The hundred and one duties of the policeman are neglected daily because he is busy helping some vicious criminal friend of the Vice Trust.
The history of the Chicago police department today is a history of a duty neglected and a sacred responsibility shirked.
Even if certain members of the police force desired to do their duty, the meshes have so tightened about them, they are so compromised with the big lieutenants of vice and sin, that to save themselves and their families, they must go on violating their sacred oath of office and living a life of cowardice and hypocrisy.
If the police department was not a subsidized body, the Vice Trust would have a hard time carrying out its plans. It could not whip into line the varied and complicated characters of sin with which it deals to lucrative advantage.
THE FATE OF ONE POLICE OFFICIAL.
Its subsidy was proven clearly in the recent conviction of a West side inspector of police for the acceptance of protection money. He was one of hundreds. He was not of a really bad stripe. Circumstances gave him scarcely any other alternative.
Copyrighted 1910 by The Midnight Mission.
Used by permission of owners of copyright.
Where one escapes the toils of vice and sin, thousands
perish as slaves to the inexorable Vice Trust.
There are honest policemen in Chicago. Far be it from us to cast mud of dishonor and obloquy at all members of the department. We simply state that a large majority of the members are corrupt and that is a positive and known fact, although these men have managed through the protection afforded them by their political masters to escape the penitentiary.