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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World - -Author: Robert O. Harland - -Release Date: September 3, 2013 [EBook #43631] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VICE BONDAGE *** - - - - -Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by The Internet Archive.) - - - - - - - - - - THE VICE BONDAGE OF A GREAT CITY - - OR - - The Wickedest City in the World - - --By-- - ROBERT O. HARLAND. - - The Reign of Vice, Graft and Political Corruption. - - Expose of the monstrous Vice Trust. Its personnel. - Graft by the Vice Trust from the Army of Sin for - protection. A score of forms of vice graft. - Horrifying revelations of the life of the Scarlet - Woman. New lights on White Slavery. Protected - Gambling and the blind police. The inside story of - an enslaved police department. A warning to the - parents. How to save YOUR GIRL or BOY. - - ALSO remedies to cure the Municipal Evil that in one - city alone fills the pockets of not more than ten - Vice Lords with $15,000,000, annually, made from the - sins of 50,000 unfortunate men and women; an evil - that is blasting our nation's decency and prosperity - and is eating into the very vitals of our Republic. - - Save the growing generation of men and women. - - A book to create public and saving opinion, to destroy - lethargy and inoculate the germ of activity; to enlist - every aid to wipe out the curse of this nation. - - - - - Copyright, 1912, - by - ROBERT O. HARLAND. - - PUBLISHED BY - THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CIVIC LEAGUE - 301-305 Security Building - Chicago, Ill. - - - - -This book is a recital of sin, crime and graft. It is fact, not fiction. -Commercialized crime, police collusion with underworld power and the -barter of men's and women's souls is going on today. - -The investigation conducted by the Civil Service Commission, which has -resulted in the discharge of several police inspectors and a number of -subordinates, has tended to minimize, temporarily, the vice conditions. - -The vice lords have sneaked away to their lairs, and are waiting until the -brooms of the municipal house-cleaners are stacked away in a corner. - -The "town is closed," to use the vernacular. - -That fact does not detract from the moral value of this expose. - -Why? - -Because the storm will blow over. - -The axe of the Civil Service Commission has hacked deep into the trunk of -the Vice-Graft tree, but the roots from which the sap of crime flows still -live and flourish. - -A few policemen have been thrown into the discard, the victims of the -System that is still unharmed. - -The Temple of Crime, Vice and Graft will be rebuilded. The foundation is -intact. - -The conditions which are exposed in this book flourished until a few -months ago. Their human causes still live, but craven with fear. - -The Vice Trust shall thrive on men's souls and women's bodies again. - -It shall exist until the root of evil is killed--until corrupt and ruling -politics is hounded out of the city--to death! - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - Preface Page 9 - - CHAPTER I. THE VICE TRUST, ITS KINGDOM AND POWER. - - The Story of Chicago's Subjugation to Political and Police - Corruption.--The Corrupt Ballot Box.--The Mechanism of the - Trust.--The Prices of Sin and Vice.--The Horror of Ruined - and Purchased Lives.--The Remedy 15 - - CHAPTER II. THE DEBAUCHERY OF THE BALLOT. - - The Sacredness of the Ballot.--Its Corruption by the Vice - Trust.--Methods of Corruption.--Affidavits Showing - Corruption.--A Cleansed Ballot Box, A Cleansed City 47 - - CHAPTER III. COME AND SEE. A City Defiled. - - The First Step.--State Street and Its Pitfalls.--The Stages - of Sin.--The Borderland of Hell.--The Cafe Evil.--The Rich - Man's Girl Trap.--Crimes that Thrive by Night 63 - - CHAPTER IV. THE "REDLIGHT" DISTRICT. - - Houses of Infamy.--The Feeders of the "Redlight" District.-- - The Life of a Prostitute.--The Big Palaces of Vice.--The - Blood Price.--Hidden Tragedies.--The Polluted Grave 87 - - CHAPTER V. WHAT WILL YOU BID FOR THIS WOMAN? - - White Slavery.--The Trapping of the Prey.--Price of a Body - and Soul.--Hell's Bondage.--The "Cadet" Master.--Death the - Penalty 100 - - CHAPTER VI. VICE AND GRAFT. - - Police Collectors.--The Triumvirate.--Figures that Freeze - the Blood.--Graft that Feeds on Flesh and Blood.--The - Prostitute's Graft Price.--The Kimona Trust.--The Laundry - Trust.--The Criminal Doctor.--The Prostitute and the Beer - Graft.--The Woman and the "Cadet."--Terrible Examples.--Lure - of the Life.--The Pace that Kills.--To the Woman: - Death.--How about Your Daughter? 108 - - CHAPTER VII. SIDE GRAFTS OF THE SOCIAL EVIL. - - The Rent Graft.--Saloon Graft.--Dance Halls and Protective - Prices.--Graft from the Vice Palaces.--The Massage - Parlor.--The Drug Crime.--The Vampire Trust 143 - - CHAPTER VIII. GAMBLING AND ITS GRAFT. - - The Gambler's Fate.--The Handbook.--Other Games of Chance - and Their Protection.--Police Profit.--All Gambling - Crooked.--A Warning 156 - - CHAPTER IX. TEARING OFF THE POLICE MASK. - - A Story of the Hypocrisy of the Police Department.--Its - Neglect of Duty.--Its Protection of Crime.--The Fate of One - Police Official.--The Lost Child that is Never Found.--The - Exposure of Big Crimes.--"Tipped Off" Raids.--Strange - Ignorance of Police.--The Fate of the Honest - Policeman.--Collusion of the Police and Thieves 174 - - CHAPTER X. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? - - The Cause of the Great Evils.--A Warning.--The Duty of - Parents.--Young Girls and Boys Should Know the Truth.-- - Conclusion 190 - - - - -Preface. - - -Seventy-five years have elapsed since Chicago became an incorporated city. - -From a trading post with Fort Dearborn standing guard over its small -population, Chicago has grown until today she ranks among the great -metropoles of the world. - -Today her name is reckoned with in every country. Her industries are the -supply houses of the nations; her manufacturing plants deal with all -peoples; her financial institutions figure vitally in the world's -exchanges. - -Chicago is the most cosmopolitan city on the globe. The children of all -races have been attracted to her because of the thousands of opportunities -in all walks of life. - -We live in a sordid age of commercialism suffering from intense -neurasthenia. We have made our factories and our places of business our -temples. We have enthroned the dollar-god, and fawning, have paid worship -to it seeking its gold and silver in return. - -It has been said by an English philosopher that the optic nerve of the -American people has been paralyzed by the glitter of gold. That is true of -Chicago. It is true that our moral sense has been warped. Morality has -lost its value except as it subserves our financial and material -interests. - -Vice has been co-existent with human consciousness. An abuse of natural -laws affecting the race through the individual, is vice in its broadest -interpretation. In the annals of the world's history we find moral -degradation triumphant on one page and defeated on the next. There seems -to be a constant balancing of the moral and social scale. - -In all ages vice has been, in a sense, commercialized. The vicious have -always lived off it, fattened upon it, and died of its slow insidious -poison. - -It remained for this industrial and much-vaunted age systematically to -commercialize vice. - -Chicago with its 2,000,000 inhabitants, its vicious element of unfortunate -men and women, its haunts of degradation and shame, its wealth and its -poverty, and its democratic form of government, was the experimental place -of a "scientific," systematized commercialization of sin. - -God knows and men are beginning to realize how well the experiment has -succeeded! - -There is no excuse or reason for trumpeting a city's shame if the -conditions are simply the result of isolated vice and terrible social -environments. If that were all, this book would never have been written. - -Tersely, we have come to our task with a solemn duty and moral obligation -in our heart, mind and soul, viz:-- - -To show the world at large that Chicago is today the Wickedest City in -the World, because a small body of men, invested with a sacred power, -political and social, has created a gigantic and ever-growing Vice Trust, -annually becoming richer and more dangerous off the sins and crimes of -degraded men and abandoned women. - -It is our intention to demonstrate to the world the machinations of the -corporation of crime, its political power, its enslavery of 5,000 fallen -women in the segregated districts and twice as many more at large within -the city, its annual earnings from a toleration of vice and crime, its -prostitution of the police department, and its hideous and myriad ways of -trapping new victims to take the places of those whom it had driven to -despair and untimely death. - -The story is shocking to your moral sense; paralyzing to your brain; but -it is the Truth. It should be known. Too long have we groped blindly in -the dark. An hour of awakening is needed. - -Vice might be eradicated if the vast system, whose existence we are about -to describe, could be first obliterated. Unless the root be removed, the -evil will grow rapidly again, despite sincere and persistent reforms. It -is our intention to show by logical narration of facts how the annual -tribute paid to the Vice Trust for protection and nourishment by the -hordes of living demons in the city of Chicago is at least $15,000,000. - -The life-blood of women, bought and sold on the auction block of the Vice -Combine, the innocent girls who barter their lives of purity for a sip of -the poison of the bitter wine of life, the men who drag the shackles of -sin on their limbs, and the hellish fiends who serve Satan on earth, -prostrate before the directorate of the Vice Trust, offer their tribute to -the over lords of the city's degradation. - -This book is not the fantastic, lurid picturing of the shames of women and -the crimes of men. It is an expose of how not more than ten men whom we -call the Directorate of Ten, create, organize, mobilize and lead, and -derive almost fabulous profits from, an army of thousands of unfortunates. - -It is the story of a power wrested from the people at the debauched ballot -boxes and used as the weapon to murder men and women annually. This is not -the dream of an overzealous mind seeking sincerely to right a terrible -wrong. It is a cold, statistical narration of facts. It is the -observations of one who for ten years has studied every phase of the -demoniacal system, who has been intimately associated with the Directorate -of Ten, who has stood by and watched the never-ending procession of the -men and women slaves who have done the monster's bidding and fallen -inevitably into the charnal houses of the dead. - -The average Chicago man or woman knows of the thousand and one forms of -vice that flourish in Chicago, but he or she does not know that the entire -vice system works in harmony like the most delicate piece of mechanism. -The voters do not know that vice is more perfectly organized in Chicago -today than any corporation in existence. The writer has set out to show -in the glaring, white light of truth the real causes of the present -social evil. - -The social evil today does not find its ultimate reason in unrestrained -passions, human viciousness and weakness; it finds its reason in the -commercialization of debased creatures and the enslavement of them in -profitable labors to their masters, until death. - -The Vice Trust to increase constantly its profits has a thousand lures for -the unwary. The masters of these infamous pitfalls are the lieutenants of -this monstrous trust. The writer knows of all these chasms and has studied -the horrifying details of the men and women traps. He has attempted to set -them forth and nail the sign of warning above them. - -The wages of sin is Death! If once a woman or a man is enslaved in any one -of the traps set by the Vice Trust then death lies at the end of a short -path. Yearly, thousands of young and pure girls and ambitious and clean -young men, come to Chicago as to the city of dreams, pleasure and glory. -Yearly, thousands are trapped and soon pay the awful penalty. The city boy -and the city girl are not immune. Many of them meet similar fates. If the -writer can stem the rush of these young souls to the fires of living hells -he will feel well rewarded for his task. He has endeavored, by placing the -responsibility for the social evil on corrupt politics that has created a -grafting, robbing, and murdering Vice Trust, to put the subject in a new -and interesting light. To the men and women who sleep not, because their -children, young and undefiled, are growing up within the reach of an -insatiable monster, does the writer particularly appeal. He has attempted -to show that the Vice Trust, the secret cause of municipal degradation, is -the monster that must be annihilated. - -The Chicago police department is an inefficient and corrupted body today, -that is protecting vice and not destroying it, because a majority of its -members are enslaved by the Vice Trust. Every vice, every sin, every crime -has its price of toleration. This is the reign of the triumvirate of vice, -graft and political corruption. - -To all men of character and worth, to every father and every mother with -the welfare of their children at heart, the writer appeals in the battle -against this hideous evil. - -One soul saved, one man helped, one woman turned from the pathway of hell -will give this volume a human value. The author in conclusion asks a -thorough consideration of the facts related and hopes that all to whom -this book may come, may feel its message of truth and join the ranks of -the army of righteous men and women who have pledged their lives to make -Chicago a city after man's highest conception, a place where our children -may grow to maturity imbued with the spirit and character that make true -American men and women. - -[Illustration: LOST OPPORTUNITIES OF HISTORY. - -By Courtesy of The Chicago Daily News. - -WHAT DANTE MISSED.] - - - - -CHAPTER I. - -The Vice Trust, its Kingdom and its Power. - -The Story of Chicago's Subjugation to Political and Police Corruption--The -Corrupt Ballot Box--The Mechanism of the Trust--The Prices of Sin and -Vice--The Horror of Ruined and Purchased Lives--The Remedy. - - -Seventy-five years ago a body of pioneer souls who dared death for the -dream of individual liberty, wealth and happiness, founded a city, and -after the manner of the times, adopted an Indian name and called it -Chicago. - -The city grew, prospered, flourished; likewise did the inhabitants. Nature -seemed to bless all who settled within her boundaries. Resources undreamed -of were discovered. - -The lake breezes fanned the tiny flame of future greatness and the sun -warmed the ambitious blood of the early inhabitants. She became the golden -gate to the unexplored West. She became the cosmopolitan and central point -of a world power. Chicago was talked of, considered, bargained with from -East to West, and North to South. - -With vastness came power; with power, abuse; with abuse, vice; with vice, -crime; with crime, graft. - -It is of CHICAGO, TODAY, we write. - -Truth sears, eats, destroys that which is but veneer and golden covering. - -Chicago has blinded herself to the hideous truth. She has hidden her head, -closed her eyes and cried out: - -"I will not see!" - -Vice, like some slimy, hideous, mephitic, green-eyed monster from the -deepest abyss of Hell has crept, sinuous and noiseless, on an unsuspecting -people. - -It has battened upon red, pure life-blood. It has fattened on white flesh. -It has destroyed virginal purity, public morals and political honesty. - -The monster has been insatiable. Satan, king of the damned dead since the -Beginning, urged on the monster Vice. - -His political minions kneeled and offered sacrifice to the incarnate Evil -of the World. To save themselves they fed him of the rich and sacred -stores of the city. They took their portion. - -They are still taking their share. - -They still feed the monster. They are its slaves; they, appointed by the -people to safeguard them and to make their laws. - -The monster Vice is fed by the police and politicians, who, under cover of -night and darkness, plunder, steal, cheat and murder to satisfy its greed. - -We speak not in metaphor; this is the literal truth. We shall prove it. - -If Satan came out of the depths of his Inferno, away from the shrieks of -the lost millions, he would wander from city to city until he reached -Chicago. - -Then, in this twentieth century of culture, refinement and progress, he -would stand outside the gates, smile in triumph and speak this,--the -living, shameful, naked truth: - -This is the CITY ACCURSED! This is the CITY OF THE LIVING DAMNED! This is -the CITY OF MY DESIRE! This is the CITY AFTER MY OWN HEART! VICE, CRIME, -CORRUPTION RULE:--MY TRIUMVIRATE! - -This is THE MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD! - -Satan would tell the truth. - -Chicago today is the most wicked city in the world. - -Babylon had its vices; so, too, Alexandria. Greece and Rome struggled and -died in a national moral degeneracy they had created. - -Chicago has surpassed them in wickedness. - -Nay, Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by the wrath of Heaven, were pure when -compared to Chicago. - -Paris and its lure of vice is tame by the side of Chicago. - -There is no parallel in history. There is no adequate comparison. - -Chicago leads the world in evil today. She stalks at the head of the Army -of Sin:--a beautiful, sensuous mistress and paramour to a personalized god -of named and unnamed Crime. The army is composed of bodies and souls that -Hell has claimed but not called. Their destinies are still unfinished on -earth. - -And why is Chicago the Hell-hole of the world? - -Because she has taken the failings, sins, defects, crimes, miseries and -vices of humanity, hurled them into a seething caldron of infamy, melted -them, amalgamated them and commercialized them. - -A Vice-Graft system has been created. It has been formed along the lines -of modern commerce and finance. - -Today the institution is stronger, more powerful, more impregnable than -the biggest financial or industrial combine in the United States! - -In fact, it has absorbed many and invaded mysteriously and secretly every -other enterprise founded on decency and honesty. It is living off every -legitimate trade, business and industry in Chicago. - -That is the limitless scope of the Vice Trust of Chicago, unincorporated, -but possessing a capital running high into the millions of dollars and -souls. - -There are three stockholders, speaking in a collective sense, in Chicago's -Vice Trust, namely:-- - -The inhabitants of the highways and byways and gilded houses of infamy. - -The police department of the city. - -A coterie of politicians. - -These form the board of directors of the ruthless, merciless, parasitic, -powerful corporation of Vice, Graft, Crime & Co. - -Scarcely an individual, scarcely an industry fails to yield its life-blood -to that infamous trust! It feeds like a great octopus on the entire city. -Many of us are its unconscious victims! - - -CHICAGO--THE LIVING, BREATHING HELL. - -"Leave behind all hope, all ye who enter here." - -Dante dreamed he saw that line above the fiery gates of Hell. - -To those who know and understand, that line flames as if written by the -fiery finger of Fate, in the heavens above Chicago. - -You, all of you, dwelling without its polluted precincts, cannot enter it -without being trapped into the meshes of the Vice-Graft combine! - -Spider-like, it has woven its web over and about the city. Enter and you -are entangled, consciously or unconsciously. - -There is no escape. We shall prove this broad, sweeping statement. - -From the depot to the cab, from the cab to the hotel, from the hotel to -the dining room, barber shop, manicure room or other places, the monster -trails you. The Vice Trust's agents are forever lurking in your shadow. - -To the store, place of business, halls of amusement, the silent form -sneaks behind you, exacting from you a toll for the privilege of walking -the streets of Chicago and breathing God's free air. - -When you leave for your quiet, peaceful hometown, the minions of the trust -follow you almost to the sacred entrance of an undefiled home. Only the -sanctity, purity and goodness, stops them there. - -Such is the system! - - -THE SYSTEM AND ITS CAUSES. - -Vice is co-existent with reason. Vice is a form of the abuse of reason. - -As the city grew like a mushroom, so vice grew. All elements were -attracted. - -Vice crept in, grew and flourished. Its resources were human souls and -bodies,--men and women. - -It became a great, eating, nauseating, foul-smelling ulcer on the body -municipal. - -It needed control. - -Control--police regulation--was given it. Flagrant, unblushing vice was -hidden away in the corners of the city, to fester and die unseen. - -But vice never dies. It lives on the body it has destroyed. Its existence -is parasitic. - -It grew, grew, grew. Then like a many-armed octopus it stretched out and -out about it. - -Craven souls, dealing with it, sworn by law to slay it, felt the terror of -death upon them. Also, with Satanic insight they saw the-- - -POSSIBILITIES! - -Gold! Gold! Luxury! Power! Wealth! - -Ever since the beginning we have cried for them, sinned for them. - -Here was the chance. - - -THE COMPACT WRITTEN IN FLESH AND BLOOD. - -"Let the creature Vice live and thrive, but give us part of the red blood -and white flesh of its victims"--was the thought. - -The politician saw the opportunity. He could not evolve the scheme without -the aid of the police, so he confessed his conceived crime. The police -consented. Then the leaders of the cohorts of vice were told of the -combine and its ultimatum. They, too, consented. - -"Give us part of the blood and flesh money and you may live and we will -protect you."--said the politicians and the police officials. - -Out of the cavernous depths of Chicago's Hell, where thousands yearned to -be free to sow death without hindrance, came the fiendish answer:-- - -"WE WILL!" - -The compact was written in letters of blood. Thousands gave up health, -happiness and life to launch the Vice Trust. - -Today it is in its zenith! - -Competition has been a factor in making and completing its triumph. - -We have spoken collectively of the Vice Trust organization. - - -THE DIRECTORATE OF GRAFT, CRIME AND CORRUPTION. - -Individually, today, ten powerful politicians lay down the law, exact the -toll, distribute it, after taking their major share, pass sentence of -life and death on good and bad, direct the huge and intricate machinery, -pay off the hundreds of employes,--principally members of the police -department,--high and low, and plan to enlarge and strengthen the -greatest, strangest and most complex organization in the world. - -It is the Directorate of Ten! - -They have divided the city between them and their vassals. They are the -rulers of the mysterious underworld, living like princes and rulers in the -white palaces of the overworld, surfeited with the heavy luxuries of life. - - -POLITICS, POLICE AND VICE. - -Political power is the greatest of all power. It can subjugate with iron -hand all other powers. - -The Directorate of Ten found willing agents in the police department of -Chicago. It has them today, and if needs be, can find more. Human souls -are easily purchased. - -Today the system is intricate. So intricate that the combine has received -the appellation,--the Vice System. - -To exist, vice, in any one of its thousand forms, must pay tribute. The -tribute is shared with the police for protection. - -Many police inspectors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants and patrolmen -receive portions. - -Segregation, flaunted to the world as the best remedy yet found for the -social evil, is but a lie on the part of the Vice Trust. - -Only a portion of the unit Vice is kept within the limits of four -"redlight" districts. The rest stalks the streets, free, robbing its -victims in the glare of the noon-day sun. - -The lost women-souls of the levees are but a pitiful and small part of the -army of Vice. They simply dwell in the rendezvous of the thousands who -live by infamy. - - -FOR EACH CRIME A PRICE! - -From all vice-sources tribute is exacted monthly by the police themselves -or by the low, inhuman collectors of the Vice Trust. - -Every vice has its price of toleration for existence! - -Every possible violation of the law, the powers that be will wink at at so -much per wink! - -All this infamy,--this protection of crime and reeking corruption, exists -today in Chicago. - - -THE ATTACK UPON THE TRUST. - -The Civil Service Commission of Chicago attacked the bulwarks of the Trust -of Crime. - -The police department was the point of assault. Several officials were -discharged for incompetency and inefficiency. Had they destroyed that -Satanic allegiance the backbone of the Combine might have been broken. - -Chicago stood paralyzed at the revelations. The truth was murderous in -its hideous nakedness. No one had ever dreamed of the scope of its -business--the vice business. - -The unholy alliance struggled to outlive the attack. Back on to the weak, -narrow shoulders of unsystematized infamy the politicians and the police -threw the blame. - -The network of vice, the spiderweb of crime, the intricate working of the -System, the collusion of vice-parasites and political and police magnates -have become known. The story has more interest than a novel born of the -imagination of genius; more lure than the best detective story ever -penned; more fascination than any page in ancient or modern literature; -because it is palpitating, aching present day truth. Because it is a -living fact. Because it is an "elbow to elbow" condition. Because it is -the story of a great city, lost to goodness, and won to wickedness. - -It is the story of Chicago! - -The hideous ulcer is no longer concealed. It festers no longer in the -dark. Its poison seeths in the searing light of inquiry. - - -THE VICE-GRAFT CIRCLE:--WITHOUT BEGINNING, WITHOUT END. - -Political power to become absolutism without danger of extinction needs -strong, imperishable foundations. - -To hold vice-control meant to rule a vice territory with iron hand. - -It was accomplished. - - -THE BALLOT:--THE SECRET OF VICE POWER. - -This is the way it was done and still is being done. Take those political -precincts within whose boundaries the "redlight" districts exact their -toll from the thousands of unfortunate souls, who live in the iniquitous -Hell-holes or haunt them in search of pleasure. - -Political powers were busy systematizing. Elections threatened to defeat -them and kill their plans. - -The ballot box was the salvation. - -The prostitution of the ballot came into existence and lives and -flourishes today, the primal blot on Chicago's once honorable escutcheon! - -To gain an election, to hold political and vice-power the ballot box was -and is stuffed by a subtle and almost unpunishable method. - -A district, by way of example, is populated by a floating and transient -element, brought into Chicago by the agents of the corrupt or drawn here -by promises of lucrative gain. - -These men are used to stuff the ballot boxes and secure a victory of -crime, sin and iniquity. - -On the South Side there are scores of hotels, whose standard and character -are written in unmistaken language on their very exteriors. These also -exist on the West and North sides of the city. - -The assignation houses and the cheap lodging houses are the media for -slaying the honest ballot. - -Men, brought to the city to corrupt elections, register in these places -under the names of prostitutes and absent inmates and under this guise, -cast polluted votes. - - -THE BALLOT-CONTROL OF VICE. - -One man on election day can easily cast ten votes under ten names of ten -dissolute women, who live in the hotels under cognomens, giving initials -for their first names. - -One hundred men can cast 1,000 illicit votes. That is sufficient to carry -an aldermanic election. - -One thousand men can cast 10,000 ballots! - -That, in a pinch, could sweep honesty from the highest office in the city, -and crown a Vice Trust vassal,--mayor! - -This is how the Vice Trust wields the balance of power in Chicago, a power -that can crush any business, any man, can remove to the "woods" any -policeman or police official who refuses to obey its decrees, and so on -without limit. - -Destroy this and Chicago might once more rear her head in pride. It is the -clutch that sets in motion all the machinery of evil. - -Wreck that clutch and the delicate, subtle mechanism of concerted crime -would disintegrate. - -Chicago is blind to the terrible evil of the plethoric ballot box, but the -eyes of thousands are being slowly opened. - -The "prostitute-repeating" system is but one of the means employed to gain -and sustain political control. Hundreds of other methods are in vogue -today and working their evil effects. - -"Stamp out Vice and Evil. Eliminate the red-lighted, tinsel Houses of -Shame; give our city to God." - -This is the cry of the churches, led by their praiseworthy pastors. - -Oh, ye with eyes that see not, and ears that are deaf to the voices of -hell, strike now and strike hard. - -But strike not at the thousands of fallen women, nor at the brothel -keepers, nor at the dive owners, nor at the panderers, not yet, at least. - -STRIKE, FIRST, AT THE POLITICAL SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS ALL AND REIGNS OVER -ALL. - -Destroy the foundation and the superstructure will topple over of itself. - -Break the power that begins and ends at the ballot box. Break the power -that sucks at the veins of the myriad army of the lost, and lives on the -white ways of decency. - -That is the evil! Kill it! - -In showing the Unbroken Circle of Iniquity we have shown where the control -of crime is begotten. - -And now the parts, interlocked so finely that the connecting points are -lost, are to be revealed. - -Once political power is assured, all else is inevitable by the nature of -things. - - -THE POLICE COLLECTORS. - -The political power finds its agents. They are of necessity, the police. -Willing spirits are found. - -The guardians of the law and public safety are hired out by the political -kings to collect their tolls from their sycophants and vassals. - -Chicago policemen, high and low,--we venture to say eighty per cent of -them,--are today by virtue of the collection and tribute system the -confederates of every species of criminal, of every exploiter of every -known kind of vice. - -They aid, abet and allow these law violators to thrive. - -Vice and crime must pay its tribute to the police. The police must turn -over the bulk of the proceeds to their political masters. No criminal can -continue in his nefarious business without paying the price. It is called -Police Protection. - -That is the blind. In reality it is Political Protection. The police are -but the body guard, the secret service of the corrupt-- - -Directorate of Ten. - -Under Police Protection, for so many dollars per day, according to the -nature of the crime-business being carried on, every form of vice flaunts -itself in the face of Chicago's 2,000,000 inhabitants and its thousands of -country visitors. - -It is no secret. Chicago knows. But she has failed to observe the reason, -and to open her eyes is the mission of this book. - - -THE PRICE OF CRIME:--$15,000,000 A YEAR! - -From the army of vice the yearly tribute to the