The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-01


Another girl answered an advertise
ment from the city, and going there.
found herself in house Of i'll fame,
where every effort was made to prac-
trice prostitution She was finally res
cued by one of the patrons OF the
place who was sorry for her before
they had accomplished her ruin.
Another girl met man in the most
unobjectionable manner. After brief
courtship they were duly married, and
left on wedding trip for neighbor-
ing city. Here, the husband claiming
that he had lost his money, and was
unable to secure a position, attempted
to persuade the wife to practice pros
tituion. She refused and was cruelty
beaten by him. Not approaching even
then the nature of the man she had
married, she accompanied him to
distant city, where he again renewed
| his efforts to induce her to lead lie
of shame. On her refusal she was
beaten by him and starved to the
point of exhaustion. Then, thoroughly
intimidated. she was forced to receive
all those he brought to her, until she
was so degraded she was forced to
solicit on the streets. She was hnaiiy
transferred by her procurer to white
slave agency in New York City, ana
from there to Washington. She final
| ly escaped, and in the prosecution
which followed, the man was SEN
fenced to five years in the Federal
penitentiary in Atlanta. The girl mas
been restored to her parents and has
since been living respectable life.
These fake marriages are quite com
mon with procurers, as d means 10
Iensnare girls from Is years of age,
and up. and then send them to houses
of prostitution, where they are worse
than buried alive, and have almost as
little chance to escape, and re-enter
and live a respectable life, as If she
had been buried at the bottom Of the
sea-
The government report goes on to
say: Days and days might be well
| consumed in explaining the facts and
conditions involved by this white slave
traffic in the different sections of the
country. But it is clear that there is
such a traffic; that it extends through
out our entire country; and that it In
wolves conditions that are. disgrace
to our nation"
II is estimated that not less than
%. 900 young women and girls are an
nually procured for this traffic. Tnat
not less than $4,000 men and women
are engaged in procuring, and living
on the earnings OF these women ano
girls. and that the women and girls
engaged in prostitution in this country
at the present time are not, it is esti
mated. less than 100000.
i Searching Investigations have beer
made in most all large cities, SHOWING
that only a small per cent OF ths
women engaged in prostitution are u
the business Of their own free VIII
Most of them are. in one way or On
other. coerced into. a vicious life. AND
once induced into it they seldom es
cape Stanley w. Finch says:
, Thousands of young girls are an
q nually induced to leave home an'
friends through offers of lucrative pc
, sitions, promises of marriage, etc.
and are then enticed or forced intt
o immortality or prostitution. Many o
O these girls resist persistently ant
% brayely, but very few are able to es
4 cape when once they are in the hands
of a procurer. If persuasion, tntoxl
eating liquors, drugs, fraud and threats
fail to accomplish their purpose, tn
y lprocurers do not hesitate to use what
= ever brute force may be necessary U
4 compel submission"
A few months ago negro wa
a tried in one of our Federal courts ant
@ convicted OF combining young whit
n girl behind locked doors, compelling
e her to receive both white and colore'
J. men and to turn over all her earning
l. to him. This negro is now in the Fec
r eral penitentiary. He ought to nav
e. been hung as high as Haman!
s. The love of easy money lies at tn
bottom of the wholes enterprise OF cal
r turing girls for the white slave mai
Is ket. Every woman who is made
o. white slave becomes at once the pre-
.e of whole line of wicked men.
n In the city of Chicago alone In
" white slave earn fors their cruel MAJ
tyi tiers fifteen millions Of dollars al
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