Their earnings are taken from them and divided among those who are parties to their degradation. Many women who have been living immoral lives abroad and are hardened outcasts come here through agents or of their own volition. because they can earn much more money here than they can at home. even after paying the tax levied upon them by those who control them. lany of the procurers who bring young girls and women to this country for the shameful purposes referred to in the bill under consideration are women entirely destitute of honor and feeling. who live permanently or temporarily abroad. and by plausible stories of the abundance of employment at high wages win the confidence of innocent women and girls. and their parents. never dreaming of the fate awaiting them. give consent to their leaving home. in the hope that from the large earnings produced from honest labor they will be able to remit sufficient money to pay their passage so that they may in time join their children and reunite the family circle in this land of promise. and. what they think. land of purity and happiness. The sufferings of those formerly innocent girls. a1s presented in the report of the Immigration Commission. is appalling beyond description. Used and abused until broken in health. unattractive and unprofitable. they are cast into the world destitute and broken hearted with as little feeling as we would throw aside a squeezed orange. and then become charges on the coiIn uity. The masters. principals. and agents engaged in thisnefarious business have not confined their efforts to any one country to secure supplies. but have inveigled. by false pretenses and glowing descriptions of life in this country. women to come from France.
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