any
one with the money to pay for them. They can be shipped anywhere at
an hour's notice."

GIVES HINT ON ARRESTS

The "trader" gave to Mr. Whitman the addresses of the three places,
which are known as "stockades." He also made suggestions as to how
their operators might be apprehended.

More than that, Levenson told how the financial arrangements of the
sales are made and how recruits are obtained.

Agents are continually at work obtaining young girls, the prisoner
said. The slave sellers do not want hardened women, he explained;
they want pretty, immature girls. The agents are generally well
dressed women who ingratiate themselves with their childish victims
at matinees and moving-picture shows, and by dining them and painting
rosy pictures of a life of ease, win them away from their homes or
their ill-paid positions.

"When there is a call for girls," Levenson continued, "the buyer
hands over the money paid for them to the keeper. Then an
agent--these are usually men--take the girls to wherever the "order"
comes from. These agents then collect 10 per cent of the girl's
weekly earnings."

Quoting from the National Prohibitionist, May 12:

THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE VOTER

The Christian voter who reads, and reads with blood boiling, as the
blood of every honest man must, the shameful story of the exposure of
the traffic in girls especially in New York, must not allow his
imagination to run away with his reasoning faculties.

Awful as the story is, we invite attention, not to its horror--the
horror of herds of little girls sold at a per-head price below the
value of pigs--but to the practical questions of responsibility and
cure.

Why does this infamy exist in our cities?

How can it exist?

Who is responsible?

The answers all come to one point--the governments that rule our
cities.

The black and white wretches who are the immediate agents of vice are
hardly worth considering. They are mere incidents. Practically it is
a waste of time to even prosecute them.

The trail of the real criminal leads into the police headquarters,
leads up the steps of the city hall, goes across the threshold of the
mayor's private office, enters the homes of Christian citizens and
lies broad through the doors of the ch