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     "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 i