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Finch, White Slave Traffic, 1912
appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose of defraying such expenses
for the remainder of the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1912, and also
requested that his general appropriation for detection and prosecution
of crimes for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1913, be increased in the
sum of $50,000 over the appropriation for the present fiscal year in
order to provide funds for work in white slave cases during the coming
year. The urgency of this matter has been called to the attention of the
proper government officials and committees of Congress both by the
Attorney General and by individuals and philanthropic societies in
almost every part of the country, all of whom have urged the
immediate appropriation of adequate funds for this purpose. While-perhaps
through some misunderstanding as to the real situation--there
has been an unfortunate delay in securing additional funds, and
consequently the work of the Department in attempting to suppress the
white slave traffic has been temporarily crippled, I am glad to be able
to say that we now have reason to believe that Congress will in due
season appropriate the full amount which the Department has
requested for this purpose for the coming fiscal year, and that there is
also a disposition on the part of Members of Congress, with but few, if
any, exceptions, to provide whatever additional funds may be
necessary to expunge this disgraceful blot of white slavery from the
map of our beloved country, and to enable our country to take a stand
before the nations of the world which will, at no very distant day, result
in sweeping this monstrous evil from the face of the earth.
It is believed that when the people of this country begin to
appreciate the enormous extent and the terrible nature of this great
evil, there will be no disposition on their part to temporize with it, but
that they will demand not only that funds be appropriated sufficient to
adequately enforce the present law, but also that the law be so
extended and strengthened that it will [e]nable the Federal
Government to wipe out this evil for all time.
This leaflet supplied at 35c. per 100, prepaid by the International Reform
Bureau, 206 Pa. Av., S.E. Washington, D.C. $2.00 per 1000, collect. Y.W.C.A. and
other societies for safeguarding women and girls should distribute it widely.
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