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Title: Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade (electronic resource) : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ...
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928 Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
Subjects: Prostitution
Publisher: (Chicago? : L.H. Walter?)
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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l or the young woman which de-mands a constant and protective alertness. The training is almost wholly absent in thecase of the country girl; she is not educated insuspicion until the protective instinct acts al-most unconsciously; her intercourse with herworld is almost comparatively free and unre-strained ; she is so unlearned in the moral andsocial geography of the city that she is quiteas likely, if left to her own devices, to selecther boarding house in an undesirable as in asafe and desirable part of the city; and, in aword, when she comes into the city her inno-cence, her trusting faith in humanity in gen-eral, her ignorance of the underworld and herloneliness and perhaps homesickness, conspireto make her a ready and an easy victim of thewhite slaver. In view of what I have learned in the courseof the recent investigation and prosecution ofthe white slave traffic, I can say, in all sin-cerity, that if I lived in the country and had ayoung daughter I would go any length of hard-
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Copyright by The MM«Wm Vi«.»o« FOE GODS SAKE, SAVE ME. Whilo our missionaries were holding services one stormy nightin January, the door of a vice resort flew open and out rushed on,e ofthe inmates, crying, For Gods sake, save me

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