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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—It is impossible to over-esti mate the significance of the Diggs-Caminetti trials. For all practical purposes these two cases may now be studied as one. The social position of the two men first called attention to the charges brought against them. But this would only have given notoriety, not importance. The ill-judged action of their friends in trying to stave off an appearance before judge and jury added to the notoriety. The intervention of the Attorney General, the fierce daring of Mr. McNab, the United States district attorney, taking his official life in his hands and challenging the Government of the United States to deal out even-handed justice even to the son of one of its trusted officers; the painful blunder of the President of the United States; his verbal rebuke to McNab and his actual compliance with McNab’s demand; the debates in congress that followed—all this gave to what at first looked like a Sacramento elopement, a publicity not limited by the boundaries of this country. New Principle on Trial Yet these things are not of the essence of the matter. The importance of the case lies deeper. Perhaps the man or wom an who made no secret of the absorbing interest which this case possessed could not have explained in so many words the nature of that interest. But all the same, each person was conscious of a some thing vaster than the fate of two vicious young men. It was not they who were on trial. A new law of the land we love was on trial. And behind that, a new great principle of law, a new great principle of order, of life and government had to stand its trial before a jury composed of all the thoughtful, earnest persons amongst a population of ninety millions of free men. The Mann act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf fic act,” h?s had its baptism of fire. And the public have learned with amazement that its scope goes far out beyond their dreams of what law and the administration of law can do. Designed to afford the Federal Government power to deal with criminals who fatten upon the flesh and blood of women, it was—and again by deliberate purpose—made to include vicious conduct in which no suggestion of monetary gain or of “white slavery” inhered, but which might tend eventually to swell the ranks of women devoted to a shameful life. The world—our world, the world of the United States has for some time been prepared to take arms against the brutalized creature who panders to vice and who by force or fraud holds women in prostitution, making his market out of them. But the Diggs-Caminetti ease told all this great world that law had now armed itself against conduct which long ago both men and women have condoned, and stood ready to brand as a party to this iniquity men who only thought to tread, as men had done before them, the primrose path of dalliance—at the cost ol' a woman’s shame. News Was Real News The news was really news. It was new news. It was startling news. And our world has watched and waited and carefully read and as earefully thought, and is still making up its mind .as to whether the law, justified by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States, shall be justified at the bar of public opinion. Judge Van Vleet, in his charge, so full, so strong, so clear, has repeated and emphasized his own conviction: IN MY JUDGMENT THE LAW IS A GOOD ONE AND IN THE INTERESTS OF PUBLIC MORALS AND DE CENCY." And again : “THE MANN ACT IS AS MUCH FOR THE PROTEC TION OF VIRTUOUS WOMEN AS IT IS TO BREAK UP THE EVIL TRAFFIC IN WOMEN. ’ And that is what the public lias learned with such sur prise. The public believed that the act was to break up the vile traffic in women. And friends of Diggs and Caminetti may protest as they will; the judgment has been previously affirmed by the Su preme Court. And the court yet more supreme, the court of public opinion, the court of national conscience, will confirm the judgment of these lower tribunals. Prostitution is not a necessity. It is not, as generations, almost fondly, called it, a “necessary evil.” The sacrifice of women to the passions of men, all but hallowed by the beliefs and practices of -thousands of years, has to end. A new era has dawned and in this age conduct which once was thought of as personal and individual, is seen to be a crime against society. And society, for its own protection, will treat it as a crime. Attack on All Society It is this conviction, defined or unexpressed, which is dem onstrated in a verdict of “guilty” against both Diggs and Cam- innelti. The feeling deepest in the sonls of the earnest men and women throughout the United States who have followed the trials with such eager interest is not one of resentment on behalf of Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris. The wrong, it lias been seen—or at least felt—is not the sins against these girls, but the attack upon the whole framework of the social order. ^ These two girls are entitled to \erv little sympathy, except ^feis one sympathizes on general grounds .with every man or wo- fwho goes wrong, as one is sorry for the two men in the ^^case.