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

and G

na Trust-Laundry Trust-The Woman and the "Cadet"-Terrib

ind it to their personal interest to exploit the shame

ntial in a large city. Passions must be given an o

earnest study of the subje

sand lures to evil; bar his coming in contact with the lost woman as

at passions of men must be satisfied, that Chicago

cture, created its gigantic business, bartered its thousands of

depicted, because the Vice Trust-the all powe

rs, are the powers behind th

e night, every vice that is practiced to the ruin of human souls and bodies, does so because

tremendous capital to their owners, but the owners have a lease of vice existence from the political powers be

e of call," "flat" and White Slave evil, pay a tribute of existence to the agents of the b

rrupt police officials were stripped of their power and sent to the penitentiary, Chicago cou

RIUMV

e alliance between Vice,

from it may be turned into dollars and cents

ys to its political masters to live; just the gold that is beaten from women's bodies so that the po

at to the big powers goes the big share; to their friends go smaller amounts, so

PROTECT

we will give you so much protection, so much liberty and so

ed out: so much per woman, so

directorate accepts the money

the graft masters, are the agents through which this protec

emselves and turn it over to their superior officers. Their superior officers in turn

may show in corrupt and incriminating transactions, hire private and debased citizens to carry on this pe

e existence of prostitution and the car

the value of the women enslaved, the more liberty granted

en of prominence in every walk of life who have first-hand k

to the "redlight" district on the South side, mad

e protection he dispenses to levee resort keepers. He is a smooth article, however, and he goes st

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

trict to talk; they are run out of the di

rominent attorneys in Chicago. He is simply corroborating

man who has made thousands of dollars by corrupting the power placed in his hands, and who today continues in the face of reform m

GGED CO

910 by The Mi

sion of owners

lind to his sin.-One s

e, we quote the following story from a well known criminal lawyer. It

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 af

and they simply raided us as a warning. We are running full blast now and without any p

e levee districts but it also comes from every oth

of the brothel is exacted from the keeper of the hote

of the truth of the st

ice Commission corroborat

nessed the following

l night, complained to the police the next day that he

the Twenty-second street police s

arge, became angry and while the in

e up. Why are you police bothering me? Are you looking for more

ter in order that she may exist as a creature of vice an

AT FREEZE

es of 500 prostitutes it was found that

he average earnings at forty dollars a week, as

ity of Chicago. Five thousand women making fo

at forty dollars a w

400,

ivable? Is

women yielding th

ee resorts, the inmates of flats and ho

ers pay protection for their inmates, give u

slang phrase, give fifty per cent of their ea

id, it eventually percolates through the hands of t

protection money to the hotel owners. They act in furthering protection, in t

favorite hotel and then compel the

E FOR THE S

discloses a terrible

pay to exist:-the amount of money they pay the pol

other agents of the Vice Trust for police protection,

safe to say that the average protection price pai

tutes in the accepted sense of the term, this means

wenty years the owner of a big house of prostitution in Chicago and now a married and reformed member of

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 t

use in a crusade against the sale of liquor without a lic

that notorious resort, made the following state

of $1,000 a year. I would like to see the entire busin

s us to conduct our establishme

s" was the protection money and a dozen allied forms

FEED ON FLES

system. It is created to be used as a foundation for a

man to whom she is sold or has sold herself offers the first tribute to t

to be fleeced by the great trust with its political

re the greatest victims of

s in need of clothes and other necessities and watch

twenty dollars was turned over to the resort keeper. That leaves an

y. That leaves them but $500. Even that succumbs to a mere n

IMONA

he Vice Trust which robs the 2,0

ly to the inmates of the houses of prostitution. It received its name from the fact that the prostitu

nd the way that graft is divided, with its portion goi

story from a girl in an Armour avenue resort as to the way she was victim

ld the 'madam' and she said the agent of a clothing house would call within a few days. I wanted to go out and

of apparel which he displayed. I had worked in a department store

epartment store. I paid $120 for a hat with plumes on that was worth only $30. I was

