ve sold them all the
girls they wanted at $5 or $10 apiece, he would not risk selling one
in New York now for $1,000.

In spite of this general caution, purchases for cash were made of
four girls, two through an East Side dealer, who boasted of formerly
having made large sales in other cities, and two from a so-called
black and tan dealer. Two of the girls are under 18.

... With rare exceptions, not only the innocent women imported into
this Country, but the prostitutes as well, are associated with men
whose business it is to protect them, direct them, and control them,
and who frequently, if not usually, make it their business to plunder
them unmercifully. Now this system of subjection to a man has become
common. The procurer or the pimp may put his woman into a disorderly
house, sharing profits with the "madam". He may sell her outright; he
may act as an agent for another man; he may keep her, making
arrangements for her hunting men. She must walk the streets and
secure her patrons, to be exploited, not for her own sake, but for
that of her owner. Often he does not tell her even his real name. If
she tries to leave her man, she is threatened with arrest. If she
resists, she may be beaten; in some cases, when she has betrayed her
betrayer, she has been murdered.

The ease and apparent certainty of profit has led thousands of our
younger men, usually those of foreign birth or the immediate sons of
foreigners, to abandon the useful arts of life to undertake the most
accursed business ever devised by man.

Those who recruit women for immoral purposes watch all places where
young women are likely to be found under circumstances which will
give them a ready means of acquaintance and intimacy, such as picture
shows, dance-halls, sometimes waiting rooms in large department
stores, railroad stations, manicuring and hair dressing
establishments.

The strongest appeal to the instincts of humanity in every
right-minded person is made by a consideration of the brutal system
employed by these traffickers to in every way exploit their victims,
the hardened prostitute as well as the innocent maiden. It is
probable that a somewhat larger proportion of the American girls are
free from the control of a master; and yet, according to the best
evidence