-’ They are bad girls; treacherous, wicked. And if a law could bo p»\i*j*od which women could administer, these girls would suf fer severely at their hands. They will suffer. They are suffering And they ought to suffer. Their parents suffer and one w on ders whether their sufferings will be a warning to other parents In this country. What sort of paren tal oversight has there been? How does it come about that these girls can easily deceive their fathers and mothers ? What kind of a love is it which does not love well enough to be stern, which accords license to wander about at ail hours with all sorts of men and go to all sorts of places? There are mothers and fathers In this city and in every city in the land who ought to have to learn the lesson. And if they will not learn It from the Dlggo-Caminettl trials, they may yet have to learn it in bitter, heartbreaking trials of their ow n. Appeals for Light Sentence. 1 have done. During the prog ress of the trial I carefully refrain ed from saying a word which might prejudice the defendant. At the end of the Diggs trial 1 penned an DAWN FOR U. S. >• + + • + *!* • *!* Saws of Gins Claim Victims in Laurens One •Man Dead and Another Maimed for Life—Two Others Cut. DUBLIN.Sept. 6.—The record of the week among cotton ginners in Lau rens is one death and one man mann ed for life, along with one widow and | several fatherless children. H. D. Temples died from wounds received when he was accidently caught In the saws of a gin that he was operating on the farm of City Court Sheriff B. M. Grier, a few miles from Dublin. The first accident happened Mon day afternoon, when W. R. Arnold, superintendent of the Empire Cotton oil Mill, had his arm cut off by a gin that he was repairing white it was in motion. At the same mill where Mr. Ar nold lost his arm. two negroes were injured. bo that It would be a little less conj fusing The amendment was not strongly objected to, but the discus! sion that it provoked on the Sundej closing in general was. . ) Dublin Puts Ban on Sunday Business appeal to the judge to temper Jus tice with mercy. 1 have been re proved on the one hand because, it was alleged. Diggs was a debauch ed scoundrel, who deserved no mer cy, and on the other because the case being on the subjudice, it was "contempt of court" to s*ek to in fluence the judge. Such critics do not know the meaning of the words they employ And they know nothing of law and the administration of law. That is npt "contempt of court." Now that the matter is out of the hands of the Jury, it is a perfectly proper plea. It is one which would be admitted as proper in every country in the civilized world. For the reasons which I have given be fore. and for reasons which appeal to some of the best men and wom en 1 know of. I made my appeal to Judge VanFleet. I submit, with great respect for him personally, and with great respect for the of fice which he so worthily fills, that the law be vindicate^, and the ends of justice served as effectively by a light sentence as a heavy one—ana perhaps better. the son of the Commissioner General of immigration, Anthony Caminetti, faces a sentence in Federal prison for his part of the excursion to Reno with Lola Norris. Maury Diggs and Mar sha Warrington. By voting for a verdict of guilty on the first count, the jurors who be lieved Caminetti entirely innocent of 'persuading, inducing and enticing" either of the girls won out. Cami netti was convicted on the first count of the indictment. On the second, third and fourth counts he was ac quitted. That the Mann act was not enacted to prosecute such cases as the one in question was the general opinion of the jurors. They wanted to be as lenient as possible. When they re tired a second time, the big discus sion was clemency, only two jurors being insistent that Caminetti be given the limit of the law. To be true to their oaths and in structions of the court, the jury found it necessary to convict Caminetti on one count. It was a "gentleman’s agreement" that a guilty verdict on the other three. That was the way the one count meant acquittal on it went through. Girl's Story Believed. Lola Norris was considered only Council Ordinance Would Close j Every Store on Sab bath Day. DUBLIN, Sept. 6.—The proposi tion of closing down every business house tight in the city of Dublin on Sunday is still causing the people of the city more or less loss of sleep. | and bringing on plenty of discussion among the City Councilmen. At the regular meeting of the Coun cil this week, the matter was brought up again by an amendment to the ordinance prohibiting and one from carrying on any business on Sunday, Caminetti Begins Fight To Escape Sentence human in her lies to save herself and Caminetti when she made her first public statement on the train. It is true that the jury believed the girl’s frank story of her fight for her honor that was successful until she took the Reno trip. “Cum Grano Salis" is the opinion the jury had of Marsha Warrington’s tale. In the jury room some were confiident that Miss Warrington per suaded Miss Norris to leave Sacra mento. Both the girls were viewed in the light of what the lawyers call "parti- ceps criminis,” which means "part ners in crime." "If the boys had the immoral in tent before they left Sacramento the girls must have had it, too. They all took the flyer after they had been