The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-30

Work along That Line There IS
Meritoriously Recognized
by the President.
The magazine section of the. Nil.
waukee Free Press recently contain:
ed fun page entitled Guy d szon-
and the White Slave Campaign
contained splendid Licensees OF AE:
Cor, that OF victim OF white STAY
cry and a fac smile copy OF a cerfin-
cate OF credentials OF the tnternatlon-
al purity congress signed by W1ii.an
j. Bryan. secretary Of state. The story
as follows was written by Harry Cur
ran Wilson:
what slavery has encountered one
OF its deadiiest enemies IN DnIfed
States District attorney Guy D Con.
The relentless war he has wased
against Il has won him first rank RANK
among the federal prosecuting oncerss
In three years he has brought forty7
three indictments against the traf1c IN
Milwaukee Twenty-Six have oeen
convicted Only five have been ac-
Quilted. And OF those five, two Went went
free when the court ruled that mar mar
rage, subsequent TO the onens nau
cleaned the slate.
Twelve indictments are pending
Two OF them are against men VINO.
have fed from Justice Two are
against white slavers already CONVICT
ed and serving sentence: One nanss
over a nan convicted by the STATE
authorities on another charge Inc
others for one cause or another, nave
been Temporarily delayed
Z gut Mr.. Gof's greatest service to
the government, MS hardest blows at
the white slavers, came In broadening
the scope of the law. He successfui!s
maintained that prosecutions Wouio ne
even in cases where the man and Wo-
man walked across the state line: He
fought to successful conclusion MS
theory that. where a conspiracs e1 s1,a.-
ed. the woman was equally guilty
with the man and thereby did away
with the objection that the white
slave act was "a blaclmail1ng stat
ute And then he launched 1ndact-
tents for misprison OF felony
against the white slave rings. open
ing UP new line OF attack and dr1s5
ing peg on which the government
expects to hang many convictions IN
the future.
Wna6 Washington Says.
From authentic sources IN Washing
ton 1t has been learned that the oe
partment OF justice ranks THIS VII VII
waukee man as one OF its most emo
lent officers Other recognition OF MS
efforts came last week 1t was n the
shape of a commission, issued 70 nm nm
nv order OF President woodrow wiz
son. naming him delegate to repre-
sent the United states at the Interna-
tioual purity congress in San Fran
cisco IN July. This commission bears
+he signature and sea1sof William Jen-
ninEs Bryan. as secretary OF state LOT
the United States
The story of the fight he has made
AGAINST this evil which the govern
ment has determined to wipe out. 1o4-
lows. 1t is a story based on facrs
cleaned from tie official records. LOT
Mr.. Con- himself. holding that ne IS
merely doing his duty. declines 70
discuss It But even the RECORDS,
comcbed as they. are In cold formal
legal pnraSeology. cannot conceal tne
drama of 1t all
The Mann act, or the white slave
law az it is popularity known, Went
;nto effect on June 25, 1910. Con
started preparations Immediately to
enforce It. Some friends said he was
wasting his efforts. argued that the
law. however good the purpose, was
destined. from the very nature or the
oTense ar which it struck. TO become
a dead letter. This was his answer:
-.The elimination OF immortality
from cur civilization. IN the nShIs on
history. may be Impossible. ne saIo
.eBut it is possible and pracucaote
to destroy and remove Tins unciean
and noisome thing The district at
~, VINO does not enforce this law
Is as ignorant as an AFRICAN ape "
Then he went TO work. He read the
Standard works OF the great socloio,
cists on the history OF The social eva
snd .he wars waged against It IN dr1-
ferent times and nations He poreo
over court decisions and spent hours
IN The Law library He worked VIII TN
federal secret service operatives and
massed his evidence. Then he suuch-
--->- The First Case.
On November 4 1911, less tnan, a
wear and half after the law.swen vent
into effect. Gon brought his hrsts case
of this kind. That first case was be
er,,, nor under the white slave law
f+eeI, hut under the immigration. law.
TIE defendant ~as Otto Tanbert, an
oficer in an European army, man
Of known social standing in one on
IRE brilliant capitals of Europe
COZ charged that he had left a
VIE there and brough. to this coun-
nv a girl who had become infatuated
Nth him. He arrested this man and
prepared to put him on trial Inc
s-resr came in May. six months be
tore the Indictment was returned and
throughout that period Taubert was
reid in 5afl here And then. Just
eleven days after he was indicted. he
canoe INFO court and pleaded guilty
The sentence imposed was light
o.,lv three days IN the county 1aai:
Bslt i did not mean that the court
Thought lightly Of the onense. II
meant merely that steps had been TAX
~ 70 deport the man and turn n1n