urch.

For this infamy of the sale of innocent girls for vice and the whole
wider, deeper, fouler vice system is a part of governmental policy,
not in New York and Chicago alone, but all over the Country, under
Republican and Democratic administration.

The very district attorney's office that exposes these particular
instances of crime is one of the strong pillars of the system of
which the crime is only an outcropping.

Even now there is not a voice lifted in official Chicago and New York
in favor of doing the one thing that alone can stop the sale of
girls, the one thing that the law clearly prescribes in the
matter--wiping out the vice preserves, stopping the whole system of
trade in vice. This fact needs to be burned deeply into the hearts of
American voters: =If you want this thing to go on, if you want little
girls still to be bought and sold like pigs, if you want pure young
lives to be overwhelmed in fathomless shame, all you need to do to
help keep up the system is to keep on voting for men who protect
these criminals.=

Quoting from McClure's (July) Magazine concerning the recent investigation
of the White Slave trade in New York City by a specially appointed jury:

In order to establish the existence of the White Slave traffic
Assistant District Attorney James B. Reynolds arranged to make
actual purchases of girls in the Tenderloin and other sections of the
underworld from those reputed to be large dealers. Skilled
investigators who were not known in New York were engaged and put to
work in the heart of the Tenderloin.

They were represented as purchasers of girls. Friendly and
confidential relations were established with some of the most
influential White Slave dealers. By these means valuable first-hand
information was obtained regarding the White Slave trade. The agents
were told the price of girls, the methods employed in the business,
and, in some cases, the corrupt relations existing between the
traders and certain officials.

Past and present conditions of the traffic were contrasted
frequently, the trading during the present winter being described as
exceptionally light because of the general alarm caused by the
sitting of the "White Slave" Grand Jury. One large dealer told the
agents that though two years ago he could ha