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

ff the Po

Neglect of Duty-Its Protection of Crime-The Fate of

he Vice Trust is shown to control, must of necessity

n exists in Chicago except at the will of the vice lor

wer to enforce or ignore the laws of the city, state or country, is the

r before God and man to enforce the man-made laws, as a whol

the policeman has become the s

cemen prostitute their power for the purpose of aiding and abetting sin

d 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 du

in and year out. These are the men appointed to protect property against crimina

ive heads of this big law enforcing system, in m

are there because the Vice Trust has found them of service and

matter of the politics of the Vice Trust,

kpockets laugh at the plain clothes men, robbers loot homes and places of business, crimes of every conceivable description are committed, a gambl

e neglected daily because he is busy helping s

ment today is a history of a duty neglec

hem, they are so compromised with the big lieutenants of vice and sin, that to save themselves and their f

e a hard time carrying out its plans. It could not whip into line the varied

F ONE POLI

of police for the acceptance of protection money. He was one of hundreds. He was

910 by The Mi

sion of owners

the toils of vice

s to the inexor

artment. We simply state that a large majority of the members are corrupt and that is a positive and known fact, altho

sumption to such a position are numerou

ondition of police corruption is to be found. It was found

ILD THAT IS

easure God can give her, to tear away from a mother's sweet and pure

reported to the

ty-five per cent of the kidna

ave been slain by the demons who stole them, many, particularly those of maturer years, have been sold into

ssing child, who is usually a kidnapped child, lured a

onformity to the letter necessity. These cases are not given individual attention by the

ome, driven a mother mad with grief and robbed a father of his reas

panying them, are but few in hundreds of the stories of missing and kidnapped chil

nthusiastic reporter who "happens" upon them by chanc

interest and the police are of necessity obliged to make a pretense at hard labor. They work on

accomplis

are due the unknown members of the

URE OF BI

they are the mind and pushing power behind the police department in the ex

not through the police department working as a thinking body but through the e

en clearly shown up as a body of ineff

s to be found in a famous murder case which s

thwest side murdered a mothe

orthy of investigation, it then being considered a strange havoc wroug

ced 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 orde

rd example of po

the lack of initiative in the poli

d on the S

c with grief and sorrow and the father dogged the police day after day trying to arouse

his children. A reporter was sent out who "stirred" the police to activity. Every possible clew was followed but to no effect. A physici

ildren were accustomed to play, be dynamited. It occurred to him and not to the police, that the two childr

ssure of public opinion are obliged

nd unsanitary cells, dragged to the Criminal court and subjected to the most shameful and humiliating tr

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 th

AND PETTY L

ch they grant to the vice holes. The little fellow is still itching for the little graft. To

alk right through rows of open-faced gamblers, select the man in question and throw him into jail. The arrest is suppose

s and are not paying the regulation protection, are victimized by the policeman on his beat. They a

n of graft. They are like a lot of hungry vultures circling about their loathsome carcass of dead

was supposed to be turned over in part to the vice lords to appease their hunger. Things ran along smoothly for some time. Then

. "My boss used to have this district but he was

ut of business. The night his place was closed, another, run by a friend of the "big boss," opened across the street. The police never

D OFF"

ce daily hand the public that is payi

"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

GNORANCE

of a high police official when formally asked by his superior if he knew of any gambling in his district.

de in the face of the public, and while a gambling and police investigation was under way, order

yor meant business, he mysteriously found nineteen gambling places that same night and sta

rk of standing guard over a gambling hou

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 poli

GLARS AND P

ig police officials and a number of smaller ones, have fallen so low that they "hold

side that is known to the police, but the

niform stroll past this saloon and salute

tions of pickpockets are reported to the police. Rarely is

me one demands justice in a strong voice that has powerful backing of a financial or political c

in affidavits, of the acceptance by policemen on the West side of protection money

THE HONEST

policemen who day and night at the risk of their own lives, battle for public we

cannot be corrupted are usually "blackballed," in some mysterious way by the powers that be, and the majority

ble 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 gre

e honest policemen su

scovered a hilarious and richly paying crap game running at Lake and Carpenter streets. They decided it was thei

d they were inefficient and material

that they were obliged to travel thirty-two miles each day from

essary to

its of the Vice Trust. The game was run by a man who paid an enormous amount of mo

such reasons. The record sheets of men showed, in many instances, that a few days before their transfers they had a

ing effect even on a police official who refuses to give his powe

ather spoils, went to a certain police lie

g to start someth

and the captain stands for it," an

su

is successor took his place, the new commander was seen watching a street faro game in progress. He stood

als to certain corrupt criminal lawyers. Then when the case comes to trial, the policemen lose their memories and do not remember the incriminating circumstances un

me, dishonor and disgrace on her escutc

ndition be

minals may be locked behind bar

lied. The police department is only one part of a great slave system. The evil is back at the ballot box. It is t

LOT BOX of the powers of vice, graft and sin

s lethargy and some day purge out the evils tha