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Show for the procurers, his letter being as follows: "Your letter asking for plana to stamp out the atrocious traffic, is received. re-ceived. In reply I will say that l have but.one suggestion to make in ridding tho country of this terrible menace to " young womanhood, and that is, make tho crime a capital offense! of-fense! ..and the .punishment for same the infliction of . the death penalty. Dastards who engage In this nerarlous traffic aro worse than murderers and should, bo dealt with as such. Mako the punishment fit the crime and you will have gone a Jong way toward stamping it out." Mayor R. A. Doty of Waterloo, wrote: - "I believe the public should be fully advised of the actual conditions condi-tions through the press, and then a national organization . be perfected with auxiliary' societies In eacn county in the United States to apply Its knowledge as a preventative rather than a cure." The federal laws cover cases in which alien women only are the victims, vic-tims, but pitiful letters from mothers of young girls of American birth who have come to the city and have Tallin victims of the "whlto slave" trade have so appealed to the district attorney at-torney and his aids that they havo gone beyond the federal power and twelve American girls are declared to have been found In resorts, rescued by the authorities and turned over to the tender care of their grJet-strlcken grJet-strlcken mothers. This fact brought into prominence tho need that exists for state laws which will have such rolatlon to federal statutes that the protection of girls and punishment of "white slave traders" will not be hampered by conflicting authority. A measure of that kind has been Introduced Intro-duced in the Utah legislature. AN ABOMINABLE TRAFFIC. There Is to be held in Chicago a conference on the "White Slave Trade," which is to bring about concerted con-certed action to Btop the trafllc in girlhood. girl-hood. As a preliminary, letters were sent to city officials throughout the United States asking tor counsel and facts upon the situation and the replies re-plies will be considered at the conferences. con-ferences. The letters asked for ' counsel coun-sel as to tho most effective plan to bo adopted by a national organization designed to stamp out this atrocious trafflc." They added: 'Tacts discovered dis-covered by the Federal authorltlen m Chicago warranted Mr. Sims in saying that these traffickers 'had reduced tho art of ruining young girls to a national na-tional and international system.' Win you kindly write us what your experience experi-ence points to be the proper course to take, also how much you believe can be accomplished by organizing lor this purpose?'; Mayor II.. A. Shunk ot Dubuque, Iowa, advocated capital punlshmont |