Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-09-27

hlbitlon vote was fixed" why didn't
he tell who fixed" It?
Prostitution is the worst crime in
the world. Remember statistics show
that $4,000 girls go astray each year
because Of the liquor traffic"
The Socialist speaker made It per-
fectly clear that Socialism charges
that prostitution is one Of the crimes
Of capitalism, not of the Individual
and that It is the worst and why, oh,
why will ordinary persons who know
try to conceal the fact And why will
So many willfully remain ignorant Of
the awful consequences of the crime
The alarming spread Of disease, the
infants born diseased and blind to suf-
fer few years and die, or far worse,
10 grow up and perpetuate the shame
and mlseryl
white Slave Traffic" is a direct re-
suit of the crime. Capitalism found
prostitution so profitable" that new
recruits must be secured at any haz-
ard But to make the traffic less haz-
ardous, IAN organized system or syn
dicate" (61st congres, I'd sess report
No. AZ, p. 12) has been organized for
ensnaring victims.
Liquor, trickery, deceit, fraud and
force are resorted to-" p. II, "of the
100000 prostitutes in the United
States, three-fourths of them are snar-
ed and trapped, bought and sold.-
Mrs. Charlton Edholm Addresses" p.
1853.
"The books of account kept by Du-
faur show that his income from his
establishment in Chicago, realized
largely as a result Of his success as
an importer, was for the twelve
months Immediately preceding his ar
rest, upwards of 100000. In almost
every instance the girls were COM
PEELED to turn over every day all thelI
earnings "-61st con. I'd sess. report
No, 217, p. 10.
Taft aids white SLAYER Washing
ton, Dec. 24.-President Taft com
lnuted the sentence today of New
York white slaver cutting off ont
year from three-year sentence"
The case was that of Auguste Rous
sett, a Frenchman convicted in New
York of importing women for tn,
purpose of prostitution and of harbor
ing an alien woman for immoral pur
poses" The law making the harbor
ing of an alien woman for immora
purposes a crime has since been de
c,ared Observation-Disclosures, Or
Oregonian, Dec 25, 1909.
1T is estimated that the syndicat
has imported annually during the pre-
cedlng or 10 years on an average o
about 1000 women, ,"--61st Con. I'd ses
report No 217, p. IL.
Average receipts from EACH woman
$4,000 Page 224, Holmes Com. re
port.
Who had that law declared unconsti
tutlonal Capitalism! Why? Profit!
1T is a sad and humillating admis
sion, that 1t is ninclinaton, but tn
force of actual physical want that i'm
pels young women along the road Il
ruin. Page 227, Holmes Com, report
What causes the actual physica
want" which impels young womei
along the road to ruin? Capitalism
Average weekly wage of females
above 16, $5.72, $575."-Bulletin 81
Manufacturers, 1905.
Is there no limit to the crimes o
capitalism? And especially to thii
worst of all crimes-prostitution?
Llsten-From Senate Document No
1885,
Both from investigation of the com
mission and those Of the bureau Of i'm
migration, 1t is clear that there Is
beginning, at any rate, of traffic ii
boys and men for immoral purposes
The inclination Of the continental
races to look with liberation upor
these evils is spreading in this coun
try" Merciful God can't write an
other word OLIVE REDDAWAY.