Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-09-18
$4,000 MAKE AN EASY LIVING.
Federal Official Makes Statement.
White Slave Traffic i'm U. S.
(New York World.)

native-born Americans, are the VIC
tins each year Of the white slave
traffic in the United States.
"About $4,000 men and women
make an easy living every year
selling, buying and living on the
earnings Of these girls"
Stanley w. Finch, for twenty years
an attorney and official IN the do
partment of justice, makes this start
ling statement to the CORRESPONDENT
Of The World.
Mr.. Finch, since Geo. w. Wicker
sham has been attorney general, has
been chief Of the bureau of investi-
cation Of the Department Of Justice.
Last May Mr.. Wickersham, in recog-
milton Of Mr.. Finch's achievements in
tracking down Cadets" ]"procurers"
and thief of the white slave traffic
ana sending them to the p~enltentiary,
designated Mr.. Finch special com
missioner for the suppression of the
white slave traffic. That Is what Mr..
Finch Is now doing. Except in a SUI
pervisory way he has temporarily re-
linqufshed the duties of chief of the
bureau Of investigation and is now
devoting his entire time to his new
duties. He says that If Congress
Will give him the money he will in
a year suppress, barring an occa-
sional Isolated case, all the white
slave traffic in the United States.
And Wickersham says that Finch will
do what he says.
Has Existed for 5000 Years.
White slave traffic, in some form
or other, has existed for 5000 years
or more" said Mr.. Finch. "In Eu-
rope 1T has been carried on with iuc-
tuating success for 5000 years; in
the United States with varying, but
ever growing success, for 100 years"
Desire for fortune and easy" liv-
ing on the part Of the dealers and the
susceptibility Of young girls to fraud
and deceit, are the causes, directly,
for the startling growth Of the traf-
fc In the United States, Mr.. Finch
said.
, $50 easy is the living to be made
out Of white slave traffic that con-
scienceless crooks of all kinds in the
country have turned to traficking in
young girls" he said. $50 great has
been the domestic traffic in women in
The last few yeaS that to-day, seat
tered throughout the United states,
there arc, 2o~nBervatively cgtimntnd
No less nan 10000 one living
4 lifc ot shame in anmi-Uuhltc or rdi~
clally tolerated places Of disrepute."
land yet you can suppress white
slave traffic in a year? How much
money will it take?"
"One million dollars will suppress
1t, and for $25O,0OO a year it can be
kept suppressed" Mr.. Finch replied.
The way Congress appropriates now
and my inability to use other funds
it will take longer. of course, per-
haps four or five years"
Man Who "Docs Things"
Stanley w. Finch is not unknown
to criminals. He is also well known
in official circles here as a man who
has done things" Nearly tweny
years ago, when he was not yet out
OF his teens, he came to Washington
from Ellenville, Ulster county, New
York, and entered the department of
justice as a clerk. He had a good
education and an ability for organic
ing. He had been in the department ,
or lnGtica hnt n short tin,n whnn "a,
began studying law in a night class
of a law college. In three years he
was graduated. Soon afterward he
was promoted and took up the work
Of cutting down graft among the ap-
pointees under Federal court clerks,
United States Marshals and other
employees connected with the Fedc-
raj courts. His work resulted in the
rounding up Of several fraudulent
clerks Of district and circuit courts, |
the last Of these eases being cleaned
up a little over two years ago. Two
or three OF the clerks now holding
Office will soon get out because of
evidence "Finch's men" gathered.
Mr.. Finch Is about forty years of
age. He looks thirty-five. He Is
about six feet tall and muscularly
built. He has curly brown hair,
worn rather thick, deep brown, wide
set eyes, high forehead and a rather
long race. His face suggests cour-
age aggressivcness and %tenacity.
"A close friend once asked hin if