Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-06-27
CARSON T NEVADA
FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE u.
White Shaving

WHILE it is admitted that the intent OF the white slave law, a en-
forced by the Government. is right has many good purposes and "a
The Camneti Diggs affair has probably brought more attention to this
law than my other incident sine its passage. This unusual notoiety
came from the fact that the offending men and women yer OF promin-
ence. The W women who accompanied them to Reno we're old
and world, visa snoroh TO NOW ,,tatt fine were dom. znd t,ev did NOT
go there to protect their virtue. This is admitted. No did the lei
usnt ~ Reno 70 f,i6u' dcsres thar have ruined Rome and which will
go as long as women and lei are born. Had the four remained
in Truckee and carried on their lcentious inclnauons they would not
have been under indictment of the white slave law. 1t was the few
business.
This much for just the law and its excess.
Take the cas- OF Johnson, the black prize fighter, for instance. If
he hadn't been able to beat up any white mn alive IN the prize ring:
had nt worked up the envy OF the pug ugies and incurred the dislike OF
a number OF prize fight MANAGERS, he could have taken a whole carload
OF such harlots as he did to Chicago and there would have been no
trouble for the black bruiser. In the vernacu1ar Of the street Johnson
has been made the goat"
In several cases in this state the women involved were prostitutes
by their W admission. No reie mption came to then, by the prosecu-
ton OF the lei involved. as they simply entered another house OF i'll
fame as as the Government let them ut OF the lay clutches. NO
n benefited and the ONE had another experience.
The white slave law a origin ally intended to stop traffic in wom-
en-. When a man lived from the proceeds OF a fallen women he va to
further and sterized this eatu That would be law worth
while. No one has sympathy for the arrested la who has been l-
ruin OF an innocent woman, but when a harlot accompanies a man to
another state instead OF another townste. and the man sen to prison
for this, it seems like drawing ina ginary lines to make place i'll the law.
The woman in the case simply drifts back to another nan she is never
reformed by the laws action, and the world has OF become any purer
by removing ne to make place 10 another.
In the Caminetu- )iggs case II o II aside from their immediate
families carea whit what becomes OF the pair. They LETT good women
for strumpets, and aside from the fact that they we're prominent in the
social world, they should lave never received the mention that a gone
forth
Every good citizen has knownoi degenerates in good families, but
10 IL has been able o record al instance where a woman a made
good by the prosecution Of some nan She chose to follow from me
county line to the other.
The prosecution OF the California pair can wait a Jew weeks and
then the law will be just Is good and just as bad as it is to-day. There
have been a lot of much more imp ortant cases so over, and over and
then Eel again, which meant much more to the world and to the liz
giants than does the prosecution OF two worthless young lei OF prom
men families OF California.
And IN this case the women we're as guilty OF wrongdong as the