El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-27

w The importation and har Dor
w ing of alien women and girls
for immoral purposes, is pronounced
by the immigration commission the
most pitiful and the most revolving
phase Of the immigration question 1t
was found that the business had as
sumed such large proportions ana was
I eXertlng so evil an influence upon IHSS
country that the commission declded
to make it the subject of thorough
investigation.
The Showing made was so startling
that congress in a little more than
three months after the filing of the
report in 1909 sent law upon the
subject to the president for his sigma
ture. This law added to the list or
depOrtable aliens. persons who are
supported by or who receive In whole
or in part the proceeds OF proSttu-
ton. This was intended especially to
break up the infamous cadet system,
whereby human vampires, in the gulse
of men, force women and girls to de-
liver to them the profits OF their
shame. The law OF 1907 already had
placed the ban upon aliens who pro-
cure or attempt to bring women and
girls into the United States for i'm
moral purposes, but 1t was not IN
tended for the reprehensible cadet.
Business Profit the Motive.
white slavery in New York city may
be. gathered from an investigation OF
the night court records for period OF
were 2093 cases of soliciting on
the streets and being inmates of dis
orderly houses brought in, upon which
convictions were secured, and Of these
Nearly half of the foreigners were
Jewish, while half of the remainder
agents of the commission, however,
were that the majority of the Jewish
women found in white slavery had
reached there at the hands of profess
&
The motive of business profit is
wholly responsible for the existence
of the traffic. The commission states
that the procurers who enuce the
women to leave their foreign homes,
the importers who assist them in evad-
ing the law or who bring them here
for sale to the keepers of disOrderly
houses, and cadets who exploit them
body and soul. have only profit in
girls are brought here innocent be-
trayed into slavery rigid in its strict
ness and barbarOus in its nature, there
are others who come with their eyes
of such a life are often ten times as
great in Amsrica. as in Europe.
Systematic Recruiting.
The commission says that of far
greater significance than facts show
ing that the law has been violated, are
the other facts which show the meth
Cd employed and the inadequacy of the
law to protect the country against
such impOrtatiOnS. Recruiting is car
ried on systematically at home and
abroad The men who recruit the ma
jOrity of the victims are in the husi-
ness for the dollars and cents they can
get out CT it With cunning KIN IVY
ledge OF human Ia ture, they play upon
the weaknesses Of vanity and pride,
upon the laudable thrift and desire to
secure a better livelihood, upon the
pralSeWOrJhy trust and affection which
girls have for those they love.
They even prey upon their sentiments
Of religion, and once in their tolls,
Z Z nj MnNn h rs1T@
times fiendish in its calculating cold
ness and brutality. If the prospective |
victim is young and affectiOnate, the
procurer makes her acquaintance, I
treats her kindly, offers to assist her
IN getting a better position. Her con- !
1dence won, she is within his power. I
shame. Women prOcurers offer girls
good positions at better pay than they
have ever been able to make, and then
carry them off to some brOthel.
Brutal in Treatment.
Correspondence captured in raids in
5tltuted by the agents Of the commits
sion constitute remarkabl human doc !
lments. The slavers write to one an
other in polite terms, express affec- |
ton for their families, talk tenderly !
Of the mothers and other relatives.
and yet when they come to discuss I
heir victims it is with the same cool I
ness with which they would name the 4
good points of a thoroughbred horse /
lr a blooded dog which they were Of I
,ering for sale.
A Seattle case reveals something Of 1
he methods of the SlaVerS The girl {
vas German. She served four years as 4
trained nurse and then went to 4
rance Tor year as gOverness, after I
'71Il she spent a year at home. Fin I
lily she decided to come to America /
IN route she met another German :
woman, who told her she lived in Los !
Angeles, and who wanted to engage /
lp IN Seattle, where she was taken at /
Ight, TO dlsorderly house whose ad-
lreSs she did not know, where her
ZONES were taken from her and where !
he was denied paper to write. She
threatened to kill herself if she were
lot released, and finally she was taken
o a hotel, by the husband of the wOm-
n who had enticed her, and was there
,OunQ. gagged and assaulted. The law
lnaIIy come to her rescue and the
gOman who betrayed her was deDOrted. |
Ter husband got two years in the penf-
entiary, but under the supreme court |
,eclSion pronouncing unconstitutional !
ne law against harbOring. he is not !
liable to any punishment for his un- /
peakabIy brutal treatment of his vic
Frequent Employment Agencies
Ihose who recruit women for i'm
moral purposes frequent employment !
E3 ttl.' immigrant homes, moving
lclure SHOWS, dance halls. railroad |
tauons. Often as much as $1,000 is
aid for an exceptionally attractive
III and the prices range on down to
zoo. The imported girls usually come /
s the wives or relatives of the men
ccompanying them, as maids or reIa-
ives OF women accompanying them. or
s women entering alone and booked
D some home or friend. The Japanese !
ave custom whereby a woman in
dpan may marry man in America Z
" proxy, and often they come over
stenslbly to meet their proxy hus-
ands, but in reality to go into white
1t has been found difficult to appre-
end the viOlators of the white slave
aW at the ports. and the danger of I
etalnlng innocent women is so great
nat the inspectors would rather pass a
oZen they are not certain about than
mold up one innocent one upon such
charge.
Victims Kept in Debt.
me system of exploitation is such |
nat the poor white slave victim.
neither she has been trapped into the !
re or has entered II willingly gets |
MY small share of the profit. In a !
ald In Chicago a big Irish girl was / .
aken- She was asked WHY she didn't !
et out She replied: Get OUT
an L They make US buy the cheapest
3gs- and they are charged against ms |
fabulous prices. they make us
mango outfits every two or three |
-eekS. until We are so deeply in debt |
e can never hope to get out. We sell |
ON get an accounting, but when we
o II IS always to find ourselves deeper
debt than before"
Iomorrow-The Foreigners Large /