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TTRA'RST’ft SUNDAY AAfERTCAN, ATLANTA, OA , SUNDAY. SFPTFMDF'R 7, 1913.
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Diggs - Caminetti Verdict a Triumph
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Mann Act Stands Baptism of Fire
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Noted Minister Declares Public for
b irst Time Has Taken Up Arms
Against Condoned Immorality.
By THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—It is impossible to oyer-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 cnnrges brought against them. But this would only have
given notoriety, not importance. The ill-jndgod 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 publieitj r not limited by the
boundaries of this country.
New Principal 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
flee men.
The Mann act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf
fic act,” has 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 case 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 of 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 carefully 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 has 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 1o the passions of men, all but hallowed by the beliefs
and practices of thousands of years, has to end. A now 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-
inuetti The feeling deepest in the souls of the earnest men ami
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 has 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 very little sympathy, except
as one sympathizes on general grounds with every man or wo
man who goes wrong, as one is sorry for the two men in the
case. They are bad girls; treacherous; wicked. And it a law
could be passed which women could administer, these girls
would suffer severely at their hands. They will suffer. They
are suffering. And they ought to suffer.
Their parents suffer and one wonders whether their suffer-
ings will be a warning to other parents in this country. What
sort of parental oversight has there been? How does it come
about that these girls can easily deceive their fathers and
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, Manry Diggs, Marsha Warrington and
Mrs. Caminetti.
mothers ?
What kind of a love is it which
does not love well enough to be
stern, which accords license to
wander about at all 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 Diggs-Caminetti
trials, they may yet have to learn l*
in bitter, heartbreaking trials of
their own.
Appeals for Light Sentence.
I hove done. During the prog
ress of the trial 1 carefully refrain
ed from saying a word which might
prejudice the defendant. At the
end of the Diggs trial I penned an
appeal to the judge to temper jus
tice with mercy. I Ijave 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 aubjudloe, it was
“contempt of court" to seek 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
not “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 p.oper in every
WHITE SLAVE LAW MADE THE
PROTECTION OF WOMANHOOD
T HE Mann 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 ease 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.
Caminetti Indicates He
Will Not Resist Sentence
RAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6—While
F. Drew Caminetti, convicted yester
day on a charge of violation of the
Mann white slave law, refuses to dis
cuss his future plans, it is not be
lieved he will appeal to the higher
court 8.
Caminetti declared this morning
that he felt relieved that the case was
over, and intimated that he would ac
cept his fate.
"In a way. this verdict is a Jus
tification form." he said “I am guilty
of violating the law by taking Lola
Norris to Reno, but l am not guilty
of persuading or enticing her to go.
Nor am 1 guilty of anything connect
ed with Marsha Warrington.
“I feel relieved now that the long
strain is over. If the Jury had dis
agreed, there would have been ail this
mess to go over again. Surely this
leaves me better off in a financial
way. If I had been acquitted in this
case, I would have had to face the
conspiracy charge. I hope tney will
drop these now."
Wife Makes No Sign.
Caminetti took the verdict with
good spirit. A look of deep anxiety
settled on his face as the jury came
in for the last time yesterday, and it
remained after the verdict was read,
but in a few minutes he had recov-
Five of the
principal
figures in the
famous Diggs-
Caminetti
“White Slave”
cases in which
the Mann Act
received its
first
important test
since its
passage.
ered his usual cheerfulness and ex
pressed his relief that the strain of
the trial was over His mother. Mrs.
Anthony Caminetti was not in the
courtroom when the verdict was an
nounced. Mrs. Drew Csminettl was
present, with her little daughter, but
neither she nor Mrs. Maury I Pigg?
made any sign
Caminetti and his attorneys were
confident of a disagreement after the
Jury had once come in and asked for
further instructions on the question
of Intent A question put hv Foreman
C. P. Michaels, asking Judge Van-
Fleet if the immoral purpose must
have existed in the mind of the de
fendant before the party crossed the
State lino, and the attention paid to
the answer, seemed to indicate that
Robert T. Devlin's skilled argument
on the purpose of the trip had raised
a doubt in the minds of at least some
of the Jurors. The court's reply that
the criminnl Intent must have existed
at least at the time the trip began
gave the defense hope. But it was
short-lived.
Released on Bond.
Caminetti was taken into custody
by the United States Marshal after
the verdict was returned, but later
was released on bond.
Both Dnmlnetti and Diggs will he
sentenced next Wednesday.
Diggs, having been convicted on
four counts of the indictment, faces a
prison term which may he set at
twenty years, at the option of the
Judge, nud also a fine of $20,000.
Damlnetti, who was found guilty on
only one count, faces the maximum
penalty of five years imprisonment
and a fine of Ift.OOO*
There remain over the heads of
both Diggs and Caminetti indict
ments charging conspiracy to violate
the act, and Diggs still has a third
indictment hanging over him.
