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 ofSin for protection. A score of forms of vice graft.Horrifying revelations of the life of the ScarletWoman. New lights on White Slavery. ProtectedGambling and the blind police. The inside story ofan enslaved police department. A warning to theparents. How to save YOUR GIRL or BOY.
ALSO remedies to cure the Municipal Evilthat in one city alone fills the pockets of not morethan ten Vice Lords with $15,000,000, annually, madefrom the sins of 50,000 unfortunate men and women;an evil that is blasting our nation’s decency andprosperity and is eating into the very vitals of ourRepublic.
Save the growing generation of men and women.
A book to create public and saving opinion, todestroy 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 thebarter of men’s and women’s souls is going on today.
The investigation conducted by the Civil Service Commission, which hasresulted in the discharge of several police inspectors and a number ofsubordinates, has tended to minimize, temporarily, the vice conditions.
The vice lords have sneaked away to their lairs, and are waiting until thebrooms 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 ofthe Vice-Graft tree, but the roots from which the sap of crime flows stilllive and flourish.
A few policemen have been thrown into the discard, the victims of theSystem that is still unharmed.
The Temple of Crime, Vice and Graft will be rebuilded. The foundation isintact.
The conditions which are exposed in this book flourished until a fewmonths 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 rulingpolitics is hounded out of the city—to death!
CONTENTS.
| Preface | Page 9 |
| CHAPTER I. | |