THE TRAFFIC OF WHITE SLAVERY!
After a victim is procured, the next step on the part of the perfidious combine is to dispose of her to the highest bidder.
Absolute examples of women-selling and the prices paid by resort keepers for the women purchased are in the hands of the federal government. Uncle Sam does not tolerate fiction. That is why we know this is the truth.
Investigation has shown that the prices for women sold into bondage of crime run from $25 to $500.
That scale is sliding and depends on the qualities, mostly physical, of the woman, and the immediate demands of the purchaser.
A girl taken by a procurer who has dazzled her by his insidious lies, and who is not of a type that would attract men of wealth or particular tastes, can be bought by a keeper of a house of ill fame from the agents of the White Slave Trust for the inhuman price of $25.
If the girl is ruddy with the glow of health, well-formed of limb and innocent of deep crime—the price soars.
Cases have been cited by ministers and reformers within the past year, where keepers of high-priced houses in the levee districts have paid outright, $500 to the White Slave combine’s agents for girls whose purity has only been defiled by the procurer himself, and whose bodies are capable of bringing their masters thousands of dollars within the year.
These are the treasure-slaves of the hell-hounds!
It is of standing record, according to an investigator into the flesh traffic, that one procurer in one trip into the country districts of Illinois, trapped eight girls and sold them at prices ranging from $40 to $350!
One of these girls was a virgin. She was drugged by the procurer and awoke the next morning to find that she was a prisoner in a house of ill fame. She had been sold while robbed of her senses. She had been outraged while unconscious. The landlady approached her the next morning with an air of good fellowship, told of the benefits of the new life, promised her beautiful gowns and jewelry before night and attempted to make her forget the real, sweet and pure things of life which had been so mercilessly stolen from her.
This is the story of but one out of thousands.