THE INVESTED VICE CAPITAL.
The over lords, cunning and commercial to a degree, have never lost an opportunity to grow dollars from cents.
Realizing that the breweries made golden harvests from their privileges of monopoly, the vice kings sought to extend their power to these corporations.
They did it by practically buying the breweries!
Three of the politicians who are members of the Directorate of Ten—the graft spirits of Chicago’s underworld—have profit-yielding interests in breweries that serve levee trade.
In this way the over lords have another source of swollen income.
Nothing escapes from their talons.
In the levee resorts large quantities of cigarettes are sold daily. Again the vice masters seek out and gain the gold. One member of the all powerful Directorate of Ten has a controlling interest in the agency of a certain brand of cigarette. Every effort is made in the vice districts to sell this cigarette because the vice lord has commanded that it be disposed of.