had with him and the keeper told me I should

d $20 for a bracelet, some neck beads and a ring which were not

e obliged to pay two dollars for a pair of sto

ystem of the

clothing sold the inmates is ab

profit is the taxation made by

things are so increased as

clothes at a yearly expenditu

se poor, dying, unfortunates yearl

or materials that are worth

Trust brings an annual ha

ith horror, yet they are as true as the annual state

s if they were sold at their legitimate price. They raise the price and create

for their general work in the district, the keepers get a share for compelli

UNDRY

in the purse of the vice slave. She still has

a logical successor

r as the combine that furnishes clothin

ting the prices and

d with sixty per cent of the income of a man who has a private route and brings his collec

is limited to a few men. These men pay for the privilege. They add 100 per cent to their

girl is obliged to have a lau

ge laundry bill of $2.00 means $

hose poor, fleeced women of

,000 is carried to the under lords and again the capital

IMINAL

elf to aid the Vice Trust collec

ysicians who are graduated from good schools have

uses to see if they are suffering from diseases of a venereal

carried on in the othe

he whole system. It is a cri

lthy," or the man who accompanies her to her room, sees stuck in a prominent place a certificate

ble and crimi

to give each girl a personal,

s rare

and given signed certificates. Often they do not see the physi

are slaves of the trust. They sold their manhood to receive the position. To the t

e acquainted with the subje

UTE AND THE

been shown how the disgraced and fallen women not only give up a share of the earning from

e bones and the sucking out of the marrow. There is still

iftly to their dishonored graves. As they go they must yield more gold to the mone

on the last pieces of flesh

t; then the Laundry Trust

oison their already decaying systems with quantities of beer that would revolt even

ink, drink,

ll themselves with the venom of the beer vats they are given a meani

they are sick and drunk they pour the cheap, over-fermented liquor into their stomach

agent" in a house of ill fame, is either punished by being deprived of some privil

has reduced the ill-gotten gains of the women

INKS OR

after hour at a table guzzling

story of-"Do t

monopolized concession from the vice lords to sell their commodi

n outrageous price. The over lords must get their share, the girls in the house

violation of the law governing the sale of liquors. All thi

t 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 i

AFT-$2,

of vice in the city is unbelievable. W

n to the Mayor of Chicago the annual graft from the sale

915

in graft over the price pai

ctors: the prostitutes, the keepers of the

ssion, the prostitutes receive forty

ave learned that the Vice Trust exacts fifty dollars a month from each disorderly

," the "flats" and other disorderly places, numbering 1,000, figuring on the bas

of violating the municipal laws, of taxing vice to its last stren

STED VIC

al to a degree, have never lost an o

from their privileges of monopoly, the vice kings

ractically buyin

e of Ten-the graft spirits of Chicago's underworld-have pr

lords have another so

apes from t

member of the all powerful Directorate of Ten has a controlling interest in the agency of a certain brand of cigarette. E

TUTE AND T

ere directly ruled over by foremen who goaded them on at their tasks of ma

make more dollars for her masters, to keep up the constant stream of graft to the Vice direc

ed human, crunching on the few morsels of food thrown at his feet from the well-hea

rderer, command more respect-we say respect for lack of a

men; the lowest form of

sacred chastity of the women over whom they now rule. Not

f the thousands of lost women, beating them to urge them to work harder, faster, and thus yield a return for their purchase pr

ut the unfortunate women, through their commissions, particularly on l

part of that. It is the duty of

heir share and turn over a large pe

t" primarily as a parasite. That parasite must pay a price for existen

money he is boosting the

ection between the "cadet" an

e to it. In the good woman that obediance to that subconscious instinct finds its expression in love

esired, are the impulses developing o

instincts are the same;

one man" who might love her, treasure her and protect her,

oves for men. Rather than lose even the hollow, empty sham of love, rather than to miss the p

the idea of Man the Master. The

, the Vice Trust makes capital of it. The "cade

city are infested with these men

es 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

hat the police dare not molest them just as long as

Y OF THE

prostitute. Instances have been shown where women were

n front of a resort, cursed her for her small earnings and proceeded to beat her int

ith blood. Two policemen approached and stopped. The "cadet" held up his blood-

ve on. Go and wash y

girl with her foot, then grasping her by the hands, dragged her into the he

Incidents of similar character which beggar description, occur every night

re the slave master

of four prostitutes. He drove them on in their vicious labors, forced them to work day and night to bring h

