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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
IMMIGRATION.
XVM-THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC,
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

The Importation and harboring of alien
women and girls for immoral purposes
are pronounced by the immigration COM
mission the most pitiful and the most
revolving phases of the immigration ques-
ton. 1t was found that the business had
assumed such large proportions and was
cXerting so evil an influence upon the
country that the commission decided to
make II the subject of thorough in
Nestigation. Since the subject is one es-
pecially liable To sensational exploita-
tion. the commission decided that it would
carefully state only the undeniable facts
calculated to form the basis of reason
able legislative and administrative action
looking to its suppression
The commission made its report to Com
sress just before Christmas, 1909. The
showing made was so startling that Con-
gress in "a little more than three months
after the filing of the report sent a law
upon the subject to the President for his
signature. This law added to the list of
deportable aliens persons who are sup
ported by or who receive in whole or IN
part the proceeds of prostitution. This
was intended especially to break up the
Infamous cadet system, whereby human
vampires In the Guise of men
force women and girls to deliver 10 them
the profits of their shame. The law of
1901 already had placed the ban upon
aliens who procure or attempt to bring
women and girls into the United States
for immoral purposes, but il was not
extended To the reprehensible cadet
The investigation of the white slave
traffic began in 1897 under the active SUI
perviSion of Il special committee of the
immigration commission. The work was
conducted by special agent with nu-
merous assistants, and the commission
SAYS that too much credit cannot be
given 10 the agents who independently
planned details and with cheerful cour-
age, even at the risk of their lives at
times, secured information relative to
the traffic. Several of them had TO as
sociate. under one preteXt or another
with the criminal procurers, importers
cadets and their unfortunate or degraded
victims, when the discovery of the agent 5
purposes might have resulted in his muir
der. one woman agent was attacke
and beaten, escaping serious injury If
not DEATH only with the greatest diff
Guilty, and yet the next day she went
cheerfully back TO work. though of
course in another locality. Information
was secured from men who formerly had
women who were managers of such
houses, from physicians who practiced
among such women. from women who
had formerly been white slaves, and also
from some of the women and girls who
had been lured to America under false
pretenses.
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Notable Men and Women.

With other notable men and women
whose names stand out prominently on
the record of those who have passed be-
yond the field of human activity are Gen.
William Booth. founder OF the Salvation
Army; Edwin Hawley, multi millionaire
railroad magnate; Charles c. Overlook.
veteran abolitionist and one of the found:
ers of the republican party: NJ. III. Clark.
secretary to Jefferson Davis and last act
ing treasurer Of the Confederacy: Able
Charles Loyson, who Pere Hyacinthe
was the most famous preacher in France
half a century ago; William Penn Nixon.
editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean: Isaac
p. Baldwin, assistant secretary OF the
navy under President Polk; Mrs. Annie
feamans, favorite actress for half CEN
fury: Samuel NJ. Bixby. pioneer manufac-
turer of shoe polish; Clara Barton. found
of the American Red Cross Society:
John Jacob Aston, victim of the Titanic
disaster; William F. Harrity, prominent
democratic leader of Philadelphia; Lieut..
Col. Frank Bridgman, the oldest retired
army officer in the United States: DIR.
Daniel x. Pearsons, philanthropist and
friend of small colleges; Matthew c. ID.
Borden, prominent cotton goods manufac-
turer: Wilbur Wright, inventor OF the
aeroplane: Mrs. Mary ID. Lowman. first
woman mayor in Kansas: Gen. Edward
s. Bragg. commander of the Iron Bril-
gade' i'm the civil war: Mai. Gen Robert
F. Hoke, noted Confederate officer; Mrs.
Sarah 8. Plat Decker. woman suffrage
leader: Bishop Henry w. Warren of the
Methodist Church, Gen. John H. Baldwin.
a member of Lees staff i'm the civil war:
John w. Heron. well known lawyer OF
Cincinnati. father-in-law of President
Taft: Rt Rev Patrick A. Ludden, bishop
of the Roman Catholic diocese of SYRIA
cuse; Ira Haworth, known as the grand
father of the republican party I'm Illi-
nois': Herbert NJ. Heath, author Of
Names direct primary law: Gen. Edwin
Vose Sumner. retired: Rt, Rev. Charles
Chapman Grafton bishop of Fond du Lac.
the most eminent theologian in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church: Hamilton King,
United States minister to Siam: Alexander
w. Terrell, former minister to Turkey:
John Hope, inventor of the photograph
machine used in copper-plate engraving:
Charles Melville Hays, president of tho
Grand Trunk railroad. who went down
with the Titanic. and DIR. Morris Loeb OF
New York, a noted chemist, widely known
for his philanthropy.
Copyright. 1912, by the Mcclure syndicate)
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Frutera. Mexico, the first ever landed at
Baltimore from Mexico
Washington uses a large proportion OF
the cargoes of bananas landed at Balti-
more. and the quality and quantity of tho
fruit being brought into that port is oc
interest to fruit lovers here
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Achievement IN DIS
C0VERY.

