The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World

, its Kingdom

ion-The Corrupt Ballot Box-The Mechanism of the Trust-The Prices o

ream of individual liberty, wealth and happiness, founded a city, and af

nhabitants. Nature seemed to bless all who settled withi

y inhabitants. She became the golden gate to the unexplored West. She became the cosmopolitan and central poi

wer, abuse; with abuse, vice; wit

icago, TODA

oys that which is but ve

hideous truth. She has hidden her h

ll no

ed monster from the deepest abyss of Hell has crep

s fattened on white flesh. It has destroyed virg

n, king of the damned dead since the

arnate Evil of the World. To save themselves they fed him of t

ill taking

s slaves; they, appointed by the people

ians, who, under cover of night and darkness, plu

r; this is the literal

ay from the shrieks of the lost millions, he would

nd progress, he would stand outside the gates, smile in

AMNED! This is the CITY OF MY DESIRE! This is the CITY AFTE

ST WICKED CITY

ld tell t

the most wicked c

. Greece and Rome struggled and died in a

urpassed them

yed by the wrath of Heaven, wer

of vice is tame by

in history. There is

ous mistress and paramour to a personalized god of named and unnamed Crime. The army is composed of

ago the Hell-ho

ies and vices of humanity, hurled them into a seething caldron o

ed. It has been formed along the l

ful, more impregnable than the biggest financ

ly every other enterprise founded on decency and honesty. It is l

hicago, unincorporated, but possessing a capital r

peaking in a collective sense,

highways and byways and

department

e of pol

ruthless, merciless, parasitic, powerfu

s life-blood to that infamous trust! It feeds like a great oct

LIVING, BR

ll hope, all ye

that line above the

ne flames as if written by the fiery fing

precincts, cannot enter it without being trap

and about the city. Enter and you are e

shall prove this broa

the dining room, barber shop, manicure room or other places, the monster

form sneaks behind you, exacting from you a toll for the privile

the trust follow you almost to the sacred entrance of an undefile

s the

EM AND I

h reason. Vice is a for

ushroom, so vice grew. Al

hed. Its resources were human s

nauseating, foul-smelling u

ded co

ant, unblushing vice was hidden away in the c

on the body it has destroyed

ke a many-armed octopus it s

to slay it, felt the terror of death upon th

IBIL

Luxury! Po

ing we have cried for

as the

RITTEN IN FLE

but give us part of the red blood and wh

he police, so he confessed his conceived crime. The police consented. Then the leaders

nd you may live and we will protect you."-sa

where thousands yearned to be free to sow dea

WI

blood. Thousands gave up health, happi

is in i

factor in making and

ectively of the Vic

OF GRAFT, CRIM

nce of life and death on good and bad, direct the huge and intricate machinery, pay off the hundreds of employes,-principally members of

Director

ulers of the mysterious underworld, living like princes and rulers in the

, POLICE

of all power. It can subjugate

ce department of Chicago. It has them today, and if nee

ntricate that the combine has recei

nd forms, must pay tribute. The tribute

ins, lieutenants, sergeants a

best remedy yet found for the social evil,

of four "redlight" districts. The rest stalks the streets,

and small part of the army of Vice. They simply dwell

H CRIME

onthly by the police themselves or by the

s price of tolera

he law, the powers that be wi

on of crime and reeking corrup

CK UPON

of Chicago attacked the bul

discharged for incompetency and inefficiency. Had they destroyed that

as murderous in its hideous nakedness. No one had ever

ack on to the weak, narrow shoulders of unsystematized

erest 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 palp

story of

It festers no longer in the dark. Its pois

CLE:-WITHOUT BEGIN

m without danger of extinction need

eant to rule a vice te

accom

THE SECRET O

in whose boundaries the "redlight" districts exact their toll from the thousands of unfo

atizing. Elections threatened to

box was the

ence and lives and flourishes today, the prima

vice-power the ballot box was and is stuffe

and transient element, brought into Chicago by the agents

ballot boxes and secure a vict

character are written in unmistaken language on their very exte

heap lodging houses are the medi

r in these places under the names of prostitutes and a

T-CONTROL

ten names of ten dissolute women, who live in the hotels

llicit votes. That is sufficient

men can cast

from the highest office in the city,

hat can crush any business, any man, can remove to the "woods" any policeman

ear her head in pride. It is the clutch th

cate, subtle mechanism of conc

f the plethoric ballot box, but the eye

ployed to gain and sustain political control. Hundreds of ot

te the red-lighted, tinsel Houses

churches, led by thei

ears that are deaf to the voices

, nor at the brothel keepers, nor at the dive o

ITICAL SYSTEM THAT CONTRO

nd the superstructure wi

Break the power that sucks at the veins of the myriad

the evil

f Iniquity we have shown where t

o finely that the connecting poi

sured, all else is inevita

ICE COL

nts. They are of necessity, the p

e hired out by the political kings to collect

-are today by virtue of the collection and tribute system the confederates

allow these law v

e bulk of the proceeds to their political masters. No criminal can continue in

cal Protection. The police are but the bod

orate

f the crime-business being carried on, every form of vice flaunts itself in the

as failed to observe the reason, and to o

CRIME:-$15,00

ute to the Directorate of Ten-the con

res stag

exaggeration, we m

elds for existence and f

,000 an

at fortune to exist and ro

rob the citizens through fixed contracts. We treat

resenting the people that the donors may go on destroying

uggernauts and to sow in the youths and maidens

ues to blast a city's decency and prosperity a

y and grimy silver are handed in the dark or the light to policemen

cesses of your brain if you would realize the gigantic

00 annual vice tribute is less tha

15,000,000 is five pe

TAL OF FLES

k of

f a billio

any dollars. It is human flesh, human souls,

d over. The exhausted bodies of men and women fill the incurable disease wards of the hospital, the cri

