A coterie of politicians.
These form the board of directors of the ruthless, merciless, parasitic, powerful corporation of Vice, Graft, Crime & Co.
Scarcely an individual, scarcely an industry fails to yield its life-blood to that infamous trust! It feeds like a great octopus on the entire city. Many of us are its unconscious victims!
CHICAGO—THE LIVING, BREATHING HELL.
“Leave behind all hope, all ye who enter here.”
Dante dreamed he saw that line above the fiery gates of Hell.
To those who know and understand, that line flames as if written by the fiery finger of Fate, in the heavens above Chicago.
You, all of you, dwelling without its polluted precincts, cannot enter it without being trapped into the meshes of the Vice-Graft combine!
Spider-like, it has woven its web over and about the city. Enter and you are entangled, consciously or unconsciously.
There is no escape. We shall prove this broad, sweeping statement.