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L-jn-ixxximgmmtmmBBm J N tinental, Europe. y "Moreover, the American conscience will not tol erate the semblance of legalizing vice, "But we have in America a fine - way of making moraHawsrand then a: fine way of .noCenfojfcing them. We hand this greatT . est social problem over to the po lice to deal with as they -see fit regardless of laws. ' . '"The Chicago police furnished us with a list of 1,108 professional prostitutes. Our investigation, . which was not complete, showed 4,600, so that there are at least 5,000 professional 'prostitutes in --Chicago. The number .of clan destine prostitutes is enormous, nany thousands. I mean those , vho work and eke out their icanty wages by immorality, and mose wno re jmmoral by choice. "The profits on the Social Evil in 'Chicago, in a year are esti mated at $16,000,0p0, and- the number of men served by them at 5,990,Q0Q. . The. Social Evil is pregnant with disease that leaves blind- ness, paralysis, mental decay and physical rot in its trail. "The life of a. girl in this life averages five years. Therefore, every year there must be 1,000 i girl recruits. Where do they come4fro$n? , "They come through ignorance or degeneracy or economic con ditions. They, come through the dance halls, the, cheap theaters, the ill lighted parks and amuse ment resorts and the big-lake steamboats. "W&fa&that about; 5p,per cent J go, into, this life through economic reasons, .because of low wages, not only in department stores, but in all Industries where women are employed, Women' have crowded -fast into the industrial field, T.he consequence is a large supply and a low wage. When a woman Realizes that she is earn- t inly only $6 a week, which will not support her, and that by giv ing up her virtue she can earn $30 or $40 a week, is it any won der that she 'finally yields to the , econoniic pressure. "Consider the thousands who come out weary and ill-paid from store and factory to go to cheap boarding or rooming houses, where they are associated with all kinds of men and women. They are hungry for a kind word, for a friend, and there.are always men waiting' to take advantage and drag them down. -, "We should not turn this vice " question over to the police. I maintain that no matter how honest a police force may be, that part of it which is continually brought into contact with an il legal traffic cannot contfnue to maintain its honesty. Where a "business is illegal, graft is bound t6 prevail. "The worst influence outside the houses of ill-fame is the sa loon. We must first separate the social evil from the police con- trol and then divprce it from the saloon. "Perhaps the saloon has come to stav as an American institu tion,, but if it must stay Jet it be ;seDaaJe4jfrpm.,the soeja.1 gyjL