In the field of discovery the achieve
ment of the Norwegian explorer. Capt.
Roald Amundsen. is most conspicuous.
The morning of March the whole world
was electrified by a cablegram from Ho-
bart, Tasmania, announcing the fact that
some time between December II and II
this daring navigator had attained the
south pole With four men and eighteen
dogs from his ship. the Fran, Amundsen
crossed the great ice barrier and reached
the southernmost point of this planet in
fifty-five days. According TO his most
minute calculation. he was at the south
pole at 8 o'clock the afternoon of Decem-
Der IL. The region is a vast plateau TO-
600 feet above sea level The loyal ex-
plorer named it King Haakon Land and
raised the Norwegian flag.
One of the most important chronological
finds of recent years is that made by
Prof. Stefansson of the American Museum
of Natural History. For many years Arc
tic explorers have brought from the
frozen north stories of a lost tribe of
white people. AmundSen testified that
the natives had told him of such a tribe.
but he had never seen any member of it.
In order to settle the question of the eX-
istence of these unknown people Stefans-
son, in association with DR.. r NJ. Ander-
son of the University of Iowa, made a
tour of discovery into the far northwest
of Canada. and after a four-year stay in
the Mackenzie river region returned last
August with the startling intelligence that
he had solved the problem which had baf-
fled ethnologists for so many years.
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Lived With Them.

For months the professor and his COM
panion lived with these primitive people,
who had never seen or heard of white
men until his party arrived They are a
migratory tribe, quite unlike the Alaska
ar Mackenzie river Eskimos Stefansson
believes them to be of Norwegian origin
many of them having fair skins, light
halr and blue eyes. He is also inclined to
believe that this newly discovered tribe is
Caucasian in type, descended. perhaps
from the Norsenen who more than eight
centuries ago, went to Newfoundland with
Lief the Lucky and were lost
Al the southern end of the North
american continent. in remote dis
trict of Guatemala, Russell Hastings
MiiiWard. young American explorer.
has been investigating the life and habits
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harder to enforce the intent Of the law
since it is much more difficult to weave
chain of evidence about an importer
or procurer than to convict a person Of
harboring' such women.
Some idea of the prevalence Of white
slavery in New York city may be gath
cred from an investigation of the night
court records for a period Of four months
During that time there were 2.O93 cases
OF soliciting on the streets and being in
mates of disorderly houses brought in.
upon which convictions were secured, and
or these 5S1 We're women of alien birth
Nearly half of the foreigners were Jew
lsh, while half of the remainder were
French. The opinions of the agents of
the commission. however, were that the
majority of the Jewish women found in
white slavery had reached there at the
hands of professional seducers.
The motive Of business profit is wholly
responsible for the existence of the traf-
fic. The commission states that the pro-
curers who entice the women to leave
their foreign homes. the importers who
assist them in evading the law, or who
bring them here for sale to the keepers
of disorderly houses. and cadets who ex-
plot them body and soul. have only
profit in view. Although very many Of
the girls are brought here innocent. be-
trayed into a slavery rigid in it's strict
ness and barbarous in it's nature, there
are others who come with their eyes
open, lured by stories that the profits of
such life are often ten times as great
in America as in Europe.
The commission says that of far
greater significance than facts showing
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New York city, resulted in an exposure
of the so-called system of metropolitan
graft and of the lawless methods of the
organized East Side gangs that startled
the country The confessions made by
members of the gang connected with the
shooting and the evidence given at the
trial of Charles Becker. the police lieuten-
ant implicated in the affair, disclosed an
appalling prevalence of corruption BY
the evidence of the "gunmen" who shot
Rosenthal at Becker's instigation the
police lieutenant was convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree and sentenced to
die in the electric chair. This was follow
ed by the trial and conviction of the four
gunner who killed Rosenthal.
Naval Show in Hudson.
A repetition Of last years naval show
in the Hudson river, at New York city.
on still larger scale than the former
exhibition. occurred in October. For
several days fleet of IDS war vessels of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

