Capitolo 33
the social one and industrial economy, where brains, intelligence, virtue
and female charm should bring a prize." The matter is specious in
what it doesn't record later the economic value of the many years in
what the honest girl will live as wife and mother, in contrast to the
premature death of the woman in the illicit trade but the girl herself
he/she only sees the difference in the immediate possibilities of profit in the
two situations.
Nevertheless girls' provisioning for the traffic of white slave till now
fallen under the application that the great business enterprises have been
developed all over the world for assuring an enough number of
victims for this modern market. More and more times in the criminal
procedures against the men taken part in this traffic, when it questioned as
to their motives, they has given the simple one it replies "that more girls are
had need", and that they was promised to the great money for them." Even if
economic pressure as a reason to digitize an illegitimate life has been this way
revealed in court by the evidence in an amazing number of cases,
there is without doubt that it is often exaggerated; a girl always prefers
you think that economic pressure is the reason for its fall, also when
the immediate causes have been its love to like, its desire for
elegance or the influence of bad companions. It is easy for her, as for
all of us, to be deceived as to the true motives. Besides this the
unfortunate girl that has entered on an illegitimate discoveries of life the experience
so terrible that, day by day, she strives him to justify him with the
excuse of which the money that she earns need is had for the support of some one
dependent on her, so following habits established by generations of
virtuous women that would appreciate weak people. I know such a girl that lives in
a disreputable house to Chicago that you/he/she has adopted a delicate child
afflicted with bending of the backbone with that she boards respectable
people and it holds out for a lot of weeks of every year in an expensive