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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 nations 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 PEOPLES CIVIC LEAGUE
301-305 Security Building
Chicago, Ill.

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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 mens and womens 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 mens souls and womens bodies again.

It shall exist until the root of evil is killeduntil corrupt and ruling politics is hounded out of the cityto death!

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CONTENTS.

Preface	Page
THE VICE TRUST, ITS KINGDOM AND POWER.
The Story of Chicagos 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
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
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 Mans Girl Trap.Crimes that Thrive by Night
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
WHAT WILL YOU BID FOR THIS WOMAN?
White Slavery.The Trapping of the Prey.Price of a Body and Soul.Hells Bondage.The Cadet Master.Death the Penalty
VICE AND GRAFT.
Police Collectors.The Triumvirate.Figures that Freeze the Blood.Graft that Feeds on Flesh and Blood.The Prostitutes 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?
SIDE GRAFTS OF THE SOCIAL EVIL.
The Rent Graft.Saloon Graft.Dance Halls and Protective Prices.Graft from the Vice Palaces.The Massage Parlor.The Drug Crime.The Vampire Trust
GAMBLING AND ITS GRAFT.
The Gamblers Fate.The Handbook.Other Games of Chance and Their Protection.Police Profit.All Gambling Crooked.A Warning
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 Exposure of Big Crimes.Tipped Off Raids.Strange Ignorance of Police.The Fate of the Honest Policeman.Collusion of the Police and Thieves
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
The Cause of the Great Evils.A Warning.The Duty of Parents.Young Girls and Boys Should Know the Truth.Conclusion

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Preface.

Seventy-five years have elapsed since Chicago became an incorporated city.

From a trading post with Fort Dearborn standing guard over its small population, Chicago has grown until today she ranks among the great metropoles of the world.

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 figure vitally in the worlds exchanges.

Chicago is the most cosmopolitan city on the globe. The children of all races have been attracted to her because of the thousands of opportunities in all walks of life.

We live in a sordid age of commercialism suffering from intense neurasthenia. We have made our factories and our places of business our temples. We have enthroned the dollar-god, and fawning, have paid worship to it seeking its gold and silver in return.

It has been said by an English philosopher that the optic nerve of the American people has been paralyzed by the glitter of gold. That is true of Chicago. It is true that our moral sense has been warped. Morality has lost its value except as it subserves our financial and material interests.

Vice has been co-existent with human consciousness. An abuse of natural laws affecting the race through the individual, is vice in its broadest interpretation. In the annals of the worlds history we find moral degradation triumphant on one page and defeated on the next. There seems to be a constant balancing of the moral and social scale.

In all ages vice has been, in a sense, commercialized. The vicious have always lived off it, fattened upon it, and died of its slow insidious poison.

It remained for this industrial and much-vaunted age systematically to commercialize vice.

Chicago with its 2,000,000 inhabitants, its vicious element of unfortunate men and women, its haunts of degradation and shame, its wealth and its poverty, and its democratic form of government, was the experimental place of a scientific, systematized commercialization of sin.

God knows and men are beginning to realize how well the experiment has succeeded!

There is no excuse or reason for trumpeting a citys shame if the conditions are simply the result of isolated vice and terrible social environments. If that were all, this book would never have been written.

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