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Show WHITESLAVE TRAFFIC. ,', The white slave traffic in all its heinous ramifications " is without exception the most horrible "discovery" of modern limes. By this traffic is meant the trading in girls and young women for immoral purposes, the buying and selling for haunts of vice of the fairest of human kind. When you consider that the commodity of the traffic consists of real flesh and blood, of young women and girls with wills and hopes and ambitions, who dread the very thoughts of vice and impurity, one can understand the cunning, deception, cruelty, and fdrcc that are practiced in procuring victims vic-tims of the traffic. Some assert that the white slave traffic is a penally upon the ease and comfort of modern civilization. This is upon tho principle that the procuror works as does the ghoul who follow the battle or the earthquake's devastation and robs the injured in-jured and dyinsr and helpless. However, this may be, it is indeed, startling to see the apathy, the thoughtlessness and lack of interest in this whole question, while our girls, young and lender, untaught and unwarned, arc being ensnared and trapped into lives of shame ' I the rate of G0.000 every year. Those who make a business of securing se-curing girls for their nefarious trade arc known as panders, a term derived from Pandar, who is represented in medieval romances as procuring for Troilus the possession of Crcssida. It is frequently said that if the fact of the white slave traffic could be definitely proven to the great American public, the traffic would not exist for a single month. But. while our people are slow to believe anything they do not kuow from personal' experience or contact, the evidence of the traffic which has been submitted to our country during the past few years is so strong and uncontro-vcrtablc uncontro-vcrtablc and overwhelming in volume that no well informed person doubts for a moment either its existence or extent. But no one, who is at all able to arrive at reasonable conclusions from known facts need go outside of his own personal experience and knowledge knowl-edge to prove the existence of the immoral traffic in girls. Among the great mass of evidence which proves that foreign girls are brought to this country for purposes of vice, there is nothing noth-ing stronger than the recent utterance of the Immigration Commission Com-mission of our federal government. This commission, composed of nine of our best known public men, was given full power to make the most sweeping and thorough investigation both in this country and in foreign lands, ample funds were appropriated, and other departments of our government were at its service. Some of the facts" about white slavery prepared by the commission are as follows : Immoral women in nation :.. 300,000 Average life of women in immoral places 5 years Girls annually ensnared 60,1)00 Girls ensnared monthly o,000 |