than century furnished many of the
most dangerous criminals of Italy. 1t has
defied the government. and by its foreign
Black Hand has terrified widely scattered
portions of the civilized world. 1t re-
quired courage. ability and patience to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29


For the fifth time the athletes of America
scored a decisive triumph, tOtaling IDS
points against 104 for Sweden and 66 for
Great Britain. The great decathlon,
all-around athletic event comprising ten
different feats, was won by James Thorpe,
an Indian from the Carlisle school. The
classic marathon was won by a South
African policeman. X. X. Macarthur.
These games closed with impressive cere-
monies. King Gustav himself browning
the victors and awarding the prizes.
Famous Camorra Trial.
July s, after trial lasting nearly six
teen months. verdict was returned in
the case against the Camorrists in Italy.
charged with murder in 1906. This trial
was remarkable chiefly because it resulted
in the victory of a modern government
over organized lawlessness. The Canon
ra, secret society composed mainly OF
the poorer criminal classes, has for more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
EAR ADMIRAL ,BoB'EVANS
CuNEDtNST @

convict these criminals, nine of whom
were condemned to imprisonment for
thirty years and sixteen others from Six
to nine years.
The murder in July of Herman Rosen-
thai, gambler who had threatened to
lay bare the secrets of police extortion in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

The list of those who have been promi-
nent in foreign public affairs bears many
familiar names, more conspicuousiy
those Of King Frederick VIII of Dem
mark. who was model constitutional
monarch; Mutsuhito. Emperor OF Japan,
who reigned fortyfour years and lett
his country the dominant power In the
far east, the only Asiatic state which
ranks with the great powers or the
earth; Gen. Ctncinnatus Leconte prese-
dent OF the black Republic of Haiti, who
lost his life in the fire which destroyed
the presidential palace at Port au Prince;
Mataafa. former King of Samoa, who
was in the public eye at the time OF the
acqus ition of part of his kingdom by the
United States; Field Marshal Sir George
Stuart White famous for his defense OF
Ladysmith in the Boer war; Gen. Count
Maresuke Nogi. famous commando IN
the Russo-Japanese war. who killed him-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Perspicuous.

From London Opinion.
Percy Dust introduced-Ah, So you're
the chap who makes mud heads?
Sculptor-Not all of them.
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Number of Women
in the Thousands.

every year. But the real work was to
get data as to the methods of the white
slave traffic, so that remedial legislation
could be adopted. The action of the
supreme court in the Keller case, in
which that part of the law under which
persons were prosecuted for ''harboring''
alien women for immoral purposes was
declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL, has made it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
.LANDPATENTS HELDUP
BY THREE DEPARTMENTS
Fisher Believes Power Com
pany Is Trying to Dodge
Federal Control.

