When girls are paid wages inadequate to keep them from starvation, or to permit them to live decently, a certain proportion are forced by their economic misery into lives of vice.

The employers and all others responsible for these conditions stand on a moral level not far above the white slavers themselves.

But it is a mistake to suppose that either the correction of these economic conditions or the abolition of the white slave trade will wholly correct the evil or will even reach the major part of it.

The economic factor is very far from being the chief factor in inducing girls to go into this dreadful life.

As with so many other problems, while there must be governmental action, there must also be strengthening of the average individual character in order to achieve the desired end.