They have no fear of the police because they know that the police dare not molest them just as long as they "hand over" their graft to the "men higher up." BRUTALITY OF THE "CADETS." These men exercise the most brutal mastership over the prostitute. Instances have been shown where women were whipped within a few inches of death by the inhuman dogs. One night in the South side levee, a "cadet" caught one of his women on the street in front of a resort, cursed her for her small earnings and proceeded to beat her into insensibility. Bleeding from his inhuman blows, she reeled and fell to the sidewalk. Standing in the glare of the arc light, the man's face and hands were smeared with blood. Two policemen approached and stopped. The "cadet" held up his blood-stained hands and laughed. The policemen pushed him ahead, and one of them said: "Fred, you better move on. Go and wash your face and hands." A woman came from the resort, kicked the prostrate form of the unconscious girl with her foot, then grasping her by the hands, dragged her into the hell chamber from which she had emerged to breathe a little of God's own air. That is not the story of a heated imagination. It was actually witnessed. Incidents of similar character which beggar description, occur every night, when these outcasts are confronted by drunken, blood-exacting degenerates. Some of these men are the slave masters of several women. In a recent White Slave case in the federal court, one of these wretches confessed that he was the "cadet" of four prostitutes. He drove them on in their vicious labors, forced them to work day and night to bring him money from which he made his own living and paid protection to the police and tribute to the Vice Trust. This man swore that he made from fifty to sixty dollars a week from each girl. Many of these "cadets" do not live in the "redlight" districts. They scatter and come back when it is time to gather in the gold. "CADETS" AND POLICE GRAFT. The business of exacting graft from these men is a difficult police problem because of their nomadic habits. Still it is accomplished. Rendezvous of these men are frequently raided by the police and these "cadets" to save themselves give up what money they may have with them. Many of them, however, cannot keep away from the scenes of their crimes and cravenly and regularly pay their price. The "cadet" system is highly valued by the Directorate of Ten because it is the human prod to vice, the medium of increasing infamous profits from day to day. As an instance of this, here is a story from police circles which is confirmed by other corroboration. Recently, a captain of police was transferred to the Twenty-second street police station. He was an unsophisticated police official, then. He was not well acquainted with the workings of the Vice Trust and he was determined to rid the districts of some of the evils which were more flagrant than others.