BY the Joint action of the War, In
terror and Agricultural Departments. ex-
tensive land patents Of the international
Power and Manufacturing Company Of the
state of Washington have been held up.
because of the belief of Secretary Fisher.
as expressed in a statement. that the
company was trying to free itself from
all control by the government by securing
patents to lands under the guise OF min
ing claims or by railroad scrip filings. In
combination with special license
The company was planning to build a
series of power plants which. 1t was estl-
mated, would produce 100000 horsepower,
having value of from $5.OO0.00O to 5000
600 a year. The power site is In the So
called ~ canyon of the Pend dOreille
river, situated partly in the Kaniksu ma
tional forest and partly In a power site
reserve set aside by President Taft
Charges of Fisher.
Secretary Fishers statement charges
that many so-called mining claims have
been located along the river in the ma
tional forest and within the power site
reserve" and that mo attempt seems to
have been made to press the mining
claims for patent the company appar-
emily relying solely upon the special act
licensing its dam.
THE plans filed with the War Depart
ment show that the company would use
the public lands in the national forest for
fowage, and public lands in the power
site reserve for the same purpose and for
conduits and power house
The mining claims had been acquired
by the Pend d'Oreille Development Conn
pany, which also secured scrip land from
the Northern Pacific railway. later sell
ing both to the International Power and
Manufacturing Company.
Secretary Fisher has called upon
Commissioners bennett of the general
land office for a report on the validity
of the mining claims and railroad scrip
selection, which We're to be located at
the point in the river where the power
plant was to go.
Secretary Fisher refers to the case as
IAN example of the methods used to de-
feat federal ownership"
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Those Who Achieved.

Among those who have left behind them
achievements in Literature. art. science
and music which Will perpetuate their
memories are Alfred Tenayson Dickens.
son of the great novelist. and himself
writer and lecturer of merit; Henry
Labouchere, the most famous OF British
journalists; Lord Joseph Lister. who
made himself famous for all time by his
discovery of antiseptIc surgery. VIII
liam T. Stead. popular English journalist.
a victim of the Titanic disaster; Justin
Mccarthy. Irish historian and novelist.
Robert w. r. Browning. son of Robert
and Eliza beth. and himself "A painter or
reputation: Andrew Lang. English writer
of prose and verse. and one of the most
delightful of modern essayists. Julian
Emile +. Massenet. distinguished French
composer Of operas: DIR. Horace Howard
Furness. authority on Shakespeare;
Johann NJ Schleyer, inventor of voapuk.
the international language, Sir Lawrence
Alma-Tadema. famous English painter:
Mrs. Margaret f. Sangster. author and
editor: Homer G. Davenport, known
widely as cartoonist: Francis Davis
Miliet, distinguished American portrait
and figure painter, who was lost on the
Titanic; Jacques Futrelle. the popular
novelist and short story writer, who met
the same fate
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of what seems to be the most ancient
race of human beings now in existence.
The region has long been a mystery to
all Central America. This terra incog-
nita was visited by Millward. who found
on every side vestiges of a once magnifi-
cent empire. He studied and photo
graphed the ruins of temples and pal
aces never before seen by white men
and made a map of the once flourishing
Naya empire
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MyL|US FILES APPEAL
FROM ORDER TO DEPORT
Declares His Crime in LibeIing
King George Was Po|iti-
cal Only.

NEW YORK, December 2S.-Edouard
F. Myths, the English journalist who was
convicted in England and sent to prison
for one year for criminal libel against
King George v, was today again ordered
deported by the immigration authorities
at Ellis Island when given rehearing
before a special board of inquiry.
Myths at once filed an appeal to Secre-
tary- Nagel of the Department Of Com
merce and Labor, which will act as stay
Of deportation.
Crime Political Only.
Through his counsel. Simon o. Pollock.
representing the Political Refugees
League and the Free Speech Political
League, Mylius today presented to the
board additional evidence in support of
his argument that the crime of which
he was convicted-the publication of an
article accusing the king of NOR
ganatic marriage in lSS0-was a political
one and did not involve moral turpitude.
This included a record Of the trial Of his
case, containing quotations from the lord
chief justice, which his attorney held to
be conclusive proof that the court itself
regarded the crime as political
Myths told the board that his al
legged offense had been aimed at mon
archy" and that he had been prosecuted
for seditious libel only"
Declares Trial a Farce.
1.-The witness whose testimony was in
dispensable to my case was the king"
Myths testified. The court refused to
subpoena him as a witness on the ground
that his social position prevented his ap-
pearance. Therefore the trial resolved it
self into trial for sedition, because in
an action for criminal libel the defendant
has right equally with that Of the pros
ecutor Of calling witness. The trial
was a farce, purely an action for lese
majestic. 1t was the process of a despot'
Mylius' attorney will submit briefs set
ting forth that the deportation Of his
client would be unconstitutional.
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Radium Found in Colorado.