hashing it over for a week. They knew exactly what was going to hap pen," one juror explained it. Caminetti did not change expression when the verdict was read. His wife bowed her head. When she raised her head, her face was flushed. His little baby, Naomi, 4 years old, romped about the floor, throwing her doll about and prattling happily. Some times the little child remembered the crowd, and became embarrassed. But she did not know what it all means to her. The elder Mrs. Caminetti heard the verdict in the witness room. She did not repeat her demonstration of the previous day. She had herself in good control, and in a minute was bustling about like a Spartan mother arrang ing for the bond. Freed on $10,000 Bond. Commendatore Theodore Baciga- lupi, one of the leaders of the Italian colony, and Frank J. Freeman, of Wil low's. a well-known attorney, signed the $10,000 bond paper, on which Caminetti was freed pending an ap peal. Diggs, having been convicted on four counts of the indictment, faces a prison term which may be set at twenty years, at the option of the judge, and also a fine of $20,000. Caminetti, who was found guilty on only one count, faces the maximum SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 6.—Unde terred by the adverse decision of the Jury. Drew' Caminetti’s battle for an acquittal from the charge of white slavery which the Government has placed against him will go on, say [ his legal advisers. "We hoped for an acquittal yes- j terday," said Marshal R. Woodworth, J formerly United States District At- j torney here, and chief counsel for .Caminetti, "but the court's ruling i against the admisison of much of our i evidence had led us to discount an ; unfavorable verdict, and the fight will j go on. "The first step will be a motion for I a new trial when sentence is passed Wednesday. Judge VanFleet undoubt - j edly will deny this, and we will ap- , peal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, which probably will reach the case next February. "The Court of Appeals undoubtedly will reverse the verdict of the trial court." If the jurors who found Caminetti guilty of an infraction of the Mann white slave traffic act last evening had known a recommendation for le niency was within their rights, that rider to the verdict w'ould have been returned. Verdict by Compromise. It w'as only by a compromise that STATIONEHV MOVELTIt* WHITE SLAVE LAW MADE THE PROTECTOR OF WOMANHOOD T HE Maun act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf fic act,' has had its baptism of fire. Designed to afford the Federal Government power to deal with criminals who fat ten upon the flesh and blood of women, it was—and again by deliberate purpose—made to include vicious conduct in which no suggestion of monetary gain of “white slavery” inhered, but which might tend eventually to swell the ranks of women devoted to a shameful life. The Diggs-Caminetti case told all this great world that law had now armed itself against conduct which long ages ago both men and women have condoned, and stood ready to brand as a party to this iniquity those who only thought to tread, as men had done before them, the primrose path of dalliance—at the cost of a woman’s shame. REV'. CHARLES F. AKED. FREE TRIP To Atlanta isavail- able to the mer chant who buys an adequate bill from the membersiof the Merchants’ Asso ciation. :Y Write to H. T. Moore SECRETARY. Rhodes Building, Atlanta. penalty of five years imprisonment and a fine of $f*.00Q. There remain iver the heads ot both Diggs and Caminetti indict ments charging conspiracy to violate the act, and Diggs still has a third indictment hanging over him. With Charles B. Harris, of Sacra ment c his irmer attorney, he is ac cused of subornation of perjury. Nel lie Barton, friend of Marsha War rington. testified during the Digg- trial that Harris and Diggs hac, | coached her in testimony, which sh-. j in turn was to drill Marsha Warring ! ton for use on behalf of Diggs. The perjury’ trial will be called be j fore Judge VanFleet on Wednesday. | I 3*13.1 T NCLSOfl mtCET ATLANTA $2.50 TO BIRMINGHAM And Return, September 22. Special train leaves Old Depot 8:30 a. m., arrive Birmingham 1:30 p. m. Tickets good returning on regular trains until Sep tember 25. SEABOARD. Write for our latest Catalogue. The leading merchant* are adding the 5c and IQc departments. Why not one for your town? McCLURE 10c CO., 47-49 S. Broad St Give Your “DIMES” a Chance DIXIE PICKLE AND PRESERVING CO. Manufacturers of Pure Apple and Distilled Vinegar, Catsup, Pickles, Mustard, Pepper Sauce, Sauer Kraut, Jelly, Etc. CANNED GOODS 364 to 378 MariettaStreet, Atlanta, Ga. +•+ +•+ 4*® *1* +•+ +•*!• 4*®*P +#4‘ +•+ +•+ +• + Diggs - Caminetti Verdict a Triumph 4*®4* +•+ 4*®4* +•+ +•+ ■»•••*• +•+ +*v +•+ +•+ Mann Act Stands Baptism of Fire Noted Minister Declares Public for First Time Has Taken Up Arms Against Condoned Immorality. M EN convicted as “white slavers” and women who were affected by the sensational trial. Above is Lola Norris, the girl who eloped with Caminetti. Below (from left to right) are Drew Caminetti, .Maury Diggs and Marsha Warrington. Five of the principal figures in the famous Diggs- Caminetti “White Slave” eases in which the Mann Act received its first important test since its passage.