Directorate of Ten--the -controlling power--is almost unbelievable. - -The figures stagger one. - -With reserve, not exaggeration, we make this statement:-- - -Chicago's vice legion yields for existence and for protection the sum of-- - -$15,000,000 annually. - -Think of it! Crime pays that fortune to exist and rob the public of more -money. - -We are not dealing with the thieving contractors who rob the citizens -through fixed contracts. We treat only of the crime that the police are -sworn to slay. - -$15,000,000 put into the coffers of men supposed to be representing the -people that the donors may go on destroying the souls and bodies of women, -the souls and bodies of men! - -That astounding offering to appease the human Juggernauts and to sow in -the youths and maidens of our nation the seeds of incurable diseases! - -That sum in the blood-stained hands of demagogues to blast a city's -decency and prosperity and to eat into the very vitals of our Republic! - -In small envelopes, dirty and diseased, bacteria-bearing paper money and -grimy silver are handed in the dark or the light to policemen or outside -collectors to be turned over to the Directorate of Ten. - -Let the figure $15,000,000 in tribute burn into the recesses of your -brain if you would realize the gigantic and almost indescribable character -of crime in Chicago. - -It is estimated that the $15,000,000 annual vice tribute is less than half -a year's aggregate earnings. - -Do you realize that $15,000,000 is five per cent of $300,000,000? - - -A VICE CAPITAL OF FLESH AND BLOOD. - -Think of it! - -Almost half a billion dollars! - -But the capital in this business is not so many dollars. It is human -flesh, human souls, human blood! Can they be measured in dollars? - -There is no capital in this hideous trust that stands in banks. The real -capital must be turned over and over. The exhausted bodies of men and -women fill the incurable disease wards of the hospital, the crippled and -broken down inhabit the shacks of the tenements, and thousands are buried -in paupers' graves. - -This is the price of the slaves! - -There is nothing but the world of infamy. Nothing but the aching, diseased -bodies of women. Nothing but the outraged purity of childhood. Nothing but -the toiling, unrestrained passions of fiends. Nothing but the lust that is -insatiable, the desire that fattens on the poisons it eats. - -After years of investigation, acquiring information from politicians, -police officials and their subordinates, gamblers, habitues of the levees, -and nearly five hundred more vassals of the vice trust, we have placed -the protection figure at $15,000,000. - -Attorney W. W. Wheelock, counsel for the Civil Service Commission and the -man who attempted to break up the Vice-Police-Political graft combine, in -speaking of this subject, said: - -"I have as yet only scratched the veneer and the surface of this -terrifying evil, but the results have made me reel in horror and -amazement. At this time I estimate that the yearly graft is $15,000,000. - -"The true figure, when all things are considered, must run far above that. -It is evident that at least eighty per cent of the police, at some time or -other, are grafters. The system of tribute and graft burrows into every -legitimate pursuit and finds some undreamed of channel of graft." - -And Ellis Geiger, an alderman, made an astounding statement in full -council session, when the subject of appropriation to aid in the police -graft investigation was before that body. He said:-- - -"From the reports of investigators and men who have knowledge of -conditions in our city, vice pays tribute of $15,000,000 annually to the -police for its liberty of existence." - -Both these men are citizens of high repute, men of intelligence and -understanding. Both have placed the vice-graft at a tremendous figure, but -they have not carefully studied all the sources of collection. These when -considered, make $15,000,000 a very conservative estimate. - -What must be the murderous heart and the demon's soul of a monster that is -willing to pay such a price to wallow in the trough of moral filth and -physical bestiality! - - -THE EVILS OF A WORLD IN A MELTING POT. - -"Name a vice, a crime, a sin, that was known from the Beginning to the -present day, and I'll show it to you in Chicago today." - -Several years ago when the agents of the system were bolder in their -depravity, a "guide" stood outside the Polk street depot, waited for the -"gentlemen of the long green" and excited curiosity by the above -pronouncement. - -He could truthfully shout it from the housetops today. - -To it he would add, if he were to tell the entire truth:-- - -"I will show you not only every crime, but I will tell you the price of -its existence paid to members of Chicago's police department, and other -collectors of the Vice Trust." - -Search and you can find:-- - -Salient shows, obscene amusement houses, houses of prostitution, -segregated and otherwise, fashionable "flats" in choice neighborhoods, -dens of reeking infamy for the congregation of humanity's lowest dregs, -rendezvous for degenerate white women and negro men, clubs and resorts -where degeneracy in its most revolting forms are practiced, professional -beggars, rich pickpockets, pretty shoplifters, leering street-walkers, -cocaine, morphine and opium dens, fake palmists and fortune tellers, and -gambling in its hundreds of luring, deceptive forms. - -That is Chicago's generic crime list. If we omit, name the sin and it can -be found. That is the army that pays the graft to the police and other -creatures of the Vice Trust. - -Then, there are walking the streets of Chicago, known to the police, a -score of bomb throwers, men under pay of the gamblers, who have the police -as partners, who threw over half a hundred bombs that destroyed nearly -$1,000,000 worth of property. - - -THE UNDERWORLD CONTRIBUTORS. - -Two thousand gamblers pay their blood money. - -Five thousand women, offered as slaves on the auction block of -prostitution, give their lives to make up the hellish tolls. - -More than five hundred keepers of houses of ill fame contribute their -blood-dripping dollars. - -Owners of five hundred "flats" or assignation houses pay their -"life-price." - -We have said that every form of evil exists. We shall show in this book -the amounts of money paid by the minions and promoters of each vice for -police and political protection. - -Our figures are accurate. They are founded on the statements of men who -once paid blood-money to live. They are the prices demanded by the Vice -Trust today. - -The graft scale is so astonishing as to be almost unbelievable. - -Cold figures are set down by the over lords; cold dollars are paid by the -lawless. Failure to pay means ruin. Grace is rarely given. The new man or -woman seeking to open a vice-business must pay a high entrance fee to the -political powers. Their protection price is always higher than that -exacted from the "old timers." The more hideous the crime-business the -higher the protective compensation for it. The greater the profits -accruing, the more the weight of the gold and silver poured into the -coffers of the corrupt politicians and their allies. - -In the white palaces of hidden sin, where degeneracy boasts of its -infamous acts, and where men of wealth and women of fashion congregate to -turn loose their insane lusts without fear of detection or restraint, the -price of existence runs into the thousands of dollars. - -In several vice emporiums, fitted as sumptuously as the homes of -millionaires on Lake Shore Drive, the protection for traffic in white, -delicate and beautiful bodies of young girls is $1,000 a month! - -From the elegantly furnished roulette parlor to the den of quarreling, -cursing negroes in the "black belt,"--from the highest place of gaming to -the lowest--the price to go on filching thousands of men and women is -paid, and paid willingly. - - -THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ANDS ITS LIFE-PRICE. - -The White Slave Traffic--the most infamous, foulest, lowest and -destructive feature of Chicago's wickedness,--pays a terrible price to the -lords of the underworld. - -Police protection is granted it at terrible risk to the police and -politicians themselves. For this reason the price is high. - -We all know what the White Slave Traffic signifies. - -In a word it is:-- - -The buying, by insidious means, of thousands of pure, trusting and -innocent girls, the casting of them into the horrifying flesh markets and -the auctioning of them to infamous, polluted and brutal slave masters and -mistresses for a blood price. - -It is the desecration of virginal sanctity. The bartering of women-souls -for dollars. - -It is the tearing away of beautiful girls from their parents and the -fireside, and the thrusting of them into living hells. - -IT IS SLOW, SURE MURDER! - -AND THIS REEKING, DASTARDLY INFAMY HAS ITS PRICE? GOD! WHAT A SACRILEGE! - -Of this evil and its relation to the Vice Trust we shall speak at length -in a separate chapter. - - -PROTECTION PRICES OF ALL VICES. - -And now here are some startling figures. We will tabulate them, so they -will leave their proper impression. - -THE LIST. - - Tribute - per month - Houses of Prostitution-- - Those known as "dollar" houses $20.00 - "Two and three dollar" houses (for each inmate) $25.00 - "Five dollar" houses (for each inmate) $35.00 - "Ten dollar" houses (for each inmate) $40.00 - Fashionable "flats" $25.00 to $500.00 - Assignation hotels $25.00 to $500.00 - High class houses where rich old men bring - young girls of virtue $500.00 to $1,000.00 - Dives of vice where whites and blacks mix $200.00 - Saloons with women "hustlers" $100.00 - Cafes with "hustlers" (of prosperous trade) $100 to $300.00 - Infamous dance halls $50.00 - Infamous dance halls, extra for immoral dances $50.00 - All-night saloons $50.00 - Obscene acting in houses of ill fame $200.00 to $500.00 - Handbooks and poolrooms 50 per cent - Faro games 50 per cent - Stuss ("Jewish poker") 50 per cent - Poker and other games 50 per cent - Crap games 50 per cent - Gambling houses with all games 50 per cent - Chinese gambling of all sorts 50 per cent - Opium dens $50.00 - Cocaine and morphine selling $100.00 - Manicure and massage parlors where the women - employes are really prostitutes $100.00 - Pickpockets and confidence men not definite - Street walkers, or "hustlers" $20.00 to $50.00 - Professional bondsmen 50 per cent - Burglars and dynamiters not obtainable - "Vampire" Trust, (members of which are women - preying on patrons of fashionable hotels) 50 per cent - Professional beggars not definite - Fake street hawkers per day, $5.00 - Kimona Trust (to be explained later) 66 per cent - Laundry Trust 50 per cent - "Cadets," or "pimps" not definite - Chop Suey restaurants in certain districts $25.00 - -Such is the record of vice and crime and it is not complete. Such is the -record as it appears on the debtors' pages of the Vice Trust. - -Hundreds of petty forms of infamy have a price. Other crime-trades pay, -but the prices cannot be learned or estimated, so intricate are the -workings of the vicious combine. - -What do the agents of the White Slave Traffic pay to barter body and -blood? - -The trust has the secret blood price. Investigation by the state, city and -particularly the federal government, has shown its existence. The monthly -figure must be upwards of $10,000. - - -SIDE ISSUES IN THE VICE GRAFT. - -Nothing is consumed by the slaves of crime, nothing is used or even wasted -that does not hand over its pittance to the avaricious over lords. - -We shall give specific instances of the far-reaching, grasping power of -the trust to collect. - -In the South side "redlight" district but one brand of whiskey can be sold -today. - -The Directorate of Ten has so ordered. - -Why? - -Because a politician has the controlling interest in the manufacture and -sale of a certain brand of whiskey. Therefore, that is the kind of whiskey -sold. It is as logical as all things in the harmonious and well-oiled -system. No keeper of a house of ill fame, no bloated, blear-eyed -saloonkeeper of the district would offer any other brand. Wisely, if not -honestly, another capitalist of the vice-corporation has bought up a -cigarette concern. He makes and sells a poisonous, brain and -moral-destroying cigarette. Ask for cigarettes in any den of infamy in the -levees of the city, and this brand will be forced on you. Perhaps if you -strongly protest, you can obtain some other brand, but your protest must -be loud and insistent. - -Once more is evidenced the overwhelming, overreaching power of operative -and unified lawlessness. - -Another member of the Trust has sunk his crime-tainted dollars into a -taxi-cab concern. The corporation must yield a profitable harvest. - -Result: The man, who after satisfying his lust and passions, drunk with -the wine he has paid dearly for, and exhausted from a repulsive debauch, -is put into a taxi-cab and driven away from a "redlight" resort. That -taxi-cab belongs, through invested capital, to a member of the Crime -Directorate. Again the shadow of the monster. - -If a business man engages in the manufacture of gambling paraphernalia he -looks for a market,--usually the saloon or dive. When he seeks contracts -he is told: - -"Better see the boss." - -He sees him. He pays him, and then he installs his machines at will, even -over the protest of resort keepers. - -Again the hidden graft channel. - -Hundreds of pounds of opium are smuggled into Chicago yearly. The opium -dens pay their protection price, but long before that the policeman has -held out his hand behind his back, accepted the graft from the "importer" -and sent him on to sow a slow death to thousands through the petals of the -poppy bud. - - -THE QUACK DOCTORS OF CHICAGO. - -The city is overrun with quack doctors. Sensational and horrifying signs -adorn their windows, they advertise their "cures" in the columns of the -daily newspapers. They are the destroyers of health instead of the givers -of strong physiques and clear minds. Their prey is, in the most part, -out-of-town men and women and the illiterate of the city, who suffer, or -fear they are the victims of unmentionable diseases. - -Do they fatten on the proceeds of this crime, free of trust-tribute? - -Far from it. They pay a stipend from the fee wrung from the unfortunates -who enter their laboratories of crime. - -The professional bondsmen, usually "lieutenants" or friends of the men -"higher up" are useful assets in times of emergency. When the outlook is -dull, when the collection days are far away, they do good service, aided -by members of the police department. - -Suppose an unfortunate cesspool has failed to meet its obligations to the -vice lords. As a result the police are ordered by the "powers" to raid it. -They do so. At least a score of men are caught in the net. The -professional bondsman signs their bonds at a price ranging from $5 to $25 -each. The bondsman retains a small percentage, as also the police. The -rest goes to the vice rulers. - - -THE KIMONA TRUST AND THE VAMPIRE TRUST. - -The light, cheap and thin apparel worn by the lost women of the dens of -pollution contribute their small share to buy diamonds for the -vice-magnates. - -There is a vice-asset called the "Kimona Trust." Every stitch of clothing -worn by the women denizens of the underworld is made and sold by its -agents. - -For that trade it pays a regular and definite tribute. - -We could go on enumerating indefinitely and never reach an end. - -Graft, graft,--every kind from every dreamed-of source! - -The Vampire Trust is one of the novelties of Chicago's crime-world. It is -of recent creation. It is a subsidiary corporation of the "big combine." - -One hundred women, it is estimated, form its rank and file. They are women -of luring, attractive appearance, insidious "good-fellows," smartly -educated and vice's students of human nature. - -Like vultures they prey on Chicago's wealthy visitors. They infest the -lobbies, restaurants and cafés of Chicago's most exclusive hotels. They -search out their victims, wile them away from business cares by sensuous -charms, take them "slumming," drug them and rob them. - -Then they divide their ill-gotten gains with their protectors. - -Then, too, there is the "hotel thieves combine." It is estimated that more -than $1,000 worth of valuables is stolen from the hotels in a month. - -Bell boys are numbered among the hotel thieves. The police watch them and -follow them to the "fences"--the places where the stolen property is sold -for less than one half its value. Once more the trust does its work. The -"fence" manager must pay tribute or go to jail. He pays, of course. - -That is the story of GRAFT, its origin, source and magnitude. - - -WHEN AND WHERE WILL IT END? - -In the most defiled pages of the world's history, can you find a parallel? - -It is not brutal, primitive, disorganized, heterogenous vice and crime, -such as inoculated nations that crumbled to decay; it is systematized, -organized, commercialized corruption. - -It begins with the power created at a debauched ballot box! - -It ends--? God alone can tell where it ends! - - -THE MEAGER PURCHASE-PRICE OF POLICEMEN'S SOULS. - -The police department in a large majority is corrupted. But the evil hides -behind that body. It would be like paring a corn to destroy that body. The -root is still imbedded in the flesh. - -POLITICS--prostituted and debauched--is the root of the evil. - -The honest policeman is but a plaything. If he wanders into a vice king's -district he is tried out. If found wanting in rottenness his transfer is -effected. A more plastic man is found to fill his place. - -The police department has sold its soul of honor for a mess of decaying -pottage. - -Because:-- - -It is estimated that of the $15,000,000 in graft annually, the corrupt -members of the department receive but ten per cent. - -They do the slave's work, the pander's work, etc., for a bagful of -blood-dripping dollars! - - -THE BATTLE OF GOODNESS WITH THE POWERS OF HELL. - -A saint might sit in the seat of power,--the Mayor's chair--and be -powerless to stem the evil. - -He is the creation of an election. Vice is the creation of satanic wisdom -and diabolical cunning. - -The Mayor of the city is battling against the sea of iniquity about him. -He has appointed municipal physicians to cut out the moral cancer that is -rapidly destroying the city. God speed this noble work. - -But we tremble when we think that in the end it may be futile. - -Justice has scarcely any way of reaching these criminals. They create -their own power, build the citadel of crime and vice about them and dwell -securely within. - -To save herself Chicago needs a new civic conscience or the stimulation of -a latent one. - -Chicago needs leaders,--men willing to become martyrs for the sake of -their city, their children and their children's children. - -A general awakening to the gigantic, monstrous evil is the only palpable -salvation. - -Destroy corrupt political power and the victory is won. Then the police -force will fulfill the object of its creation. Then concerted crime and -vice will fall to pieces. Then the glaring plague spots of assembled -infamy will be dissipated. Then we will have a city after God's own heart -and man's best desires. - -We are telling the truth to create public and saving opinion, to destroy -lethargy and inoculate the germ of activity. - - -CHICAGO!--TAKE WARNING, YOU WHO ENTER! - -Chicago today is an unsafe city. Although first in the world in -progressiveness, it is first in rottenness. - -Crime, sin and vice claim ninety per cent of those who enter it. - -Thousands of young women of the country come, live and die victims of its -iniquity, day after day, year after year. - -An army of young men, fired by dreams of great futures, enter and are -defiled, and slain by the poisons that are disseminated. - -Shall it go on interminably:--this reign of the -triumvirate-Vice-Graft-Corruption? - -We pray not. We are hoping that it may not. - -Back of the ruin of world-nations, if stripped to an ultimate cause, is -the one word--Vice. - -Its grip is on Chicago; a stronger grip than any other city of the world -has ever felt. Our life-blood is thinning; the flesh of our bones is -wasting. The crucial hour is here. - -Save Chicago from a record on history's page of "Forgotten and Ruined -Cities, Victims of Sin and Crime." - -Let the ministerial forces fight for the betterment. Let them seize the -leaderships. - - -WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN. - -In this little volume each page is a sign post of warning, for the Chicago -man and woman, and particularly, for those who visit or intend visiting -this city. - -This book is not a mere setting forth of facts without explanation of the -reason for their existence. - -It is a clear, truthful analysis of crime, vice and graft from every -standpoint. - -It is the first story, as far as we are aware, of the monstrous Vice-Graft -system. - -We have given a general outline of crime and its relation to the -conscienceless, fattening Trust. - -In the later chapters we shall treat of the hideous and most important -evils of the city, in detail. - -The "Debauchery of the Ballot," the "redlight" districts and their -machinery and thousands of ruined women, the White Slave Traffic, the -gambling games and their alliance with the police, the "Vampire Trust," -petty crimes that flourish, buried plague spots of the city, and other -startling features in the kingdom of crime will be separately and -truthfully treated. - -We are telling a terrible story. It is the story of-- - ---CHICAGO-- - -THE WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLD! - -[Illustration: Mr. McCutcheon in The Tribune.] - - - - -CHAPTER II. - -The Debauchery of the Ballot. - -The Sacredness of the Ballot--Its Corruption by the Vice Trust--Methods of -Corruption--Affidavits Showing Corruption--A Cleansed Ballot Box--A -Cleansed City. - - -American advancement has its foundation in the principles of government by -the people, for the people and of the people. - -Every American citizen, in theory at least, is an ideal autocrat. He is -the judge of his personal conduct; the maker of his surroundings; the -master in his home; the ruler of his nation by his power of representative -government. - -Ideal democracy is God's highest gift to his best creation. - -Prostituted democracy is hell's highest triumph; is evil's best -instrument. - -Individual right to create a governing power is an American citizen's -first prerogative. - -The most sacred thing in the mechanism of self-government of the United -States,--is the Ballot Box. - -Tamper with the ballot box and you aim a body blow at the constitution of -the United States. - -Defile its sanctity and you destroy the purity of our democracy. - -Chicago is a seething mass of corruption, vice, graft and iniquity today, -as has been generally shown in the first chapter. That must be admitted. - -Previously we have spoken of her evils in a general way. - -The Vice Trust rules supreme. It is almost impregnable. The secret of that -herculean strength and power is-- - -The Debauchery of the Ballot Box! - -The ballot of Chicago has been debauched, sold and enslaved! - -Not more than ten men, powers in the political world, by insidious methods -have poisoned it, killed its political value for municipal betterment, and -made it the armament of their corrupt forces. With its aid they have built -up the monstrous Vice combine, and with it they retain year after year the -sceptre of vicious tyranny. - -Investigations have proven the debauchery of the ballot. Investigators -have shown that the corrupted ballot box has won disastrous, political -victories. Investigation has demonstrated that all the forces of -moral-decaying vice have been used to destroy the honesty of the ballot, -so that vice might flourish and pay its tribute to its sleek-faced, -big-bellied masters. - -It is our intention to show in this chapter how the debauched ballot box -is the secret power of the forces that make Chicago the wickedest city in -the world. - -Granted the necessary political despotism to rule and pass sentence of -life and death on good and bad, what opportunity have the powers for good -to destroy the parasite? - - -40,000 ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN ONE YEAR. - -The situation today is appalling. The foundations of government are -menaced. - -From reliable sources, and from information gained by investigating bodies -backed by the reform element, 40,000 illegal names stand on the poll-list -of the city! - -This is the heavy, moral and political-destroying artillery of the vice -generals. This is the battalion that drops "yes" in the ballot box to make -vice supreme. - -It is composed of the riffraff of humanity, of the wreckage and driftwood -of the country. - -Every member sells his citizenship for a piece of silver, a poisonous -drink, a mess of pottage. - -They are the army of "floaters" and "repeaters," who are massed, housed -and fed in the regions of the vice lords, a week or two before elections, -and proclaim their unholy allegiance to their masters by the prostitution -of the ballot box and the overthrow of clean, honest, moral government. - -Each man has a past;--vice wrecked the moral conscience of some, brutal -crime destroyed respect in others and drink slew the convictions of still -other thousands. - -They infest, in the large majority, those political territories where -crime and vice are centered. - -The means of defeating an honest election and securing politico-vice -control are many. - - -CHARACTER OF THE VICE CORPS; ITS WORK. - -Every hobo, degenerate and criminal at large, knows when Chicago's -elections come due. From Maine to Washington, from Florida to Northern -Michigan comes the immigration to Chicago. - -Six hundred lodging houses and cheap hotels in the First, Eighteenth and -Twenty-first wards--the vice territories of the city--throw open their -doors to the hired assassins of the ballot. - -The vice kings have issued the order. The army is given lodging. - -The barrel-houses, whiskey halls and underground hells furnish the -nutrition for the human vultures. - -That is part of their agreement of existence. They, too, are concerned. A -defeat of their rulers would mean financial ruin and the loss of a channel -to protection for their crime doings. - -Soaked with destructive liquor, fed with de-energizing food the "floaters" -and "repeaters" wallow in the mire, waiting to do their filthy service and -then depart. - -The sub-leaders of these men are the appointed guardians of the ballot, -clerks and judges of election, principally. - -They, too, are corrupt. Recent elections have even resulted in fixing -election crimes on them and sending some to jail. - -The question, "Shall this city (Chicago) become anti-saloon territory?" -was to have been placed on the ballot, April 5, 1910. Sixty-eight -saloonkeepers and bartenders qualified as judges and clerks for this -election. No "floater" or "repeater" would have been prevented from voting -by these clerks and judges. - - -PADDED ELECTION REGISTERS. - -In the primary election, held September 15, 1910, one third of the vote -cast in the First ward was made by "repeaters" or personators, in the -names of individuals who did not live at the addresses from which they -were recorded as voting. - -This terrible condition was unearthed by investigators working for Arthur -Burrage Farwell, president of the Chicago Law and Order League. This fact -was ascertained by a comparison of the poll books used at the primary with -the records of a house-to-house canvass of the ward. - -In March of that year the same reform organization caused the erasure of -702 illegal names from the registry books of the notorious First ward. In -a single precinct in that ward, with a registration of 668, 269 names were -those of "floaters" and "repeaters." These were stricken off. - -Investigation before that September primary in the First Ward showed -10,996 names on the registry list. It also showed that 5,552 of the names -were of persons who did not live at the addresses given, but who cast -their purchased ballots at the primary election! - -Similar conditions exist in the other lodging house wards, previously -mentioned, and also known as the "river" wards, because they are separated -by the Chicago river, the last resting place of many revolters from the -system. - -The "debauchery of the ballot" is too mild a term for this crime. - - -THE PROSTITUTE: A MASK FOR THE "FLOATER." - -Three hundred and twenty hotels, whose occupants are mainly prostitutes -and their unfortunate victims, are used to render honest elections -impossible. - -The "floater" is called into the corner of the barrel-house and given the -"dope" by the boss' lieutenant. - -His name is "Panhandle" Harry for instance. He is told that on election -day his names are successively, M. Graham, L. Wilson, B. Smith, etc. He is -to use his suddenly acquired aliases at different precincts. - -He is to cast one, two, three or perhaps ten votes for the vice lords. He -does so. Hundreds like him do so. - -For each name he has an address of the prostitute's name he bears, for -that is the subterfuge. Her name with but an initial for the maiden name -appears on the register of the hotel. It is sold to the man who sells -himself and then sells his vote. - -The working of the system was revealed in a ludicrous manner. - -Carter H. Harrison was a candidate for Mayor. He sent a printed note of -appreciation signed with a printed autograph to the registered voters of -the First ward in which he urged attendance at the primaries. Of course, -Mr. Harrison, himself, did not do this. His supporters did it with -permission for the use of his name. - -One of these went to a notorious woman living in the Cadillac hotel, -Wabash avenue and Twenty-second street. That is on the edge of the South -side "redlight" district. - -That woman's name had been placed on the registry list as hundreds of -others had been, by "repeaters"! - -The woman who received the letter was puzzled. She showed it to the man -for whom she daily sold her body for hire. The mystery of the prostitute -subterfuge was revealed. - -There are sixty-three women living in the Cadillac hotel. It is certain -that each one casts a vote by the proxy system explained, for the -existence of the hellish combine. - -Could anything be more fiendish? - -Is there any power that can dig down deep enough to uproot this crying -evil? - - -THE LODGING HOUSE PERIL. - -In one lodging house in the Eighteenth Ward there is room to accommodate -200 men. - -During the lapses between elections but 75 to 100 men occupy these -unsanitary quarters. At election they are crowded. - -The occupants of these rooms are then registered under meaningless names -and cast ballots. - -A majority of the men who count the ballots in these wards are also -corrupt. They help the stuffing of the ballot boxes. They are the supposed -defenders of the greatest privilege given to the American citizen;--that -of self rule. They are in reality, the slaves of the Vice Trust. - -Occasionally the regular residents of the lodging houses work at -employments that they secure through the licensed labor agencies. But, no -matter how great the demand may be for laborers, no agency dares furnish -these men with work just previous to elections. What agent will deny that -to send voters out on the road to work at election time would mean ruin -through the loss of his license to do business? - -As a specific proof of our statement of the debauchery of Chicago's -ballot-box, we print below the affidavit of a young man who voted six -times at the primary on September 