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

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ames of Chance and Their Protection-Poli

is an instinct to risk the tangible and present

ities as against those of his enemy, he has abided for what seemed the most opportune time and then he has risked and

of his playmate. The girl casts her ja

risk showing itself

e game of chance became a sport which had for it

ething valuable on the basis that the

ery age. Gambling has passed through a million forms. In our pre

al evil alone, but to show that it is nothing today but another asset of the

by powerful men and strengthened by the support of the members of the Vice Trust, th

ed by the way of the social evil and on those who have not fa

OR DEATH, THE

the penitentiary because of the gambling houses in the city of Chicago that run

tch as powerful as the grip of the drug habit

finance. It is bulwarked by every possible protection. You cannot beat it,

age gambling game in Chicago were that game "on the square." But it is

ng 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 gamb

they have emerged from the dens of the gambling lords, robbed of t

d their trembling hands into the gold in their employers' till

tions taken from them, lose the love and protection of their husbands and are turned adrift to stray into the hell houses w

vils consequent on the vice of gamb

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ling combine a Chicagoan recently committed suicide after d

the bullet wound through which his lif

t a victim go there until they get all and then they blackball him. Why not destro

g and ruined man but I know w

these men flaunting their viola

nce with members of the Directorate of Ten of the Vice Trust. They turn over to it fifty

mbine between police and gamblers, gambling continued to carry on its trade within a st

selfish in their wealthy combine than are the

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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 o

Trust. They are given big concessions and extraordinary powers because they are in po

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sion of owners

oftened by the app

ience awakened

omen's shame a

s so perfect today that the

ms of competition and opposition. This was finally accomplished after the e

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factions that led to the bomb throwing epoch which h

and other dangerous combustibles we

ward expression of the gamblers' hate. The bombs thrown were the means of eliminating

n were maimed and families broken up in this terrible war. The first bombs were directed against the men in command of the gamblin

on dynamite and gunpowder. The police knew who t

The high-priced forms are found in the loop district, the gambling handbooks are

OF THE GAMB

in the directorate of the gambling fraternity and combine

n the world. They employ thousands of men to do their bidding and e

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

ghteousness; one is a former member of the Illinois State legislature; one holds a high place in City Hall circles

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ace of horse races which are being run off at a distance. As for instance, a cigar store

re drawn from their pockets as by magic, turned over to the agents of the gambling trust, never to return. Clerks,

olid ivory," puzzles its brain in desperation and goes out

birth statistics of the Chicago sucker, male and female, mostly male, i

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onsidered spotless by their social associates drop in daily, nervously look over the "dope sheet," pick th

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orses running on every track in the United States, must

to furnish a medium through wh

ine arts of separating the innocent and unwary from their dollars,

retly into a powerful corporation,-th

th the gambling world in one way or another. Through a news service, which leases telephone and telegraph wires, t

" is sold to every handbook runner in the ci

graph. The price for that news varies in proportion to the size of the place receiving the

the veins and arteries through which the gamblin

re are twenty-nine cities that are receiving

lected to receive his information and to distribute to places

n his circuit who reap vast fortunes from the sending of the gambling news to the handbooks in their respective territories. The "boss" is not

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go feeding the gambling goddess

mething to startl

ts soar up the ladder until you reach the rich sucker who shovels out as much as $500

$25,000 a day business for ten years on a

that do an average business of $5,000 a day year in and year out

and a former partner of the present gambling head declare that $300 is a fair and conservative

ges hands in the race of men to

rding to experts, that the one sucker is pitte

s run, a profit of at least ten per cent accrues to the bookmaker. He is never th

" The sucker plays and attempts to defeat a system whic

aces. It is used in the payment of salaries to hirelings, wire service,

lars are kept by the poolroom combination and an equal sum is paid, through members of the

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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" wh

ed this figure becomes when consider

rust and the big political lords for the right to rob the general public, prey upon its t

yearly between the handbook combinat

OF GAMBLIN

f operation and its graft for police protection is t

ambling games are played nightly. In some of these places every form of chance game ca

are roulette, poker, stuss (a Jewish form of poker),

to the tune of $3,000. Hundreds of men and women crowd into the stuffy room, filled

playing the same game as the man who starts out to tea

n't b

the keepers of the game. Try to break into that treasury with pic

to have cleaned up over $100,000 in three months. That place was located in Michigan avenue near Thirteenth street. All

ding, whose doors open in the face of the offices of several p

one night, averages $10,000. Men acquainted with the situation declared that $500 a day is a

his means an exchang

self, or will the lethargy which is upon Chicago allow the thousands of young

forms of gambling, make a "rakeoff" of about seven per cen

ambling house keepers for expenses. The remaining profit goes the old, old way,

Vice Trust for the protecti

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fraternity and the members of the Vice Trust that after al

e may have is sacrificed and he becomes crooked

y are crooked," declared a well-known gambler. "There is no

sleight of hand, or other means

tric button, which drops the little ball into the red hole when you b

you cannot, stay away from the handbook or be prepared to look into th

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.

mptations 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 fro

the cheek of its victims forever. Scarcely any hope can

ountry, we write this warning. We have shown that you "c

normous source of revenue pouring into its coffers annually from the fav

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