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قراءة كتاب The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World
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The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World
THE VICE BONDAGE OF A GREAT CITY
THE VICE BONDAGE
OF A GREAT CITY
OR
The Wickedest City in the World
—By—
ROBERT O. HARLAND.
The Reign of Vice, Graft and Political Corruption.
Expose of the monstrous Vice Trust. Its personnel. Graft by the Vice Trust from the Army of Sin for protection. A score of forms of vice graft. Horrifying revelations of the life of the Scarlet Woman. New lights on White Slavery. Protected Gambling and the blind police. The inside story of an enslaved police department. A warning to the parents. How to save YOUR GIRL or BOY.
ALSO remedies to cure the Municipal Evil that in one city alone fills the pockets of not more than ten Vice Lords with $15,000,000, annually, made from the sins of 50,000 unfortunate men and women; an evil that is blasting our nation’s decency and prosperity and is eating into the very vitals of our Republic.
Save the growing generation of men and women.
A book to create public and saving opinion, to destroy lethargy and inoculate the germ of activity; to enlist every aid to wipe out the curse of this nation.
Copyright, 1912,
by
ROBERT O. HARLAND.
PUBLISHED BY
THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S CIVIC LEAGUE
301-305 Security Building
Chicago, Ill.
This book is a recital of sin, crime and graft. It is fact, not fiction. Commercialized crime, police collusion with underworld power and the barter of men’s and women’s souls is going on today.
The investigation conducted by the Civil Service Commission, which has resulted in the discharge of several police inspectors and a number of subordinates, has tended to minimize, temporarily, the vice conditions.
The vice lords have sneaked away to their lairs, and are waiting until the brooms of the municipal house-cleaners are stacked away in a corner.
The “town is closed,” to use the vernacular.
That fact does not detract from the moral value of this expose.
Why?
Because the storm will blow over.
The axe of the Civil Service Commission has hacked deep into the trunk of the Vice-Graft tree, but the roots from which the sap of crime flows still live and flourish.
A few policemen have been thrown into the discard, the victims of the System that is still unharmed.
The Temple of Crime, Vice and Graft will be rebuilded. The foundation is intact.
The conditions which are exposed in this book flourished until a few months ago. Their human causes still live, but craven with fear.
The Vice Trust shall thrive on men’s souls and women’s bodies again.
It shall exist until the root of evil is killed—until corrupt and ruling politics is hounded out of the city—to death!
CONTENTS.
| Preface | Page 9 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| THE VICE TRUST, ITS KINGDOM AND POWER. | |
| The Story of Chicago’s Subjugation to Political and Police Corruption.—The Corrupt Ballot Box.—The Mechanism of the Trust.—The Prices of Sin and Vice.—The Horror of Ruined and Purchased Lives.—The Remedy | 15 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE DEBAUCHERY OF THE BALLOT. | |
| The Sacredness of the Ballot.—Its Corruption by the Vice Trust.—Methods of Corruption.—Affidavits Showing Corruption.—A Cleansed Ballot Box, A Cleansed City | 47 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| COME AND SEE. A City Defiled. |
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| The First Step.—State Street and Its Pitfalls.—The Stages of Sin.—The Borderland of Hell.—The Cafe Evil.—The Rich Man’s Girl Trap.—Crimes that Thrive by Night | 63 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THE “REDLIGHT” DISTRICT. | |
| Houses of Infamy.—The Feeders of the “Redlight” District.—The Life of a Prostitute.—The Big Palaces of Vice.—The Blood Price.—Hidden Tragedies.—The Polluted Grave | 87 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| WHAT WILL YOU BID FOR THIS WOMAN? | |
| White Slavery.—The Trapping of the Prey.—Price of a Body and Soul.—Hell’s Bondage.—The “Cadet” Master.—Death the Penalty | 100 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| VICE AND GRAFT. | |
| Police Collectors.—The Triumvirate.—Figures that Freeze the Blood.—Graft that Feeds on Flesh and Blood.—The Prostitute’s Graft Price.—The Kimona Trust.—The Laundry Trust.—The Criminal Doctor.—The Prostitute and the Beer Graft.—The Woman and the “Cadet.”—Terrible Examples.—Lure of the Life.—The Pace that Kills.—To the Woman: Death.—How about Your Daughter? | 108 |