15, 1910. - -The affidavit is one of a score secured by Mr. Farwell of the Chicago Law -and Order League. - -The affidavit follows:--State of Illinois, County of Cook, SS. - -I, James Barnes, residing at 419 State street, being first duly sworn, of -my own free will and accord upon my oath depose and say: - -That on Thursday, September 15, 1910, I and Frank Burns, and one Smith -whose first name is to me unknown, were standing at the corner of Clark -and Van Buren streets, when a man, a heavy set fellow with iron-gray -mustache, Hackett, by name, a hanger-out at Kenna's saloon, north-east -corner of Van Buren and Clark streets, asked us if we were doing any -voting. I said no. He said that he could take the three of us over and -vote us and that he would pay us 50c a piece and give us a couple of -cigars each. We said we didn't want to take any chances. He said it was -all fixed up--that he would give us the names we were to vote under and go -down with us and tell them it was all right. He gave us the names, -typewritten on a plain envelope, of which he had a pocket-full. - -Burns and I went with him to the polling place on Clark street, between -Jackson and Van Buren streets, down in the basement. (4th Precinct, 1st -Ward, within 300 feet of the Union League Club.) He went down stairs with -us. There were two or three others waiting to vote. We gave the names we -had--I voted under the name of T. M. Hayes, 99 Van Buren street. Hackett -told the man in charge of ballots to give me a Democratic ticket. He did -so. I then went into the booth and was followed by another man who said he -would fix it up for me and he marked the ticket, told me to fold it and -take it out and vote it. He had small gray mustache, gray hair, -forty-eight or fifty years old, gray suit. I gave the ballot to the man at -the ballot box who took it and put it in the box. I then went out and the -man who marked the ticket went up stairs with me and said to me, "Go down -to the corner and meet the other fellow," meaning the man who took me -down, Hackett. I met him by the Princess Hotel doorway. He took me inside -the hallway and gave me half a dollar and two cigars--ten centers. - -I voted again in about half an hour under the name of Henry C. Williams, -99 Van Buren street (same ward and precinct), under same conditions as -before and got seventy-five cents the second time, as he had no more -cigars. He took two other fellows down while we waited for him. - -He later told me to go with another man, a big heavy set man in a gray -suit who told me that if I would hunt up two or three other fellows he -would give me an extra half dollar. He offered a dollar for votes. I got -one fellow for him and another lad got three or four. Six of us went over -to LaSalle and Adams, where we were halted in the alley and two at a time -taken to the polling place at 146 LaSalle street, in a basement bookstore -where I voted under the name of William Johnson, 172 Madison street (2nd -Precinct, 1st Ward). The big man gave us the names on an envelope and a -sample ballot marked as we should vote. It was a Democratic ticket. At the -door of the polling place we met another man who went in with us. I gave -the name assigned, asked for instructions and the judge told the man who -went down with us to go down and help me. He went in with me and marked -the ballot. I did not even open the sample ballot. When I came back to the -alley the man gave me a dollar and also gave the other man who went with -me to vote a dollar. - -I then went back to Van Buren and Clark and met a man from the West side -who said he wanted twenty or twenty-five men to go over there. There were -seven or eight of us went over together and I voted at the corner of -Sangamon and Madison streets, under the name of Danford Stowe, 27 North -Sangamon street (Pct. 11, 18th Ward). We went in three at a time. We got -the names from an old man who had them written on a slip. We had to -remember them as he gave out no printed or written names. I was paid a -dollar after I voted by the man who gave me the names. - -We then went up the street and were told to ask for "George"; we went west -three or four blocks and I voted under the name of Gordon Seymour, 19 -Bishop Court; the polling place was on Madison street in rear of a barber -shop. We asked for "George" and were directed to a man who stood on the -corner with a poll list. He gave me the name of Gordon Seymour (Pct. 5, -18th Ward). The fellow with me was given the name of James A. Sharp, 22 -Bishop Court. I don't remember whether or not it was Democrat or -Republican ticket but think it was Republican. George went in with us and -marked the ballot. He then took both of us and gave us a dollar a piece. -The saloon was full of men. A man there had another list. - -George wanted us to go in and vote again but we refused to go back to the -same place again. He then sent us down to the "brick-layers hall" on -Monroe street where we asked for Barney who gave me the name of Sheldon. -The polling place was across the street from the brick-layer's hall. -Barney took us to the door. Another fellow went in with us and marked the -ticket. Barney took us into a saloon and bought a drink for us and paid us -each a dollar. - - JAMES BARNES. - -Subscribed and sworn to before me this twentieth day of September, A. D. -1910. - - WM. F. MULVIHILL, - Notary Public. - -Other affidavits show that three men voted thirteen times in the fourth -precinct of the First Ward. The Union League Club, one of the largest and -most influential clubs in the country, stands in the center of that -district. - -While the members sat and discussed a renovated city, cleansed of graft, -crime and vice, these crimes against every upright citizen were being -committed. - - -ILLEGAL VOTING COSTS MAYORALTY. - -Edward F. Dunne, former Mayor, declared that his recent defeat for -nomination as mayor for another term was due, in part, to illegal votes -cast at the primaries in the First Ward. - -In speaking of the First Ward, Judge Dunne said: - -"Over 2,600 affidavits for registration were filed for men in the First -Ward. These men all voted at the primary, February 28, 1911. On March 14, -registration day for the election, less than a month from the day the -affidavits were filed, about 800 out of the 2,600 who registered by -affidavit, appeared at the polling places to register for the election. -This was due to the vigilance of reform organizations which centered -their efforts on that ward. - -"The inference is plain. Nearly 1,800 votes were registered for the -primary by men not eligible to vote and who dared not face the challengers -for the forces of good." - -And that is the result of seventy-four years of effort to build a city for -the welfare, happiness and advancement of its inhabitants! - - -MR. FARWELL ON THE BALLOT CRIME. - -"Chicago has never faced a graver problem," declares Mr. Farwell. Vice, -crime and graft are heinous offenses in the body municipal, but they are -secondary to the debauchery of the ballot. - -"Corrupt that and you sweep all things to ruin. Honest elections mean -honest officials and the end of vice conditions. You cannot solve the -social problems nor remedy the social wrongs until you have cleansed the -ballot box of its pollution. I believe that today 50,000 illegal names -stand on Chicago's election books. That means 50,000 votes for crime, -graft and ultimate ruination." - - -THE LAW ABETS EVIL. - -Even the present laws governing the primary elections seem to abet the -crime. - -According to the primary law it is not a fraud to buy votes! - -It is a crime punishable by imprisonment to sell a vote! - -The Vice Trust evidently had a hand in the creation of that travesty on -justice. The tentacles of the octopus reach into Springfield, the State -capital! - -To the agents of the Vice Trust who pay tainted dollars for votes, freedom -and prosperity! - -To the starving, human wretches, forgetful of their birthrights, who sell -their votes for the price of food or drink--shame and prison cells! - - -IN CONCLUSION. - -That is the source whence comes the power to create, foster and nourish -vice and crime. - -It is the first and the only absolutely essential link in the vice chain. - -THE POLICE FORCE, ASSISTING IN SUCKING THE STAGNANT BLOOD FROM THE CITY'S -LEVEES, MIGHT BE SWEPT AWAY BY A WAR OF PROTEST AND REFORM, BUT THE EVIL -WOULD GROW ANEW. - -New agents could be speedily found. The foundry where the iron manacles -for the vice-slaves are forged, would still exist. - -The ballot box would still remain to be tampered with. - -Guard the ballot box night and day; wipe out the padded registry list; -arrest the thousands of "floaters" and "repeaters"; compel prostitutes to -register their full names to show their sex; and send to prison the -corrupt judges and clerks of election; send to the workpiles the buyers of -votes, and you will strike a fatal blow at the Vice Trust. - -That is the only remedy. - -A debauched ballot box means "redlight" districts. - -A debauched ballot box means dens of infamy. - -A debauched ballot box means putrefying saloons. - -A debauched ballot box means 5,000 registered prostitutes. - -A debauched ballot box means protected White Slavery. - -A debauched ballot box means notorious gambling. - -A debauched ballot box means police corruption. - -A debauched ballot box means-- - -$15,000,000 annual graft to the corrupters! - -Because the ballot box remains debauched, the Vice Trust exists. Because -it exists, Chicago is a cesspool of the world's mingled corruptions. - -[Illustration: SPEAKING OF FIRE TRAPS. - -By Courtesy of The Chicago Daily News. - -THERE ARE OTHERS.] - - - - -CHAPTER III. - -Come and See! - -A CITY DEFILED. - -The Cafe Evil--The Rich Man's Girl Trap--The Borderland of Hell--Crimes -that Thrive by Night--State Street and Its Pitfalls--The Stages of Sin. - - -It is night. Over the city of 2,000,000 souls is the light of God's stars -and the pale moon. - -Thousands tired from the day's occupation, turn to peaceful sleep for -relief. - -Innocent children are tucked into their little, white beds. The kiss from -loving lips goes with them into the land of dreams. The future has no -terror for them, because they know not. - -While thousands sleep, thousands sin and perish in Chicago! - -Crime loves the protection of darkness. Vice breathes more freely in the -night. - -From his cavern, creeps forth the monster Vice with sun-down. - -He is hungry for his victims. They have been fattened for him. The hour -has come for the nightly sacrifice on the altars of debauchery. - -Come with us! Come, we will show you the City Defiled! - -Down into the heart of the loop district we shall go first. - -Right across from where God's and man's laws are administered in the -County Courthouse, a stone's throw from one of the oldest churches in -Chicago, we shall stop. - -It is George Silver's "Rialto." It is one of the most popular cafes of its -kind in Chicago. It is a place where human souls are valued for just the -worth of the body's hire. An alderman is said to be part owner of this -place. - -It is a typical example of the hundreds of drinking places for men and -women that are found in Chicago. - -Virtue is slain there every night. Hearts are broken there and lives -ruined. It is no worse than other places of the same type. - -It is an underground hell. - -Down the steps we go and enter. - -We are escorted to a table by a colored waiter. - -On a raised dais, a bent-over consumptive looking young man plays a piano. -The airs are the popular hits of the day. - -A pale-faced youth wipes his purple lips after a hasty sip at a beer glass -and advancing to the front of the dais sings a song, usually of sensuous -import. - -He is extravagantly applauded. He is "sent up" a drink by some pleased -patron. - -But look about you. - -There are more than one hundred tables. At each table sit at least one man -and one woman. - -In every woman's face, if you are observant, is written a tragedy, either -beginning that night, or in its unfolding or finished years before. - -Do you see that "washed-out" bleached blonde with colorless eyes, who -smiles at the drinking youth who sits with her? She has lived through the -tragedy. Life to her is but an aftermath of unending agony. - -The monster Vice has long ago sucked the life blood from her veins. She -has been discarded. She lives from day to day on her passing victims. - -They are usually unsophisticated youths, proud to sit with her, buy her -more poison and peril their young lives by contact with her. - -She is coughing. That is the warning signal she knows well but attempts to -forget. It is the signal that death has placed his hands upon her. She has -fulfilled her mission. Hell must claim its own. - -You are attracted by a merry burst of laughter from pretty lips. You turn. - -How her eyes sparkle! How her cheeks burn crimson! - -Her body moves sinuously to the rhythm of the music. - -She smiles even at you as she sips her "fizz." - -She is intoxicated with life. It is lights and shadows, songs and flowers. - -She is a favorite among men. A much-sought after girl on the border line -of womanhood. - -She has no terrors tonight; no haunting nightmares. - -Her blood flows fast; her pulse thrills her; her thoughts burn with -pleasing fire. - -She is reckless. Why not? The world is a bed of roses. - -Four months ago she wandered into the paths that lead to hell. - -Six dollars a week as a clerk. No clothes, no delicacies, no amusements. - -She learned the secrets of the girl who worked beside her; how she -purchased the "good things" of life. - -Her virginal innocence was the inestimable price! - -Tonight she is an habitue of the brilliant cafe. - -The path is still one of beauty and fascination. The tragedy is in its -inception. - -The bright eyes will become dull, the sweet voice harsh, the cheeks pale, -the face haggard. - -The wine shall have been sipped. Nothing then but the bitter dregs! Oh, -the horror of that approaching tragedy! - -Her end is inevitable. - -An early grave, a house of prostitution or an insane asylum! There is -rarely ever a turning back. - -Vice buries its tentacles deep in the flesh. - - -THE FIRST STEP. - -"Dearie, don't be afraid of that. Really, it's like a 'soft' drink. It -won't make you drunk." - -Again you turn on hearing that remark. - -He is leaning over the table;--a gray-haired, fashionably dressed man. The -young girl he is talking to, is not more than sixteen years of age. - -Her face is white. Her eyes are like those of a hunted deer. Her hands -tremble. - -It is her first night! - -The fiendish brute induces her to take the drink. You see her take -another. She seems suddenly to become stupid. - -"Come on, it is about time to go, Kid," you hear the man say. - -The young girl lurches into his waiting arms. - -That night another victim is claimed by the monster! - -Somewhere a little, gray-haired mother prays that her daughter may be -protected from the sins of a great city. - -There is an unfathomable abyss waiting for that girl, a chasm in the -depths of which lurk torture, sin, disease and death. - -In that cafe all is levity and enjoyment. It is a living in the present, a -forgetfulness of the past, a shutting of the eyes to the terrors of the -unborn future. - -In one night while the music pleases the senses, while song brings an -ephemeral joy, while drink quickens the pulse, while the atmosphere lulls -the conscience to sleep, innocent young girls, barely out of school, are -inoculated with the poison of forbidden fruit. - -Every year, hundreds of young girls, undefiled and pure, drift into the -wickedest city in the world, are carried away by the glare of the "Great -White Way" and the sensuous lures of the dazzling cafes and the Bohemian -pleasures, and become unconsciously, the recruits of the great absorbing -Vice Trust. - -As we pass from this cafe,--the type of hundreds of others,--note the -attractive pictures on the wall,--pictures of popular actresses, actors, -prizefighters and men of the world of sports. - -The girl who a year ago knew comparatively nothing of the world outside of -her harmless, narrow sphere, can point to the pictures and give you the -names with dangerous accuracy. They are now a part of her Bohemian world. -She boasts today of familiarity with them. - -Late in the night, or to speak accurately, at early dawn, the cafes empty -their drunken revelers into the streets. In pairs they stagger away, some -to houses of assignation, others to the disorderly hotels where they live, -and still others to the "redlight" districts of the city, of which we -shall soon speak. - -That is the cafe evil of today. It is the outward threads of the enmeshing -web of the insidious and poisonous spider-Vice. Once trapped, redemption -is scarcely possible. - -Two hundred department store girls, according to a reform association's -statistics, take the first downward step each year, in these cafes. - -It is the outside trap, with luring bait, set by the Vice Trust for the -unsuspecting victims. The girls from out of the city are drawn to it for -the pleasures of life because other avenues of enjoyment are not open to -them. A conscious or unconscious emissary of the vice lords lures them to -these cesspools, robs them of their senses by subtle intoxicants and -destroys that same night their virginal purity. In a night they have -fallen from the highest estate to the bottomless pit of a living hell; -they have been stripped of their robes of innocence and clothed in the -shameful, sinful, scarlet garb of the thousands of women who have fallen -before them. - -No mother, no father, who kisses a daughter goodbye as she leaves the -fireside to plunge into the foaming sea of Chicago life, can be certain -that the child of his or her flesh and blood will return to the fireside -undefiled, pure of body and clean of heart, as long as those cancers -fester and flourish in the city of Chicago. - -We have treated of the girl problem and the cafe. - -What of our boys?--you ask. - -It is a sociological axiom that a nation's integrity depends on its -womanhood. - -The depraved woman means the depraved man. Each night thousands of youths, -full of physical strength, mental energy and ambition, seek recreation in -the cafes. It is there they meet or take the lost women. It is there they -wreck bright futures, sow the seed of crime, deaden their moral -consciences, and contract fatal diseases and rush unthinking down the path -that leads to ruin and to death. - -Back of a murder, in which some young man of good parentage and of -promising hopes figures as the principal, you can read the word "cafe." It -began there, it progressed, until its end meant the gallows in the court -yard of the county jail. - - -STATE STREET AND ITS PITFALLS. - -Let us leave the accursed place. We have other places to visit before the -sun flares red above the waters of Lake Michigan. - -We stroll down Randolph street, through Chicago's well lighted avenues and -its "Rialto" to one of the busiest thoroughfares in the world,--during the -day--State street. - -The bustling, shoving, pushing, army of men and women, has gone home. - -Yet, the street is by no means deserted. - -As we walk along we are conscious of the number of unescorted women, -walking the main loop thoroughfare. We mentally comment on it. - -They seem to saunter aimlessly about, jauntily swinging their purses, and -looking up into your face in a questioning, puzzling manner. - -Would you know the hideous truth? - -These are the outposts of the great army of Vice. These are the women, -stripped of the last element of self-respect, who like vultures attack -their prey in the glare of the arc lights, in the face of the uniformed -guardians of the law. - -In the vernacular of the street, these are the privates of the army of -"street-walkers." Unblushingly they flirt with their victims, catch their -eyes, draw them into a side street and quibble over the purchase price of -their flesh. - -There is an army of 2,000 of these women infesting the loop district and -its adjoining neighborhoods every night in the year. To the shady hotels -within the loop or just outside of it, where no embarrassing questions are -asked, these brazen prostitutes take their temporary masters. - -No decent woman is safe on a downtown street after dark when alone. The -haunting evil is about her wherever she goes. She is good, but the men who -walk the streets do not know it and they may offer her insults at any -moment. - -At times the evil becomes so open that police regulations are issued, -driving them from their byways of crime. Invariably within a few days, the -same painted faces and expressionless eyes are to be found on the old -corners, carrying on their disease-distributing trade. - -These women are not free agents of evil any more than other slaves of the -Vice Trust. They pay toll for every step their tired feet take during the -night and the early hours of the morning. They take their victims to the -cafes of which we have spoken and lure them into buying poisonous -intoxicants. For every drink they bring to the house,--and they must bring -many if they are to enjoy the favor of the vice lords,--they are given a -commission. The "drink check" is a part of the nightly income of every -woman of the underworld. - -But let us pass on. We have only scratched the superficial, outer covering -of the crime life of Chicago. There are a thousand more revolting sights -to be seen, not for the purpose of morbid curiosity but in order to prove -to our readers the magnitude and the power of the Vice Trust in Chicago. - -We are taking a trip through the greatest kingdom in the world, the empire -of unhampered, bold-faced, threatening sin. - - -THE STAGES OF SIN. - -As we pass down the well lighted streets of the loop district we are -halted in our progress by a man standing in front of a garish-appearing -theater just south of Van Buren on State street. - -The cry that reaches our ears is: - -"Come on, I know every man here is dying to take a peep at Chicago's only -and original Salome lady! She's inside in all her glory and all her--well, -you know, Gents, the best ever. Come on, it's a whole pile of fun for a -dime. You will thrill all over when the cutest girl in the world hugs a -man in a grizzly-bear wiggle!" - -Strains of music float from the place and a swarm of men of all types and -conditions wedge their way to the inside. - -That is another of the sore spots of the big city. It is just one of -hundreds of indecent forms of entertainment that have enough air of -respectability about them to exist on the borders of Chicago's loop -district. Here they flourish and reap their harvest. - -In such places, many a promising young man has committed, in mind at -least, his first moral murder. It is in this kind of places that vice sows -its first seeds--they are the first stepping stones down the abyss ending -at the dishonored grave. Every night young men pour out of these places -with their minds poisoned and with the fiery hand of temptation on them, -and from there they drift southward to the great whirlpool of iniquity, -falling victims to the deadly perils about them and tasting the deadly but -subtle poison for which they return until they die at the source. - -Every form of indecency may be found on the small and poorly lighted -stages of these theaters. Suggestive songs are sung, obscene witticism -spoken, until pent up, disastrous passions burst forth with demoniacal -fury and slay their own masters. - -But let us go on down the roadway of crime and sin. - - -THE RICH MAN'S GIRL TRAP. - -We have crossed over to Michigan avenue--to one of the main boulevards of -the world. It is the promenade of men of millions and women of blood. It -is the location of some of the most exclusive, most fashionable and most -expensive hotels in the world. - -Surely, you say, these hotels do not figure in the great vice plot which -exists in Chicago? - -They do! They figure in a way that will make every father and mother who -reads this narration, tremble with fear and horror. - -These hotels are infested with men of wealth and time, men of dead -consciences, men of diseased moral senses, who are always in search of -young, innocent, pretty prey for their decaying passions. - -Under the pretense of respectability, and with the false counsel that they -are safe and protected from harm, these parasites bring their young -victims to these hotels, dazzle them with the beauty and luxury about -them, rob them of their senses with new and intoxicating delights, and -then steal the only priceless gift that God gave them. - -That is one phase of the hotel evil, as we see it from a superficial -glance. There are a score of others. - -In one of the leading hotels of the world, there is a great crime center. -Let us enter it. - -Down the corridors we walk until we enter the portals of a new vice -palace. It is a cafe scene but not of the character witnessed at the place -first visited. Everything bespeaks luxury. The music is subtly and softly -sensuous. Obsequious waiters tread softly from table to table, taking -their orders from rich patrons. - -The men sitting about bear the marks of wealth and prosperity. They are -money lords, feasting at the table of life and toying away the moments -with women who are ready to be purchased for pretty clothes, suppers with -wines, and hard, cold dollars and cents. - -In the majority, the women we see, are dressed in the latest fashions, -brilliant with delicately rouged faces and penciled eyebrows, set off by -large and attractive picture hats. - -If you study the majority of the faces you will see that they are cut as -if of stone. They are faces of women who have lived through tragedies, -have thrust those tragedies aside and have reduced life to a mere living -from day to day, prepared every hour to barter flesh and blood for cash. -But, as in the less pretentious cafe, we find here also the type of girls -and women who are just beginning to stray into the broad path of -destruction. - -Money buys a false air of respectability. It has purchased that -pharasaical atmosphere for the big hotels. - -It is in these fashionable hotel cafes and restaurants that sin is -suggested and the road to ruin prepared. Of course, we must not lose sight -of the fact that the vast majority of the women who enter such places, -have long since drunk the first glass of poison and eaten the first piece -of forbidden fruit. - -Into these places, nightly, thousands of men and women bent on shameful -missions come and depart, inebriated by wines and liquors and forgetful of -respect to each other. There are, however, hundreds who enter and depart -without being contaminated by the vice that haunts the handsomely -furnished apartments. - -Out in the lobby of the hotel, we notice a nattily-dressed man of mature -years with the gray showing in his hair, holding a conversation with one -of the hotel attaches. We are curious. We notice he is being given -directions. - -We follow him to a room in one of the hotels adjoining the one we have -just visited. He is taken to a certain room and is admitted by a rather -flashingly dressed woman of about forty-five years, of florid complexion -and sharp, raucous voice. - -She smiles at the man. He speaks to her in a low voice. We might overhear -this conversation or one similar to it in import: - -"I am Mr. Edwards from Cincinnati. I am a business man and the evening is -boring. Mr. ... the hotel clerk, tells me you can find me a companion?" -queries the caller. - -The woman smiles knowingly, stops and thinks and then says in a half -jesting manner: - -"Why, certainly, Mr. Edwards. I can make the evening agreeable. I can find -you the best little partner in the world. - -"But"--and she smiles some more--"what do you want, something rather young -and new to the game, or a 'woman of some experience?' I can certainly -produce a choice assortment." Then she laughs that meaningless laugh -again. - -Mr. Edwards hesitates a moment, laughs off a possible embarrassment and -then answers in assumed flippancy: - -"Oh, as long as they are numerous, serve me up a young blonde chicken of -about seventeen summers, one that will go the limit and not try to put -mucilage on her fingers to stick to the long green. I'll pay her right for -her trouble." - -Then he makes his first flesh payment at that moment to the mistress of a -dozen women's bodies. He strolls down to the lobby and waits. A few -moments later he is "paged" by a bellboy and a note is given him. If we -should follow him we would find that the note named the rendezvous and -that the purchased woman waited for him there to do his bidding during -the night of shame. - -This is not fiction but shuddering fact. - -In a Jackson boulevard hotel, there is a "Miss Harris," who is the -procuress of girls of every description, character, temperament and -physical type, for men of wealth. - -There are a dozen of such women with headquarters in Chicago's big hotels. -They are the fashionable panderers for the rich human beasts, who live or -stop at the hotels or who go there to find their victims. - -These places in the criminal world have a name. They are named "Houses of -Call." They are employment agencies for young and old prostitutes. If a -man is willing to pay the price demanded, the woman, "Miss Harris," or -other such women, will produce for his pleasure, a young virgin and turn -her over to the merciless, insane lust of human Satan. - -These places are the fashionable flesh-markets, the slave blocks where -women are sold to men of wealth. - -That is another phase of the great Vice Trust, for those women panderers, -and those girl slaves pay tribute to carry on their traffic to the great -kings of the underworld. Of the relation of these classes of criminals to -their protectors we shall speak later. - -"Miss Harris"--we shall use her as a type--has a secret directory to the -covert, hidden but expensive haunts of vice. - -After Mr. Edwards departs, we might see another caller on a similar -mission. He is not a new customer. He is an old one. He makes his demand -without hesitation. He wants a young girl of innocence. He wants a girl in -the first flush of maturity, a girl who fears the things of sin, but who, -paradoxically, craves for the cloying sweet things of life. - -The girl is found for the monster. His crime must be committed in the -dark, in a secure and safe place, in a place where no one shall see him -committing his soul-murder. - -Again "Miss Harris" comes to the front. She directs her customer with the -trembling, wondering and frightened girl, to the "Arena," a pretentious -residence in Michigan avenue near Fifteenth street. - -His coming is known before his arrival. "Miss Harris" has informed the -"Madam" that a "live wire with a young kid" is on the way to the place. -The man and his victim are received politely and ushered into a -luxuriously furnished room, delicately scented with perfume and stripped -of any suggestion that it is a crime-chamber where sin is intangibly -present, waiting for the next victim. - -The desecration of soul and body begins and ends in that room. If the man -wishes it, supper with delicate morsels of food and wines of choice and -expensive brands are served. The atmosphere wooes to sleep the last moral -rebellion and all is lost. - -The "Arena" is mentioned here as a type, again. Chicago is infested with -such places. They may be found in our best residence districts, near -fashionable churches and adjoining homes where purity is sacred. - -To state more specific facts on such places we will name several more -similar "flats." - -A "Mrs. Clouds" conducts a similar place on La Salle avenue near Erie -street. It is necessary to have a letter of introduction or be known -before