THE TRAPPING OF THE PREY.
There are 150 professional procurers or “buyers” for the White Slave corporation!
There are at least 300 more men who at times act as procurers and at other times as “cadets.”
There are thousands of other men in every walk of life who are constantly on the lookout for a possible victim for whose sale they reap a small return in bloodstained dollars.
The professional procurer, hired by the members of this trust; the owners of houses of prostitution or men whose business depends on the prosperity of places of ill fame—play on the three inherent characteristics of every woman’s heart—
Ambition, vanity and love!
By attacking the points of weakness they trap their victims.
Out in the country town they dazzle the fresh, pretty creatures by stories of the pleasures and delights of life in the big city, by making love to innocent children, by depriving them of their sacred chastity.
In the city they appeal to their vanity: they tell them they are beautiful, loveable; they promise them clothes and jewelry, and again the woman falls.
Every form of amusement, from the nickel theaters to the wine rooms, is used to entice the prey.
Outside the professional procurer, the city is infested with men who make the business a side issue.
The extra procurers are found in the department stores, in the dance halls, in the nickel theaters and penny arcades, in the waiting rooms of the railroad stations, on the lake boats, at excursions, at rest rooms, at employment agencies, theatrical agencies, factories, business offices, and a hundred other places where girls are employed at meager salaries.
AND ALL THIS TO FILL THE ROTTEN COFFERS OF THE VICE TRUST!