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HE Alt ST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
Noted Minister Declares Public for
Hrst Time Has Taken Up Arms
Against Condoned Immorality.
. By THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED.
/ 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 celled 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
Presklent 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 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 behiud 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,” 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 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 wag 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
innetti. The feeling deepest in the souls 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 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 girte 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 if 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 l-onvieted 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, Marsha Warrington and
Mrs. Caminetti.
mothers 17
What kind of a love Is it which
does not love well enough to be
etern, which accords license to
wander about at all hours with all
sort** 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 t from the Diggs-Caminetti
trials, they may yet have to learn i f
in bitter, heartbreaking trials of
their own
Appeals fer Light Sentence.
I have done. During the prog
ress of the trial 1 carefully refrain
ed from saying a woyd 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 have been re
proved on the one hand beeau.se. It
was alleged. Diggs was a debauch
ed scoundrel, who deserved no mer
cy, and on the other because the
case being on the subjudire, it was
"contempt of court" to seek to in
fluence the judge.
Such critics r'o not know the
meaning of the words thev employ
And they know nothing of law an-J
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 proper in every
DR. AKED SEES NEW MORAL ERA DAWN FOR U. S.
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itiggs- Caminetti Verdict a Triumph
Mann. Act Stands Baptism of Fire
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 tlesli 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 eost of a woman's shame.—REV. CHARLES F. AKED.
Pennies Cut in Two
To Pay Off Labor
Contractor Gets Angry Whan Brick
layers Ask for 8ca!e on
Fraction of Hour.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 6.—Sixteen
bricklayers worked fifteen minutes
on an Oakland Job and were then laid
off because of lack of material. Car
nahan A Mulford, the employing con
tractors, grew peevish when the
bricklayers asked for a full hour's
pay, 87 1-2 cents.
"Very well," eald the contractors
"they shall have their 87 1-2 cents an
hour or fraction thereof " Soon tlM
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, wo the matte”
was referred to the United States Dls
trlct Attorney’s office
Caminetti Indicates He
Will Not Resist Sentence
SAN FRANCIS* ’O, Sept. fl—While
F. Drew Caminetti, convicted yester
day on a charge of violation of the
Mann white slave law-, refuses to dls.
cuss his future plans, It Is not be
lieved he will appeal to the higher
court g.
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 i9 a Jus
tification form." he said "I am guilty
of violating the law by taking Lola
Norris to Reno, but I am not guilty
of persuading or enticing her to go.
Nor am I guilty of anything connect
ed with Marsha Warrington
"I feel relieved now that the long
strain over If the Jury had dis
agreed, there would have been all 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 they wll!
drop these now."
Wife Make* 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,
Out 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.
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
great respect for him personally,
and with great respect for the of-
flpe which ha so worthily fills, that
the law be vindicated, and the ends
of justice served as effectively by a
light sentence as a heavy one an i
perhaps better.
“FAST” PASTOR OUSTED;
FORCED TO LEAVE TOWN
LOS ANGELES. CAL, Sept. 6.—
The Rev. O. H. Mason, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Long
Reach, around whom a storm ha.*
raged for three weeks, was ordered
by a member 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.
ered his usual cheerfulness and ex
pressed his relief that the strain of
the trial was over. Hla mother. Mrs
Anthony Caminetti, was not In the
courtroom when the verdict was an
nounced. Mrs. Drew Caminetti was
present, with her little daughter, but
neither she nor Mrs Maury I. Diggs
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 by Foreman
C. F. 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 line, 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 criminal 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 ♦as returned, but later
was released on bond.
Both Caminetti and Diggs will be
sentenced next Wednesday.
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 n fine of $20,000.
Caminetti, who was found guilty on
only one count, faces the maximum
penalty of five years imprisonment
and a fine of If*.000.
There remain *ver the heads ol
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', his >rmer attorney, he is ac
cused of subornation of perjury. Nel
lie Barton, friend of Marsha War
rington. testified during the Dlgg*
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 VanFleet on Wednesday.
Officer Weds in Time
To Catch Transport
Soldier Ordered to Philippines Tele
graphs Fiancee He Cannot
Leave Without Her.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Lieuten
ant Charles J. Boehs, Medical Corps.
United States Army, of Washington,
and Mias Hattie Collier, of Houston,
Tex., were married in Ban Francisco
Just in time to catch the army trans
port for Manila.
The romance began In Houston and
all was going nicely when Lieutenant
Roehs was ordered to the Philippines.
The engagement was announced and
the couple parted. Thursday Lleuten
ant Roehs decided that life was not
worth living without his fiancee, 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 8 -Two or
three finger-prints on an "I. O. U”
are as valid as u formal signature.
