New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-02-15
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Official Journal of Iberia Parish
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HORRORS OF WHITE SLAV.
ERY.

The papers this morning tell a
startling story Of the immense
transactions in what is called the
white slave trade. y
Ii is nothing more nor less than
the Kidnapping of young girls and
sending them off to distant cities
to be placed in dens of vice and
depravlty. They are seized on
the streets, or wherever they MAJ
be in reach Of the hrman demons
who conduct the business.
They are gagged and hurried
into closed carriages and carried
off to places where they are
dru9eed into insensibility and
kept so until they can be landed
in destinations OF vice in distant
cities. and there they are kept
under the influence of drugs un-
til they awake to the realization
that thew have been translated to
another world. world of de-
gradation and disgrace from
whose taint they can never hope
to free themselves. and however
much they may grieve for love
and affection, the pure and holy
associations and the innocence
they have lost, to keep themselves
from being discovered by their
friends amid such disgraceful sur
rogmdings becomes a most urgent
care, and so they are swallowed
MP in oblivion, and seek never to
have their existence revealed to
their families and former friends.
This is the fate of hundreds Of
Young girls whose sudden disap-
pearance from their homes and
friends becomes a three-days Won
der TO be tblazoned in the news
papers, talked of and wondered
at. and then forgotten. 1t ap-
pears that this Infamous traffic is
not in violation of state laws, but
fortunately, the Constitution OF
the United States prohibits the
depriving of persons OF their lib
erty and holding them in slavery,
and while this law was made ex-
pressly for the benefit of negro
slaves, II also applies to whites.
1t Is under laws based on this con-
stitutional provision that the
United States Government has
taken I'M raeant, :, iitrn 4sne L., ~
WfIfte Slave traffic, and is under.
taking to hold several parties for
trial and punishment,
There are parties in New York
City who are engaged In this
hideots traffic, and the evidences
against them Is stated to show
that they have been kidnapping
and selling white girls to tho
number of thousands, and that
they receive $25 to $50 each for
them, while negroes in tbs time
OF african slavery sold often for
pllces up into the thousands of
dollars each,
The sympathy aroused for the
condition of the negro slaves
dl owe great nation into bloody
war to free them. But this fright-
fully outrageous enslavement OF
white girls for the basest pur-
poses seems to concern nQbody but
a few United States judges and
prosecuting attorneys,
or course, decent people refuse :
to believe that their innoc aud
lovely young daughters survive
to be consigned to such a fate,
andl they prefer to think that |
they have been murdered in their
girlish purity, but the revelations
Of the great extent of the white
slave traffic cannot but arouse an !
that the loved ana |
lost survive among the gangs Of
white slaves, and the time will
come when a tremendous volume
of public Indignation will he
arots sed against the conductors Of
his Infamous and satanic traffic. |
md they will be shot to death. |
torp limb from limb. and burned
II the stake as are the negro |
ravishers. With our loose and
Uncertain system of legal justice,
here are some crimes which drive
he people to a fury Of rage and
Indignation, and the time will
'ome when the same sort of JUS
ice will be dealt out to the white
lavers. Picayune.
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