Arizona republican., 1909-06-06

 that the printing upon the check Is so worded that his endorsement con stitutes receipt in full for his claim"
 Passage of the Lederer white slave bills" by the Illinois house of repre- sentatives was the signal for renewed efforts in their behalf by the commit tee which drafted them and secured their endorsement by the Illinois Fed eration of Women's Clubs, the Union League, Hamilton. Iroquois, Press, City and several other Chicago clubs, the Illinois Vigilance association and Chicago Law and Order league. This committee on legislation, appointed by the Woman's world to follow up eX- posures by the federal and state prosecutors, immediately sent repre- sentatives and telephone and telegraph messages to Springfield to insure passage of the bills in the senate in spite of deadlocks and Chicago char ter bills. Word came back that the bills would pass without serious change Governor Deneen will sign them without delay.
 Writing on Warfare against the White Slave Trade Clifford c. Roe, assistant states attorney and a mem Der of the committee declares in the Woman's World: Tn Chicago alone there are more than 25,000 women leading life of shame, and statistics show that the average life of a fallen woman is five years. Five thousand persons, must, therefore, be recruited every year in Chicago alone. How many voluntarily go into this life? It is estimated that about twenty per cent This shows us that eighty per cent are led into it by some scheme or entrapped and sold. and at least two thirds of this number are from our own country. being inveigled from farms, towns and cities.
 "One may inquire, How is it that girls are procured so easily without the public being aware of what is go- ing ong The answer is that love and ambition are the baits which the procurers Haunt in the faces of their proposed victims. Often it happens that promises of positions on the stage, in stores, and various occupa- tions alluring to young girls cause many to fall captives in the great net set for them.
 The methods employed to entice young women are quite similar. but as to the particulars each case varies to some extent After the girls are once within the resort, the stories are about the same. Their street clothes are seized and parlor dresses varying in length are put upon them. They are threatened, never allowed 10 write letters, never permitted tn use Of the telephone, never trusted outside the house without the escort of pro- curer, until two or three months have elapsed, when they are considered hardened to ths fife and too asEameG to face parents and friends again. If they should ask soue visitor to the house to help them would he care to expose his name tr the polce, as he would have to. Jy reporting he matter? Would he want his friends or the folks at Louc to know that he had visited srch q place? No; fe would let the girl get out the best way she could; even though he might promise to help her.
 Girls are told of or perhaps have witnessed others who tried to escape, have seen their failure and punish
  mission. They are always held upon the pretense of being indebted to the house and this indebtedness has long been the backbone of the white slave system From the time the girl is first sold into the house she is con stantly in debt First, of the money the owrcr gave to the procurer for her, next for her parlor clothes, then for the money her rrocurer bo-rf"s from the owner or her as his prop, erty. goGds and chattel. The bonds of slavery are tnus fastened uYCr these poCr mortals by the system of deS. and vice that the people of this great country realized existed until lately" Mir. Roe gives in detail the methods employed by which several girls. whose procurers have been prosecuted, were captured. Love and ambition are the baits most often