Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

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Editor

Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928

Title

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade

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E-text prepared by Steven desJardins and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Prostitution

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Text

eBook-No.

26081

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26081

Release Date

July 17, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FIGHTING THE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS OR WAR ON THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE — Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade
2. 2.By ERNEST A. BELL
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.Dedicated
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.INTRODUCTION. — By Edwin W. Sims, United States District Attorney, Chicago. — War on the White Slave Trade.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — HISTORY OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE. — BABYLON. — GREECE. — ROME. — FRANCE. — PARIS THE MODERN BABYLON. — WHITE SLAVERS IN INDIA.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — THE SUPPRESSION OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE OF TODAY.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — MENACE OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — A WHITE SLAVE CLEARING HOUSE. A WHITE SLAVE'S OWN STORY. — A WHITE SLAVE'S OWN STORY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — THE TRUE STORY OF ESTELLE RAMON OF KENTUCKY.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — OUR SISTER OF THE STREET. — WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF CITY LIFE FOR A COUNTRY GIRL? — A TIMELY WARNING. — WHAT IS HER MOTIVE FOR CITY LIFE? — A HIDDEN DANGER. — HUNGRY FOR A LITTLE COMPANIONSHIP. — DANGEROUS AMUSEMENTS. — ON THE STREET.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — MORE ABOUT THE TRAFFIC IN SHAME.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — THE TRAFFIC IN GIRLS.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — WARFARE AGAINST THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — THE BOSTON HYPOCRISY.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — THE AUCTIONEER OF SOULS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE IN NEW YORK CITY.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — BARRED WINDOWS: HOW WE TOOK UP THE CAUSE OF THE WHITE SLAVES.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — THE NATIONS AND THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. — THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY. — THE EXTENT AND POWER OF THE EVIL FORCES. — THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC IN ASIA: OUR SHAME IN THE ORIENT. — THE YELLOW SLAVE TRAFFIC IN AMERICA—MORE SHAMEFUL STILL.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — THE YELLOW SLAVE TRADE. — YELLOW SLAVES IN AMERICA.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — HOW SNAKES CHARM CANARIES: METHODS OF PROCURERS. — LETTERS OF A DESTROYER OF GIRLS. — PERIL OF STAGE-STRUCK GIRLS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — PROCURESSES AND THE CONFESSION OF ONE OF THEM. — BY PRISONER NUMBER 503.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — WANTED—FATHERS AND MOTHERS. — SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS GO WRONG. — SUMMER: THE SILLY SEASON.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — CHICAGO'S WHITE SLAVE MARKET—THE "LEVEE." — MAYOR A COWARD. — A FRIGHTENED GIRL. — GRAFT INEVITABLE. — A MAELSTROM FOR YOUNG MEN. — SEGREGATION MAKES A SLAVE MARKET. — MONEY IN VICE — WORSE THAN PARIS! — COURTS ARE UNSTAINED. — TONS OF GRAFT. — THE LIE IN THE PEOPLE'S MINDS. — SIN IS NOT A BLESSING. — GOOD WOMEN ARE NOT PROTECTED BY BAD. — WORST ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — THE FAILURE AND SHAME OF THE REGULATION OF VICE. — THE YOUNG MAN'S VIEW. — LAWGIVERS ARE INEXORABLE. — FALLEN GOVERNMENTS AND A FALLEN CHURCH. — ILLINOIS REJECTS THE PARISIAN SYSTEM. — AN UNPARDONABLE SIN. — SUPREME COURTS ARE UNSTAINED. — THE SHAME OF BRUSSELS, INDIA AND HONG KONG. — BLAMELESS GIRLS ENSNARED IN CHICAGO. — REPEAL OF REGULATION NOW DEMANDED IN EUROPE. — POSITION OF THE CLERGY.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — THE WHITE SLAVES AND THE BLACK PLAGUES. — HALF A MILLION BLIND. — HELEN KELLER'S "I MUST SPEAK." — INNOCENT WIVES SUFFER. — THE REMEDY.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE VENEREAL DISEASES.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — RECRUITING GROUNDS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFICKERS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. — PRACTICAL MEANS OF PROTECTING GIRLS.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. — LAWS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. — UNITED STATES. — THE EFFECT OF THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. — ALABAMA. — ALASKA. — ARIZONA. — CALIFORNIA. — COLORADO. — DELAWARE. — FLORIDA. — GEORGIA. — IDAHO. — ILLINOIS. — INDIANA. — IOWA. — LOUISIANA. — KANSAS. — KENTUCKY. — MAINE. — MARYLAND. — MASSACHUSETTS. — MICHIGAN. — MINNESOTA. — MISSISSIPPI. — MISSOURI. — MONTANA. — NEBRASKA. — NEVADA. — NEW HAMPSHIRE. — NEW JERSEY. — NEW MEXICO. — NEW YORK. — NORTH CAROLINA. — NORTH DAKOTA. — OHIO. — OKLAHOMA. — OREGON. — PENNSYLVANIA. — RHODE ISLAND. — SOUTH CAROLINA. — SOUTH DAKOTA. — TENNESSEE. — TEXAS. — UTAH. — VERMONT. — VIRGINIA. — WASHINGTON. — WEST VIRGINIA. — WISCONSIN. — WYOMING.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. — A PASTOR'S PART. — THE BISHOP OF LONDON AS A MIDNIGHT MISSIONARY.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. — THE STORY OF THE MIDNIGHT MISSION. — A THOUSAND WITNESSES FOR CHRIST. — A HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOLISH YOUNG MEN. — THE CRIMES OF YOUNG MEN. — INSANITY, SURGERY, BLINDNESS. — IN RAIN AND SNOW. — CONVERSIONS—AND BETTER. — IF THIS WERE YOUR SON. — ANTAGONISM—PROTECTION—TRIUMPH. — THE DIVES OFFER A BRIBE OF $50,000. — ON THE WEST SIDE. — AT TWENTY-SECOND STREET. — OTHER WORKERS IN THE NIGHT. — JUSTICE
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. — HELEN CHAMBERS, SOME OTHER GIRLS AND "DAISY." — FIRST DRINK SENDS GIRL TO HER RUIN. — VETERAN MINISTER PROTESTS AGAINST THE VICE TRAFFIC. — AMERICAN GIRLS IN MOST DANGER. — KITTY SCHAY. (This story is clipped from The National Prohibitionist.) — SALVATION ARMY EXPERIENCES. — THE STORY OF "DAISY."
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. — THE DESTRUCTION OF THE VICE DISTRICTS OF LOS ANGELES AND DES MOINES. — THE NIGHTMARE ENDED IN DES MOINES. — STATEMENT OF CHIEF OF POLICE MILLER. — STATEMENT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. — CONDITIONS IN LONDON.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. — FOR GOD'S SAKE DO SOMETHING.
40. 40.WHY ARE YOU WEEPING, SISTER?
41. 41.THE RED ROSE. — Transcriber's Note

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