The house of bondage

REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
Author of What is Socialism? etc.
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY NEW YORK
All Rights Reserved
Published August, 1910 Second Printing, November, 1910 Third Printing, December, 1910 Fourth Printing, January, 1911 Fifth Printing, February, 1911 Sixth Printing, February, 1911 Seventh Printing, March, 1911 Eighth Printing, March, 1911 Ninth Printing, April, 1911 Tenth Printing, April, 1911 Eleventh Printing, June, 1911 Twelfth Printing, July, 1911 Thirteenth Printing, August, 1911 Fourteenth Printing, October, 1911 Fifteenth Printing, February, 1912 Sixteenth Printing, April, 1912
THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS RAHWAY, N. J.
TO ANDREW JOHN KAUFFMAN (1840-1899)
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labor-house vast Of being, is practiced that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm!
CAVEAT EMPTOR
This story is intended for three classes of readers, and no more. It is intended for those who have to bring up children, for those who have to bring up themselves, and for those who, in order that they may think of bettering the weaker, are, on their own part, strong enough to begin that task by bearing a knowledge of the truth.
For it is the truth only that I have told. Throughout this narrative there is no incident that is not a daily commonplace in the life of the underworld of every large city. If proof were needed, the newspapers have, during the last twelvemonth, proved as much. I have written only what I have myself seen and myself heard, and I set it down for none but those who may profit by it.