The Kimona Trust has not eaten to the last bill in the purse of the vice slave. She still has money left which the Vice Trust must batten on.
The Kimona Trust has a logical successor, the Laundry Trust.
This combine proceeds in the same manner as the combine that furnishes clothing to the 2,000 prostitutes in the houses.
It proceeds by boosting the prices and robbing its victims.
In the ordinary laundry service, the laundry man with a cleaning establishment is satisfied with sixty per cent of the income of a man who has a private route and brings his collections in clothing to the place. He is allowed forty per cent for himself and for his wagon.
In the levee districts the privilege of the laundry business is hard sought after, but it is limited to a few men. These men pay for the privilege. They add 100 per cent to their prices for work done, so that the Vice Trust which grants the favor may reap its profits.
Speaking conservatively, every girl is obliged to have a laundry bill of two dollars a week.
Two thousand girls with an average laundry bill of $2.00 means $4,000 a week or $208,000 a year!
The just laundry bill for those poor, fleeced women of sin should be but $104,000.
But the Vice Trust must have its toll. That graft of $104,000 is carried to the under lords and again the capital of the deadly combine is swelled while its victims starve!