Excerpt from Annual Report of the Committee of Fifteen, 1912 Connected with the actual procuring and harboring of the victims, are frequently brought to light practices which, if called to the attention of any man above the level of the beast, would cause him to take a hand in the fight just as an expression of his American manhood. The Committee deliberated for some time before makingpublic, these further statements owing to a strong desire to avoid all appearance of sensationalism. But, in justice to these wretched victims, practices so utterly Vile, Brutal and Debased ought to be given the searchlight of the strongest publicity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.