The Washington times., 1914-09-18
Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, Here
to Urge President Wilson to
Intervene, Tells Stories of
Atrocities.
Declares White Slave Operators
Are a Menace to Girls Who
Escape From War Zone in
Europe lust Now.


Rosika Schwimmer, of Budapest
who came to Washington today tt
urge President Wilson to take i'm
mediate steps toward mediation
among the Warring powers.
That white slape operators arr
menace to girls who have escaped
from the Udr zone is another asser.
tion of Nine. Schwimmer's. She
comes as the representative Of
women of ten nations, affiliated
with the International Woman Suf.
frdge Alliance.
More than that she makes hel
appeal in the name of women be.
cause they can afford to disregard
conventional diplomatic usdges, be.
cause they are the greater suffer.
ers, she asserts, from wars rap
ages, and because the task of re-
construction in Europe will fall
largely upon the women.
By ]. R. HILDEBRAND.
With letters to show that children
as young as five years, and aged
women as well, have been subjected
TO the most brutal and atrocious
indignities. and with proof that
white slave operators are plying
their trade. vulture like, among
those girls who have fed from the
supposed danger zones, Madam Ro-
Ska Schwimmer. of Budapest, has
come to Washington TO urge Presi-
dent Wilson to take immediate steps
Tor peace among warning nations of
Europe
Revolving as are the incidents
that Madam Schwimmer relates,
she asserts that their telling is the
only way to bring home TO the con-
sciousness Of peaceful nations the
atrocities of the present war.
Il charge no single nation more
than any other" she said, with in
tense feeling. The thirst for blood.
bruteS out of decent, upright men
these and other effects of lighting
are called by doctors disease. And
the disease is common to all the ma
uUus at war.
Conflicting Reports Here.
You have had in the United States
reports that this country and that
country have committed outrages
that are a disgrace to civilization.
These reports are true And they
are true Of all the countries alike
The men are not to blame. 1 know
of cases of men who committed sui
eide after they realized what out
RACES they had committed upon
women and little girls in the first
flush of a victory Others who lived
on. am told. already feel that they
will look upon these days with shame
throughout their lives And the only
explanation they can give for de-
scending TO unthinkable brutalities Is
that il got INTO their blood
In London. Madam Schwimmer
said. the white slavers' have con-
gregated in great numbers, and are
constant menace to the aliens de-
tanned there.
''All alien enemies are compelled
to register, and affix their photo
graphs to registery blanks. 1t is be-
lieved that unscrupulous men in
these police registers. and have been
able, by means of photographs and
descriptions. TO pick their victims.
That Is the only way We could ac-
count for kilograms sent to these
girls, requesting them TO meet rela-
tives at out-of-the-vay stations. One
OF these kilograms, sent to a girl and
purporting to be from her brother,
is in my hands now. The girl had
no brother Committees In London
now working to trace many such
te:eprams"
Mrs. Schwimmer, author. lecturer,
and journalist. is a pioneer in the
Hungarian women's political move
nent. She comes to this country AS
the representative of woman suf-
fragists in Denmark, France, Ger
many. Hungary, the Netherlands,
Sweden. Russia, Italy, Canada, and
tries who are members of the Inter
national Suffrage Alliance have
taken concerted action to urge peace.
Diplomacy Too Slow.
This war presents an extraordi-
rary occasion Madam Schwimmer
said. "and extraordinary steps are
needed TO end 1t. The usual channels
of diplomacy are SO slow moving
that nations will be exterminated be-
fore they can do anything. The pro-
fessional pacifists have failed. The
big men of any of the warning ma
tions hesitate to make an insistent
plea for peace lest their courage
he deemed weak. Therefore the bur-
den of the peace plea rests naturally
with the women. Our motives can
not be misconstrued. We are not
bound by the diplomatic conventions
which make sane intercourse so dif-
nCult between men of the various na-
tions."
Madam Schwimmer would have the
President of the United States. with
out waiting to be invited to mediate.
send a representative like Secretary
of State Bryan. or former President
Taft. 10 Europe.
let him call together the govern
ments of disinterested neutral coun-
tries. such as Switzerland. The
Netherlands. Sweden, Denmark. Nor
way and Spain.' she said. NO con-
ventional displomacy should be al
lowed to interfere with what is the
best. shortest. quickest. and surest
way to hasten mediation.
This committee of the selected
governments ought to assemble in
Norway The conventional sugges-
tion would be to meet at The Hague