Identifier: B20442506 (find matches)
Title: Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade (electronic resource) : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ...
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928 Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
Subjects: Prostitution
Publisher: (Chicago? : L.H. Walter?)
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
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re must be co-operation on the part otthe state, the home and the church. Whatwe need is a practical salvation, somethingmore than saying: Be ye saved. The churchcan do what the state cannot, and vice versa.Not only present, but future generations arein danger. Vice and crime are being flaunted,as it were, and advertised in our very faces.Every man, woman and child has a place in the battle 1 It is girls whose ages are from 13 to 22 whoare going astray, even as young as 9 years; de-ceived, betrayed, Jed away, through wiles ofabominable men, whose business is to traffic 111girls. Since living in Chicago, many girls I haveknown gave birth to little ones at the ages of 13, 14 and 15. . , Let me ^ive some figures: During themonth of May alone in the two syphilitic wardsin Cook County Hospital, 140 men and 32 wom-en passed through. In Twenty-second StreetRed Light district, by police enumeration afew months ago, there were 1,100 girls livinglives of prostitution, farther South, 1,200, wak-
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THE LOVE GAME. v A Dander working the love game, assumes the role of a banker Baon fee^ngererandgfresh air. «e hoodwinks thegreat wealth and position, the upper part of the picture shows tnegay times promised. WHITE SLAVE TRADE 103 ing a total of 2,300. This is appalling, and yetthis does not take in the whole city. As many of you know, as far as can belearned, the average buying price of a girl is$15.00. She may be sold for $200.00. If spe-cially attractive, anywhere from $400.00 to$600.00. The conscience of these girls is by no meansdead. Upon giving one my card in the hos-pital, she said: If I had only known it before;many tell me about being a Christian, and an-other world, but I never could understand it. The cry of another sinsick girl was, amidsobs and tears: Oh! it is awful and sin hasdone it. Oh, Christian women, mothers, give recogni-tion to the fact; yes, welcome it, that a fallenwoman can be saved, and extend to her sym-pathy, encouragement and love! These girls are reach

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