BEER GRAFT—$2,915,760.
The yearly graft in beer in the holes of vice in the city is unbelievable. We shall quote an authoritative source.
According to the report made by the recent Vice Commission to the Mayor of Chicago the annual graft from the sale of intoxicants in the restricted districts of the city, is—
$2,915,760!
That means that many dollars in graft over the price paid the brewery for its product.
That income must be divided among three factors: the prostitutes, the keepers of the houses and the members of the Vice Trust.
In the calculations of the Vice Commission, the prostitutes receive forty per cent, which amounts to $1,166,304.
From sources reliable and from interviews with keepers of disorderly houses, we have learned that the Vice Trust exacts fifty dollars a month from each disorderly house for the privilege of selling beers, whiskeys and other death-dealing drinks.
From the houses of prostitution in the levee districts, from the “houses of call,” the “flats” and other disorderly places, numbering 1,000, figuring on the basis of fifty dollars a month, the beer graft to the over lords is $600,000 a year.
That is the price that the minions of vice pay for the privilege of violating the municipal laws, of taxing vice to its last strength, of murdering the women who must promote the vicious industry!