Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-21
Appeals Are Made 10 Special
Legislative Committee APP
pointed to Draft Remedial
Police Regulations,
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC
COULD BE SUPPRESSED
Letters from Resort Keepers
Tell of Efforts to Protect 0l-
fortunate Girls from Lives
of Shame,
lny Morning journal speclai I,a.ed wire

tBy Morning journal Special Leased wirel
Albany. y. ", March 2u.-A cry
from the outcnsts OF the underworld,
pleading for an opportunity TO co.
operate in the efforts being made to
solve the social evil question. r voiced
I'm letters TO the special legislative
committee appointed to draft rCme-
dial police legislation for New York
CITY. These letters. among the thou-
sands, or more. received by the COM
mittee from New York city officials
and civic bodies. and citizens gcner-
ally will be given serious consdera-
ton.
Senator Wagner. chairman OF the
committee. announced today that fur-
thcr meetings Of the committee would
be- held ana the scnnte extended the
time for receiving the report another
week Mr. Wagner made public To-
night letters received from women oi
the underworld who insist that they
can assist the city if permitted to CO.
operate la their own way. toward re-
stricting and scgrcgating the social
evil. They claim this phase OF the
situation IN New YORK rs the source
Cf all graft They support the plan
of the citizens committee 10 the leg
commission and pledge thcmsclVes to
lee of greater value tO such % commit
tee than all of the social and civic
bodies i'm Kew York. These women
also declare that the time hats come
when New York should at least hah-
die the subject practically and sensi-
hly and mot make any attempt lo
drive unfortunate women from houses
that give ANNOYANCE t0 no one "a the
streets and go the cutters and To help
swell the army Of street walkers who
have no regard for their own physichl
condition nor the health Of the peo-
pie In whose midst they circulate.
one woman wrote,
Il ann representing thousands upon
thousands of unfortunate girls that
are without homes. Some are work.
ing for starvation wages. some are
selling their souls TO keep off starVa-
ton and cold. These women are
much Ike other women, All grades
are to be round in their ranks some
good, some bad and others very bad.
Ny experience is that the outcast
women of society have Il code of NOR
ais and are honest iu the majority
The better half would be surprised to
know of the self-sacriHco that many
of these women make for those that
are dependent upon them for suste-
nance and almost every girl has one
or more dependent upon her for sup
port.
of have had girls in my house who
have had royal blood in their veins
Many Of them were the descendants
of the best families IN Europe ana
America some were the daughters OF
well known cletgymcn Of Chicago
Philadelphia. New York and Boston.
The army Of the fallen Is recruited
from AN ranks Of society, ncludinh
the daughters Of the elect
"If you wish to get rid Of graft in
the police department for all time to
come wrote another woman, rec
move the police department from all
temptation. Take the social evil out
of the police department entirely II
we were protected by The city instead
of prosecuted and oppressed and
driven and hunted from pillar TO post,
we would be of great help to the city
by protecting the young women from
the procurer and would convict every
one Of them by q simple process of
informing this social welfare commit
toe. should "A cadet bring girl to
our houses, we would pledge ourselves
to help prosecute and convict any
white slaver that comes before US II
is only through us and IN co-opera-
'ion with us that YOU will accomplish
this
Should young girl come to us
with the intention Of leading that life.
we could again commnnicatc with this
committee and thus save her from go
ing farther ty taking care g yer and
persuading her and giving her lttlc
purse which we have done 50 J any
times and send her home to her PARE
ents. without publicity, and before
is too late