e from fifty to sixty doll

redlight" districts. They scatter and come

AND POL

n is a difficult police problem because of t

y the police and these "cadets" to save themsel

y from the scenes of their crimes and

te of Ten because it is the human prod to vice, the

story from police circles which is

nsophisticated police official, then. He was not well acquainted with the workings of the Vice Trust

nto jail on charges of vagrancy. He set about to do it and forty-eight

ice captain invited to attend. He went prepared to deliver

, broken man, broken on the gre

l shut down their houses. He was willing that they should. But there was the rub. He was quiet

did not make half the money those did who were driven to de

nts they showed him the

. To harm one member of that Directorate of Ten by shearing hi

had allowed to make him a slave, fell a victim to the Vice Trust and was sacrificed with much pomp of public inve

system reaches out and destroys

e levee. A clean-minded chief of police ordered him to clean up the district. He ordered him to p

hey 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

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 profes

HE WOMAN

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

raying for their purity, guarding their chastity, leading them in the paths of righ

ONGER INNOCENCE. IGNORANCE IS CRIME: IGNORA

progress in the paths of commerce has robbed us of a clear moral conscience; it has made the almighty dollar the ideal, t

until it has eaten into our vitals-

of income and it has commercialized the vicious inst

for by the Vice Trust:-ready to capture her and throw he

te. The girl who is earning her own living is preyed upon and bartered away; and even the wife and

who are found in the infamous resorts of th

aves are in

aint, improper association with the male sex in immature ages, desires for pleasures, luxuries and clothing, betray

n, warning the girls of the country

LL HOPE

so been directed to th

drifting to the Lake of Infamy, drifting, some unconsciously a

we are exhausted and our throat

e behind, you

peering into the eyes and hearts of each girl who is creeping silently and shamefully t

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE OF HELL! THIS IS THE CHARNAL-HOUSE OF DEATH! THIS IS THE

dlong into the consuming fire? Would she leap into the ever-present abyss? Would she take the first drink? Would she give her lips

were born of hell and depri

t one dream of the girl who enters a h

fine clothes, jewe

but shame, suffering

E OF TH

esort today, as she entered the abominable life, three years ago, "but I

thousands of women and hurled them

st is the ro

nhuman traps can escape until she has p

of its kingdom to make gold fa

h subsidiary combine, each industry dealing with th

w the earnings of the prostitute are snatched

the woma

honest, clean, observant men

EA

. Tremble with fear, all you who are near the gates of the City of Sin! Turn back al

t companionship; not clothes, no

er for each woman-soul. Death can claim the victim o

of prostitutes for all they have throw

ging and most destructive diseases that science knows. Cold figures prove this. Nearly every woman in the levee distri

nation of sexual diseases that ruin homes, lead men to suicide

ho in the last stage of degradation, drive them to caree

ruth to save our daughter

CE THA

startling statement is based on actual figures dealing wit

d sleep of the tomb the nights of nightmare agony, of remorse, of shame, of physical suffering, of empty and broken hearts,

ind out of body, blood, heart and soul, millions of do

elivered simply a pulpit warning. We have shown, in u

es, but not one cent

their immoral business, then there might exist an excuse for the thousands who enter the life

st tells lies that are acceptable because of th

Vice Commission, declared that each year the men who visit the many haunts of vice in Chicago

TURN BACK"-

e once it has fastened its fangs in the heart and body of its victim. We tell the story so t

lost to all self-respect and shame, is a certain prostitute who drags

ghter of an alderman

e pet of a loving father and the darling of a happy

th his own political power he has obtained permission from th

ooked at her fat

to flee away. Besides my body is wrecked and could not li

gain she refused because she knew in the depths of her heart that the shackles welded long ago

beyond salvation, what of the thousands who, even if they would, cannot m

r relative existence; it is the story of the slave as a commercialized being existing solely for the enrich

NTER THE "L

o to fill the polluted beds and chambers of horrors from which the gaunt, skeleton form of Death has just cre

therhood 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 powe

Oh God,