405

·

W

.BORI,SI Tadriavo”

IAMAMAUR

-Bob wrow to aqleast enhe(wardins of rotor s:t evAN J

awety v nut tenuper omtafur „dzās and to an\Berɛ of Hodaq

avith od 19[*[!” embuh yď beagons aborden ert ab æger an

8tOmer rters bus laNSIF HOT? asanblésunq nsoknamĀ 200

aroslɗo tetro quo to ero atawa dduob on 9ta BOY BÀ

bus 2091 m) badsorɔ ɑBw DoD estate Bestell me otria Mtiv

rid?w Lach of Raw enhub to snog eid og baðnioqqa val?”

beze(Is era: ofw Labnwit to astutitaong has aneician, eila

qiría estsiɔ naɔ bemA to rú sfo eft "abru exed deitoft of

.89usottibni "galeriĄ to požtantong silt · bra

one mi stil do ano tribuno blqen Kadjar esta að matv¤

I

test 20 amrisito fantayiq *** (MO)Arch to a JACK NYAJESM

-nav? nak kented tokesofmumwon to KHASA tone add bra renow

#onon VIIsaldusiq over aetat? herbal er^«Lørfan.in bits onło

alid da endirildrong mistot to " Iqqra ade rasɖia 't basifoq

Yllsvudant-nm bon rsnow on it to grilauolas: wif .4209

Won The 8,"Canda meni tamĀ" To aman add storie "ot berno

*thril antyckenera inžonot Ila od vlajanimi znalḥal betrigge

hoorbarodzin hair ættarhnsult to rettsup selunitted with al

.analo abrid or bangings vi ́sababora o sedem off to

"1ewo? rede derde van yarı I yfətaiulėto?-

„FUNDMANE JA anzuzlenoni meter of gina cilt won

,no eldanolzostɗo start tæt has zawoł a‚88ID TARJONA

dww1.anotaan neteenя to sexow Lintval to vitalɗo paljala

rell

Jon 978 Morto

al etort

-guя reddo bus doodenwihal? port arted saw that hurmat svad

THE FBI ngon trans moi 18v 9ɗt monta ndoq vsia

"alių mBOÏ TOMĀ" as nword ton 818 KA-row erad?

.hertees

Moun nevisarunið mal(Ian to didest erir el caff* Ana *ON

..0.8.0 .8.0 0.1.0.X,branud Mojzebox” <!?

t

YO

(2)

Judge Wilfley's campaign has been directed, of course,

against the *Water Tower" women only. The District Attor=

ney opened it in January, 1907, by instituting proceedings

against the keepers of the nine disorderly houses comprised

in the quarter.

One of the women sumoned was able to

prove that she was of German nationality and therefore out-

side the jurisdiction of the Court, but the other eight

were found guilty under the cormon law of the United States

of keeping disorderly houses and were fined $1,000. each

and ordered to leave the port. The Judge then applied to

the United States Minister at Peking for the issue of a

special regulation again st vagrants so worded as to include

within the term practically any women leading an immoral

life. This regulation, which was duly issued, enabled

the District Attorney to take action against American in-

mates of brothe~ls, who under the common law could not be

touched, as well as against the keepers of such houses, and

although only one prosecution took place under it, the re-

gulation accomplished in a most effective ranner the object

with which it was drawn up. At the present time there is

not a single foreign prostitute in Shanghai who to the

knowledge of the United States Court claims American nation-

-ality.

1

To Judge Wilfley and his Government the results which

have been attained are no doubt entirely satisfactory. Pro-

-stitutes may still be known as "American girls" but they

can no longer claim American protection. The Court has

justified its creation, and the stigma of tolerating pros- titution which may have attached in some people's minds to

American officialdom has been entirely removed.

If the interests, however, of the community only are considered Judge Wilfley's campaign must, I fear, be pro- nounced a complete failure. It may have cleared the Amer- ican name from an imaginary stigma but, as will be shown, it has aggravated rather than improved the condition of

things against which it was directed. The eight women who

Share This Page