Three hundred per cent excess profit is the taxation made by the agents of the kimona trust!
The purchase prices on all things are so increased as to make that enormous profit.
There are 2,000 women buying clothes at a yearly expenditure, or rather robbery, of $500.
That means $1,000,000 spent by these poor, dying, unfortunates yearly to feed the avaricious grafters!
That enormous sum is spent for materials that are worth only one fourth of that value.
That means that the Kimona Trust brings an annual harvest of graft of $750,000!
The figures are so startling as to strike one dumb with horror, yet they are as true as the annual statement of the earnings and capital of a reliable bank.
The Kimona Trust agents are satisfied to make the normal profit on the goods as if they were sold at their legitimate price. They raise the price and create the graft in return for the favor of having a big business with no competition.
The $750,000 is then split up. To the police undoubtedly a small share goes for their general work in the district, the keepers get a share for compelling the girls to buy and the big bulk goes to the directors of the Vice Trust.