Show 1 j l WHITE SLAVE LAW LAWi i WIDESPREAD comment throughout tho the nation 1 Ij V would indicate a probable amendment of the Mann act as ns a n. result of tho the Diggs Diggs-Caminotti putridity In order to compass tho the punishment of two commonplace commonplace common common- place malefactors the national Department of Justice I. I has boon been dragged in the mire the newspapers of tho the United Stat States s have reeked with libidinous news matter matter matter mat mat- ter and thousands of dollars of the nations nation's money expended ex ex- to too handle a case that properly belongs in a n. police court The Tho laws of California were ample to have e covered tho the offense of these callous brutes and d J 1 their partners in sin and it should have ha been left to 1 I them Tho The Department of Justice should be occupied with more weighty matters If it is to employ its funds and its it expensive complicated machinery in hunting r f down dO immoral of society who chanced to cross a lino line in their pursuit of vice it will win be bc 11 grave gravely hampered in really important work that no local intrastate agency can accomplish Such as Diggs I rind Caminetti cann cannot t escape punishment in ill any event I tIle the circumstance that Nevada owned no law to penalize pen pen- alize lizo them was a mero detail Their The r California alif ni J r I were unlawful and extraditable Utah had hadJ J they been residents of this state could have havo demanded 1 their surrender by Nevada under any of or several statutes Had the California officers done their duty Attorney Attorney 1 ney General could not have interfered there ther would have been no such wide nation-wide scandal as r gave Yr Ir Wilsons Wilson's admin administration its serious blow bloc The idea that the highest law lav officer of the government go 1 shall shaU spend his time pursuing guilty pairs from one onet ne t state to another would bo be diverting if it were 1 not so 50 It serious an impeachment of our national good sense A modification n of the tho Mann act to include only white I 1 slavery slavers would conserve o the Department of Justice ape appropriation ap- ap I e for or prosecutions that it alone can further Ii i and would double the actual efficiency of the statute I I |