It has crept unconsciously upon us until it has eaten into our vitals—the commercial and industrial frenzy.
It has recognized in the perversion of woman a source of income and it has commercialized the vicious instincts, and the depraved desires of thousands of them.
The baby girl in the cradle is being watched and waited for by the Vice Trust:—ready to capture her and throw her tortured body into the mart of sin for filthy dollars.
The school girl is trailed and tempted. She falls often unconsciously and awakens when it is too late. The girl who is earning her own living is preyed upon and bartered away; and even the wife and mother is frequently caught in the ever-tightening mesh of the masters Satan has appointed on earth.
Statistics show that two thirds of the women who are found in the infamous resorts of the city drift there in a thousand and one ways.
The White Slaves are in the minority.
Economic and social conditions, starvation wages, environment, unrestrained sexual desires, lack of religious restraint, improper association with the male sex in immature ages, desires for pleasures, luxuries and clothing, betrayal by men, are among the principal reasons why this vast percentage of the prostitutes fills the houses of iniquity.
Tons of literature have been written, warning the girls of the country against the perfidious White Slaver.
“LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND.”
These warnings have also been directed to the parents of our girls.