The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World

ou Bid for

-Hell's Bondage-The "Cadet" Master-Dea

the insatiable god of lust in the "redli

n, annually, are sold to

ry imaginable source and b

to a life of prostitution, driven

ought, bound and tied, stood on the auction blo

nd is far greate

ice, drives him mad with desire for more blood; the crushing of bones

ore women!-th

sions that must be satisfied or is it a desire to make men hunger and buy because t

is God's truth, or rat

unrestrained passion that he is, if

e purchased to make gold and silver for the wre

s of innocent girls each year. It

erfect organization existing

ts peddle the human article, from house of ill fame to house of ill fame;

PING OF

procurers or "buyers" for t

who at times act as procurers

are constantly on the lookout for a possible victim for w

ouses of prostitution or men whose business depends on the prosperity of place

, vanity

nts of weakness they

ries of the pleasures and delights of life in the big city, by making

them they are beautiful, loveable; they promise t

e nickel theaters to the wine ro

, the city is infested with men w

n the waiting rooms of the railroad stations, on the lake boats, at excursions, at rest rooms, at employment agencies,

L THE ROTTEN COFFER

BODY, ONE HEA

lack woman wa

ack woman was

en you remembe

of Chicago, one white

city, one white wom

by slavery, or w

IC OF WHI

on the part of the perfidious combine is

for the women purchased are in the hands of the federal government. Unc

prices for women sold into bond

ualities, mostly physical, of the woman, a

type that would attract men of wealth or particular tastes, can be bought by a keeper of

f health, well-formed of limb and in

ee districts have paid outright, $500 to the White Slave combine's agents for girls whose purity has only been defile

easure-slaves of

affic, that one procurer in one trip into the country districts of Illin

bbed of her senses. She had been outraged while unconscious. The landlady approached her the next morning with an air of good fellowship, told of the benefits of the new life

ry of but one o

NUAL WHITE

are 2,000 White Sla

ll known federal official, who has investigated and

chase price of White Slaves

side levee district contributes $60,000 a y

by keepers of the "houses of call"-the places where men of wealth and bestial

procuring of an innocent girl fo

nel of a big railroad, discovered that at a Michigan avenue "house of call" a tender and unsullied

tion showed, paid as high as

ty, in search of purity and goodness to be sac

ES OF THE

tions confronting her; the terrors in her dreams of the future

ve never materialized; she is as poor as she was before she was tr

lk out a f

one of selling and purchasing; it is one of perm

law. She is a slave forever. She is treated brutally if she makes serious attempts at escape; s

er misery and her plans of escape. Every possible pre

and resell her for a new price. She is thus bartered a

h horror as this. There is no deeper stain on the annal

housands of mothers lift their trembling arms and cry out

profits over to the magnates of the great Vice Trust,-to men who stand high in the world

e of a people's protest, sham a "clean-up" and then send forth the word to the vice lieutenants to "lay low" for a short time.

e of these pitiful vic

figure is protected by the police department at the command of the political lords an