Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-19
The White Slave Traffic

about the white slave trafIlc III lhe ho"
papers and magazines, but we kho" ouI
one particular phase of the eVh III oui
southern country. We read OF the ueSp,O
able women who act as PROGRESSES 10
ubertines and that phase Is bad enough
cod knows. We are also familiar win
q story that was reviewed in The semi
U,eakiv Journal a few months ago Where
q Iov-doUn brother conveyed ms Two
! voung sisters to a house OF Ill rams III
| AIonta lint who was fortunately over
+oIren nv a fair-minded policeman anu
made to show up in the police court.
Rut there are enormities connected with
this white slave traffic in large clues
that are enough to bring down 'ne Juue
ments of Sodom and Gomorrah upon
sinful people
I read an account of one incident III
late magazine, that has haunted my
r,ind and will try to give a brief sy-
nopsis of the incident that our reaoeIs
NAV get some insight into the nefarlous
business.
A foreign born girl had sorry father
and a miserable home. She was beauti-
full in form and feature and her base Ola
| father who drank up her earnings toid
| her how she could make more IN one
NIGHT than her months wages came to;
and the wretched child fed from her So
called home to protect her virtue.
She was so honest, prudent and love-
worthy that she found a paying place IN
| q restaurant, where she served first as
waitress then as cashier at the desk she
| boarded with the restaurant keeper anu
his wife and they were fond of her The
man was. however, in the pay and con-
troll of his political bos-a great rat
rich lustful man, who dominated the
saloons and small shops in his poliucal
bailiwick of New York city.
This great. powerful animal cast his
eve on the modest young woman VINO
greeted the customers with smile VINO
came to pay at her desk. He approach
Ell the restaurant keeper as to her en-
trapment and the man at first fought the
ness with her honesty that he made SIREN
and modest and so valuable in his busi-
ness with her honesty taht he made siren
nous efforts against the plot. but the
boss was too powerful and he ana ms
wife consented to leave her defenseiess-
| The next move was the approach OF a
wel-dressed young man who won her
| confidence and her love by many atten-
| lions At last the marriage day was SET
| the victim purchased her wedding dress
and little fxings and fondly believed her
! self on the open highway 10 oOInes'lo
peace and security.
/ The bie boss gave the wedding supper
! at the fine lodgings where he prospective
bridegroom carried the girl after some
sort of a wedding ceremony had been
performed. to blind her to the real con-
dition of things.
At the supper table the young couple
we're only attended by the greaat fat
rich boss who coveted the young girl
beauty and faultless form for his lustful
desires.
rl1a rO1rlQ ono q g
supposed. at the bidding of the BRIDE
groom and directly fell into a blind stu
nor. drugged and doomed. The young
man disappeared and the boss had en-
trapped his victim.
This thing has given me some sleep
less hours / have shivered in pure in
dignation and 1 can better understand
why poor Harry Thaw shot down White.
after his wife, Evelyn, told him OF how
her own mother hao been paid in money
TO deliver her into Whites fine lodgings,
to be defiowered of her maidenly purity,
and that She too, was given drugged
drink to accomplish il. This poor foreign
girl left her father, who was the first
who attempted to deliver her into the lib
crimes clutch and she gave real affec-
ton to the man and his wife at the res
taurant in the belief and under their
promise to care for and shield her.
The poor little maiden gave ner hearl >
tender love to the young villain who was
employed to further decoy the girl and
she was at last made insensible and
ravished by a beast in human form.
have been thus particular to set down
the incident because this is a day of soft
drinks" This is a day when girls go
about alone or without the chaperonage
of mothers. If man is mean enough to
seek the ruin of a confiding girl he
will not hesitate as to the means he can
use to do it successfully. How easy to
drug soft drink!
TherE are tens of thousands of young
women in the United States who are en-
ployed in various offices as clerks, type
writer's and stenOgTaphers. Where there
are gentlemen in charge the girls are safe
as with their fathers or brothers, but
where there are rapists and libertines dis
guised as business men. the way to her
destruction can be paved with smiles and
soft drinks.
The poor little foreign girl had but one
hope left her, namely, speedy death,