The investigation was begun in November, 1907, under the active
supervision of a special committee of the Immigration Commission; and
the work was conducted by a special agent in charge, with numerous
assistants.

The investigation has covered the cities of New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Butte, Denver,
Buffalo, Boston and New Orleans.

There are between seven and eight hundred men in Seattle who live
from the revenue from the "white slave traffic", almost all of whom
could be reached by the State Courts, if proper efforts were made. It
was established by the Grand Jury that the Federal Government has
gone as far as the law allows. It is now up to the State authorities,
who could break up this business in short order.

What are We Going to Do About the Children?

[Illustration: A Group of Children in the Midst of the "Red Light"
District]

Levee women, women living in prostitution, "madams," etc., do not bring up
their children (and most of Chicago's female dealers in prostitution have
several of them) in or =near= segregated districts of vice. Like the saloon
keeper who moved to Evanston to get his children away from the harmful,
degenerating influences of the saloon and its environing neighborhoods, so
the "madam," that active principal in the slavedom of the girls of our
Land, in almost every case sees to it that =her= children are well brought
up, away from the influences and knowledge of prostitution, while her
agents and keepers are out scouring the department stores, factories,
villages and country homes for girls to fill the sickening, festering,
shrieking ranks of the great death army of publicly protected White
Slaves.

The writer has investigated many cases, and in every instance has found
the children of these vultures of girlhood in exclusive colleges or
military schools, being excellently prepared to take decent positions in
business and social life. Case after case has recently come to light of
women supporting their children on the fashionable avenues, in Harvard and
military colleges, while they themselves with hearts of hell, wring the
dollars that pay for these luxuries from the bleeding, broken bodies of a
gang of Levee White Slaves--your sister and mine--younger than her own,
better born, better raised, but lost =forever= in the crushing, barred and
screened gehenna of modern