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Show effective laws and not to engage in the wholesale expression of sentl ments. "When President Taft sigued the white slave bill, ho said to me. 'Now that you have a law, lose no time In arresting and imprisoning the men who engage in this trafhc,'" said Mr. MaDii. "Tho president, declared the men to be the vilest of all criminals, and said It was now up to the people t catch them and prosecute them." WHAT THE SOCIAL REFORMERS SAW Chicago. Nov. 1. Asking for au endowment en-dowment fund f ? 100.000 and suggesting suggest-ing (hat tho first place to Inaugurate a campaign against the "white slave" trafllc is in the nation s capital, the nineteen social reformers who left Chicago in September for a social j piititv campaign through the west, south and north returned yesterday and made a report to the American 1 Purity federation. The memlx rs of the delegation ilsited St. Paul. Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco, Houston Texas Tex-as New' Orleans Memphis, Washing-Ion Washing-Ion and the principal cities of western Canada. They report that they found conditions condi-tions ninth worse in the west than in Chicago, but not one of the delegation was willing to admit that Cliicago l.nd been slandered. Congressman J. R. Mann, author of the white slave act, said that while all men were sorry for the vicious conditions which prevail in certain localities, lo-calities, yet the aim of efficient legislators legis-lators was to secure the enactment of |