entrance can be effected. Here, nightly, men of wealth and even of -prominence with wives and families, ignorant of their orgies, take young -girls. - -The automobiles of the wealthy drive up to this place every evening and -their occupants seek their pleasure within. - -Here many-course dinners with wine as a zest giver--usually champagne--are -served to the patrons for $12 a plate. It is the vice haunt of the -millionaires and their purchased women. - -Then there is the place of Mrs. Mohr in Erie street, west of Rush street, -where the same luxuries are in evidence, where the same vices are -committed and where the range of prices eats deep into anything but a -plethoric bank account. - -These places run without intervention. They are known to few outside the -patrons. They pay, as do all other forms of vice, for police toleration. -Reform movements have not attacked them because they are scarcely aware of -their existence. They are but a small part of the contributing elements of -graft and corruption. - -We have digressed, but it was necessary to show the source and end of a -vice evil starting in the big hotels. In these "flats" of secrecy, girls -will be furnished in the same manner as they are furnished by "Miss -Harris" and her ilk of panderers. - -But let us resume our trip in the underworld. From the hotels, we move -southward again. - - -THE BORDERLAND OF HELL. - -Down Michigan avenue, Wabash avenue, State street, Fifth avenue and many -other prominent thoroughfares leading out of the loop district, are the -"assignation hotels" of Chicago. These are the houses where men bring -their victims at a cost of one dollar to five dollars a room, where street -walkers "steer" their customers and where vice festers with the roar of -the business world outside the windows. - -Within the loop district alone there are fifty hotels of this vicious -character. Their average earnings, according to a prominent investigator -and reformer, are $600 a night. As we move southward we pass them at every -step, little dreaming of the lives that have been ruined within and the -tragedies that have begun and culminated there. - -The part of the South side in which we have entered was at one time a -fashionable neighborhood of wealthy and respectable residents. The Vice -Trust drove them away by its encroachments. Today those same buildings are -tenanted by lost women, living there and carrying on their nefarious trade -in the district but a short distance away. - -From Twentieth street south on Michigan avenue, in sections, and in Wabash -avenue and State street, vice reigns openly and supreme. There is no -pretense at respectability. Vice has thrown off its masks and flaunts its -hideousness, its diseases and its crimes in our faces. - -It is the Borderland of Hell,--it is the city's death-spot. Similar -borderlands are found on the West and North sides. - -As you look farther south you can count the electric signs flaring over -the haunts of vice--they spell saloon, cafe or hotel. They run into the -hundreds. - -The interiors of these cafes are similar to the loop cafe we have -described, stripped of its air of hidden sin. Here sin stalks about as the -fearless master. - -The woman who a year ago reveled in the pleasures of a night at some -fashionable restaurant with a "friend" may be found drunk and maudlin, -vulgarly and cheaply clothed, dropping "dope" into her glass of whiskey to -revive her tired brain and body to attract another victim and stave off -the wolf of starvation a little while longer. - -These are the "hangouts" of the women who are going down and down. They -have ceased to attempt to appear respectable; they have tired of hiding -their shame and infamy; they have torn off the mask and their faces peer -leeringly at you and their blue-colored lips seem to cry out in hellish -abandon: - -"I am a damned, lost creature. I sold my birthright. I bartered the body -my good mother gave me. I drank to the last lees the glass and I am -accursed. Death has placed his seal upon me and I am struggling to cheat -him of a few days longer. Life, life, more life!" - -Here women smoke cigarettes openly, embrace the men they are with, expose -their limbs in licentious manner to attract prospective customers. Here a -sign is made, and a half drunken waiter brings a half crazed creature -sitting alone in the shadows of a pillar, a white powder, which she -snuffs. That is cocaine. - -A majority of the women who live in and about the levee districts of the -city, are the slaves of the opium, cocaine and morphine habit, and -fourteen per cent, according to a conservative estimate, are yearly sent -to the state insane institutions as hopeless victims of drugs. - -In the "near-levee" cafes we come across a vice-creature, whose type we -have not yet encountered in our night tour. - -Watch that young man, dressed in a stylish, brown suit of clothes, who is -talking to the painted unfortunate beside him. His voice rises as he -shakes his finger at her. Her hand trembles as she reaches down in her -stocking. He curses her and tells her to hurry. Then she gives him a -number of bills. - -"Damn you, you cheap cur; have you quit hustling or have you another man?" -he yells at her above the jarring music of a tin-pan piano and the -cigarette voice singing to it. - -"Get out on the street and get some business!" he says to her hoarsely, -striking her across the face. - -Pale and trembling the pitiful creature rises and hurries out into the -street to search for more prey. - -That man is the woman's "cadet." That is the more polite word for the old -word "pimp." That is her master:--the man who takes from her the infamous -earnings of her body. - -Lower than the murderer, in the moral scale, are these debased creatures. -They are men stripped of every instinct of honor, lost to every sense of -shame. They are the lowest form of the human parasite. - -In the borderland of the levee they live, breathe, eat and drink off the -earnings of thousands of depraved women. From the earnings of their slaves -they pay the police to grant their women immunity from prosecution. - -These men are also termed "macks." The name means nothing; it is the -character of its bearing that is the horrible fact. - -In the South side levee district, including the places that encircle the -open houses of prostitution, there are 800 of these low vile creatures. We -are but describing one of the levees of the city. Conditions are similar -in the others. - -We have seen them in the notorious cafes of the South side but they exist -in swarms within the levee zone proper. - -The hours are swiftly passing and our trip is by no means over. Let us -leave the haunts we have just visited. - -Let us go down to one lower level of crime and vice. We have reached -Twenty-second street and Wabash avenue and we stand on the edge of the -Great White Ulcer. - - -ANTE ROOMS OF HELL. - -Let us follow the crowd of men and women into that large building on -Twenty-second street. - -A novel sight greets us as we enter. Our hats and coats are checked and we -walk out from behind a mirror used as a screen into a large hall on the -floor of which several hundred couples are dancing to the strains of an -orchestra in a balcony above. - -Some of the faces which we saw earlier in the evening within the loop -district have also "come south," as the expression is. They are here to -revel until dawn. There is no letup until the bright sun drives vice -blinking and blinded back into its holes. - -Every type of woman, from the woman who is simply "slumming" to the most -depraved and degenerate creature can be seen in this notorious levee dance -hall. As the music dies down, the couples with unsteady steps, caused by -the whirling about the floor and the drinks which have been freely -imbibed, seek rest at the dirty, wet chairs and tables which encompass the -room. Drinks are served in profusion, regardless of the state of inebriety -of the patrons and regardless of the one o'clock closing law, which the -police declare is in effect. - -Women, rendered senseless by drink, are dragged from the place nightly and -carted away--God knows where! - -Let us get away from the reeking atmosphere, from the smell of stale beer -and sickly, perspiring women. - -Before we enter the biggest cesspool of all, let us stop at Buxbaum's -Cafe at Twenty-second and State streets,--the most notorious outside-levee -dive in the city of Chicago. - -Its habitues, with few exceptions, are the overflow, the outcasts of the -levee, or the women who seek a few moments of so-called relaxation from -their labors of sin. - -All night this place reeks with infamy; all night orgies impossible to -portray are carried on; all night the saturnalia of vice wrings the blood -from women's hearts and crushes life in its ever grinding mill. - -South of the street where we have stopped, the cafes continue. Again they -take on an air of respectability and trap the young and innocent girls and -with hands dripping with blood the vampires of vice push them on and on, -until they reach the point where we have stopped. - -We are on the shores of a Lake of Infamy. The tributaries flow from the -north, the south and the west, coursing through every section of the city, -sweeping their victims in a surging current, without hope of rescue to the -waters, whose eddies close forever over the drowned. The cafes and -disorderly saloons and dance halls are the traps at the beginning of the -avenues of vice. They are the feeders to the infamous hotels. The chain -has no missing link. The Vice Trust has made it in perfect manner. - -We are standing on the shores of a lake--that lake is one of the -"redlight" districts of Chicago. - -[Illustration: EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY ... AND TOMORROW? - -By Courtesy of The Chicago Daily Journal.] - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - -The "Redlight" District. - -The "Redlight" District--Houses of Infamy--The Life of a Prostitute--The -Blood Price--Hidden Tragedies--The Polluted Grave. - - -Chicago possesses four "redlight" districts: one on the South side, one on -the West side, one on the North side and the Strand of South Chicago. - -For the sake of description we have taken the one situated on the South -side,--running from Eighteenth street on the north to Twenty-second street -on the south, and from Wabash avenue on the east to Armour avenue on the -west. - -It came into existence in 1905 when Mayor Carter H. Harrison, the present -city executive, cleaned out old Custom House place, Plymouth court and -South Clark street, the nest of vice, bounding the south end of the -commercial district. - -It established a new territory and flourishes as prosperously today as it -did in its old haunts. - -Within the zone described 250 houses of ill fame house the unfortunate -women, lure men of all conditions in life, grow rich on sin and on the -practice of every form of bestial degeneracy. - -[Illustration: SUGGESTED BY A PROMINENT NEWS STORY OF THE MOMENT - -By Courtesy of The Chicago Daily Journal.] - -There are 2,000 enslaved, scarlet women in these infectious prisons! - -They are of every nation in the world! - -They are young girls in their teens; women in mature years and hags who -have outlived their usefulness to the god of lust! - -There is an army of 500 to 800 human vultures--"cadets" who live within -this district, prodding these women on in the paths of evil! - -There are ramshackle hell-holes that are falling to pieces where diseased, -broken-down, forgotten women dispense deadly toxins to their customers for -fifty cents! - -There are "one dollar," "two dollar," "three dollar," "five dollar" and -"ten dollar" houses. Those are the prices for some mother's precious -darling! Man buys and woman sells. - -There are holes of infamy where white and colored persons mix and sin -together. - -There are places where the sins that wiped Sodom and Gomorrah out of -existence are practiced nightly. - -There are places where prostitutes outrival in the forms of obscene acting -anything to be found in the Monmartre and other deadly places within the -confines of Paris. - -There are places of material filth, and uncleanliness and there are places -where thousands of dollars have been spent to make sepulchres appear as -places of delight and pleasure. - -Think of it! - -Two thousand women on the slave block of lust sold to the thousands of -bidders nightly, in this small district! - -Lust, vice, crime and graft are the deities of Chicago's "redlight" -districts. - -The "redlight" district gets its name because of the lurid, crimson signs -that hang above its entrances. The name "redlight" should signify a -burning, blazing warning to every man and woman who is tempted to set his -foot or hers on the crime-reeking thresholds! - -Let us enter one of the houses and study the interior and the type of the -prostitutes corralled within. - -The swinging doors admit us. As we appear, a dozen girls or women rush at -us like a flock of vultures, ravenous, hungering. - -They use terms of meaningless endearment, fight among themselves for the -possible prey, coax us to purchase a bottle of beer or whiskey or a mixed -drink. They attempt to embrace us, to kiss us to arouse latent passions, -whose outburst means half the purchase price to them and half to the owner -of the place. - -A "professor," half-crazed by drugs and drink, thumps the latest airs on a -piano, or a mechanical instrument furnishes the noise. You are asked to -give a dime to the "professor" and you do. - -You are talking to a frail, blue-eyed, blonde girl. Across the room a -brunette, a red-haired girl and a girl with raven black hair and sparkling -eyes watch you, wondering as to the ultimate success of the woman who -captured you. - - -THE QUESTIONS UNANSWERED. - -Where do these thousands of women come from? - -What are their varied pasts? - -Who are their mothers and fathers? - -What strange circumstances brought them here? - -Who is accountable to God for this wholesale slaughter in women's souls? - -Those are questions that come to the mind when one enters any den of -infamy in any of the four "redlight" districts of Chicago. - -Every one of these questions has a thousand answers. The solutions to -these social problems are as numerous as the women who create the -problems. - -These women come from every city in the United States, from the farm -houses of God-fearing farmers, from the gabled cottage of little country -towns, from the hovels of the poor of the great city and from the palaces -of the rich of the same city. - -They come from across the great ocean:--from England, Scotland, Ireland, -France, Germany, Italy, Austria and every nation you can name. - -Thirty-three per cent of the women in the "redlight" districts of Chicago -are the victims of the most pernicious vice system known to history. They -are the victims of the much-talked of and much-discussed White Slave -Traffic. - -It is not our purpose in this chapter to treat of this cancerous, moral -growth. It is of such vital importance in a story of crime and vice and -graft that we will dissect and analyze it in a distinct chapter. We are -obliged for the sake of our narrative to name it here. - -This portion of the vice population is the women who have been lured by a -thousand satanic means to a life of shame and sin, and once steeped in the -atmosphere give up all hope or attempt to regain a lost social standing, a -new moral conscience or a clean body. - - -THE FEEDERS OF THE "REDLIGHT" DISTRICTS. - -The other portion of this crime colony reach the centers of vice through -the thousands of channels which serve such purposes in the city of -Chicago. - -We have spoken of the cafe evil, the dance hall, the cheap theater and the -vicious hotel. These are the major channels. Yearly, hundreds of girls go -from one grade of badness to a lower, until there is nothing left but the -house of ill fame in which to hide their shame, feed their passions and -nourish their broken-down bodies. - -The girl clerk in the department store tires of trying to live on her six -dollars a week salary; grows envious of the women who have pretty clothes -and costly jewelry, and sets about to sell her young body to buy the -luxuries of life. The end is inevitably the house of prostitution. - -Or it may be, that some depraved man, possibly her employer, lusts for her -purity and with threats of discharge coerces her into sin. She never -stops, it is a succession of falls to the last level of degradation. - -Another, three years ago may have visited a Bohemian cafe to see the -sights and taste the wine. She goes back again and again. Beyond her -confines are the forbidden sins, luring and coaxing. She will taste of -them, promising herself that she will go back to her former life and never -venture into the pathways of sin again. The step is taken and the barrier -erects itself behind her--she can never come back. Gradually she drifts -down to the hell haunts and with recklessness as to the future, becomes an -inmate of a dive. - -There is no standing still in any phase of life--good or evil. There is no -stationary point in vice. The beginnings are eternally different; the -endings of the Scarlet Women are eternally the same. - -These women just described, can scarcely be called White Slaves in the -proper sense of that term. They are "slaves," but they brought the slavery -upon themselves. - -The Summer excursions on the lake in large pleasure boats where vice can -revel without fear and where young boys and girls without any restraint -fall into sins that lead to terrible social evils, are another primary -"feeder" for the "redlight" districts. The city asleep does not realize -the fact that the "moonlight" excursions on the waters of Lake Michigan -start a hundred girls on the road to ruin and the prostitute's grave in -one night! - -And this is the first chapter of the women dressed in scarlet tonight. - -Above these women like an ominous shadow is Man and His Lust! Man and his -insatiable passions! Man who reckons not the destruction he sows about -him, the homes he robs of precious ones, the broken-hearted mothers and -fathers sent to an early grave because he inoculated some innocent child -with his venom. - -To fit our descriptions, somewhere, you can find in the "redlight" -districts a woman who will stand up and say: - -"That is my story." - -In one night in the South side "redlight" district in a visit to eight -houses, twenty-one girls were found who stated that soulless men, who made -capital of their ignorance of the world and its ways, robbed them of their -virtue while they were under the influence of their first drink, or stole -their virginity after they had promised to marry them. - - -THE DAILY LIFE OF A PROSTITUTE. - -But to return to the scarlet woman as she is today. Here is the routine -life of the prostitute in the levee district: - -The women in a house rise about two o'clock in the afternoon, dress and -eat their breakfast. - -They are then sent by the "landlady" or keeper of the house to the -parlors, to wait for prospective customers. - -When a customer comes in he is "sized up." If he appears to be a spender -and buys plenty of drinks, courtesy is extended to him and an effort made -to keep him as long as his money lasts. If he is "a dead one" he is forced -to pay his price and depart as speedily as possible. - -These women entertain as many as thirty men in one night. That is the -record at least, that one girl declared she was forced to maintain. - -At six o'clock, or near that hour, supper is served to these women; a -number of them in a house eat while the others stay "on watch." - -Then the evening's work begins. By midnight a greater part of these lost -souls are maudlin drunk. - -Their work continues until four o'clock in the morning when they are -allowed to seek rest. - -Even then the evil does not sleep. There is the "dog watch." One or two -girls face a day of horror. They are kept ready for the lax hours of -business. - -Many of these women do not live in the houses. They live in the flats -bordering on the "redlight" districts. - - -THE SLAVES OF THE "CADETS." - -Ninety per cent of these open prostitutes have "cadets." These men -exercise the power of tyrants over them, urging them on to death, beating -them brutally when their tired out bodies drop from exhaustion, and -stealing their bodily earnings from them. - -These women cannot purchase a single article without the consent of the -landlady. Two thirds of them have the bondage of debt hanging above them -and keeping them prisoners. The landlady buys their clothes and charges -them exorbitant prices and they are obliged to pay without a murmur. - -These conditions exist in the cheapest and the most expensive houses in -the levee districts. There is an air of luxury about the big houses but -the scarlet prisoners within are all the same, all slaves, all subjects of -the great Vice Trust. - -The women in the poorer houses have white men for "cadets." In the higher -priced places, we find that the women are in the bondage of negro -"cadets." - -And all this infamy, seething, boiling and emitting its stench in the -center of the city of Chicago! - -Standing out among the small hovels in the South side vice district are -several large and pretentious ones, whose interior furnishings are valued -at hundreds of thousands of dollars. - - -BIG PALACES OF VICE. - -The Everleigh Club, at Twenty-second and Dearborn streets, the richest and -most gorgeously furnished house of prostitution in the United States, is a -notable example. Another one is Georgie Spencer's. - -Honesty never cemented a single stone in the building. It was built and -furnished out of the blood and flesh dollars of women. Its foundations -reach down to hell and each chamber with its beautiful settings is filled -with the ghosts of women who suffered untold agonies of mind and body to -make it attractive to victims of the women who followed them. Thousands of -dollars are harvested nightly there. Wealthy prominent men frequent this -place. - -Immorality is hideous; but there crimes are committed against nature that -make men revolt at the thoughts of them, down in those pest holes. In the -slang of the levee, it is called "putting on a show." - -It is bad enough to be obliged through binding circumstances to sell one's -virtue, but think of the horror, the humiliation, the degradation of -committing acts for the sake of drunken, orgy-loving men that even the -animal nature within us rebels against. - -That is a hasty sketch of the "redlight" life as the visitor sees it. -There is still another phase, a deeper phase, a commercial phase, a graft -phase, and of that we shall speak later as it is our intention to show why -these conditions exist without hindrance from the police and how this -mighty army of Satan strives, struggles and dies for the earthly lords of -hell. - -There is no intention here to paint a lurid picture of Chicago's ulcer -spots that might arouse passions and do evil. - -We are telling of the Great Curse that we may help destroy it. We have -said that the wiping out of the prostitute will not cure the malady and we -are soon to prove it. We have told of vice that we may show how it serves -its masters. - - -THE HIDDEN TRAGEDIES. - -Who can depict the crying, aching hearts of these lost women of the -levees? - -Who can tell of the agonies undergone in their short existences? - -Who can know of the sleepless nights, of the hours of remorse and despair? - -Who can imagine the physical pain of the eating, wasting diseases? - -All the world's wretchedness, sorrow, hunger, thirst and suffering lies -behind the lurid lights of the "redlight" haunts. Behind the paint and -powder is the blue-white color of coming death. - -Every year, a thousand of these women outlive their usefulness to their -brutal masters! This is the record for one city. Authorities say this -record for the country is 60,000! - - -WHAT BECOMES OF THEM? - -We shudder as we answer that question. - -Many of them seek the river as a last resting place and their bodies are -cast ashore to lie in the county morgue a week, and then to be buried in -the paupers' field. - -Many of them go insane and are taken to state institutions where death -soon mercifully comes and wipes out their useless lives. - -Many of them are cast forth from the dens where they have turned their -every drop of blood to gold for their masters, and are picked up dead in -the alleys and streets of the city. - -Some are sent to other cities to die, and leave no reflections on the men -and women that turned them out. - -God has destroyed cities for lesser evils, but Chicago lives on, fattening -on the dead bodies of these victims! - -As the parade of lost women moves slowly to the grave the tributaries pour -more souls into the lake of infamy and there is no place left unfilled! - -No woman going down there knows of the terrible possibilities until it is -too late. That is the secret of vice; its lying lips belch forth the truth -only when its shackles are welded about the limbs of its victims. - -Lust beckons. The eternal woman answers and approaches the poisoned spring -and drinks. The eternal man is there. On and on he leads her, casts her -away when he has tired, and the Vice Trust with its directorate of -powerful politicians, debased men, takes her and reaps its awful profit -from her. - -Vice first: then Graft. Graft formulated in the minds of men: Vice born in -the blood of women. - -Death--dishonored death to the woman. - -Wealth--overflowing wealth to the Grafter. - -We have seen the city in many phases. We have not taken into consideration -the army of women who maintain superficial respectability, who live at -homes, some of them with husbands and children, and who yielding to -temptation are carrying on liaisons. - -They are called "clandestine" women. They may be found in all walks of -life. - -There are, normally estimated, 15,000 women of this type in the city of -Chicago! - -Are you convinced that Chicago is the "wickedest city in the world"? - - - - -CHAPTER V. - -What Will You Bid for This Woman? - -White Slavery--Price of a Body and Soul--Hell's Bondage--The "Cadet" -Master--Death the Penalty--The Trapping of the Prey. - - -Thirty-three per cent of the women fed to the insatiable god of lust in -the "redlight" districts of Chicago are White Slaves! - -Nearly two thousand women, annually, are sold to the highest vice bidders! - -They are procured from every imaginable source and by every imaginable -method. - -Thousands of women drift yearly into a life of prostitution, driven to it -by hunger and want primarily. - -Why then must others be sought out, trapped, brought, bound and tied, -stood on the auction blocks of vice and sold to the thump of the gavel? - -Because the demand is far greater than the supply! - -Hell is always hungry; the taste of blood on the lips of the monster Vice, -drives him mad with desire for more blood; the crushing of bones and the -morsels of white woman's flesh, frenzies him for other bodies! - -More women! more women!--that is the cry. - -It is a difficult problem. The question arises, is it simply a feeding of -men's passions that must be satisfied or is it a desire to make men hunger -and buy because the women are placed in their pathways, so that the vice -lords may reap the harvest? - -We believe the latter is God's truth, or rather the devil's truth! - -Many a man would not be the brute of unrestrained passion that he is, if -his paths were clear of temptations. - -The temptations are placed, the White Slaves are purchased to make gold -and silver for the wretches who create, nourish and commercialize vice. - -It isn't vice that is robbing homes of innocent girls each year. It is the -Commerce and Traffic of Sin. - -The White Slave Trust is a perfect organization existing in the city of -Chicago today. - -Its agents procure the flesh and blood product from every source, its -agents peddle the human article, from house of ill fame to house of ill -fame; sell it, take the profit and divide with the members of an infamous -combine. - - -THE TRAPPING OF THE PREY. - -There are 150 professional procurers or "buyers" for the White Slave -corporation! - -There are at least 300 more men who at times act as procurers and at other -times as "cadets." - -There are thousands of other men in every walk of life who are constantly -on the lookout for a possible victim for whose sale they reap a small -return in bloodstained dollars. - -The professional procurer, hired by the members of this trust; the owners -of houses of prostitution or men whose business depends on the prosperity -of places of ill fame--play on the three inherent characteristics of every -woman's heart-- - -Ambition, vanity and love! - -By attacking the points of weakness they trap their victims. - -Out in the country town they dazzle the fresh, pretty creatures by stories -of the pleasures and delights of life in the big city, by making love to -innocent children, by depriving them of their sacred chastity. - -In the city they appeal to their vanity: they tell them they are -beautiful, loveable; they promise them clothes and jewelry, and again the -woman falls. - -Every form of amusement, from the nickel theaters to the wine rooms, is -used to entice the prey. - -Outside the professional procurer, the city is infested with men who make -the business a side issue. - -The extra procurers are found in the department stores, in the dance -halls, in the nickel theaters and penny arcades, in the waiting rooms of -the railroad stations, on the lake boats, at excursions, at rest rooms, at -employment agencies, theatrical agencies, factories, business offices, and -a hundred other places where girls are employed at meager salaries. - -AND ALL THIS TO FILL THE ROTTEN COFFERS OF THE VICE TRUST! - - -PRICE OF ONE BODY, ONE HEART, ONE SOUL. - -In 1860 one black woman was sold for $25! - -In 1860 one black woman was sold for $500! - -You shudder when you remember those times! - -In 1911, in the city of Chicago, one white woman is sold for $25. - -In 1911, in the same city, one white woman is sold for $500! - -Slavery succeeded by slavery, or worse than slavery! - - -THE TRAFFIC OF WHITE SLAVERY! - -After a victim is procured, the next step on the part of the perfidious -combine is to dispose of her to the highest bidder. - -Absolute examples of women-selling and the prices paid by resort keepers -for the women purchased are in the hands of the federal government. Uncle -Sam does not tolerate fiction. That is why we know this is the truth. - -Investigation has shown that the prices for women sold into bondage of -crime run from $25 to $500. - -That scale is sliding and depends on the qualities, mostly physical, of -the woman, and the immediate demands of the purchaser. - -A girl taken by a procurer who has dazzled her by his insidious lies, and -who is not of a type that would attract men of wealth or particular -tastes, can be bought by a keeper of a house of ill fame from the agents -of the White Slave Trust for the inhuman price of $25. - -If the girl is ruddy with the glow of health, well-formed of limb and -innocent of deep crime--the price soars. - -Cases have been cited by ministers and reformers within the past year, -where keepers of high-priced houses in the levee districts have paid -outright, $500 to the White Slave combine's agents for girls whose purity -has only been defiled by the procurer himself, and whose bodies are -capable of bringing their masters thousands of dollars within the year. - -These are the treasure-slaves of the hell-hounds! - -It is of standing record, according to an investigator into the flesh -traffic, that one procurer in one trip into the country districts of -Illinois, trapped eight girls and sold them at prices ranging from $40 to -$350! - -One of these girls was a virgin. She was drugged by the procurer and awoke -the next morning to find that she was a prisoner in a house of ill fame. -She had been sold while robbed of her senses. She had been outraged while -unconscious. The landlady approached her the next morning with an air of -good fellowship, told of the benefits of the new life, promised her -beautiful gowns and jewelry before night and attempted to make her forget -the real, sweet and pure things of life which had been so mercilessly -stolen from her. - -This is the story of but one out of thousands. - - -$200,000 ANNUAL WHITE SLAVE PRICE. - -We have said there are 2,000 White Slaves sold every year. - -The average price is $100 a girl, according to a well known federal -official, who has investigated and prosecuted several hundred cases of -White Slavery. - -That makes the aggregate purchase price of White Slaves in Chicago -annually, $200,000! - -This same official declared that the South side levee district contributes -$60,000 a year to the White Slave Trust for new victims. - -The balance is paid by the resort keepers of the other districts of vice -and by keepers of the "houses of call"--the places where men of wealth and -bestial perversion seek for virgins on whom to wreak the fury of abandoned -passions! - -Here is a terrible example of the procuring of an innocent girl for the -perversion of a wealthy man. - -Detectives investigating the conduct of a man implicated in graft charges -affecting the high personnel of a big railroad, discovered that at a -Michigan avenue "house of call" a tender and unsullied virgin procured by -White Slave agents, was given into his lust-stained hands for desecration -weekly! - -That same man, the investigation showed, paid as high as $500 for an -undefiled child! - -He even went so far as to go outside of the city, in search of purity and -goodness to be sacrificed in the fires of his degenerate passions. - - -THE SHACKLES OF THE WHITE SLAVE. - -Many a girl after a month of horror, revolts against the conditions -confronting her; the terrors in her dreams of the future fill her soul -with fear and she yearns for freedom once again. - -The dreams, which the stories told her by the procurer aroused, have never -materialized; she is as poor as she was before she was trapped into the -life of shame; she is broken in spirit and in health. - -Can she walk out a free woman? - -No. She is a White Slave; the slavery is not just one of selling and -purchasing; it is one of permanent bondage in ninety cases out of one -hundred. - -The man who trapped her has become her "cadet." He is her "guardian" for -her master. His word is law. She is a slave forever. She is treated -brutally if she makes serious attempts at escape; she is even locked in a -room and in some instances women have been tied hands and feet to -bedposts. - -She is at times drugged in order to make her forget her misery and her -plans of escape. Every possible precaution is taken to prevent her release -from bondage. - -Her procurer in dull times, may take her from one house and resell her for -a new price. She is thus bartered as a dead commodity instead of a woman -of flesh and blood. - -There is nothing in human history that is so filled with horror as this. -There is no deeper stain on the annals of this nation than the crimson -stain of White Slavery. - -It is the evil that cries daily to Heaven for vengeance. Thousands of -mothers lift their trembling arms and cry out to God to kill the monster -that has eaten their daughters. - -And this White Slave Trust, taking the money from these ill-fated women, -turns part of its profits over to the magnates of the great Vice -Trust,--to men who stand high in the world of politics, to men to whom we -intrust the task of making our laws and administering them! - -The law stands without and makes no effort to stem the tide of infamous -traffic in women. Political leaders listen to the voice of a people's -protest, sham a "clean-up" and then send forth the word to the vice -lieutenants to "lay low" for a short time. Within a few weeks, the monster -creeps from his hiding place and feasts ravenously on the victims piled up -and waiting for him. - -We have shown the price of these pitiful victims of a vice system. - -We are now ready to show how every form of vice in which woman stands as -the central figure is protected by the police department at the command of -the political lords and their friends, in order that they may derive a -vast income from the human sacrifice. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - -Vice and Graft. - -Police Collectors--The Prostitute's Graft Price--The Kimona Trust--Laundry -Trust--The Woman and the "Cadet"--Terrible Examples--To the Woman: -Death--How About Your Daughter? - - -From the enemies of moral progress and from those who find it to their -personal interest to exploit the shame of women and the crimes of men, the -cry has been raised:-- - -Vice, segregated and otherwise, is absolutely essential in a large city. -Passions must be given an outlet; lusts must be allowed to exhaust -themselves. - -That view, in the face of earnest study of the subject, is a pernicious -fallacy. - -Take away from man the open temptation; cleanse his paths of the thousand -lures to evil; bar his coming in contact with the lost woman as far as it -is possible and you will minimize vice to a marvelous degree. - -It is on the fallacy and sophistry of the theory that passions of men must -be satisfied, that Chicago today carries on its terrible exploitation of -vice. - -It is on that theory that the Vice Trust has built its superstructure, -created its gigantic business, bartered its thousands of women for -flesh-prices and harvested millions of dollars annually. - -Vice exists under the conditions which we have depicted, because the Vice -Trust--the all powerful coterie of police and politicians,--wish it. - -The would-be municipal leaders, are the powers behind the city's ignominy -and shame! - -Every evil that cries out in the big city, every crime that is committed -in the day or in the night, every vice that is practiced to the ruin of -human souls and bodies, does so because the Vice Trust commands it, -because the Vice Trust waits for its monstrous returns from them. - -Chicago's four levee districts with the hundreds of resorts and the -thousands of unfortunate inmates, furnish a tremendous capital to their -owners, but the owners have a lease of vice existence from the political -powers behind and above them, simply because these men and women pour into -their coffers a constant stream of graft money. - -The saloon evil, the cafe evil, the hotel, the dance hall, obscene theater -evil, the "house of call," "flat" and White Slave evil, pay a tribute of -existence to the agents of the big alliance who have the political power -to crush them out of existence if they so desired. - -That is why we stand on the statement that if the CORRUPT POLITICIANS and -their slaves and corrupt police officials were stripped of their power and -sent to the penitentiary, Chicago could swiftly purge herself and become -the City Beautiful in the most ideal meaning of the term. - - -THE TRIUMVIRATE. - -The evil lies today in the alliance between Vice, Police and the -Politician! - -The sore festers so that the matter running from it may be turned into -dollars and cents by men we elect at the polls each election! - -It is our purpose in this chapter to show in cold, conservative figures, -just the price that vice pays to its political masters to live; just the -gold that is beaten from women's bodies so that the political bosses can -be given their share and the slave masters of prostitutes can still make a -profit. - -We shall show that from every possible channel graft is derived. We shall -show that to the big powers goes the big share; to their friends go -smaller amounts, so that the pie is so divided that a tempting morsel is -cut for all the favored few. - - -PRICE OF PROTECTING VICE. - -"Give me so much gold from the earnings of defiled women and we will give -you so much protection, so much liberty and so many privileges," offers -the directorate of the Vice Trust. - -That protection money is counted out: so much per woman, so much per sin, -so much per vice. - -The Vice Trust of the grafting directorate accepts the money and vice -lives and flourishes. - -The purchased souls of policemen, ready to do the bidding of the graft -masters, are the agents through which this protective power is dispensed, -in the primary matter of existence. - -Graft for protection is the vital graft and the primary one. Policemen -collect this themselves and turn it over to their superior officers. Their -superior officers in turn take out their percentage for the damnable work -and pass the bulk on to "men higher up." - -The graft for police protection is not always paid to policemen. High -officials, fearing that their hand may show in corrupt and incriminating -transactions, hire private and debased citizens to carry on this -pernicious work of collecting from the resort keepers and from those whose -business depends on the resorts. - -That is the graft exacted for the simple existence of prostitution and the -carrying on of the trade in women's bodies. - -The more the earnings of the house of ill fame, the higher the value of -the women enslaved, the more liberty granted to make hellish profits, the -greater the protective graft. - -As a corroboration of our flat statement we have scores of men of -prominence in every walk of life who have first-hand knowledge of the -existence of this alliance of vice and graft. - -Recently, an attorney whose business takes him into the "redlight" -district on the South side, made the following statement in a Chicago -daily paper: - -"There is one police official who should be punished for his activity in -collecting tribute for the protection he dispenses to levee resort -keepers. He is a smooth article, however, and he goes straight to -headquarters in a fine show of indignation whenever anyone makes any -charges against him. - -"My business takes me into the district and I know that there is a regular -tax levied on these people. It all depends on the size of the -establishment and the amount of business done. The collecting is done by -plain clothes men who turn it over to a police official and he takes or -sends it to a higher official and after he takes out his share the balance -goes to a city official. I've had that told me so many times by so many -different persons, some of them policemen, that I know it is true. - -"But you couldn't get a person in the district to talk; they are run out -of the district as soon as they threaten trouble." - -The man who made the above statement is one of the most prominent -attorneys in Chicago. He is simply corroborating our charge of the -existence of the practice of protection. - -The high city official to whom the money goes and to whom he refers is one -of the organizers of the great Vice and Graft Trust; a man who has made -thousands of dollars by corrupting the power placed in his hands, and who -today continues in the face of reform movements, to instruct his -sycophantic police officials to allow vice to flourish just as long as it -pours its gold into his coffers. - -[Illustration: THE DRUGGED CONSCIENCE. - -Copyrighted 1910 by The Midnight Mission. - -Used by permission of owners of copyright. - -Steeped in iniquity.--Blind to his sin.--One step from eternal ruin.] - -As an instance that vice is shut down when it fails to make its tribute, -we quote the following story from a well known criminal lawyer. It is -astonishing in its features and in its revelations. This man said:-- - -"I was obliged in the course of my professional duties while searching for -a woman important to a case at hand to visit the Empire Hotel on Wabash -avenue. A week before my visit I had read that the police had raided the -hotel and arrested several girls who lived there. These girls were not -prosecuted and were discharged the morning after their arrest. The matter -was fresh in my mind when I made my visit. I questioned the proprietress -of the hotel as to the recent raid, and she smiled at me and said: - -"'Oh, we have to stand for these police gags. You see we weren't paying -protection money and they simply raided us as a warning. We are running -full blast now and without any police interference, because we are coming -across every week with our protection price.'" - -The protection money is gathered principally in the levee districts but it -also comes from every other place in the city where vice is made a -business. - -The protection money that is exacted from the keeper of the brothel is -exacted from the keeper of the hotel, cafe, saloon and other species of -places of infamy. - -Here is another example of the truth of the story of protective graft. - -An investigator for the Vice Commission corroborates our own -investigation. - -This investigator witnessed the following scene and conversation. - -A man who had remained in a South side levee resort all night, complained -to the police the next day that he had been robbed of fifty dollars by one -of the inmates. - -Accompanied by two detectives from the Twenty-second street police -station, the man went to the house. - -The landlady, when she heard his charge, became angry and while the -investigator listened made this remark: - -"That man never possessed fifty dollars in his life. It's a frame up. Why -are you police bothering me? Are you looking for more money? What do you -want? I paid my protection money two days ago." - -We will show the price exacted from the prostitute's master in order that -she may exist as a creature of vice and sell every drop of blood in her -body to make more money. - - -FIGURES THAT FREEZE THE BLOOD. - -In an investigation that took in the cases of 500 prostitutes it was found -that their average earnings were $100 a week. - -We are aiming to be conservative. Let us place the average earnings at -forty dollars a week, as a basis for figuring out some astounding results. - -There are 5,000 outright prostitutes in the city of Chicago. Five thousand -women making forty dollars a week will make $200,000 a week. - -Five thousand women at forty dollars a week earn in one year-- - -$10,400,000! - -Is it conceivable? Is it possible? - -Tortured bodies of women yielding that gigantic income! - -These are the women who live in the levee resorts, the inmates of flats -and hotels and the slaves of the cafe owners. - -Those women who live within houses whose owners pay protection for their -inmates, give up half of the weekly earnings to the "madam." - -Those women who are known as "hustlers" in the slang phrase, give fifty -per cent of their earnings to the police for individual protection. - -No matter how and where that protection money is paid, it eventually -percolates through the hands of the police or agents to the members of the -Vice Trust. - -The women of the street who frequent the hotels with their victims, pass -their protection money to the hotel owners. They act in furthering -protection, in the same capacity as do the keepers of the houses of ill -fame for their victims. - -The police trail these girls to the favorite hotel and then compel the -hotel men to collect from the women. - - -POLICE PRICE FOR THE SCARLET WOMAN. - -Investigation again discloses a terrible condition of things. - -We are going to show what these unfortunate women pay to exist:--the -amount of money they pay the police for protection and the money that is -passed on. - -The prices exacted from a levee house by the police or other agents of the -Vice Trust for police protection, varies according to the liberties given -these slaves. - -From investigation of a thorough character it is safe to say that the -average protection price paid per woman in Chicago is twenty dollars a -month! - -Figuring on the basis of 5,000 women who are prostitutes in the accepted -sense of the term, this means a payment of $1,200,000 in protection money -a year. - -In support of our monthly protective price of twenty dollars, we quote the -following from a woman, for twenty years the owner of a big house of -prostitution in Chicago and now a married and reformed member of the best -society of Cedar Rapids, Ia. This woman in speaking of the question of -protection money, said: - -"During my experience of twenty years as the keeper of a Chicago resort, -900 girls passed through my hands. The protection prices I paid depended -largely on the profits that the girls made. I had as many as forty-five -girls in my establishment at once. The girls got half of their earnings -and I got the other half. From my part I paid my protection money. I paid -from fifteen to thirty-five dollars for each girl to the police. The -average for all the girls was twenty dollars a month for each girl I kept. -I will not give the names of the police or the collectors." - -When prominent investigators were searching for facts to use in a crusade -against the sale of liquor without a license, they visited the Everleigh -Club on Dearborn street. - -Minnie Everleigh, one of the two women who own that notorious resort, made -the following statement, showing the existence of police protection: - -"I would be perfectly willing to pay a liquor license of $1,000 a year. I -would like to see the entire business legalized. I would pay the price -legally demanded. - -"As it is today, someone permits us to conduct our establishment. I am -paying in other ways." - -The payment which that dive keeper made "in other ways" was the protection -money and a dozen allied forms of graft to the Vice Trust through its -"lieutenants." - - -GRAFTS THAT FEED ON FLESH AND BLOOD. - -The protection graft is the beginning of the great graft system. It is -created to be used as a foundation for a thousand and one other sources of -graft from sin and vice. - -It has been shown that the woman either personally or through the woman or -man to whom she is sold or has sold herself offers the first tribute to -the Vice Trust and pays for a lease on her demoralizing and destructive -life. - -Now that she has paid her protective graft, she is to be fleeced by the -great trust with its political leaders, out of the remaining part of her -earnings. - -The women in the resorts are the greatest victims of the "consequential -graft." - -Take for instance, the woman inmate of a house who is in need of clothes -and other necessities and watch the way the Vice Trust robs her over and -over again. - -The average earnings of a woman was placed at forty dollars. Of that -twenty dollars was turned over to the resort keeper. That leaves an -average of twenty dollars weekly to a woman. That is $1,000 a year. - -Of this amount these women are compelled to spend $500 yearly. That leaves -them but $500. Even that succumbs to a mere nominal figure when graft has -finally stopped feasting on it. - - -THE KIMONA TRUST. - -There is a subsidiary trust of the Vice Trust which robs the 2,000 inmates -of resorts in the city. - -That combine is called the Kimona Trust. It is composed of certain -clothing makers who sell exclusively to the inmates of the houses of -prostitution. It received its name from the fact that the prostitutes buy -and wear light house apparel, consisting of kimonas, wrappers, flimsy -gowns and gaudy lingerie. - -The operation of this trust, the extent of its graft and the way that -graft is divided, with its portion going to the vice lords is interesting -and not well known. - -Take for instance, the girl who is in need of a kimona. Here is a truthful -story from a girl in an Armour avenue resort as to the way she was -victimized by the kimona grafters. Thousands of others could tell the same -story. - -"I had not been in the resort very long," said the girl to the -investigator, "when I needed some clothes. I told the 'madam' and she said -the agent of a clothing house would call within a few days. I wanted to go -out and purchase the things where I desired, but she told me she had to -see that her girls got them from a certain man. - -"The man came and I made my selections from a number of articles of -apparel which he displayed. I had worked in a department store before I -entered upon this life and I knew the value of clothes. - -"I was compelled to pay $15 for a kimona which I could have purchased for -$3 at any department store. I paid $120 for a hat with plumes on that was -worth only $30. I was forced to give up $67 for a dress whose value I knew -could not have been more than $25. - -"The man then showed me some jewelry which he had with him and the keeper -told me I should get some to make myself look more attractive. - -"He showed me some cheap rings and bracelets and earrings. I paid $20 for -a bracelet, some neck beads and a ring which were not worth any more than -$4. They fell to pieces a short time later." - -These girls, according to their own stories are obliged to pay two dollars -for a pair of stockings that are not worth more than fifty cents. - -That is the system of the Kimona Trust! - -Increased value on articles of clothing sold the inmates is about the same -in every instance. - -Three hundred per cent excess profit is the taxation made by the agents of -the kimona trust! - -The purchase prices on all things are so increased as to make that -enormous profit. - -There are 2,000 women buying clothes at a yearly expenditure, or rather -robbery, of $500. - -That means $1,000,000 spent by these poor, dying, unfortunates yearly to -feed the avaricious grafters! - -That enormous sum is spent for materials that are worth only one fourth of -that value. - -That means that the Kimona Trust brings an annual harvest of graft of -$750,000! - -The figures are so startling as to strike one dumb with horror, yet they -are as true as the annual statement of the earnings and capital of a -reliable bank. - -The Kimona Trust agents are satisfied to make the normal profit on the -goods as if they were sold at their legitimate price. They raise the price -and create the graft in return for the favor of having a big business with -no competition. - -The $750,000 is then split up. To the police undoubtedly a small share -goes for their general work in the district, the keepers get a share for -compelling the girls to buy and the big bulk goes to the directors of the -Vice Trust. - - -THE LAUNDRY TRUST. - -The Kimona Trust has not eaten to the last bill in the purse of the vice -slave. She still has money left which the Vice Trust must batten on. - -The Kimona Trust has a logical successor, the Laundry Trust. - -This combine proceeds in the same manner as the combine that furnishes -clothing to the 2,000 prostitutes in the houses. - -It proceeds by boosting the prices and robbing its victims. - -In the ordinary laundry service, the laundry man with a cleaning -establishment is satisfied with sixty per cent of the income of a man who -has a private route and brings his collections in clothing to the place. -He is allowed forty per cent for himself and for his wagon. - -In the levee districts the privilege of the laundry business is hard -sought after, but it is limited to a few men. These men pay for the -privilege. They add 100 per cent to their prices for work done, so that -the Vice Trust which grants the favor may reap its profits. - -Speaking conservatively, every girl is obliged to have a laundry bill of -two dollars a week. - -Two thousand girls with an average laundry bill of $2.00 means $4,000 a -week or $208,000 a year! - -The just laundry bill for those poor, fleeced women of sin should be but -$104,000. - -But the Vice Trust must have its toll. That graft of $104,000 is carried -to the under lords and again the capital of the deadly combine is swelled -while its victims starve! - - -THE CRIMINAL DOCTOR. - -Even science has prostituted itself to aid the Vice Trust collect its -tithes from the lost women. - -In the South side "redlight" district about ten physicians who are -graduated from good schools have sold themselves to the lords of vice, -crime and sin. - -These men are employed to examine the women inmates of the houses to see -if they are suffering from diseases of a venereal nature that might sow -the seed of death in thousands of men. - -This practice is also carried on in the other "redlight" districts. - -It is the biggest farce in the whole system. It is a criminal perversion -of science. - -It has to the resort keeper an advertising value. The word is sent forth -that his girls are "healthy," or the man who accompanies her to her room, -sees stuck in a prominent place a certificate signed by a physician -declaring he has examined her and found her free from venereal -afflictions. - -It is a terrible and criminal deception. - -Those physicians are supposed to give each girl a personal, clinical -examination each week. - -That is rarely done. - -For this "examination" these girls are taxed fifty cents a week and given -signed certificates. Often they do not see the physician for months at a -time, yet they receive their certificates. - -The physicians making a living at this terrible exercise of their sacred -profession are slaves of the trust. They sold their manhood to receive the -position. To the trust they give back a large part of the money taken -from these unfortunate victims. - -This graft, is said by those acquainted with the subject, to reach $15,000 -a year! - - -THE PROSTITUTE AND THE BEER GRAFT. - -It has been demonstrated that the graft yielded by prostitution direct is -enormous. It has been shown how the disgraced and fallen women not only -give up a share of the earning from their dying bodies, but also are -compelled to assist in the collection of subsidiary graft. - -But the Vice Trust has not finished with the picking of the bones and the -sucking out of the marrow. There is still more to be taken for the price -of sin and shame and misery. - -The women who have the seeds of death in their bodies must be pushed and -shoved swiftly to their dishonored graves. As they go they must yield more -gold to the money lust of the vice lords. Gold must be their price even on -the brink of the grave. - -The Beer Trust must fatten on the last pieces of flesh and the last drops -of blood! - -There was the Kimona Trust; then the Laundry Trust, and now the Beer -Trust. - -In order to further its business and increase its income, these -unfortunates must poison their already decaying systems with quantities of -beer that would revolt even the average drunkard. They must inoculate -themselves with the virus of slow death! - -They must drink, drink, always drink! - -As a lure and a bait to force these already underpaid wretches to fill -themselves with the venom of the beer vats they are given a meaningless -profit for every glass of poison they force a customer to buy. - -They are obliged to drink with the customer in a spirit of good -fellowship. Even after they are sick and drunk they pour the cheap, -over-fermented liquor into their stomachs--for the sake of sociability and -to appease the Vice Trust through its brewery graft. - -The girls thus become the Beer Trust's agents. The woman that is not a -good "beer agent" in a house of ill fame, is either punished by being -deprived of some privilege or her body bruised and discolored by a brute -employed just for such purposes. - -But we have demonstrated that subsidiary graft has reduced the ill-gotten -gains of the women until there is scarcely anything left for them. - - -"SELL DRINKS OR STARVE." - -Do you wonder that they sit hour after hour at a table guzzling beer with -their drunken customers? - -It is the old story of--"Do this or starve." - -In the "redlight" districts of Chicago certain breweries have the -monopolized concession from the vice lords to sell their commodity. No one -else dare enter into the precincts to peddle his goods. - -The Vice Trust demands a terrible stipend. Therefore the beer must be sold -at an outrageous price. The over lords must get their share, the girls in -the houses must be paid their horrible commission and the keepers must -make their profits. - -The sale of this beer in the disorderly houses is a direct violation of -the law governing the sale of liquors. All this beer and other intoxicants -are sold without a city license. - -There are one thousand places in the city selling liquor without a -license. Nearly all these are houses of prostitution. This figure is -arrived at by a comparison of federal tax records on the sale of liquors -and the records in the city license department of the city clerk. The -houses of ill fame dare not ignore the laws of the United States. So, they -purchase a federal liquor license at the nominal sum of twenty-five -dollars a year. - - -BEER GRAFT--$2,915,760. - -The yearly graft in beer in the holes of vice in the city is unbelievable. -We shall quote an authoritative source. - -According to the report made by the recent Vice Commission to the Mayor of -Chicago the annual graft from the sale of intoxicants in the restricted -districts of the city, is-- - -$2,915,760! - -That means that many dollars in graft over the price paid the brewery for -its product. - -That income must be divided among three factors: the prostitutes, the -keepers of the houses and the members of the Vice Trust. - -In the calculations of the Vice Commission, the prostitutes receive forty -per cent, which amounts to $1,166,304. - -From sources reliable and from interviews with keepers of disorderly -houses, we have learned that the Vice Trust exacts fifty dollars a month -from each disorderly house for the privilege of selling beers, whiskeys -and other death-dealing drinks. - -From the houses of prostitution in the levee districts, from the "houses -of call," the "flats" and other disorderly places, numbering 1,000, -figuring on the basis of fifty dollars a month, the beer graft to the over -lords is $600,000 a year. - -That is the price that the minions of vice pay for the privilege of -violating the municipal laws, of taxing vice to its last strength, of -murdering the women who must promote the vicious industry! - - -THE INVESTED VICE CAPITAL. - -The over lords, cunning and commercial to a degree, have never lost an -opportunity to grow dollars from cents. - -Realizing that the breweries made golden harvests from their privileges of -monopoly, the vice kings sought to extend their power to these -corporations. - -They did it by practically buying the breweries! - -Three of the politicians who are members of the Directorate of Ten--the -graft spirits of Chicago's underworld--have profit-yielding interests in -breweries that serve levee trade. - -In this way the over lords have another source of swollen income. - -Nothing escapes from their talons. - -In the levee resorts large quantities of cigarettes are sold daily. Again -the vice masters seek out and gain the gold. One member of the all -powerful Directorate of Ten has a controlling interest in the agency of a -certain brand of cigarette. Every effort is made in the vice districts to -sell this cigarette because the vice lord has commanded that it be -disposed of. - - -THE PROSTITUTE AND THE "CADET." - -In the ante bellum days when slavery flourished in the South, the blacks -were directly ruled over by foremen who goaded them on at their tasks of -making dollars for the plantation lord until they found welcome rest in -death. - -The modern slave is the prostitute. She, too, must have a boss to urge on -her tired body to make more dollars for her masters, to keep up the -constant stream of graft to the Vice directorate, to boost the earnings of -such industries as in turn pay a tribute to the great trust. - -The boss of the miserable outcast woman is the "cadet." That low species -of perverted human, crunching on the few morsels of food thrown at his -feet from the well-heaped table of vice, is also known as "mack." History -has given him the name of "pimp." - -The pickpocket, the burglar, the safe cracker, even the murderer, command -more respect--we say respect for lack of a better term--than do these -human, creeping, craven parasites. - -They are the real slave-men; the lowest form of the Vice Trust's vassals. - -Among these men are also the men who first destroyed the sacred chastity -of the women over whom they now rule. Nothing is sacred to them; nothing -good; nothing inviolable. - -They have become an essential element to the nefarious scheme of the Vice -Trust. Whip in hand they are the appointed lashers of the thousands of -lost women, beating them to urge them to work harder, faster, and thus -yield a return for their purchase price until the cold earth falls with -hollow sound upon the cheap casket purchased to hide away their shame and -sin in the ground. - -The subsidiary trusts of the great Vice Trust have taken their toll. But -the unfortunate women, through their commissions, particularly on liquors, -have still some of the terrible wage drained from their bodies. - -The trust must have the greater part of that. It is the duty of the -"cadets" to get it. They do. - -They collect from the girls, take their share and turn over a large -percentage to the Directorate of Ten. - -The trust has a strange reason for this. The trust considers the "cadet" -primarily as a parasite. That parasite must pay a price for existence. To -get it, he must compel the woman he controls to make more money. - -In urging her to make more money he is boosting the graft in every -possible way. - -There is a psychological connection between the "cadet" and his -prostituted slave-woman. - -Inherent in the nature of every woman is the primitive instinct of the -mastership of man and obediance to it. In the good woman that obediance to -that subconscious instinct finds its expression in love and in strange -submission to his theories and practices of life where there exists no -moral conflict. - -To be loved, to be cared for, to be desired, are the impulses developing -out of the conception of man's mastery. - -In the lost woman, the instincts are the same; so, too, the impulses. - -When a woman has fallen she never gives up her dream of a "one man" who -might love her, treasure her and protect her, until the eternal night -blots out the colors of the vision. - -Failing to find a return love, the thousands of unfortunate women fall -victims to their own loves for men. Rather than lose even the hollow, -empty sham of love, rather than to miss the presence of a brute, they -submit to indignities, brutality and tortures that are indescribable. - -It is the under current carrying the idea of Man the Master. The woman is -willing to be the slave. - -Playing on this perverted instinct of the woman, the Vice Trust makes -capital of it. The "cadets" are brought in on the general plan of graft. - -The "redlight" districts of the city are infested with these men, -fattening on their lost women. - -Judging from the number of well dressed men of no apparent occupation who -hang about the saloons, resorts, poolrooms, cigar stores and other places -near the levees, there are more than 1,000 of these worms of the earth at -large, feeding on the city's great ulcer, flaunting their crimes in the -faces of our young men and young women of clean morals, and murdering -their women hirelings! - -They have no fear of the police because they know that the police dare not -molest them just as long as they "hand over" their graft to the "men -higher up." - - -BRUTALITY OF THE "CADETS." - -These men exercise the most brutal mastership over the prostitute. -Instances have been shown where women were whipped within a few inches of -death by the inhuman dogs. - -One night in the South side levee, a "cadet" caught one of his women on -the street in front of a resort, cursed her for her small earnings and -proceeded to beat her into insensibility. Bleeding from his inhuman blows, -she reeled and fell to the sidewalk. - -Standing in the glare of the arc light, the man's face and hands were -smeared with blood. Two policemen approached and stopped. The "cadet" held -up his blood-stained hands and laughed. The policemen pushed him ahead, -and one of them said: - -"Fred, you better move on. Go and wash your face and hands." - -A woman came from the resort, kicked the prostrate form of the unconscious -girl with her foot, then grasping her by the hands, dragged her into the -hell chamber from which she had emerged to breathe a little of God's own -air. - -That is not the story of a heated imagination. It was actually witnessed. -Incidents of similar character which beggar description, occur every -night, when these outcasts are confronted by drunken, blood-exacting -degenerates. - -Some of these men are the slave masters of several women. - -In a recent White Slave case in the federal court, one of these wretches -confessed that he was the "cadet" of four prostitutes. He drove them on in -their vicious labors, forced them to work day and night to bring him money -from which he made his own living and paid protection to the police and -tribute to the Vice Trust. - -This man swore that he made from fifty to sixty dollars a week from each -girl. - -Many of these "cadets" do not live in the "redlight" districts. They -scatter and come back when it is time to gather in the gold. - - -"CADETS" AND POLICE GRAFT. - -The business of exacting graft from these men is a difficult police -problem because of their nomadic habits. Still it is accomplished. - -Rendezvous of these men are frequently raided by the police and these -"cadets" to save themselves give up what money they may have with them. - -Many of them, however, cannot keep away from the scenes of their crimes -and cravenly and regularly pay their price. - -The "cadet" system is highly valued by the Directorate of Ten because it -is the human prod to vice, the medium of increasing infamous profits from -day to day. - -As an instance of this, here is a story from police circles which is -confirmed by other corroboration. - -Recently, a captain of police was transferred to the Twenty-second street -police station. He was an unsophisticated police official, then. He was -not well acquainted with the workings of the Vice Trust and he was -determined to rid the districts of some of the evils which were more -flagrant than others. - -He determined to destroy the "cadet" system and to cast every "cadet" into -jail on charges of vagrancy. He set about to do it and forty-eight hours -later the district was seething with indignation, fear and anger. - -A conference of the big resort keepers was held and the police captain -invited to attend. He went prepared to deliver a staggering ultimatum that -would wipe out the evil forever. - -When he emerged he was a beaten, broken man, broken on the great, ever -turning wheel of vice. - -Those keepers told him in that conference that if he drove the "cadets" -out, they might as well shut down their houses. He was willing that they -should. But there was the rub. He was quietly shown that the graft lords -wanted more money and would not stand for a decrease of profits. - -They declared that women without "cadets" to urge them on, did not make -half the money those did who were driven to death by these inhuman -creatures in their exploitation of vice. - -To back up their statements they showed him the records of their houses. - -The great powers, he realized, were behind commercialized vice. To harm -one member of that Directorate of Ten by shearing him of his profits meant -ruin to himself. He gave up the battle. - -Later on, in another police territory, this same official hemmed in and -enmeshed by the exacting system which he had allowed to make him a slave, -fell a victim to the Vice Trust and was sacrificed with much pomp of -public investigation on the altars of the temple of vice and graft to -appease the unseen god of public wrath and indignation. - -Another example of how the graft system reaches out and destroys the -upright, is the following:-- - -Another captain of police was sent to take command of the police district -including the South side levee. A clean-minded chief of police ordered him -to clean up the district. He ordered him to place men in the resorts where -there were flagrant violations of the rules regulating the district. - -The police official did so. The resort keepers tried to reason with him, -argue with him and plead with him, but he refused to listen. "I shall -carry out my orders," he said firmly. Then they predicted his transfer -from the police station. They predicted that within thirty days he would -be in command at another station. They missed their calculations by but -one day. He was transferred to a district where his honesty could do no -harm. Beyond and above the chief of police ruled a power--the political -power of the Directorate of Ten, that made the final ruling. - -A chief of police in a strange manner has admitted the power of the vice -combine which he was sworn to annihilate. As a sergeant of police he was -powerless to stem the tide of sin and vice. When he received the highest -executive office in the department, the Vice Trust compelled him to move -from the home in which he had lived on the South side for twenty-five -years. The music from the dives floated into the precincts of his home and -disturbed his rest; the unfortunate women carried on their immoral -profession within a stone's throw of where his innocent daughter slept; -drunken men reeled past his door going to and from the vice haunts. He was -surrounded by scarlet women and vicious men. For the salvation of his -family he was obliged to seek other quarters. - - -AND TO THE WOMAN?--DEATH! - -Oh you that are the children of our flesh and blood, you over whom anxious -mothers have watched through the long, weary hours of the night when the -shadow of sickness was upon you, you whose lips are still undefiled by the -kiss of unclean lips, you who still kneel at night and in the solitude of -your chambers, call upon the Master to hold your hearts in the mighty -hollow of His hand, bend your heads in meditation on the truth that is -hideous, but must be known. - -You mothers and fathers, sacrificing every hour of your lives for your -daughters, praying for their purity, guarding their chastity, leading them -in the paths of righteousness, turn not from the truth that you must -know, but listen and take warning. - -IN THE LIGHT OF MODERNITY IGNORANCE IS NO LONGER INNOCENCE. IGNORANCE IS -CRIME: IGNORANCE IS SIN: THE SIN OF OMISSION AND NEGLECT. - -In no age, has a people faced a social problem as vital and crucial as the -one facing the American people today. Our rapid progress in the paths of -commerce has robbed us of a clear moral conscience; it has made the -almighty dollar the ideal, to the detriment of the soul and heart: it has -built taller houses of industry while the church steeples have grown -shorter. - -It has crept unconsciously upon us until it has eaten into our vitals--the -commercial and industrial frenzy. - -It has recognized in the perversion of woman a source of income and it has -commercialized the vicious instincts, and the depraved desires of -thousands of them. - -The baby girl in the cradle is being watched and waited for by the Vice -Trust:--ready to capture her and throw her tortured body into the mart of -sin for filthy dollars. - -The school girl is trailed and tempted. She falls often unconsciously and -awakens when it is too late. The girl who is earning her own living is -preyed upon and bartered away; and even the wife and mother is frequently -caught in the ever-tightening mesh of the masters Satan has appointed on -earth. - -Statistics show that two thirds of the women who are found in the -infamous resorts of the city drift there in a thousand and one ways. - -The White Slaves are in the minority. - -Economic and social conditions, starvation wages, environment, -unrestrained sexual desires, lack of religious restraint, improper -association with the male sex in immature ages, desires for pleasures, -luxuries and clothing, betrayal by men, are among the principal reasons -why this vast percentage of the prostitutes fills the houses of iniquity. - -Tons of literature have been written, warning the girls of the country -against the perfidious White Slaver. - - -"LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND." - -These warnings have also been directed to the parents of our girls. - -The girls and women that need warning today are those who are drifting to -the Lake of Infamy, drifting, some unconsciously and others with -knowledge, in a vague way of what is before them. - -To this class we cry out until we are exhausted and our throats are -bleeding with the effort: - -"Leave all hope behind, you who enter here." - -At each avenue leading into the hellish centers of the city should stand a -lost woman, peering into the eyes and hearts of each girl who is creeping -silently and shamefully to the vice dens. In her hollow, rasping voice, -the lost woman should be made to cry out: - -"TURN BACK ERE IT IS TOO LATE! THIS IS THE CITY OF THE DAMNED! THIS IS -THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE OF HELL! THIS IS THE CHARNAL-HOUSE OF DEATH! THIS IS -THE SPOT WHERE THE GRAVES ARE ALWAYS OPEN AND YAWNING! LIFE HAS NO HOPE -HERE!" - -If each girl could be told the paralyzing truth of the life of the -prostitute as we have told it in this book, would she plunge headlong into -the consuming fire? Would she leap into the ever-present abyss? Would she -take the first drink? Would she give her lips to the poison of the inhuman -wretch who plots her death? Would she give her pure, white body to the -abominations of the Vice Trust? - -No, no, no: not unless she were born of hell and deprived of reason and -judgment. - -It has been our object to show that not one dream of the girl who enters a -house of prostitution is ever realized. - -She has hoped for fine clothes, jewelry, food and money. - -She has found nothing but shame, suffering, remorse and sorrow. - - -THE LURE OF THE "LIFE." - -"I will become a slave, that is true," said the girl who is dying in a -resort today, as she entered the abominable life, three years ago, "but I -shall make hundreds of dollars and then leave it and no one shall know." - -That is the lure that has caught up thousands of women and hurled them -into dishonored and polluted graves. - -The Vice Trust is the robber combine. - -No woman who has once fallen into its inhuman traps can escape until she -has paid the last farthing, as we have shown. - -The Vice Trust allows the women of its kingdom to make gold fast, that it -may rob them faster. - -We have shown how each agent of the Vice Trust, each subsidiary combine, -each industry dealing with the unfortunate women, suck out the last drop -of blood. - -In the last analysis, after we have studied how the earnings of the -prostitute are snatched away from her, you ask this startling question: - -"And to the woman, what?" - -And with God as our judge and honest, clean, observant men as our -witnesses, we answer: - -"DEATH!" - -Shudder, all you who today are tempted to give up the struggle against -terrible odds. Tremble with fear, all you who are near the gates of the -City of Sin! Turn back all you who are picking the insidious blossoms in -the pathways that lead to but one end. - -DEATH:--not pleasure, not joy, not companionship; not clothes, not the -niceties of life, not money! - -The Vice Trust paid a high price in one way or another for each -woman-soul. Death can claim the victim only after it is torn to pieces by -the ravenous wolves. - -There is no compensation in the lives of prostitutes for all they have -thrown away; not even a sham of compensation. - -The prostitutes of Chicago are not only the commercial slaves of the vice -lords; they are the victims of the most ravaging and most destructive -diseases that science knows. Cold figures prove this. Nearly every woman -in the levee districts of Chicago suffers from dread diseases. They are -the victims of every possible chronic disease and organic trouble. - -They are today the greatest agents in the city for the dissemination of -sexual diseases that ruin homes, lead men to suicide and fill the wards of -our city hospitals with dying children. - -They are the mistresses of the men of the crime-world, who in the last -stage of degradation, drive them to careers which are checkered with the -murders of their victims. - -And now another hideous truth to save our daughters from the blasting -curse. - - -THE PACE THAT KILLS. - -Death claims these women in from one to seven years! That startling -statement is based on actual figures dealing with the demand and supply of -women for the resorts of Chicago. - -Death is really merciful to those whom he takes at the beginning of their -blighted lives, for they escape in the darkness and sleep of the tomb the -nights of nightmare agony, of remorse, of shame, of physical suffering, of -empty and broken hearts, of ghosts of the pure, sweet past, of home with -the sweet-faced gentle mother, the loving father and the brothers and -sisters. - -Think of it! These commercialized creatures of hell grind out of body, -blood, heart and soul, millions of dollars for their masters! And for -themselves--the GRAVE! - -We have been logical in our statements. We have not delivered simply a -pulpit warning. We have shown, in undeniable figures, that the motto of -the Vice Trust is: - -"Millions for ourselves, but not one cent for the women slaves!" - -If, as is imagined by thousands of good men and women, these unfortunates -derived a profit from their immoral business, then there might exist an -excuse for the thousands who enter the life each year. But there is no -profit, no matter from what standpoint you might view the situation. - -The story of gain is but the lure. The Vice Trust tells lies that are -acceptable because of the strange tendencies in the temperament of women. - -Dean Walter T. Sumner, one of Chicago's most prominent ministers and the -chairman of the recent Vice Commission, declared that each year the men -who visit the many haunts of vice in Chicago spend $60,000,000! He also -declared that of this amount, over $16,000,000 goes to the vice lords! - - -"TOO LATE TO TURN BACK"--CRIES WOMAN. - -Before closing we wish to give a concrete example of the tenacious power -of the life of shame once it has fastened its fangs in the heart and body -of its victim. We tell the story so that every girl in this country may -know that once enslaved there is scarcely any redemption. - -In one of the most notorious resorts in the South side levee district, -lost to all self-respect and shame, is a certain prostitute who drags her -wornout body about, selling it to vice victims night after night. - -That woman is the daughter of an alderman of the city of Chicago! - -Four years ago she was the idol of a happy home, the pet of a loving -father and the darling of a happy mother. Today she is a drunken, depraved -creature. - -Her father has done everything in his power to rescue her. With his own -political power he has obtained permission from the vice masters to take -his daughter from her infamous prison. - -That woman has looked at her father and cried out: - -"It is too late! Society would spurn me and I would have to flee away. -Besides my body is wrecked and could not live without the intoxicants and -drugs I can feed it here." - -The father offered her $10,000 a year as an allowance if the girl would -leave her evil ways. Again she refused because she knew in the depths of -her heart that the shackles welded long ago could never be broken, and -that the poison eating through her blood could never be purged out. - -If this girl with every possible influence brought to bear to save her was -beyond salvation, what of the thousands who, even if they would, cannot -move hand or foot to escape the death waiting for them but a few years -away? - -That is the story of the prostitute. It is not a story of the woman -considered as an entity, deprived of her relative existence; it is the -story of the slave as a commercialized being existing solely for the -enrichment of the Directorate of Ten of the Vice Trust and not because she -is needed to serve the passions of men. - - -THOUSANDS ENTER THE "LIFE" YEARLY. - -And yet in the face of this staggering truth, thousands of women yearly, -enter upon the life of death. They go to fill the polluted beds and -chambers of horrors from which the gaunt, skeleton form of Death has just -crept noiseless, bearing away the victims whose terms of earthly service -in the interests of hell were at an end. - -God of Heaven, Father of the Just, Thou who watcheth over the universe of -living things, teach our daughters to know the truth down to the last, -burning, revolting fact. Save them for the motherhood of a perfect race. -Protect them against the demons who seek them out in the sanctity of the -home. Teach them restraint. Give unto the men and women of Chicago, the -strength and power to rise up and destroy the Vice Trust and its members, -so that the sun may shine on a spotless city, and love, happiness, purity, -and the brotherhood and sisterhood of man may reign supreme! - -How long, Oh God, how long? - - - - -CHAPTER VII. - -Side Grafts of The Social Evil. - -Rent Graft--Saloon Graft--Dance Halls and Protective Prices--Graft from -the Vice Palaces--The Massage Parlor--The Drug Crime--The Vampire Trust. - - -Woman is the axis around which revolves the wheel of the social evil -today. - -When directly enmeshed in the woman-traps of the Vice Trust she is the -enriching factor as has been shown. - -Indirectly connected with the Vice Trust or serving it off and on, she is -still the axis of swollen profits to the Trust. - -It is the purpose in this chapter to show the side grafts which are -derived from the existence of the persons and places contributing to the -social evil. - -Again the police department figures as the "go-between" hand from the -victims of sin to the Directorate of Ten. It is through their protecting -agency, permitting haunts of crime and vice to flourish that the already -monstrous fortunes of the vice masters are further swollen. - -It is astounding to learn the varied sources of side graft in the city of -Chicago today. As we have said before, everything must have its price of -toleration or cease to exist. - -A few of the most notorious and flagrant forms of side graft as separate -from the prostitute and her profession are to be exploited in this -chapter. - - -THE RENT GRAFT. - -The excess rental profit, due to the fact that at least 1,000 buildings in -Chicago are the rendezvous or dwelling places of prostitutes and women of -loose character, is today $1,000,000. - -This figure is based on the conservative estimate of the Vice Commission -arrived at in its recent investigation. In its calculation the members -began with the figure of 577 places immorally used. They conservatively -estimated that $1,000 was the average excess profit of rent in open houses -in the restricted districts, and $300 was a similar profit per year on -"flats" and assignation hotels. - -This same profit would not exist if vice did not place a high price on the -haunts where it thrives. If the profits on vice are so enormous, the Vice -Trust figures that the resort keepers and hotel and "flat" renters can pay -high prices. - -The prices for rent on "flats" are boosted from $20 to $40 above the -actual rental valuation of the property. - -The rental price on property in the segregated parts of the city is raised -five times the actual rental figure. - -The real estate owners, and the real estate agents raise the price. But -they cannot steal this vast rental profit. The Vice Trust must have a -share. A split is made. The lords of the vice combine get their share of -the rental theft and back into the pockets of the Directorate of Ten goes -the graft. - -If this money is not paid by the real estate men and property owners, then -they are the losers in the long run. The police department closes the -place, refusing to allow prostitutes to live in the building. - -Result: The property must be rented to people of poor condition who can -pay but small rent. The physical value of the property is so small that a -large rent could never be exacted from decent citizens. Therefore in order -to make a profit himself, the lessor holds the rent high, countenances -prostitution in his buildings and pays his graft to the Vice Trust. - -A certain real estate agent controlling a building in Cottage Grove -avenue, which is infested with immoral "flats," declared that he boosted -the rents in the building $30 for each flat above the actual rental -valuation. This same man declared that he was obliged each month to hand -over to detectives who visited him, $20 on each flat, leaving him but a -boost of ten dollars per flat. - -A woman who keeps a "flat" in Cottage Grove avenue declared that she was -compelled to pay $50 for a $25 flat. She argued with the real estate agent -but he showed her that if she desired police protection she would have to -meet the demand. She did so. - -Some time later, on account of public protest by clean-living citizens -near this place, the police shut down the "flats" in the building in one -day. The women inmates moved out. A week later those flats which had -rented from $40 to $75 to the immoral women, were rented for $15 to $25 a -flat. - -Another example of the rent graft is given on the West side levee. A -resort keeper who was once known as a king of the West side levee, owned a -two-story building, which was used as a house of prostitution from which -he derived the enormous rental of $250 a month. The place was situated in -Curtis street. The street was "wiped out" by the police. A week later the -two flats were being rented for $20 apiece. - -There is one estate in Chicago today situated in a levee district which is -valued at $1,000,000. If the segregated districts were wiped out this -property would not be worth $20,000. - -As an indication of the difficulty that would be experienced in wiping out -this graft, remember that three city officials are owners of property used -for immoral purposes. They are members of the great Combine. They would -not permit the destruction of the immoral "flat" system because it would -deprive them of an enormous revenue. - -This rental graft is either paid to the police who take a small percentage -and then turn the remainder over to the agents of the Directorate of Ten, -in return for their protection, or is given to the vice powers direct by -the real estate agents. - -This rental graft is one of the big factors in maintaining a City Defiled. -To strike at these places is to strike at the vice lords not alone -through their enslaved women but through their property valuations. - - -THE DISORDERLY SALOON AND ITS GRAFT. - -There exist in the city of Chicago 500 disorderly saloons. Those are the -places where women are allowed to frequent the backrooms and the -wine-rooms for the purpose of soliciting drinks from men. - -These places are to be found within the loop district and also in the -resident sections of the city. - -The owners of these places make enormous profits by the exploitation of -vice, but they pay monthly large sums to the Vice Trust in order to carry -on their business. - -Each one of these places has an average of five women "hustling" for it. -That figure is a low estimate. - -Drinks are sold in these establishments at exorbitant and robbing prices. -It is estimated that the gross profit, on an average, is 175 per cent in -such places. - -On the basis of five women in each place, earning three dollars a day as -commission, which is formed on a twenty per cent basis, the daily net -profit from these five girls, is $44. For a year this calculation brings -forth the enormous figure of $16,060 for the proprietor. By computation -this shows that the total profit of 500 saloons for one year is -$8,080,000! - -Think of that fortune in poison to thousands of men and women who frequent -these infectious places! - -But the big point is the graft. - -But the big split must be made. Out of that swollen profit, the -Directorate of Ten by some hook or crook, must get its dividends. - -Although the price of protection by the police, in reality protection by -the Big Ten, varies according to the location, possibilities in return and -the number of women who work, investigation has shown that the average -protective price of the disorderly saloon is $100 a month. - -This runs as high as $300 for the big loop places and those whose revenues -are excessively high. - -Computing on the conservative basis of $100 per month, this means that the -Vice Trust reaps a golden harvest of $50,000 a month from the disorderly -saloons and cafes of Chicago! This means $600,000 graft a year! - -In many of these places forms of entertainment are given, as for instance -obscene theatricals and immoral dances. These places increasing their -revenue by such displays, must of necessity increase their graft to the -powers above. To run such "shows" they are compelled to pay the police $50 -a month more, it is said. - -In some districts the police charge for permitting music after closing -hours. This graft usually is divided among the local police, from some of -the police captains down to the man on the beat. - - -DANCE HALLS AND THE IMMORAL THEATERS AND THEIR GRAFT. - -The dance halls which are found in every section of Chicago and the cheap -arcades and some of the theaters with their suggestive dramas and -vaudevilles are the starting points from which many girls go to ruin. -These places earn many a big dollar for their owners. But again the Vice -Trust holds out its aching and itching palm and cries for lucrative salve -and is anointed with it. These places pay a protective police price -ranging from $25 to $100 according to the degree of evil displayed, and -the amounts of money taken in at the doors. - -The privilege of selling beer at these infamous places to facilitate the -work of destroying the souls of young women and young men is placed at $50 -a month more to the police. - - -VICE PALACES AND THEIR GRAFT. - -In previous chapters we have spoken of the richly furnished homes of vice -and sin where the man of wealth and position can covertly enjoy his -debased passions and ruin young and innocent girls with the assurance that -his sins will not find him out. - -These places to carry on their trade in human souls, where thousands of -dollars are spent on elegant furnishings and where large profits accrue, -also have their prices to pay the police and the political powers in the -Vice Trust. - -Protection prices, ranging from $500 to $1,000 are paid each month to -insure their guests and deprive them of the fear of molestation. - - -MANICURE AND MASSAGE PARLORS AND THEIR GRAFT. - -These evils are not commonly known. The loop district is infested with -such shops which are nothing but thin veils for prostitutes. Many hotels -in Chicago contain such forms of vicious evil. These places are known to -the police and the women in them, who make a pretense of legitimate work -but in reality are ever on the alert for vice victims, are compelled to -pay high protective sums to continue in their illegal professions. - -These places in the loop district pay an average graft and protective -price of $100 a month. This money, taken stealthily by the agents, is sent -in the bulk to the members of the Vice Trust as in every other form of -graft. - - -DRUG SELLING AND ITS GRAFT. - -A large percentage of the lost women in