e price of

thing but the outraged purity of childhood. Nothing but the toiling, unrestrained passions of

ls and their subordinates, gamblers, habitues of the levees, and nearly five hundred

ission and the man who attempted to break up the Vice-Polic

rrifying evil, but the results have made me reel in horror and amaz

t least eighty per cent of the police, at some time or other, are grafters. The system of tribu

full council session, when the subject of appropriation to aid

dge of conditions in our city, vice pays tribute of $15,00

e placed the vice-graft at a tremendous figure, but they have not carefully studied all the

f a monster that is willing to pay such a price to wall

A WORLD IN

wn from the Beginning to the present day,

avity, a "guide" stood outside the Polk street depot, waited for the "gen

y shout it from th

if he were to tell

the price of its existence paid to members of Chicago's p

nd you c

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, ric

e sin and it can be found. That is the army that pays the

mb throwers, men under pay of the gamblers, who have the police as partners, who t

WORLD CON

amblers pay th

the auction block of prostitution, give

of houses of ill fame contribut

lats" or assignation hous

in this book the amounts of money paid by the minions and

atements of men who once paid blood-money to live. T

astonishing as to be

ss 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 highe

re men of wealth and women of fashion congregate to turn loose their insane lusts without

illionaires on Lake Shore Drive, the protection for traffic in whi

negroes in the "black belt,"-from the highest place of gaming to the lowest-the

E TRAFFIC ANDS

owest and destructive feature of Chicago's wickedness

le risk to the police and politicians the

the White Slave T

word

, the casting of them into the horrifying flesh markets and the auctioning of the

ginal sanctity. The barterin

from their parents and the fireside, and

OW, SURE

DLY INFAMY HAS ITS PRICE

o the Vice Trust we shall speak

PRICES OF

ures. We will tabulate them, so the

LI

ib

mo

of Pros

as "dollar"

lar" houses (for e

ouses (for each

ouses (for eac

"flats" $25.

hotels $25.0

s where rich old

tue $500.00

ere whites and b

women "hust

s" (of prosperous t

dance hal

lls, extra for im

t saloon

houses of ill fame

nd poolroom

mes 50

ish poker")

ther games

mes 50

s with all gam

ing of all so

dens

morphine sel

assage parlors

really prosti

d confidence m

or "hustlers"

l bondsmen

dynamiters

t, (members of

s of fashionable

l beggars n

hawkers pe

be explained la

Trust 50

r "pimps" n

rants in certain

is not complete. Such is the record as it ap

me-trades pay, but the prices cannot be learned or estima

White Slave Traffic pay

ate, city and particularly the federal government, has shown

S IN THE V

hing is used or even wasted that does not hand

s of the far-reaching, grasping

" district but one brand of

ate of Ten h

h

use 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

helming, overreaching power of o

e-tainted dollars into a taxi-cab concern. Th

exhausted from a repulsive debauch, is put into a taxi-cab and driven away from a "redlight" resort. That tax

ling paraphernalia he looks for a market,-usually th

see th

e installs his machines at will, eve

hidden gra

ce, but long before that the policeman has held out his hand behind his back, accepted the graft from

DOCTORS

of the daily newspapers. They are the destroyers of health instead of the givers of strong physiques and clear minds. Their prey is, in th

proceeds of this crime

the fee wrung from the unfortunates w

re useful assets in times of emergency. When the outlook is dull, when the collectio

"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

UST AND THE V

t women of the dens of pollution contribute their

very stitch of clothing worn by the women denizens

pays a regular and

ating indefinitely an

y kind from every

cago's crime-world. It is of recent creation. It

ey are women of luring, attractive appearance, insidious "good

ts and cafés of Chicago's most exclusive hotels. They search out their victims, wile them

ir ill-gotten gains

" It is estimated that more than $1,000 worth o

ences"-the places where the stolen property is sold for less than one half its value. Once more

GRAFT, its origin,

WHERE WIL

s of the world's history

and crime, such as inoculated nations that crumbled to deca

power created at a

alone can tell

HASE-PRICE OF P

e evil hides behind that body. It would be like paring a corn

d and debauched-is

king's district he is tried out. If found wanting in rottenness his

sold its soul of honor for

aus

in graft annually, the corrupt members o

pander's work, etc., for a bag

OODNESS WITH TH

of power,-the Mayor's chair-an

n. Vice is the creation of satan

him. He has appointed municipal physicians to cut out the moral ca

we think that in the

als. They create their own power, build the citadel o

a new civic conscience or th

me martyrs for the sake of their city, the

gigantic, monstrous evil is

f its creation. Then concerted crime and vice will fall to pieces. Then the glaring plague spots of ass

ic and saving opinion, to destroy letha

E WARNING, Y

though first in the world in progre

laim ninety per cent

y come, live and die victims of its in

reat futures, enter and are defiled, and s

:-this reign of the triumvi

e are hoping t

ons, if stripped to an ultimat

y of the world has ever felt. Our life-blood is thinning;

ory's page of "Forgotten and Ruine

ight for the betterment. Let

BOOK WA

rning, for the Chicago man and woman, and particular

orth of facts without explanation

alysis of crime, vice and

ar as we are aware, of the

of crime and its relation to the

eat of the hideous and most impor

ve Traffic, the gambling games and their alliance with the police, the "Vampire Trust," petty crimes that flourish, burie

terrible story. I

ICA

EST CITY I

heon in Th