E-text prepared by Steven desJardins and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 26081-h.htm or 26081-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/0/8/26081/26081-h/26081-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/0/8/26081/26081-h.zip) "FOR GOD'S SAKE DO SOMETHING!" _Gen. Booth_ FIGHTING THE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS Or War on the White Slave Trade [Illustration: My God! If I only could get out of here.] The Greatest Crime in the World's History [Illustration: HON. EDWIN W. SIMS The man most feared by all white slave traders] [Illustration: THE FIRST STEP. Ice cream parlors of the city and fruit stores combined, largely run by foreigners, are the places where scores of girls have taken their first step downward. Does her mother know the character of the place and the man she is with? (See page 71.)] "FOR GOD'S SAKE DO SOMETHING"--General Booth FIGHTING THE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS or War on the White Slave Trade A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young girls away from home and sell them to keepers of dives. The magnitude of the organization and its workings. How to combat this hideous monster. How to save YOUR GIRL. How to save YOUR BOY. What you can do to help wipe out this curse of humanity. A book designed to awaken the sleeping and protect the innocent. by ERNEST A. BELL Secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association--Superintendent of Midnight Missions, etc. with Special Chapters by the following persons: HON. EDWIN W. SIMS, United States District Attorney, Chicago. HON. HARRY A. PARKIN, Assistant United States District Attorney, Chicago. HON. CLIFFORD G. ROE, Assistant States Attorney, Cook County, Ill. WM. ALEXANDER COOTE, Secretary of the National Vigilance Association, London, England JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS, of the National Vigilance Committee, New York. CHARLES N. CRITTENTON, President of the National Florence Crittenton Mission. MRS. OPHELIA AMIGH, Superintendent of the Illinois Training School for Girls. MISS FLORENCE MABEL DEDRICK Missionary of the Moody Church, Chicago. MISS LUCY A. HALL, Deaconess of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago. PRINCIPAL D. F. SUTHERLAND, Red Water Institute, Red Water, Texas. DR. WILLIAM T. BELFIELD, Professor in Rush Medical College, Chicago. DR. WINFIELD SCOTT HALL, Professor in Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago MELBOURNE P. BOYNTON, Pastor of the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF STRIKING PICTURES Showing the workings of the blackest slavery that has ever stained the human race. Copyright, 1910 by G. S. BALL CONTENTS Chapters not otherwise designated are by the Editor.