Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
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
From the enemies of moral progress and from those who find it to their personal interest to exploit the shame of women and the crimes of men, the cry has been raised:--
11. CHAPTER I.Seventy-five years ago a body of pioneer souls who dared death for the dream of individual liberty, wealth and happiness, founded a city, and after the manner of the times, adop...
13. CHAPTER III.Innocent children are tucked into their little, white beds. The kiss from loving lips goes with them into the land of dreams. The future has no terror for them, because they kno...
18. CHAPTER VIII.Since the beginning man has played some game of chance in his struggle for existence. He has counted his own possibilities as against those of his enemy, he has abided for what...
19. CHAPTER IX.The minds which conspire to create a system such as the Vice Trust is shown to control, must of necessity find agents to carry on the various phases of the work.
12. CHAPTER II.Every American citizen, in theory at least, is an ideal autocrat. He is the judge of his personal conduct; the maker of his surroundings; the master in his home; the ruler of hi...
17. CHAPTER VII.Again the police department figures as the "go-between" hand from the victims of sin to the Directorate of Ten. It is through their protecting agency, permitting haunts of crime...
14. CHAPTER IV.For the sake of description we have taken the one situated on the South side,--running from Eighteenth street on the north to Twenty-second street on the south, and from Wabash...
20. CHAPTER X.There is within the community a slowly awakening civic conscience. It shall arouse itself to deathless activity and wrest the Windy City from the forces that prey upon it. That...
15. CHAPTER V.Hell is always hungry; the taste of blood on the lips of the monster Vice, drives him mad with desire for more blood; the crushing of bones and the morsels of white woman's fles...
10. CHAPTER X. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?Today her name is reckoned with in every country. Her industries are the supply houses of the nations; her manufacturing plants deal with all peoples; her financial institutions...
6. 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.-...
9. CHAPTER IX. TEARING OFF THE POLICE MASK.A Story of the Hypocrisy of the Police Department.--Its Neglect of Duty.--Its Protection of Crime.--The Fate of One Police Official.--The Lost Child that is Never Found.--The Ex...
1. 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 a...
3. 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
4. CHAPTER IV. THE "REDLIGHT" DISTRICT.2. CHAPTER II. THE DEBAUCHERY OF THE BALLOT.7. CHAPTER VII. SIDE GRAFTS OF THE SOCIAL EVIL.5. CHAPTER V. WHAT WILL YOU BID FOR THIS WOMAN?8. CHAPTER VIII. GAMBLING AND ITS GRAFT.