CHAPTER V. What Will You Bid for This Woman? White Slavery--Price of a Body and Soul--Hell's Bondage--The "Cadet" Master--Death the Penalty--The Trapping of the Prey. Thirty-three per cent of the women fed to the insatiable god of lust in the "redlight" districts of Chicago are White Slaves! Nearly two thousand women, annually, are sold to the highest vice bidders! They are procured from every imaginable source and by every imaginable method. Thousands of women drift yearly into a life of prostitution, driven to it by hunger and want primarily. Why then must others be sought out, trapped, brought, bound and tied, stood on the auction blocks of vice and sold to the thump of the gavel? Because the demand is far greater than the supply! Hell is always hungry; the taste of blood on the lips of the monster Vice, drives him mad with desire for more blood; the crushing of bones and the morsels of white woman's flesh, frenzies him for other bodies! More women! more women!--that is the cry. It is a difficult problem. The question arises, is it simply a feeding of men's passions that must be satisfied or is it a desire to make men hunger and buy because the women are placed in their pathways, so that the vice lords may reap the harvest? We believe the latter is God's truth, or rather the devil's truth! Many a man would not be the brute of unrestrained passion that he is, if his paths were clear of temptations. The temptations are placed, the White Slaves are purchased to make gold and silver for the wretches who create, nourish and commercialize vice. It isn't vice that is robbing homes of innocent girls each year. It is the Commerce and Traffic of Sin. The White Slave Trust is a perfect organization existing in the city of Chicago today. Its agents procure the flesh and blood product from every source, its agents peddle the human article, from house of ill fame to house of ill fame; sell it, take the profit and divide with the members of an infamous combine. THE TRAPPING OF THE PREY. There are 150 professional procurers or "buyers" for the White Slave corporation! There are at least 300 more men who at times act as procurers and at other times as "cadets." There are thousands of other men in every walk of life who are constantly on the lookout for a possible victim for whose sale they reap a small return in bloodstained dollars. The professional procurer, hired by the members of this trust; the owners of houses of prostitution or men whose business depends on the prosperity of places of ill fame--play on the three inherent characteristics of every woman's heart-- Ambition, vanity and love! By attacking the points of weakness they trap their victims. Out in the country town they dazzle the fresh, pretty creatures by stories of the pleasures and delights of life in the big city, by making love to innocent children, by depriving them of their sacred chastity.