With Charles B Harrts. of Racra-
mentv, his inner attorney, he is ac
cused of subornation of perjury, Nel
lie Barton, friend of Marsha War
rington, testified during the Plgg*
trial that Harris and Diggs had
coached her in testimony, which sh*»
in turn was to drill Marsha Warring
ton for use on behalf of Diggs.
The perjury trial will be called be
fore Judge Van Feet on Wednesday
Pennies Cut in Two
To Pay Off Labor
Contractor Gets Angry When Brick
layers Ask for Scale on
Fraction of Hour.
RAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—Sixteen
bricklayers worked fifteen minutes
on an Oakland Job and were then laid
off because of lack of material. Car
nahan Si Mulford, the employing con
tractors, grci pauvlih when th$
bricklayers asked for a full hour’s
pay, 87 1-2 cents.
"Very well," said the contractors,
"they shall have their 87 1-2 cents an
hour or fraction thereof." Soon the
bricklayers were called to the cash
ier’s window. The first man to sign
his pay check received a shock. He
had counted out to him eight dimes,
a flve-cent piece, two pennies, and the
half of a penny that had been chopped
in two.
One of the bricklayers suggested
that the Government does not permit
mutilation of its coins, »<> the matte*'
was referred to the United Rtates Dis
trict Attorney’s office.
Officer Weds in Time
To Catcli Transport
Soldier Ordered to Philippines Tele
graphs Fiancee He Cannot
Leave Without Her.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6—Lieuten
ant Charles J. Boehs, Medical Corps,
United States Army, of Washington,
and Miss Hattie Collier, of Houston.
Tex . were married in Ran Francisco
just in time to catch the army trans
port for Manila.
The romance began in Houston and
all was going nicely when Lieutenant
Boehs was ordered to the Philippines.
The engagement was announced and
the couple parted Thursday Lieuten
ant Boehs decided that life was not
worth living without his (ktscii, so
he telegraphed her to come at once.
She did. A minister was waiting in
a hotel near the railroad station.
The ceremony over, the couple made
a hurried trip in a taxicab and board
ed a steamer.
Finger Prints Prove
Indian Signed Note
Pawnee Denies He Affixed Signature,
but Marks on Paper Con
vict Him.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.—Two of
three finger-prints on an “I. O. IT."
are as valid aw a formal signature,
in the opinion of the finger-print ex
pert of the United States Marine
Corps.
The expert establishes the genu
ineness of nineteen finger-prints
which were given to him for identi
fication and the finding is expected to
cause a certain Pawnee Indian, who
denies signing a note for $300, con
siderable embarrassment.
WIFE IF II LEPER
TELLS STORY OF
HORSE GETS DRINK AND
THEN TURNS OFF SPIGOT
GEORGETOWN, DEL., Sept, fi —
Radle, a mare owned by John T.
VVagamon, with a curious aversion to
drinking standing water, doesn’t
bother about calling anyone when
thirsty, but turns on and off the wa
ter at her pleasure.
In his barnyard Wagnmon has a
big tub with a spigot. Sadie goes to
this and, with her teeth, turns the
spigot on, drinks her fill of running
water, then turns off the spigot.
Declares That She Suffered in
Martyr-Like Silence the Tor
tures of an Outcast,
TACOMA, Sept. 6.—Having differ
ed in martyr-llke silence the tortures
nf an outcast which were made
doubly hard to bear through the ab
legod cruelty of the man for whom
she assumed her burden. Mrs. Georgy
Tausan, the divorced wife of John
Ruskin Early, leper and man of mys
tery, who has* but recently been de
clared insane, has at last broken her
long silence.
Mrs. Early, on divorcing the man
whom she had rnmrrled when a girl in
her teens, married George Tausan,
formerly clerk in the office of the
Treasurer of Pierce County. Washing
ton. With her three children she is
living happily.
I lost nil affections for John Ear’y
the day following our marriage," said
his wlte. “I lived in veritable purga
tory with him. It was not because
he wa« a leper: we did not know that
he was. I was just eighteen. I had
been reared by an elder brother, a
minister. I was a little more than
five years. I had been taught to avoid
divorce, and for that reason I did not
seek one at that time.
Sleep Was Impossible.
'At Summit I did not average two
hours sleep out of every twenty-four
for the two months we remained
there, i was a nervous wreck. I did
not know what moment Early would
attempt, to kill me and the' bablee.
\V hen I think of it all, I nearly go
mad.
"I tell you. I didn’t have enough
sense. \ thought, once married, you
must stand all that comes with it.
“We were married November 3,
100t). Here my purgatory began. H*
would not work, and I was obliged
to support him. After our first babv
came. Early grew worse, and I took a.
number of blown from him while
shielding my 3-weeks-o!d child.