Chicago and their male associates -are the victims of the drug habit. They are enslaved either by the opium, -cocaine or morphine curse. They must have these insidious stimulants to -exist, once they are trapped by this form of misery among men and women. - -The sale of these drugs is prohibited by law except under the most -precautionary methods. In the South side "redlight" district four -druggists make a profit on the sale of these drugs which is larger than -their income on all other articles combined. - -The sellers of these drugs must of necessity be known to the police who -see the constant throng of hundreds of unfortunates sneaking shamefully -into the places to procure the poisons that bring pleasant dreams, and -even unconsciousness. - -These places pay on an average $150 a month protection money to officials -through their subordinates. - - -THE VAMPIRE TRUST AND ITS GRAFT. - -Wherever wealth congregates, and men seek to while away the leisure hours, -willing to spend thousands of dollars in a night's enjoyment, there you -will find the agents of vice ready to minister to the wants of those men. - -Out of such conditions has been born the Vampire Trust of Chicago. - -It is composed of more than 100 women of loose character, women steeped in -sin and vice, women of apparent refinement and dashing appearance, women -of beauty and luring manner. - -These women infest the lobbies, cafes and restaurants of the most -exclusive hotels in the city. Their victims are the wealthy Chicago -visitors who are compelled to forget their troubles and business worries -over a glass of wine with charming, siren members of the trust. These -women drug, rob, steal and blackmail their victims. - -Many of these women have extensive police records. Their faces are known -to the old and young detectives who are appointed to protect the city's -guests. - -Then why are they allowed to carry on their thieving trade and fatten on -their ill-gotten gains? - -Again there is but one answer. - -They pay their protection for existence and are allowed by the Vice Trust -to thrive unmolested. When a victim does muster up enough courage to -complain to the police that he has been victimized by a Vampire, he -obtains no satisfaction. In fact he is given a significant warning against -prosecution. - -Most of the victims are married men, with almost unimpeachable reputations -and social positions and families. They are told by the police officer to -whom they complain that if they attempt to punish the woman who robbed -them, the story would become public and the notoriety would do more harm -than the loss of the money. - -These women concert with the members of the blackmailers' trust. These men -point out prospective victims. If the men cannot be robbed, their -reputations are jeopardized and then the women threaten to disgrace them -by telling the story of a night of shame. - -It is hard to estimate the protective price paid by these women. Judging -from the number of their victims and the large amounts of money stolen, -the relative protective price must be enormous. - -The police admit the existence of this trust as was shown by a high police -official in a recent attempted prosecution of one of its notorious -members, who had served a sentence in the state penitentiary and who at -one time was the respected wife of a Milwaukee jeweler and a prominent -member of Wisconsin society. They do not admit that these women pay them a -price to carry on their open robbing of victims. - -One man in Chicago, who had been held up by these infamous wretches and -bled until he rebelled against the slavery, recently gave up the battle, -committed suicide and in a letter penned to his wife before his death, -told of the outrages he had been subjected to because of his misstep. - -And so these women are the agents of the Vice Trust, the associates of the -lowest male creatures in Chicago, the parasites of rich men and the causes -of suicide, murder and wrecked homes. - -And why? - -Because the Vice Trust must have its toll. Because the treasury has still -space for more silver and gold. Because the hunger and thirst of the -Directorate of Ten is never appeased. - -Because the lust of the political powers behind the monster Vice is -insatiable. - -Not because men must submit to these things because unruly passions drive -them to shame, misery, remorse and death, as has been fallaciously -charged. - -These are the subsidiary vices from which millions of dollars are garnered -yearly to feed the Directorate of Ten, to put new diamonds on shirt -fronts, brighter stones in heavy gold rings, new automobiles to wait for -them outside their palaces whose every stone is hewn by the torn, cut and -bleeding hands of thousands of women slaves and raised to its place by -exhausted weakened and dying creatures. - -Graft, graft, graft! - -That word sings, echoes and reverberates through the underworld of -Chicago. It is the slogan of the Vice Trust. It is the mystic sign of the -vice fraternity. - -And while the Vice Trust screams like a voice from the last depths of -hell: - -Graft, more graft!-- - -The victims lost in the depths of the Inferno echo back:-- - -Death, and more victims! - -Who can really estimate the actual amount of graft reaped from sin which -eats into the hearts of a lost and perished womanhood? - -Our estimates have been conservative. They have been based on an average -system of computation. The actual figures if we were able to carry our -searchlight of truth into the coffers of the Directorate of Ten must be -far above those we have given. - -We have sought to tell the truth. In our hearts we know that such graft -passes from the vicious to their masters each day. From the victims -themselves we have learned the figures which we have given above. - -Is there any wonder that after a thorough consideration of the subject -from every viewpoint, we have closed our eyes and from the depth of our -soul cried out in sincere conviction:-- - -CHICAGO IS THE WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLD! - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - -Gambling and its Graft. - -The Gambler's Fate--The Handbook, Other Games of Chance and Their -Protection--Police Profit--All Gambling Crooked--A Warning. - - -In the very heart of every man, woman and child is an instinct to risk the -tangible and present for the intangible and the possible future things. - -Since the beginning man has played some game of chance in his struggle for -existence. He has counted his own possibilities as against those of his -enemy, he has abided for what seemed the most opportune time and then he -has risked and taken the leap. Often the goddess of Chance has been with -him. More often that strange goddess has risen against him. - -The boy risks his marbles against those of his playmate. The girl casts -her jacks against those of her small companion. - -It is the desire of risk showing itself in the immature mind. - -As civilization went on and reason developed, the game of chance became a -sport which had for its object a lucrative gain in some manner or other. - -It became gambling:--the risking of something valuable on the basis that -the risk may prove profitable to the risker. - -The pages of history are dotted with evidences of gambling in every age. -Gambling has passed through a million forms. In our present day life it is -looked upon by the general public as a sport. - -It is the purpose here not to dissertate on gambling as a moral and -commercial evil alone, but to show that it is nothing today but another -asset of the Vice Trust, stolen out of the not too plethoric pocket of the -sucker public. - -It is our purpose to show that a gambling ring, backed by millions of -dollars, headed by powerful men and strengthened by the support of the -members of the Vice Trust, thrives in Chicago, adding one more stain to -her already besmirched municipal escutcheon. - -It fattens on those men and women who have already been fleeced by the way -of the social evil and on those who have not fallen victims to that sin, -and whose besetting sin is gambling. - - -RUIN, PRISON OR DEATH, THE GAMBLER'S END. - -Yearly, thousands of young men are hurled to financial ruin, sent or -headed to the penitentiary because of the gambling houses in the city of -Chicago that run full blast with the officers of the law walking blindly -past their open doors. - -The gambling vice grasps its victims in a clutch as powerful as the grip -of the drug habit or as unyielding as the toils of immorality. - -The gambling combine in Chicago is as strong as the most powerful house of -finance. It is bulwarked by every possible protection. You cannot beat it, -in the long run, no matter what your talents, judgment and experience may -be. - -The average man or woman would stand a fair show of winning in the average -gambling game in Chicago were that game "on the square." But it is not; -the entire system is crooked. That is how its profits are enormous. - -The thousands of persons who play the handbooks during the day, the poker -games and other forms of the gambling evil at night, have no more choice -of emerging with the "long green" bulging from every pocket than has the -mouse that is caught by the soft-pawed cat in a room and played with until -tired and then killed. There is no escape. Everything is crooked and the -gambling sucker is dubbed the "bleating sheep" the minute he enters where -the chips rattle on the table or where the man with the dirty dollar -smears your name on a chart with a stub pencil. - -Each year hundreds of men and women end their blasted lives after they -have emerged from the dens of the gambling lords, robbed of their last -cent and face to face with ruin, disgrace, and punishment. - -Each year, men are sent to our state prisons because they dipped their -trembling hands into the gold in their employers' till to make up the -money the gambling fraternity had taken from them. - -Each year, hundreds of women see their homes crumble beneath them, stand -with tear-stained eyes and watch their social positions taken from them, -lose the love and protection of their husbands and are turned adrift to -stray into the hell houses we have described, because the gambling germ -was imbedded and flourished in their blood and drove them on to unnameable -ruin. - -There is no way of estimating the evils consequent on the vice of gambling -as it exists in Chicago today. - - -A GAMBLER'S END. - -As a specific instance of the destructive power of the gambling combine a -Chicagoan recently committed suicide after dissipating a fortune in -flirting with the goddess of Chance. - -In his pockets, stained with blood from the bullet wound through which his -life had ebbed away, was the following note: - -"Several persons have the right dope on the dive, gamblers and the police. -They let a victim go there until they get all and then they blackball him. -Why not destroy these vicious people and close the dives and save people -from committing suicide? - -"This is the raving of a dying and ruined man but I know what I am doing -just the same." - -Do the police dare tamper with these men flaunting their violations of the -law in their faces? - -Even if they desired they could not do them harm. The gambling kings are -in direct alliance with members of the Directorate of Ten of the Vice -Trust. They turn over to it fifty per cent of their enormous income for -the privilege of making the other fifty per cent. - -Even in the face of a rigid and apparently sincere recent crusade against -the unholy combine between police and gamblers, gambling continued to -carry on its trade within a stone's throw of the City Hall and underneath -the shadows of certain big police stations. - -The gambling kings are even more avaricious and selfish in their wealthy -combine than are the members of the combine living off the social sin. - - -A POWER SUPREME. - -No one dares attempt to come into the chosen circle unless by direct -consent of the big lords, and after he has sworn abject allegiance to the -gambling chiefs. He must show the proper spirit by yielding up a large per -cent of profit. If this is not forthcoming, the police suddenly and -mysteriously awaken to the fact that the unfortunate man is running a -gambling establishment. He is raided, arrested and put out of business, -while a chosen servant of the fraternity shovels in the golden harvest -from the suckers across the street, drops a few choice coins into the -hands of the police who raided the opposition place and plies his trade in -perfect quiet, comfort and security. - -That is the power of the gambling kings. They are the high "lieutenants" -of the Vice Trust. They are given big concessions and extraordinary powers -because they are in position to show their fealty by the payment of -thousands of dollars of tribute weekly. - -[Illustration: GOD WORKS MIRACLES TODAY. - -Copyrighted 1910 by The Midnight Mission. - -Used by permission of owners of copyright. - -A hardened heart softened by the appeal of a fellow man. - -A drugged conscience awakened by a word picture of men's and women's shame -and degradation.] - -The gambling organization is so perfect today that there is no chance to -beat it. - -To perfect the system now in vogue it was necessary to do away with all -forms of competition and opposition. This was finally accomplished after -the expenditure of thousands of dollars by the gambling combine in control -today. - - -CHICAGO'S BOMB WAR. - -It was the spirit of competition and the rivalry of factions that led to -the bomb throwing epoch which has left such a deep stain on the history of -Chicago. - -Dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine and other dangerous combustibles were -used to whip the enemies into line. - -The bomb throwing era which was the talk of the nation, was nothing more -than the outward expression of the gamblers' hate. The bombs thrown were -the means of eliminating the competitor and bringing the enemies into the -ranks of the favored as mere slaves. - -In three years, fifty bombs were hurled by gamblers in the city of -Chicago. A million dollars' worth of property was destroyed, men were -maimed and families broken up in this terrible war. The first bombs were -directed against the men in command of the gambling forces. These men then -realizing the power of the dynamiters, employed them to destroy the -enemies of the protected organization. - -As a result the gambling combine today is based on dynamite and -gunpowder. The police knew who threw the bombs but dared not arrest the -criminals. - -Every form of gambling controlled by the gambling combine can be found in -Chicago. The high-priced forms are found in the loop district, the -gambling handbooks are found everywhere, and the cheap forms can be met -with in any part of the big city. - - -MEMBERSHIP OF THE GAMBLING COMBINE. - -There are nine residents and property holders of Chicago in the -directorate of the gambling fraternity and combine. These men control the -vicious gambling situation today. - -These men control one of the largest and most influential systems in the -world. They employ thousands of men to do their bidding and exact -thousands of dollars daily from the pockets of an unwary public. - -These men as a combine, are subsidiary to the great Vice Trust. These men -play directly into the hands of the Directorate of Ten which we have shown -as feasting off the well laden tables of prostitution, sin and women. They -derive their terrible and crushing power through the big vice masters. -They divide the profits with them. They pay high protection in order to -operate the thousand and one forms of gambling which they back daily, from -the cheap crap games to the highest and most money yielding games of -bridge or to the most lucrative, whirling roulette wheels. - -One of these men controlling this terrible vice is today a member of the -city council making Chicago's laws for righteousness; one is a former -member of the Illinois State legislature; one holds a high place in City -Hall circles, and another is a prominent business man carrying on a -business as a veil to his real and disgraceful profession. - - -THE HANDBOOK EVIL AND ITS GRAFT. - -There exist in Chicago 1,000 handbooks. - -A handbook, for the benefit of the unsophisticated reader, is a record -made in a local place of horse races which are being run off at a -distance. As for instance, a cigar store in the loop district makes bets -on races which are being run off at Jacksonville, Florida. - -The handbooks are run in saloons, cigar stores, hotels, and on newsstands. -Here the dollars of the sucker patrons are drawn from their pockets as by -magic, turned over to the agents of the gambling trust, never to return. -Clerks, stenographers, office boys, all classes of salaried men and women -are the victims of the handbook habit in Chicago. - -Day after day this unseeing public scratches its head of "solid ivory," -puzzles its brain in desperation and goes out to "beat" the combination -that never has known a real defeat. - -Barnum said "there is one sucker born every minute." Truly there is. The -birth statistics of the Chicago sucker, male and female, mostly male, is -greater than the birth rate of innocent children. This is a queer world. - - -THE WOMAN GAMBLER. - -In quiet and refined neighborhoods, in the rear of candy stores and even -dry goods stores, women who are considered spotless by their social -associates drop in daily, nervously look over the "dope sheet," pick their -winner, and hurl their husbands' hard-earned dollars into the yawning -pockets of the gambling combine. - - -THE GAMBLING VEINS OF THE COUNTRY. - -These thousand handbooks daily furnishing the names of horses running on -every track in the United States, must have some means of acquiring that -important information. - -The Vice Trust is never at loss to furnish a medium through which its -graft may be increased. - -The members of the Vice Trust looked about for men trained to the fine -arts of separating the innocent and unwary from their dollars, and found -the men who today are the leaders of the gambling combine. - -These men incorporated themselves secretly into a powerful -corporation,--the gambling industry, capital unlimited. - -The superintendent of the strangest gambling news agency in Chicago is -Mont Tennes, for twenty years associated with the gambling world in one -way or another. Through a news service, which leases telephone and -telegraph wires, this man gathers into his clearing houses and exchanges -in Chicago, the daily news of the race tracks of the world. - -This news, once gathered into "headquarters," is sold to every handbook -runner in the city at prices ranging from $12 to $250 a month. - -This news is the same to every place in the city to which it is sent by -telephone, or telegraph. The price for that news varies in proportion to -the size of the place receiving the service and the amount of the daily -profits scraped from the skins of the sucker patrons. - -This wire service is national, not local. It is the veins and arteries -through which the gambling fluid flows daily to many cities in the -country. - -On the circuit, furnishing gambling news, there are twenty-nine cities -that are receiving gambling information daily and paying for it. - -In each of these cities, this gambling magnate has an agent selected to -receive his information and to distribute to places in that city demanding -it on the payment of high sums of money. - -The agent pays for the right of such dissemination. This man in the -aggregate receives $40,000 a month from the agents in twenty-nine cities -on his circuit who reap vast fortunes from the sending of the gambling -news to the handbooks in their respective territories. The "boss" is not -satisfied with the swollen profit. He demands a certain percentage in the -various cities from the profits of the local men using his service. - - -THE HANDBOOK PROFIT AND GRAFT. - -Sixty thousand "pikers" in Chicago feeding the gambling goddess through -her handbook mouth daily! - -Is that figure something to startle you? It is true. - -The "piker" plays in small spurts from fifty cents to three dollars a day. -Then the bets soar up the ladder until you reach the rich sucker who -shovels out as much as $500 a day on an average. Bets are paid as high as -$10,000 in one day on downtown handbooks. - -One man in State street has maintained a $25,000 a day business for ten -years on an average. This has been actually proven. - -There are twenty places downtown where handbooks are maintained that do an -average business of $5,000 a day year in and year out, with men who dream -and plan to beat the unconquerable combine. - -Police officials who have consented to talk because they have been -disowned by political masters and a former partner of the present gambling -head declare that $300 is a fair and conservative estimate of the income -from a horde of suckers of each of the 1,000 handbook establishments -daily. - -This means $300,000 per day changes hands in the race of men to exercise -their gambling interests. - -The betting combinations are so arranged, according to experts, that the -one sucker is pitted against his brother and not against the house. - -The placement of money on horse flesh is so arranged that no matter how -the horses run, a profit of at least ten per cent accrues to the -bookmaker. He is never the big loser. In cold cash that means $30,000 a -day to the handbook men of the city. - -Few of the races or the racing tips are "on the square." The sucker plays -and attempts to defeat a system which is nothing more than one crooked -scheme within another. - -Fifty per cent of that is needed by the handbook men to operate their -places. It is used in the payment of salaries to hirelings, wire service, -rent, telephone service, printing and miscellaneous financial obligations. - -The balance or $15,000 is split between two mighty factors. Seven thousand -five hundred dollars are kept by the poolroom combination and an equal sum -is paid, through members of the police force, or other collectors, as -protection money to the great powers of the Vice Trust. - - -THE POLICE PROFIT. - -The local police for their vigilance in steering reformers from the door -of the gambling holes, carrying on fake raids and helping the sucker to -forget the loss of his bankroll by rubbing his injured pocketbook with the -salve of warning to keep away and learn a lesson, must be given their -share. Then the "big fellows" who in the department are the spokesmen for -the Vice combine must dig out their share. Then the remainder,--a large -remainder,--must go back to the Directorate of Ten. - -Stop and think how swollen and bloated this figure becomes when -considered from the standpoint of an annuity. - -Two million six hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars are paid each -year to the Vice Trust and the big political lords for the right to rob -the general public, prey upon its tempting instinct to dare a chance, and -drive the individual to ruin, starvation and death. - -That same amount of money is split up yearly between the handbook -combination and the agents throughout the city. - - -OTHER FORMS OF GAMBLING AND GRAFT. - -The handbook which we have described in its method of operation and its -graft for police protection is the common man's expression of his gambling -instinct. - -There are five hundred other temples of the goddess of Chance, in which a -variety of gambling games are played nightly. In some of these places -every form of chance game can be found in full force each night. In -others, a specialty of one kind of game is made. - -The principal forms of gambling that flourish today are roulette, poker, -stuss (a Jewish form of poker), fan-tan, faro, whist, craps, black jack -and hearts. - -In a Michigan avenue hotel at Twenty-second street a roulette wheel is -spun nightly to the tune of $3,000. Hundreds of men and women crowd into -the stuffy room, filled with smoke and the fumes of beer and wine, and -stake their all on the whirling colors. - -The man that plays to break the bank at that place is playing the same -game as the man who starts out to tear the cast-iron bottom out of the -bank of Monte Carlo. - -It can't be done. - -Behind the whir and hum of that maddening wheel is $50,000 held by the -keepers of the game. Try to break into that treasury with pick, axe or -jimmy and you will be caught, trapped and bled to death. - -In a house recently closed because of the objectionable notoriety it had -obtained, the gambling and vice powers are said to have cleaned up over -$100,000 in three months. That place was located in Michigan avenue near -Thirteenth street. All forms of chance were thrown into the gambling pot, -melted and handed out to the "pikers" as so many gold bricks nightly. - -In a famous, or rather infamous, whist club in a downtown building, whose -doors open in the face of the offices of several prominent lawyers, -$20,000 a night is cleaned up by the keepers. - -There are a dozen similar places in the loop district where the money that -changes hands in one night, averages $10,000. Men acquainted with the -situation declared that $500 a day is a very conservative average of money -changing hands in the various gambling holes in Chicago. - -For the 500 places this means an exchange of $250,000 a day. - -Oh, will a freshly awakened civic conscience save a demoralized public -from itself, or will the lethargy which is upon Chicago allow the -thousands of young men, men with wives and families, to hurry themselves -on to ruin and to death? - -The gambling houses, according to old time gamblers, on all forms of -gambling, make a "rakeoff" of about seven per cent on each dollar cast by -a victim before their greedy eyes. - -This means $17,500 a day. Fifty per cent of that or $8,750, is retained by -the gambling house keepers for expenses. The remaining profit goes the -old, old way, one half--$4,375--is split between the gambling under lords -and the gambling kings. - -An equal amount, goes to the Vice Trust for the protection received from -the police. - - -GAMBLING IN CONCLUSION--ITS CROOKED CHARACTER. - -So greedy and avaricious are the big chiefs of the gambling fraternity and -the members of the Vice Trust that after all is said and done, there is -little left for the game keeper. - -As a result even the little sporting instinct he may have is sacrificed -and he becomes crooked in every dealing he has with the paying public. - -"Ninety-eight per cent of the gambling games in Chicago today are -crooked," declared a well-known gambler. "There is no money in the -profession unless the public can be hoodwinked." - -Science, electricity, hypnotism, sleight of hand, or other means are used -to deceive the player. - -Unless you can note the swift touch of the gambler's foot on the electric -button, which drops the little ball into the red hole when you bet on the -black, you face ruin every time you face the roulette wheel. - -Can you see the invisible hand that is doping the racetrack sheet? If you -cannot, stay away from the handbook or be prepared to look into the dark -and murky waters of the river as a final hiding place of shame. - -Do you think the friendly game of poker is on "the square"? If you do you -are mistaken. The house has two men, professional sharks, fishing for your -money. They are out to get it and they will succeed. They will whip-saw -you back and forth until they exhaust you and tire your alertness. Then -they will crucify you on the cross of your own cupidity and zeal to make a -millionaire's fortune in a night on the income of a counter clerk. - -The game has not been beaten. That is why the gambling combine is strong. -That is why it has the support of the Vice Trust. Like the man who hopes -to withstand the temptations of the crime-centers, and as the woman who -ventures is poisoned unto death with the venom of sin, so the man who goes -forth to tempt Fate and win a kiss from the cold lips of Chance, is -enmeshed before he is aware of it and borne onward in the terrible -maelstrom which hurls him into the bottomless pit of infamy and shame. - -The gambling curse is a terrible one. Its stigma burns on the cheek of its -victims forever. Scarcely any hope can be held out to the man who is -trapped by its subtle lure. - -To those young men and young women of the city and the country, we write -this warning. We have shown that you "cannot beat the game," no matter how -intelligently you try. - -The Vice Trust has never known defeat. It will not know defeat in this -enormous source of revenue pouring into its coffers annually from the -favored, police-protected, bomb-throwing, life-destroying Gambling -Combine. - -[Illustration: IF HOLDUPS INCREASE. - -By Courtesy of The Chicago Daily News. - -STEPPING OUT TO POST A LETTER - -May take the form of an armed sortie.] - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - -Tearing Off the Police Mask. - -A Story of the Hypocrisy of the Police Department--Its Neglect of -Duty--Its Protection of Crime--The Fate of the Honest Policeman--Collusion -of Police and Thieves. - - -The minds which conspire to create a system such as the Vice Trust is -shown to control, must of necessity find agents to carry on the various -phases of the work. - -It has been demonstrated that no species of vice or sin exists in Chicago -except at the will of the vice lords and in return for the payment of -large sums of money. - -In a large majority, the police department, holding in its hands the power -to enforce or ignore the laws of the city, state or country, is the thumb -screw used by the Vice Trust to exact its toll of sin-existence. - -This body of men, each one of whom swore on his word of honor before God -and man to enforce the man-made laws, as a whole, is decaying with the -poison of graft and vice in its veins. - -From a servant of the people, the policeman has become the servant of the -people's enemies. - -Trapped and enmeshed by the political powers above them hundreds of -policemen prostitute their power for the purpose of aiding and abetting -sin and vice and in defrauding the people of their proper tax-paid -protection. - -There are 4,000 members of the department of police in Chicago today. -There are a chief of police, twenty captains, numerous lieutenants and -sergeants and at least 3,800 patrolmen. Through this body of men, many of -whom promised their God and their own conscience to do their duty, are men -sold body and soul to the vice lords who, it has been shown, control -Chicago and derive fortunes from the exploitation of vice. - -These are the men to whom every law abiding citizen trusts his or her life -year in and year out. These are the men appointed to protect property -against criminal depredation, to make the streets clean of crime, and to -watch over our children. - -And yet, investigation has shown that the executive heads of this big law -enforcing system, in many instances, are crooked, corrupt and purchased. - -Many of the men holding high positions in the police department are there -because the Vice Trust has found them of service and because they are -ready ever to do the bidding of their masters. - -The politics of the department is largely a matter of the politics of the -Vice Trust, as has been shown by recent investigations. - -Gambling runs full blast, houses of prostitution openly carry on their -immoral practices, street walkers wink at the policemen on their beats, -pickpockets laugh at the plain clothes men, robbers loot homes and places -of business, crimes of every conceivable description are committed, a -gambling war is allowed to terrorize Chicago, because the police -department is sold body and soul, revolver and star, to the masters of the -underworld. - -The