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

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tive Prices-Graft from the Vice Palaces-The Ma

which revolves the wheel

-traps of the Vice Trust she is the

or serving it off and on, she is still

grafts which are derived from the existence of the

Directorate of Ten. It is through their protecting agency, permitting haunts of crime and

in the city of Chicago today. As we have said before, eve

side graft as separate from the prostitute and h

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buildings in Chicago are the rendezvous or dwelling places of

the members began with the figure of 577 places immorally used. They conservatively estimated that $1,000 was the average excess p

nts where it thrives. If the profits on vice are so enormous, the Vice Trust f

oosted from $20 to $40 above the act

egregated parts of the city is raised

rental profit. The Vice Trust must have a share. A split is made. The lords of the vice combine ge

, then they are the losers in the long run. The police department cl

roperty is so small that a large rent could never be exacted from decent citizens. Therefore in order to make a profit

t he boosted the rents in the building $30 for each flat above the actual rental valuation. This same man declared that he was o

to pay $50 for a $25 flat. She argued with the real estate agent but he showed her

e shut down the "flats" in the building in one day. The women inmates moved out. A week later tho

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 pla

trict which is valued at $1,000,000. If the segregated distr

y officials are owners of property used for immoral purposes. They are members of the great Combine. They woul

en turn the remainder over to the agents of the Directorate of Ten, in return for

iled. To strike at these places is to strike at the vice lords not al

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are the places where women are allowed to frequent the backrooms

in the loop district and also in

e exploitation of vice, but they pay monthly large sum

erage of five women "hustling" for

and robbing prices. It is estimated that the gross p

basis, the daily net profit from these five girls, is $44. For a year this calculation brings forth the enormous figure

o thousands of men and women who

g point is

swollen profit, the Directorate of Ten by

according to the location, possibilities in return and the number of women who work, invest

e big loop places and those whos

the Vice Trust reaps a golden harvest of $50,000 a month from the dis

dances. These places increasing their revenue by such displays, must of necessity increase their graft t

losing hours. This graft usually is divided among the local poli

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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

facilitate the work of destroying the souls of young women

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where the man of wealth and position can covertly enjoy his debased passions and r

ars are spent on elegant furnishings and where large profits accrue, also ha

00 are paid each month to insure their guest

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s 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

e of $100 a month. This money, taken stealthily by the agents, is sent in

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drug habit. They are enslaved either by the opium, cocaine or morphine curse. They must have thes

thods. In the South side "redlight" district four druggists make a profit on the sa

e constant throng of hundreds of unfortunates sneaking shamefully into the pla

50 a month protection money to of

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, willing to spend thousands of dollars in a night's enjoyment, there you

has been born the Vam

women steeped in sin and vice, women of apparent refinemen

are the wealthy Chicago visitors who are compelled to forget their troubles and business worries over a glas

Their faces are known to the old and young detect

ry on their thieving trade and f

e is but o

n a victim does muster up enough courage to complain to the police that he has been victimized by a

es. They are told by the police officer to whom they complain that if they attempt to punish the woman who

prospective victims. If the men cannot be robbed, their reputations are jeopardized a

Judging from the number of their victims and the large amounts

rious members, who had served a sentence in the state penitentiary and who at one time was the respected wife of a Milwaukee jeweler and

against the slavery, recently gave up the battle, committed suicide and in a letter penned to h

iates of the lowest male creatures in Chicago, the parasites o

d

ury has still space for more silver and gold. Because the hu

litical powers behind the

se unruly passions drive them to shame, misery, r

on shirt fronts, brighter stones in heavy gold rings, new automobiles to wait for them outside their palaces whose every stone is he

graft

underworld of Chicago. It is the slogan of the Vice

screams like a voice from

more

the depths of the

nd more

of graft reaped from sin which eats into t

computation. The actual figures if we were able to carry our searchlight of truth

aft passes from the vicious to their masters each day. From the vict

he subject from every viewpoint, we have closed our eyes and

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