Show SLAVE TRAFFIC F FLOURISHING IN INTHE THE PHILIPPINES j jIn v Aug 5 Slaver WASHINGTON lf In the full tull meaning of the word wOld exists throughout the Philip Phllip- Philippines pi pines net even In Iii the city of ot Manila 1 and peonage Is general In the Islands ac according according ac- ac cording to a a. special report Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- abner Dean Worcester has made to tho the insular government s It has not been received by the war department but copies are in the hands of or other officials Filipinos in iii parts of or the island commonly commonly com com- capture children and sell them Into slavery for Cor profit Some Home are aro sent to China where the they are dressed In Inthe inthe the tho native fashion Some Somo children have havo been enticed from rom their homes b by slave dave agents on promises of scholarships in schools Mr Worcester cites the case of ot a a. year old girl bought for some pigs and a lL cloak The supreme court of or the Islands released the slave trader on tho tile ground that no crime had been committed because no physical force h had been use This one ono case Mr Ir Worcester says saS has haa blocked other slaver slavery prosecutions The Philippine assembly has blocked laws for tor the suppression sup sup- of ot the tile traffic he ha says be because because because be- be cause many of or Its members come from provinces where slaver slavery flourishes nourishes |