o do more than simply quote two of
the other articles of that remarkable International Agreement to which I
have referred. Article 3 says:

"The Governments undertake, when the case arises, and
within legal limits to have the declarations taken of
women or girls of foreign nationality who are
prostitutes, in order to establish their identity and
civil status, and to discover who has caused them to
leave their country. The information obtained shall
be communicated to the authorities of the country of
origin of the said women or girls, with a view to
their eventual repatriation.

"The Governments undertake, within legal limits, and
as far as can be done, to entrust temporarily, and
with a view to their eventual repatriation, the
victims of a criminal traffic when destitute to
public or private charitable institutions, or to
private individuals offering the necessary security."

This clause when properly worked by the various philanthropic agencies
in connection with the authorities will be the means not only of
rescuing many who have been flung into the way of shadows, but of
bringing to justice the men and women responsible for their moral ruin.
I have only to point to a recent Act in America, passed by Congress more
than 12 months since, based upon this very Article to show how great
will be its preventive character, if put into operation by any country.

The American Act to which I refer, states that any young girl of foreign
origin, who is found to be leading a life of prostitution within three
years of her landing in America, shall be arrested, and if she has been
induced to lead the life by another person, he or she, on proof, shall
be liable to arrest, and on conviction, to very severe penalties, in the
shape of imprisonment and fine, and if of foreign origin to deportation.

We watched the beneficent operation of this Act in the United States,
and rejoiced to see how conspicuously successful it was in dealing with
the traffic. We had even, through the International Bureau, called the
attention of the National Committees in Europe to the effective way in
which the Act was dealing with the traffickers in America, and urged
them to get a similar one passed in their own country, when, to our
intense disappointment the Judges of the Supreme Court in America,
discovered a flaw in one of its chief clauses, and, I am told that in
consequenc