
z agents will have to mingle PERSONAL
with the heads of employment agencie
] steamship agencies, customs officers an
2 keepers of dives It will be while Q
these visits that they will collect the
: evidence