Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — The Horrible Traffic in Girls. [ARTICLE]

The Horrible Traffic in Girls.

Pall Mall Gazette. Horrible and revolting as have been the revelations as to the export of English girls to Brussels and Paris, that trade is trivial compared with the vast organized system which prevails in Germany, Austria and Roumania for the sale of young women to dealers in human wares all over the world. They are regularly bought, shipped and consigned like any other kind of cattle. The European slave dealer has his agents and his travelers, who, under the disguise of theatrical agents, supply the maisons de tolerance of the world, from Hong Kong to Buenos Ayres with helpless victims. “I met a German girl,” says Herr Joest,“who had been sold nr this fashion, at Chitka, on the far side of Lake Baikal.” When once they pass into the hands of their purchaser* their doom is sealed. Nor is there any hope of escape from the prison-house to which they are consigned.