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!
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.