The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-26

| indecent and sending through the
mails obscene or other prohibited mat
| ter.
The postoffice establishment is the
| largest business institution in the
/ world. It employs more men than any
! other business enterprise on earth,
| 1t collects and expends more money
| than any other single organization
| known to mankind. Other nations
| have postal systems that are more
| thorough, but no other nation uses the
mails to the extent that Americans use
| them. Perhaps Of all the institutions
| established and maintained by the
! government, the post office establish
ment is Of the greatest use and benefit
| to the public.
| The post office should therefore be
| guarded from all improper uses and
/ the public should be protected from all
abuse Of the postal system. The trust
| imposed by the public in the postal
officials is very great. and the high
| est degree of integrity and efficiency
! in such officials should be exa Cted.
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ACT.
Another offense which congress has
created tending to the betterment of
| public morals and which prohibits in
terstate transportation Of women for
| the purpose Of prostitution and de-
! bauchery or for any other lmmoral
purpose, is known as the white slave
| traffic act.
The immigration from foreign coun-
tries of destitute women seeking the
shore Of our land to improve their Op-
portunities to earn living honestly
and to secure the blessings Of liberty
and equality vouchsafed to them by
the government of the United States
has developed IN immoral traffic Of
such classes that shocked the moral
sense of the nation.
Investigation into this particular
subject disclosed the sinister purpose
brought into this country and in order
to stop the importation. Of this class
at Ellis Island, congress- ny wise and
benefiCent legisla ton had denounced
the act Of bringing women to tins
country for such purposes and also
TRANSFORMATION of such women already
in the United States of any class or
character from one state to another
for prostitution or dehauChery or for
any immoral purpose.
II is a benefiCent law, however,
much as it has been criticized as en-
CroaChing upon the police authority OF
the states and any person or persons
who peTsuadeS, encOura ges, prOcures'
or inCites or induces any woman, or
girl or aides, or assists, or provides
transportation of any such woamn or
girl from one state to another state or
territory for prostitution or for any
immoral purpose is amenable to the
penal provisions of this act
1t isn't the acts of prostitution or
engaging in immortality that congress
has attempted To prohibit, bat the
moving in interstate transportation OF
women with intent to subject them
to prostitution or any other immoral
employment.
Therefore if such cases are brought
to your attention. il will be your
bounden duty to investigate into the
matter and if you ascertain that the
provisions of this act have been Nlo-
lated YOU should indict such person or
persons for any such infraCtion upon
the white slave traffic act.
NATIONAL BANKS.
You may be invited also to investi-
gate some of the financial institutions
chartered and authorized by the gov
eminent to facilitate business inter
course among the people. National
banks are organized under avs enact
ed by congress and regulations made
and adopted by the treasury depart
ment: therefore such institutions and
their fiscal conduct are subject to the
scrutiny of grand juries of the United
States courts.
National banks are permitted and
allowed by the government upon a
strict compliance with the require
ments Of the law and the faithful OBJ
servance of the statutes in relation to
their financial operations. The fact
that the government charters such in
posed to supervise their fiscal opera
tons inspires public confidence in the
integrity and stability of such insti-
tutions.
If the government fails in this duty
to the public to carefully safeguard
and protect the money of the people
thus entrusted, by compelling the
strictest integrity in the conduct of
the business affairs of such institu-
tons, it falls woefully short of its
n - nn IL > /,
absence of that watchful Viglence
over their conduct which the law Sc
cures, that bank wrecks occur when
the earnings of a life time, or the
meager hope or dependence of the
widow, or the thoughtful provision for
sQuandered in unWarranted speCula
ton, or gross misappropriat ton, or
misspent in personal eXtraVaga it'll
calls for the investigation of d grand
fixed. the law indicated, and the pub
lie confidence in such institutions re-
stored
In order that any people may ne
prosperous, cOntented and happy there
are some things in which they must
have implicit confidence and fore
most among them, are the financial
Institutions Of the government. No
people will continue industrious. con-
tented or happy, or put forth the full
measure OF the4F plllJE TO promote
prosperity. unless they have the ut
most confidence in the stability and
integrity Of a1eir banks which are the
depositaries for their earnings. Any
thing which undermines this faith,
diSCourageS industry, paralyzes de-
velopment, incites dtstrust and leads
TO panios and widespread ruin: not
only this. but such disasters breed
Impotence with the forums Of law
and even contempt for government.
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banking law was to provide a means
by which the government might carry
on its large fiscal operations and to
invite public confidence IN the banks
thus chartered 10 do business through
out the country. hut the law subjects
them to certain regulations looking to
a wise and safe administration of bus
mess, as we'll as the supervision of the