POLITICS, POLICE AND VICE.
Political power is the greatest of all power. It can subjugate with iron hand all other powers.
The Directorate of Ten found willing agents in the police department of Chicago. It has them today, and if needs be, can find more. Human souls are easily purchased.
Today the system is intricate. So intricate that the combine has received the appellation,—the Vice System.
To exist, vice, in any one of its thousand forms, must pay tribute. The tribute is shared with the police for protection.
Many police inspectors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants and patrolmen receive portions.
Segregation, flaunted to the world as the best remedy yet found for the social evil, is but a lie on the part of the Vice Trust.
Only a portion of the unit Vice is kept within the limits of four “redlight” districts. The rest stalks the streets, free, robbing its victims in the glare of the noon-day sun.
The lost women-souls of the levees are but a pitiful and small part of the army of Vice. They simply dwell in the rendezvous of the thousands who live by infamy.