hundred and one duties of the policeman are neglected daily because he -is busy helping some vicious criminal friend of the Vice Trust. - -The history of the Chicago police department today is a history of a duty -neglected and a sacred responsibility shirked. - -Even if certain members of the police force desired to do their duty, the -meshes have so tightened about them, they are so compromised with the big -lieutenants of vice and sin, that to save themselves and their families, -they must go on violating their sacred oath of office and living a life of -cowardice and hypocrisy. - -If the police department was not a subsidized body, the Vice Trust would -have a hard time carrying out its plans. It could not whip into line the -varied and complicated characters of sin with which it deals to lucrative -advantage. - - -THE FATE OF ONE POLICE OFFICIAL. - -Its subsidy was proven clearly in the recent conviction of a West side -inspector of police for the acceptance of protection money. He was one of -hundreds. He was not of a really bad stripe. Circumstances gave him -scarcely any other alternative. - -[Illustration: Copyrighted 1910 by The Midnight Mission. - -Used by permission of owners of copyright. - -Where one escapes the toils of vice and sin, thousands perish as slaves to -the inexorable Vice Trust.] - -There are honest policemen in Chicago. Far be it from us to cast mud of -dishonor and obloquy at all members of the department. We simply state -that a large majority of the members are corrupt and that is a positive -and known fact, although these men have managed through the protection -afforded them by their political masters to escape the penitentiary. - -The police duties, consequent on the assumption to such a position are -numerous. In Chicago these are forgotten daily. - -Wherever vice and sin flourish as they do here, the same condition of -police corruption is to be found. It was found in San Francisco, -Louisville, Seattle and other big cities. - - -THE LOST CHILD THAT IS NEVER FOUND. - -To kidnap an innocent child, to rob a fond mother of the greatest treasure -God can give her, to tear away from a mother's sweet and pure embrace her -own flesh and blood--that is a crime as heinous as murder. - -Kidnappings are reported to the police each day. - -What is the result? About forty-five per cent of the kidnapped children -are never found. - -What of the remaining? God alone can tell of the tragedies which they have -probably endured. Many of them have been slain by the demons who stole -them, many, particularly those of maturer years, have been sold into -abominable White Slavery, and others have been made slaves in other ways -to make a living for their masters. - -It is the custom of the police to put the name of a missing child, who is -usually a kidnapped child, lured away from its home, on the pages of the -"missing book." - -The story is sent over police wires to the various stations and precincts -as a kind of conformity to the letter necessity. These cases are not given -individual attention by the police. They are forgotten and all that is -left of the case is the faded, written report. - -Occasionally a tragedy that has brought sorrow and misery to some home, -driven a mother mad with grief and robbed a father of his reason, comes to -light through the powerful influences of the newspapers. - -The cases which are given display heads in the papers with pathetic -pictures accompanying them, are but few in hundreds of the stories of -missing and kidnapped children in which the tragedies are just as deep, -just as abiding and just as horrible. - -These cases are usually found by some energetic and enthusiastic reporter -who "happens" upon them by chance. The circumstances appeal to him and he -"gets busy." - -Day after day he prods the police into annoying activity. He finally -arouses public sympathy and interest and the police are of necessity -obliged to make a pretense at hard labor. They work on the case and -frequently obtain successful results that gladden the heart of some -frantic mother. - -Did they accomplish the work? - -To be fair and honest--No. The thanks are due the unknown members of the -press and not the police department. - - -THE EXPOSURE OF BIG CRIMES. - -As the newspapers are greatly responsible for the finding of children, so -they are the mind and pushing power behind the police department in the -exposure of big crimes, particularly murders, and the punishment of -criminals. - -Criminals are brought to justice every day, men are sent to the -penitentiary, not through the police department working as a thinking body -but through the efforts of newspapers, expressed in the tireless energies -of newspaper reporters. - -The police department as a body has been clearly shown up as a body of -inefficient, unthinking and unscrupulous men. - -One of the shining examples of inefficiency is to be found in a famous -murder case which stirred Chicago to its depths several years ago. - -A Bohemian living on the Southwest side murdered a mother, a father and -four children. - -The police when the case was first brought to their attention as one -worthy of investigation, it then being considered a strange havoc wrought -by sudden deaths, laughed at the sincere efforts of a newspaper man. - -They told him he was a dreamer and "hard up" for a story. The newspaper -man after gathering all the circumstances and facts, all suspicious, went -to the Coroner, over the heads of the police, and placed the case before -him. The Coroner saw that all clews pointed to a horrible series of -murders. He began an investigation, assured himself that he was right, and -then "called" the police in and ordered the arrest of the murderer. The -man was later found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. He escaped the -gallows through a strange popular sentiment and was sent to the -penitentiary for a life term. - -That is a standard example of police inefficiency. - -Another case that gives evidence of the lack of initiative in the police -department came to light recently. - -It occurred on the South side. - -Two small children disappeared from their home on the South side. The -mother was frantic with grief and sorrow and the father dogged the police -day after day trying to arouse them from their lethargy to search for his -two children. He received no encouragement. - -In desperation he went to a newspaper office and stated the case. He told -how the police had failed to make any strenuous efforts to find his -children. A reporter was sent out who "stirred" the police to activity. -Every possible clew was followed but to no effect. A physician declared -that unless news of the discovery of the children, alive or dead, was soon -forthcoming the mother would succumb to her grief. - -A newspaper reporter suggested that the waters in the slip at Thirty-ninth -street and the lake where the children were accustomed to play, be -dynamited. It occurred to him and not to the police, that the two -children might have fallen into the water. The lake was dynamited at that -place by the police and the bodies found. - -The police when compelled by the pressure of public opinion are obliged to -resort to the bolstering of a case. - -Judging from later developments innocent men have been arrested on serious -charges, thrown into filthy and unsanitary cells, dragged to the Criminal -court and subjected to the most shameful and humiliating treatment, in -order that the police force may purge itself temporarily from the stigma -of being inefficient. - -It is only a matter of inference, but it seems probable that hundreds of -confessions of crimes are wrung from innocent victims by the brutal "third -degree" methods. That these confessions are in many instances false, is -proven by the fact that when presented in a court of law they are thrown -out as valueless. However, they have served their purpose. The public -indignation over the crime in question is given an opiate and the police -can once more turn their energies to the protection of the business and -properties of the vice lords. That is the police department today. - - -THE POLICE AND PETTY LOCAL GRAFT. - -The police are not satisfied with the percentage which is granted them for -the protection which they grant to the vice holes. The little fellow is -still itching for the little graft. To obtain it he uses all the -brutality that is usually a strong asset of an unintelligent nature. - -When police in a district discover that certain gamblers are running small -games and not paying protection money, they walk right through rows of -open-faced gamblers, select the man in question and throw him into jail. -The arrest is supposed to serve as a warning. The man usually heeds the -warning and goes forth to gather protection money for the local police. - -Hundreds of street walkers, new to Chicago, who have not been registered -regularly by the vice lords and are not paying the regulation protection, -are victimized by the policeman on his beat. They are compelled to give -him a mere pittance to cover up their sins and ease his hunger for filthy -money. - -Even in the police department itself there is a constant bickering and -quarreling over the division of graft. They are like a lot of hungry -vultures circling about their loathsome carcass of dead meat. One police -official wars against the entrance of another police official within his -territory. - -Recently a negro opened a crap game in Cottage Grove avenue. He paid high -protection money to the police of the district which was supposed to be -turned over in part to the vice lords to appease their hunger. Things ran -along smoothly for some time. Then a new and brutal face that showed a -star came to his place and demanded money. The negro declared he had -already paid his money. - -"Not the big boss," said the detective meaningly. "My boss used to have -this district but he was transferred. You must still come across to him." - -The negro refused to do so. The "big boss" police official went to the -gambling fraternity and the result was that the negro was put out of -business. The night his place was closed, another, run by a friend of the -"big boss," opened across the street. The police never molested it. A -local lieutenant told the negro that the "big boss" police official was -known in the department as a "double-crosser." - - -"TIPPED OFF" RAIDS. - -In violation of their oaths, the police daily hand the public that is -paying their salaries over to the gamblers. - -Often they are compelled by public demand or through some newspaper to -raid places which are running flagrantly. Frequently, as has been shown, -the keepers of the places are "tipped off" before the raid is "pulled." -The keepers leave a "blind" to impersonate them and "ringers" to appear as -customers. These men are arrested with a great flourish and blowing of -trumpets by the police. They are fined. The fines are readily paid by the -real gamblers who are thankful to the police for the advance information -given them. - - -STRANGE IGNORANCE OF POLICE. - -The police pretend not to know of the existence of gambling places, as -evidenced by the recent statement of a high police official when formally -asked by his superior if he knew of any gambling in his district. He -declared he did not know the location of one place and was sure there was -no gambling in his district. - -A day later the Mayor of Chicago, angered at the fact that the gamblers -were flaunting their trade in the face of the public, and while a gambling -and police investigation was under way, ordered that a policeman be -stationed in every gambling house in the district of that police official. - -Strange to say, although he had sworn he knew of no gambling, when he -realized that the Mayor meant business, he mysteriously found nineteen -gambling places that same night and stationed men in them. That is one of -the laughable inconsistencies of the police department. - -One of the policemen, assigned to the work of standing guard over a -gambling house when questioned about the matter, said: - -"Of course we all knew these places were here and running full blast. But -that wasn't the question. I have been a policeman for fifteen years and I -haven't been asleep all that time. I have learned that the policeman must -not obey the law written in the statutes. He must follow the tacit customs -of the department. A policeman must never make a move until he is told to -do so. If he does, he finds he is treading on some big man's toes and then -the transfer slip comes to him soon." - - -POLICE, BURGLARS AND PICKPOCKETS. - -It seems incredible but investigation and constant observation has proved -that many big police officials and a number of smaller ones, have fallen -so low that they "hold up" the burglar and the pickpocket and make them -pay for their silence and protection. - -There is a thieves' rendezvous on the West side that is known to the -police, but the members of this gang are rarely disturbed. - -Every night detectives and policemen in uniform stroll past this saloon -and salute the well known criminals lounging about. - -Every day robberies, burglaries and holdups and the depredations of -pickpockets are reported to the police. Rarely is stolen property -recovered in comparison to the amounts taken. - -But as an indication of the strength of the alliance between the police -and the thieves, when some one demands justice in a strong voice that has -powerful backing of a financial or political character, the police are -always able to recover the property and restore it to its lawful owner. - -A certain labor organization gathered through investigators, information -sworn to, in affidavits, of the acceptance by policemen on the West side -of protection money from well known crooks who have criminal records in -every large city in the country. - - -THE FATE OF THE HONEST POLICEMAN. - -It has been stated that this chapter is not an attack on the hundreds of -honest policemen who day and night at the risk of their own lives, battle -for public welfare, clean morals and the eradication of the vicious -elements of the community. - -There are many honest policemen. But, we must say that these men, kept in -the dark by the corrupt because they cannot be corrupted are usually -"blackballed," in some mysterious way by the powers that be, and the -majority of them never achieve any rank in the department. Of course there -have been a few exceptions to this condition. - -The "transfer" system, which is nothing more than police railroading, is -the most active medium of getting an honest and incorruptible policeman -out of the way. If a man shows an inclination to balk at the commands of -his superior who is but the agent of the great Vice Trust, he is speedily -transferred to a harmless post where he is forgotten and remembered only -when paid his monthly salary. - -An incident of how the honest policemen suffer is the following: - -Six unsophisticated policemen, anxious to show their mettle and -overzealous in the performance of their duty, discovered a hilarious and -richly paying crap game running at Lake and Carpenter streets. They -decided it was their duty to raid it. They did so. They thought they would -be commended by their superior officers for their conduct. - -Instead of commendation they were told they were inefficient and material -that would never make good policemen. - -Two days later they were transferred to South Chicago. That meant that -they were obliged to travel thirty-two miles each day from their homes on -the West side to their posts on the far South side. - -Is it necessary to say why? - -Simply because in doing their duty in raiding the crap game, they spoiled -the profits of the Vice Trust. The game was run by a man who paid an -enormous amount of monthly protection money to these men's masters. They -had "tread on somebody's feet." - -Investigation of records of transfers in the department showed that thirty -per cent of the transfers were caused for such reasons. The record sheets -of men showed, in many instances, that a few days before their transfers -they had antagonized the great Vice Trust by attempting to do their duty -to the public which entrusted them to enforce the laws. - -As an instance of how the "transfer game" may be worked with telling -effect even on a police official who refuses to give his powers to the -protection of gambling, the following suits the purpose. - -A prominent political leader, anxious to gather spoils, went to a certain -police lieutenant on the North side, and said to him: - -"Well, we're going to start something up this way." - -"Not unless it's on the order books and the captain stands for it," -answered the police officer carefully. - -Result:-- - -The next day that lieutenant was transferred by the powers of the Vice -Trust. One hour and a half after his successor took his place, the new -commander was seen watching a street faro game in progress. He stood -across from it and watched the gambling combine's agent skin the "pikers" -and he never moved to stop it. - -Certain policemen in Chicago who are compelled to arrest certain well -known criminal characters, cheat justice even after the arrests are made. -They send the criminals to certain corrupt criminal lawyers. Then when the -case comes to trial, the policemen lose their memories and do not remember -the incriminating circumstances under which their prisoners were taken. -These policemen receive a percentage, amounting to about fifty per cent, -on the cases which they give to this class of shysters. - -Could Chicago have a deeper blot of shame, dishonor and disgrace on her -escutcheon than the present police department? - -Can the condition be remedied? - -Is there hope that some day criminals may be locked behind barred doors -that gold cannot pick? - -There is always hope while honest men and women live and struggle to build -up a city to rear their children unsullied. The police department is only -one part of a great slave system. The evil is back at the ballot box. It -is the old and only solution here as elsewhere, in the conditions that -make Chicago the "wickedest city in the world." - -That solution is the annihilation AT THE BALLOT BOX of the powers of vice, -graft and sin,--the Vice Trust with its Directorate of Ten. - -The civic conscience will arouse itself from its lethargy and some day -purge out the evils that have thrived so prosperously for so many years. - - - - -CHAPTER X. - -What Are You Going To Do About It? - -The Cause of the Great Evils--A Warning--The Duty of Parents--Conclusion. - - -Christ, prostrate at Gethsemane and hanging in his death agony upon the -cross, prayed for a dying, decaying world's redemption. - -Chicago was included in the divine plan of things since the beginning. - -Chicago has not been forgotten. - -Though her sins are as scarlet, they shall be washed as white as snow. - -There is within the community a slowly awakening civic conscience. It -shall arouse itself to deathless activity and wrest the Windy City from -the forces that prey upon it. That is our prophecy. - -The religious thought, the religious mind, the religious heart are ready -to do battle for the God of righteousness. - -Behind the telling of this story of Vice, Graft and Political Corruption -has been but one predominating idea, the revelation of the truth about -Chicago today. - -There has been but one hope:--the arousing of Chicagoans to the fight -against corruption by revealing the terrible evils thriving about them and -the delivering of a warning to those in and out of the great metropolis -who, innocent and unsuspecting, might be trapped in the lures of sin, evil -and shame. - -On the great white, festering ulcer of Chicago's world of crime and vice, -we have turned the burning searchlight of truth. Into all the dark -corners, the pitfalls, the covered abysses and the paths that lure and -lead to Hell, has the light, blinding in its intensity, been thrown. - -In the beginning we started out to demonstrate the theory that vice and -crime as they exist and flourish today are so, because infamous and -degraded men have commercialized them. - -It has been shown that thousands of innocent girls and women are hurled -into the bottomless pits of Hell annually, not because of a social -viciousness that has no palliative, but because a coterie of Godless -creatures value their bodies and souls at so many dollars and cents. - -It has been shown that back of all the wickedness and evil of Chicago is -the monumental and gigantic Vice Trust. The body, composed of a -directorate of ten men who for years have fattened off the sins of fallen -women and the crimes of inhuman men, has been vivisected and analyzed in -all its component parts. - -Truly, we have painted Chicago as the wickedest city in the world. - -We have not held it up and cried "Shame" for the sake of sensation. - -We have sought to teach a lesson and utter a warning of vital import. - -If the reading of this book turns the thousands of women who yearly stand -on the brink of destruction, and saves them as an honor to the motherhood -of the race, then this book will have been of infinite value. - - -CHICAGO--WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLD. - -Its wickedness is the outgrowth of the terrible irreligious system of -commercialism that has reduced the sacred things of life to a filthy gold -and silver valuation. - -As long as men whose consciences are stifled by gold dust, whose souls are -Godless, and whose hearts are dry and hard as rock, control our ballot -box, so long shall Chicago live under an infamous stigma. - -When the ballot box is cleansed of fraud, then the forces of sin will be -dissipated and the Vice Combine of today dissolved. - -The "redlight" districts must stand as pesthouses where death feeds on the -bodies of men and women until the political foundations of the Vice Trust -are dynamited and destroyed. So, too, the saloons, the dance halls, the -thousands of dens of infamy and hell-holes, where the seed of sin is sowed -in the hearts of innocent girls. - -The police department, as we have shown, is a helpless, dependent, -parasitic body. The Vice Trust has enslaved it. Just as long as the Vice -Trust exists, so long will the police department do its bidding, while the -laws are forgotten and disobeyed and a taxpaying public is left to the -mercy of thieves and murderers. - -But-- - - -WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? - -Rise up and in a body of Christian manhood and womanhood slay the monster -of hellish iniquity. - -But while the evil exists be prepared to fight against it for the sake of -yourselves and your children. - -We have told a horrifying story to save the pure souls and undefiled -bodies of your sons and daughters. - -Books have been written by the dozens on the question of White Slavery as -a warning to young girls and their parents as to how the infamous agents -of this soul and body traffic work. - -The warning is timely. - -But we have struck out into a broader pathway. - -But one third of the lost women today are the victims of the White Slave -Traffic. - -Two thirds of the girls who are dying slow deaths in the gilded dens of -infamy drifted there because they knew not the hideous, paralyzing truth: -because they dreamed not of the sorrow, shame, hunger, remorse and despair -that was to be their bitter mouthful from the chalice of life. - -To save the girls and women who in the future may form that two-thirds -battalion of human slaves has been our aim in treating of the scarlet -woman and her tribute to, and reward from the Vice Trust. - -Few girls who today are tottering drunkenly and uncleanly to a -prostitute's grave, ever dreamed of the fate in store as they sipped the -first glass of wine or felt the burning lips of an agent of Satan upon -their cheek. - -We have set about to tell every woman what is the inevitable end of the -life of shame and sin. - -To the girl who dreams of fine clothes, glittering jewelry, wine suppers -and association with men of brilliant character, down in the hell-holes of -Chicago, we say: - -It is the greatest lie Satan ever invented to wrest your souls from God -and give your bodies to the unhallowed grave. - -There is no hope to those who heed not the warning. - -A life of sin in Chicago, is a life of slavery to the Vice Trust. - -Over and over again on the rock of crime, the agents of that gigantic -combine will break each woman's body, taking flesh, pound by pound, and -blood, drop by drop, until the last merciless toll has been exacted on the -brink of the grave. - -When the mask is torn off, there is nothing to lure in the life of the -underworld. - -It has been shown how the thousands of women in the segregated districts -are robbed of even the last dollar of their immoral earnings. - -To every father and mother we cry out: - -FOR GOD'S SAKE LET YOUR DAUGHTER KNOW THE TRUTH BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! - -Tell her of the pitfalls that are ever about her; teach her the horror and -ignominy of the life of sin that may be the consequence of one night in a -cafe, or in an evil dance hall. - -Put this book into her hands so that she may go forth to battle with the -powers of evil and pass through the white fire unscathed. - - -FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED. - -To be prepared for life's battle is the first victory. - -If your daughter in the future is to make her living in the big city, -prepare her for the temptations that will beset her. - -The truth may be an awful revelation to her, but the facts set forth in -this book, showing the fate of the scarlet woman who dreamed of love, -luxury and pleasure, and plunged into the lake of infamy, may save her -from a similar fate. - -If you will save yourself, mother and father, from sitting about the -fireplace, wondering in the aching sorrow of your heart, as to where your -rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed daughter is, teach her the facts as we have set -them forth. - -Teach her that it is not the White Slave Traffic she must dread alone. -Teach her that it is the place of amusement that seems innocent, the -drinking of pleasant drinks, the association with characterless men. - -Once she tastes the fruit that is forbidden, the rest is days and nights -of drifting on and on until the whirlpool of vice swallows her. - -For the sake of a glorious motherhood, for the sake of a new generation of -men and women who shall make earth a picture of the eternal Paradise, let -your daughter know the horrors of sin in a large city. - -All that has been said of the girl applies to the parent and the boy. - -The boy here and the one who comes to Chicago must also know of the paths, -luring and attractive, that lead direct to the gates of Hell. - -As you tuck your darling into his bed tonight, think of his future. - -To be great he must be honest. To be a leader he must be pure of heart. To -be a true citizen he must be filled with the love of a true and chaste -womanhood, a despiser of mercenary ideals, an advocate of good government -and a supporter of inflexible and just laws. - -He will carry on his struggle in the maelstrom of a large city, possibly -Chicago. - -Is it fair to hurl him into the midst of temptations without weapons to -fight the demons of sin, crime, vice and corruption? - -Tell him the truth. Let him read the truth. - -Every young man should know the evils which wait ever ready to trap him. - -He should know of the great Vice Trust, of its system of slavery, of its -power and scope of operation, of its daily bartering of flesh and blood, -of its alliance with the dishonest gambling combine. - -Then he will be prepared to gain the ranks of those who will battle -unwearyingly and ceaselessly against the monster. - -Better that your daughter should sleep today underneath the green sward in -the country church yard, in the city cemetery, than be the slave of a -dastardly vice system, wearing her flesh away, damning her soul and eating -out her heart for her vice masters. - -Better that your boy should be taken from you in the flush of early -manhood than that he should grow up to fall a hopeless victim to the curse -of a great city. - -God gave you your child. He gave you a terrible responsibility--the -salvation of that child's soul. - -Therefore, prepare him or her for the battle "that goeth on unending to -the tomb." - -We have told the story of a City Defiled, of a city given over to the -powers of darkness. We have shown the existence of a Vice Body and how it -protects and feeds its thousands of slaves, permitting them to live to -turn more drops of blood into gold for them. - - -A PICTURE OF CHICAGO. - -The story is a picture of Chicago, drawn only after the most thorough -investigation, but we venture to say that investigation would reveal the -same conditions in all the larger cities. - -Sincerely we pray we have done good. Our exposure was undertaken with a -sense of duty to the 2,000,000 residents of Chicago and to the thousands -that swarm into her gates daily. - -Chicago needs civic leaders, civic martyrs,--men and women who will lead -the army of Christian warriors to battle; men and women who will lay down -their lives that their homes may be without peril from the terrible vice -plague,--that their children may never know the face of sin and vice. - -Chicago is full of latent good, religious enthusiasm, moral courage. It -needs to be aroused. - -One concerted blow struck at the head of the monster Vice would cause its -death. - -Let Chicago's Christian population strike the fatal blow. - -Let us engage in an honest rebellion with patriotism to our children, our -country and our God, in our hearts. - -Overthrow the Dynasty of Vice! Overthrow the corrupt political system that -established and today sustains the Vice Trust! - -Voice is without power adequately to describe the inferno that burns about -us and daily offers to the god of the pagans as a propitiatory sacrifice -the souls of men and women. - -The human mind, if it could conceive the real horror of the meaning,--Vice -Trust,--would be paralyzed by the revelation. - -Chicago needs human redeemers,--God-inspired men and women. - -Human persistency, concerted effort, backed by unconquerable wills and -hearts that hold God as a perpetual visitant, cannot fail. - -We of this generation have a sacred duty. - -That duty is the scourging of the Vice combine and the cleansing of -Chicago. That duty devolves on the reform leaders and their thousands of -Christian followers. - - -THE STORY IS CONCLUDED. - -The story is concluded. The trail of graft has been followed from the -ballot box to the dive, from the dive to the house of prostitution, from -the house of prostitution to the gambling hole and on up to the houses of -those debased public men and people-appointed guardians of the law, who -are today weighted down with the gold, created by the melting of vice, sin -and crime in the melting pot of the underworld. - -Chicago waits for salvation. - -Who shall bring it the "tidings of great joy"? - -Every father and mother, every man and woman, every youth and maiden. - -As a mighty army let us go forth. As a mighty army, with God's armor upon -us, using all the means at our command, let us meet and conquer the -enemy. - -With hearts thrilling with the horror of thousands of souls precipitated -to endless darkness, with souls full of divine charity for our brothers -and sisters, let us annihilate the Vice Trust and its minions. - -Let the battle cry be-- - -The Universal Brotherhood, all for God and God for all. - -In the place of dives let us have gardens; in the place of dens of infamy, -playgrounds for a growing generation. - -The revelation has been made. 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