Still another discovery that is of
notable Importance to surgery is the pres
ence of that hitherto rarest and most
costly of substances. radium, in Colo
RADIO and in greater quantities than in
any other locality. Henri ChagnouX, a
French mineralogist who has been max
ing a search for the precious element for
several years. made the discovery Sep
TENDER %, and to him belongs the credit
of having added so materially to the min
eral development of the state.
In April an important conference I'M
der the auspices of the men and religion
forward movement was held in New York
city. The object of this movement
is to restore the masculine element to
the churches throughout the country and
by combined effort to enlist men and
boys as active workers in the various
religious organizations. This effort APP
pealed strongly to the late William T.
Stead. who was especially interested in
the department for social service, and
had sailed on the Inflated Titanic with
the purpose of addressing meetings in
behalf of the propaganda.
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spent year at home. Finally she decid-
ed to come to America. En- route she
met another German woman, who told
her she lived in Los Angeles. and who
wanted to engage her as governess.
Finally they wound up in Seattle. where
she was taken at night to disOrderly
house whose address she did not know,
where her clothes were taken from her
and where she was denied paper to write.
She threatened to kill herself If she were
not released, and finally she was taken to
a hotel. by the husband of the woman
who had enttced her, and was there
bound, gagged and assaulted. The law
finally came to her rescue and the woman
who betrayed her was deported. Her
husband got two years in the peniten-
tiary, but under the supreme court de-
cision prOnouncinG unconstitutional the
law against harbor!ng, he is not liable
to any punishment for his unspeakably
brutal treatment of his victim.
\
Those who recruit women for immoral
purposes frequent employment agencies,
I'm m grant
Visit Public Places homes, NOV
to Get Their Victims. shows dance
halls and railroad stations Often as much
as a thousand dollars is paid for an ex-
ceptionally attractive girl, and the prices
range on down to 500 The Imported
girls usually come as the wives or rela-
tives of the men accompanying them, as
maids or relatives Of women accompany
ing them. or as women entering alone ana
booked to some home or friend. The
Japanese have a custom whereby wom-
an in Japan may marry man In Amer
lea by proxy, and often they come over
ostensibly to meet their proxy husbands
but in reality to go into white slavery.
1t has been found difficult to apprehend
the violators of the white slave law at the
ports. and the danger of OBTAINING lnno-
cent women is so great that the inspectors
would rather pass a dozen they are not
certain about than to hold up one lnno-
cent one upon such charge.
The system of exploitation Is Such that
the poor white slave victim, whether she
has been trapped into the life or has en-
tered it willingly, gets only small share
of the profit. In a raid in Chicago a
big Irish girl was taken. She was asked
why she didn't get out. She replied:
Get out! l can't. They make us buy
the cheapest rags. and they are charged
against us at fabulous prices; they make
, us change outfits every two or three
weeks until we are so deeply in debt
we can never hope to get out We sell
dom get an accounting, but when We do
II is always 10 find ourselves deeper In
debt than before.
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lew OF THE GREAT EVENTS IN THE YEAR 1912

self after the death of the japanese en-
peror: Prince Louis Murat grandson OF
the King OF Naples: Jose Canale Jas.
prime minister OF Spain. shot by an anar
chist, and Ramon Corral former vice
president Of Mexico