The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-21
iestions Of any other character.

questions OF any other character.
This question Is presented in our
own city. Even at this time the ques-
ton Of whether city authorities will
permit the red-light district, closed
at the last term of court. to he re-
opened without lawful m~olestation.
has been presented before the City
Council.
4 news item. dated. New York.
Aug. 10, Of the present year. published
in the press u few days ago gives some
startling facts concerning this horri-
1 BILE traffic:
New York, Aug. l9.-The organized
traffic in girls Is being exposed in
! New York City by a series Of astound-
ing confessions. How girls so young
that they were classed as children.
were handled like cattle. and even
sold at auction, how working girls are
watched and corrupted with satanic
ca~refulness, how women, once degrad-
ed, are shipped throughout the country
for immoral purposes, have been told
by an admitted white SLAYER. Yushe
Botwin. to the New York District At.
torney.
One dollar u pound is the price nc
tually paid in several instances for
immature young girls auctioncd Oft Ivy
white slavers TO proprietors Of resorts
in New York. declared Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Smith, prosecuting the
campaign against the vice trust.
From men and women now under
arrest and awaiting trial. Smith has
obtained the most amazing confessions
Of the workings Of the white slave
gang. Not only did they systematical-
~ set about 10 obtain school girls for
resorts, but on 22nd street they main
tanned a house where young girls,
sometimes partly and sometimes com
pletely disrobed were sold 10 the
highest bidder.
Selling Girls by the Pound
We learned that in one instance
agents for two houses got into n dis
pute ove the value of n girl who had
been put up for sale" said the assist
ant district attorney. They finally
agreed upon a price Of a dollar n
pound. After that il became n com
mon practice to weigh all girls and
announce their weight to bidders"
Information as to the white slave
auction was obtained after the arrest
Of Dubitz Zubier, alias David Parish.
and his wife. Kate Parish. in the22nd
street house. The district attorneys
office is Investigating reports that
other similar places were maintained.
II was recalled today that only u
few months ago n ministers daughter
was Kidnapped and auctioned off nude
before a gang in an Italian dance hall.
Girls Shipped to Western Cities
The vice trust now under fire did
not by any mean confne its activi-
ties 10 New York. Smith said. Most
of the girls were obtained from poor
families here. Some Of them were
kept in New York resorts but others
were shipped to Chicago and western
cities. The trust maintained repre-
%sentatives in several eastern towns.
In one instance Smith learned the
earnings of n young girl in one re-
sort totalled 1902 for a week. She
received 1922 of this amount but was
forced 10 pay $l2.20 to the auctioneer
or "gehector" and S25 for board. The
proprietress Of the resort received
1851 in addition TO the s25 for board.
The awful exposures are thus reported
by the New York Times.
The manner in which he a y he
caused the downfall Of more than
three thousand New York school girls
during the last ten years was de-
scribed TO Attorney Smith by Yushe
Botwin said 10 be the head Of the
vice trust. Botwin, who has pleaded
guilty to one of five indictments and
is awaiting sentence, continued his
revelations yesterday, furnishing the
names and data which Mr.. Smith said
would result in many indictments,
n of which may enyolve d police
captain.
This is only one of the series of con-
fessions and interviews. When Bot
win was asked if he didn't know ne
was doing wrong when he lured school
girls into vice, he answered:
Il know ! was making plenty Of
money-what should | care?"
The same argument Is used in ref
erence to attempts TO suppress this
vice as that used against prohibition,
that the law will not prohibit, there
fore the business ought to be licensed
and controlled. White slavery cannot
exist without an organized market,
and If established and organized traffic
in girls is suppressed, the slavers
would have no market.
If this government cannot make and
enforce laws for the health and well
fare of its people, against such vices
as the liquor traffic and girl traffic,
it is time to declare this government
Of the people, by the people and for
the people, n failure, and turn it over
TO anarchy and vice.