“Jn May, 1908, I noticed a sort of
rash breakout on his hands, and ask
ed him what It wa>\ He said it was
from the effects of acid dropped on
him while working in a small pulu
mill. He took me to the mill and
showed me wb<—’ the acid had fallen
on the floor, i never gave it another
thought.
It was whfle in Washington the
terrible truth was learned Earl/
went to see about his pension. • He
was examined and told he had lepro
sy. I ran not describe my terror.
“Oh! It was something beyond
thought. I wanted to flee and y«*t
I wanted to remain for my child's
Make.
Thinks Only of Children.
"If it had not been for my children.
God knows*. I would have left him
or killed myself years ago. But rn/
babies! Onlv a mother knows how
I felt.
“In 1909 we went to New York and
remained there until 1910, leaving that
place and going to Los Angeles.
“While I was losing all my sleet>
from nervousness, I was losing weight
rapidly. When my husband was taken
by the authorities. I promised to go
with him. I do not deny that. I
would have promised anything to get
him away. If I had not promised to
settle on a ranch near the Diamond
Point colony 1 was afraid he would
refuse to go.
“His refusal to leave meant mv
death and the death of my babies
also. Knowing that, I gave him my
promise, but which I know will not
be held against me.
“1 have never spoken of my trou
bles before but when every one be
gins to criticise me for leaving him,
1 had to explain."
COOK BOOKS FOR BRIDES
WITH MARRIAGE LICENSES
CHICAGO, Sept. Leaden bis
cuits and leather-crusted pies and all
the other dinner delicacies of Mr?.
Newlywed soon may cease to cause
physical pain and matrimonial es
trangement. Their existence is
threatened
Authorities of Took County are
considering the advisability of giv
ing away official Cook County cook:
book? with all marriage licenses.
Robert M. Rwletzer. county clerk,
will present the plan to the county*
Board.
MARRIED 14 YEARS, PAIR
ELOPE TO CORRECT ERROR
ST LOUIS. Sept 6 —Mr and Mrs.
Patrick J Grimes, of St Louis, “eloped”
to Springfield, Ill., and were remarried.
The' were married fourteen years ago,
but because of a clerical error in the li
cense Mrs. Grimes requested her hus
band to go through the ceremony again.
Mrs. Grimes' maiden name was Sadie
Gruber In the marriage license the
name was written "<{ruder.’’
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 I know of, I made my appeal to
Judge VanFleet. I submit, with
gToat respect for him personally,
and with great, respect for the of
fice which he so worthily fills, that
the law be vindicated, and the ends
of justice served as effectively bv a
light sentence as a heavy one and
perhaps better.
“FAST”~PAST0R OUSTED;
FORCED TO LEAVE TOWN
LOS ANGELES. CAL., Sept. 6.—
The Rev. O. H. Mason, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Long
Beach, around whom a storm has
raged for three weeks, was ordered
by a m'-mber of the vestry to resign
at once and leave Long Beach for
ever. The pastor left at once.
Charges made by two girls, mem
bers of the church, were investigated
by the vestry and resulted in the
pastor being found guilty of indis
cretions.
Ardenites in Kimonos
Observe George Day
As Single Taxers Celebrate in Tree
Top Homes, Brown Addresses
Anarchist Faction.
PHILADELPHIA, Rept. 6—The sin
gle tax colony of Arden to-day. m
kimonos, night dresses and all kinds
of up-to-date costumes, celebrated
the seventy-fourth anniversary of the
birth of Henry George. Had George
been alive he might have objected
to the celebration and ..,e attire of
the celebrators. As it was. he prob-
J ably aatlsfled himself with turning
I over in his grave.
The celebration resolved itself into
two meetings, one by the ardent
Ardenites, at which Esperanto and
| politics were discussed, and the other
j presided over by George Brown, an
archist, at which anarchy was the
j real live topic.
The Ardenites held their meeting
in the Woodland Theater, while the
single taxers, iu their open-air cos
tumes, perched themselves upon the
branches of trees and applauded.
The Brown farewell party was held
surrounding Brown's bungalow. Aft
er it was all over Brown announced
that he had leased his bungalow and
was done forever with Arden. Arden
breathed a sigh of relief, because,
whsn’t it George Brown that mad*
Upton Sinclair and other Ardenites
pound stone on the Delaware roads
because they insisted upon playing
ball on Sunday?
HEIR RETURNS AFTER HUNT
OF EIGHTEEN YEARS FAILS
LA PORTE. INP , Sept « -After hav
ing been away for more than eighteen
years Otto Buck legal heir to the
estate of William Buck, who died in
January, unexpectedly returned to La-
port e.
General Interest is taken in the af
fair because of the world-wide search
for Buck and the fact that several have
been presenting claims for the estate
of $12,500.
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i Chattanooga and return for train
f leaving Atlanta at 8:35 a. rrf
S Thursday, September 11, 1913,
good returning not later than
train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m.
Saturday, September 13, 1913.
C. E. HARMAN,
General Passenger Agent.
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