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  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.

    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 Trium