In the opinion of the finger print ex
pert of the United States Marine
Corps
The expert establishes the genu-
. iueness of nineteen finger-prints
which were given to him for identl-
jflention and the finding is expected to
| cause a certain Pawnee Indian, who
I dentes signing a note for $800, con-
i siderable embarrassment.
HORSE GETS DRINK AND
THEN TURNS OFF SPIGOT
GEORGETOWN. DEL., Rept. 6 —
Sadie, a mare owned by John T.
Wagamon, 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 Wagamon 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.
Ardenites in Kimonos
Observe George Day
As Single Taxer3 Celebrate In Tree
Top Homes, Brown Addresses
Anarchist Faction.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6—The sin
gle tax colony of Arden to-day. in
kimonos, night dresses and all kinds
of up-to-date costumes, celebrated
the seventy-fourth anniversary of the i
birth of Henry George. Had George
been alive he might have objected 1
to the celebration and ,..e attire cf
the celebrators. As it was. he prob
ably satisfied himself with turning 1
over in bis grave.
The celebration resolved itself Inti!
two meetings, one by the ardent
Ardenites. at which Esperanto and
politics were discussed, and the other
prodded over by Geotge Brown, an- '
arehist, at which anarchy was th*r 1
real live topic.
The Ardenites held their meeting
in the Woodland Theater, while the
single taxers, in their open-air co«- |
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,
wasn’t It George Brown that mad4
Upton Sinclair and other Ardenites
pound stone on he Delaware roads
because they insisted upon playin?
ball on Sunday?
WIFE OF II LEPER
TELLS STORY OF
ESRLY’SCRUELTY
Declares That She Suffered in
Martyr-Like Silence the Tor
tures of an Outcast.
TACOMA, Sept. 6.—Having differ
ed in martyr-like silence the tortures
of an outcast which were made
doubly hard to bear through the al
leged cruelty of the man for whom
*he assumed her burden. Mrs. George
Tausan. the divorced wife of John
Ruskln Early, leper and man of mys-
terj\ who has* but recently been de
clared inwine, has at last broken her
long silence.
•Mrs. Early, on divorcing the men
whom she had married when a girl 'n
her teens, married George Tausan.
formerly clerk in the office of thn
Treasurer of Pierce County. Washing
ton. With her three children she ig
living happily.
I lost all affections for John Ear’y
the day following our marriage," said
his wife. “I lived in veritable purga
tory with him. It was not because
lie wa« a leper; we did not know that,
he was. I was Just eighteen. I had
been reared by an Vlder brother, a,
minister. I was a little more than
five years I had been taught to avoid
divorce, and for that reason I did no$
seek one at that time.
Sleep Was Impossible.
"At Summit I did not average twd
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' babie«
N\ hen I think of it all, I nearly go
mad
"I tel] you. I didn’t have enougii
sense. I thought once married, you
must stand all that comes with it.
"We were married November 3,
1906 Here my purgatory began. H*
would not work, and I was obliged
to support him. After our first baby
came. Early grew worse, and I took a.
number of blows from him while
shielding my 3-weeks-old child.
"In May. 1908, I noticed a sort of
rash breakout on his hands, and ask
ed him what it was. He said it was
from tho effect* of acid dropped on
him while working in a small puln
mill. He took me to the mill and
showed me where the acid had fallen
on the floor. I never gave It another
thought.
It was while in Washington the
terrible truth was learned. Ear'v
went to iw-e about his pension. He
was examined and told he had lepro
sy. I can not describe my terror.
"Oh! It was something beyond
thought. I wanted to flee, and yet
I wanted to remain for my child’s
sake.
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 my
babies! Only 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 sleep
from nervousness, I was losing weight
rapidly. When mv 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 I was afraid he would
refuse to go.
"His refusal to leave meant my
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.
"I 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. Rept. 6. —Leaden bis
cuits and leather-crusted pies and all
the other dinner delicacies of Mrs.
Newlywed soon may cease to cause
physical pain and matrimonial es
trangement. Their existence is
threatened
Authorities of Cook County are
considering the advisability of giv
ing away official Cook County cook
books with all marriage licenses.
Robert M. Swletzer. county clerk,
will present the plan to the county
Board.
MARRIED 14 YEARS, PAIR
ELOPE TO CORRECT ERROR
8T LOUIS. Rept 6. -Mr, and Mrs
Patrick J. Grimes, of St Louis, "eloped"
to tipi ingfield, Ill., and were remarried.
They 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 "Cruder."
HEIR RETURNS AFTER HUNT
OF EIGHTEEN YEARS FAILS
LA PORTE. INP . Sept fi -After hav
ing been away for more than eighteen
vears Otto Buck, legal heir to the
entate of William Buck, who died in
January, unexpectedly returned to La-
porte.
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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leaving Atlanta at 8:36 a rn.
Thursday, September II, 1913,
good leturning not later than
train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m.
Saturday, September 12, 1913
C. E. HARMAN,
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