I was guilty and the protest I make is the protest of a convict, but I cry out to the good people to know why, if I must be behind prison walls for procuring an inmate for such a place, they walk free and grow rich and hold offices who allow such places to be. IF IT BE A CRIME WORTHY OF THE PRISON TO PROCURE AN INMATE FOR A VICE RESORT, IS IT A SURE PROOF OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUE THAT VICE RESORTS COVER SQUARE MILES OF THIS CITY AND THE CITY GOVERNMENT "REGULATES" THEM? Ten long months hence, when, broken, disgraced, without a cent, without a friend, they turn me out into Chicago's cold November storms, will justice have been vindicated, will some great and good ends have been attained by the punishment of me--a tool, a cat's-paw--while seven thousand saloons and square miles of houses of prostitution have gone on in their bloody, damning work under sanction of the government run by you pious men? E. A. B. CHAPTER XIX. WANTED--FATHERS AND MOTHERS. After conversing with many thousands of fallen women and misguided girls, I believe that the principal causes of their downfall are the following, in the order named: 1. Parental inefficiency, through lack of character, knowledge or vigilance. 2. Amusements that pander to passion, such as many theaters, some of the amusement parks, cafes and dance halls with drinking attachments, some Chinese restaurants, some Greek and other fruit and candy stores, and some pleasure boats that run at night. 3. Unsafe hours and unreasonable liberty; walks, drives and automobile rides, unattended, especially at night. 4. Betrayal of girls and desertion by husbands. 5. Wilfulness and love of ease and finery. 6. Insufficient wages in stores and factories. 7. Poverty, especially where children or parents are dependent. One girl sinned to pay her mother's funeral expenses. 8. A few are depraved from choice or heredity. Doubtless other observers would add other causes, and yet others would put these eight causes here named in different order. But no one will dispute that these eight are constant and fruitful causes of the ruin of girls--these eight, and the greatest of these is the first, Parental Inefficiency. SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS GO WRONG. Within the last six days--it is August 10, 1909, today--the courts of Chicago have had to deal with two girls of only sixteen years who were placed in immoral resorts by young men, one of them only a boy of sixteen years. A girl named McConnell, only sixteen years old, and a girl named Shubert, three years older, were taken by two Jews, Brodsky and Jacobson, to a resort kept by one Weinstein in South Chicago. The girls were lured from an amusement park in the suburb of Forest Park, where they were unattended by parents or friends--fair game for the white slaver.