CHICAGO!—TAKE WARNING, YOU WHO ENTER!
Chicago today is an unsafe city. Although first in the world in progressiveness, it is first in rottenness.
Crime, sin and vice claim ninety per cent of those who enter it.
Thousands of young women of the country come, live and die victims of its iniquity, day after day, year after year.
An army of young men, fired by dreams of great futures, enter and are defiled, and slain by the poisons that are disseminated.
Shall it go on interminably:—this reign of the triumvirate-Vice-Graft-Corruption?
We pray not. We are hoping that it may not.
Back of the ruin of world-nations, if stripped to an ultimate cause, is the one word—Vice.
Its grip is on Chicago; a stronger grip than any other city of the world has ever felt. Our life-blood is thinning; the flesh of our bones is wasting. The crucial hour is here.
Save Chicago from a record on history’s page of “Forgotten and Ruined Cities, Victims of Sin and Crime.”
Let the ministerial forces fight for the betterment. Let them seize the leaderships.