Laura Monologue from The Machine

From The Machine by Upton Sinclair

female · defiant · 1:07 min

I can understand some things very clearly. I go down into the slums and I see all that welter of misery. I see the forces of evil that exist there, defiant and hateful... the saloons and the gambling-houses, and that ghastly white-slave traffic, of which Annie Rogers is the victim. And there is the political organization, taking its toll from all these, and using it to keep itself in power. And there is Boss Grimes, who is at the head of all... and he is one of my father's intimate associates. I ask about it, and I am told that it is a matter of "business." But why should my father do business with a man whose chief source of income is vice? (MONTAGUE: That is not quite the case, Miss Hegan.) Doesn't the vice tribute go to him?

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