The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-17
WHITE SLAVE LAW
PASSAGE OF MEASURE by THE
SENATE NOW SuRE-PROSE-
cUToR GIVES FIGURES.
Eighty Per Cent. of the 5000 Yearly
Recruits For Chicacos Brothels
Are Trapped BY Devices of
the White SiavSrs.

| Chicago, May 16.-Passage of tie
Ledere white slave bills" by the Hi
nos house of representatives was the
signal for renewed efforts in their be
half hy the committee which drafted
them and secured their endorsement
by the Illinois Federation of Wom-
ems clubs, the Union League, Ham
ilton, froquois, Press. City and several
other Chicago clubs, the Illinois Vg-
ilance association and Chicago Law
and Order league. This committee
on legislation. appointed by the
| Womans World to follow up ex-
posures by the federal AMI sia'e
prosecutors. Immediately sent repre-.
sentatives and telephone ard tele
| graph messages to Springfield to in
sure passage of the bills In the sch
ate in spite of ieadlocks and Chicago
charter bills. Word came back that
the bills would pass without serious
change. Governor Deneen will sign
them without delay.
White Slave Trade" Clifford G. Rec,
assistant states attorney and a mem
ber of the committee declares in the
Woman's World: "In Chicago alono
there are more than $4,000 women
leading life of shame, and statistics
show that the average life OF fallen
woman is five years. Five thousand
persons must, therefore, ne recruited
every year in Chicago alone How
many voluntarily go into this life? 1t
lis estimated that about twenty per
cent This shows MS tnat eighty per
cent are led into IT by s5me scheme
or entrapped and sold, and at least
two-thirds of this number are from
our own country, being iaveiglei
from farms, towns and cities.
zone may inquire, How is it that
girls are procured 50 easily without
the public being aware Of what is
going on? The answe- Is that love
and ambition are the baits which the
.procurers liaunt in the faces Of their
proposed victims Orlcn 1t happens
that promises OF posltlous 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
as to the particulars each case varies
to some extent. After the girls are
once within the resort, the stories
are about the same. The street
clothes are seized and parlor dresses
varying in length are put upon them.
They are threatened, never allowed
to write letters, never permitted the
use of the telephone, never trusted
outside the house without the escort
of a procurer until two or three
months have elapsed, when they are
considered hardened to the life and
too ashamed to face parents and
friends again.
Girls are told OF or perhaps have
witnessed others who tried to escape
have seen their failure anu punish
ment and are thereby cowed into
submission. They are always he'd
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 constantly in deot. First, for
the money the owner gave 20 the pro
curer for her, next. for her parlor
clothes. then for the money her pro
curer borrows from the owner on her
as his property. goods and chatte's.
The bonds of slavery are thus fast
enel upon these poor mortals by a
system of debt and vice that the poo
pie of this great country little real
lied existed until lately" Mr.. Roe
gives in detail the methods employed
by which several girls. who pro-
curers have been prosecuted were
captured Love and ambition are The
bats most often used. be says.