THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ANDS ITS LIFE-PRICE.
The White Slave Traffic—the most infamous, foulest, lowest and destructive feature of Chicago’s wickedness,—pays a terrible price to the lords of the underworld.
Police protection is granted it at terrible risk to the police and politicians themselves. For this reason the price is high.
We all know what the White Slave Traffic signifies.
In a word it is:—
The buying, by insidious means, of thousands of pure, trusting and innocent girls, the casting of them into the horrifying flesh markets and the auctioning of them to infamous, polluted and brutal slave masters and mistresses for a blood price.
It is the desecration of virginal sanctity. The bartering of women-souls for dollars.
It is the tearing away of beautiful girls from their parents and the fireside, and the thrusting of them into living hells.
IT IS SLOW, SURE MURDER!
AND THIS REEKING, DASTARDLY INFAMY HAS ITS PRICE? GOD! WHAT A SACRILEGE!
Of this evil and its relation to the Vice Trust we shall speak at length in a separate chapter.