A general awakening to the gigantic, monstrous evil is the only palpable salvation.
Destroy corrupt political power and the victory is won. Then the police force will fulfill the object of its creation. Then concerted crime and vice will fall to pieces. Then the glaring plague spots of assembled infamy will be dissipated. Then we will have a city after God’s own heart and man’s best desires.
We are telling the truth to create public and saving opinion, to destroy lethargy and inoculate the germ of activity.
CHICAGO!—TAKE WARNING, YOU WHO ENTER!
Chicago today is an unsafe city. Although first in the world in progressiveness, it is first in rottenness.
Crime, sin and vice claim ninety per cent of those who enter it.
Thousands of young women of the country come, live and die victims of its iniquity, day after day, year after year.
An army of young men, fired by dreams of great futures, enter and are defiled, and slain by the poisons that are disseminated.
Shall it go on interminably:—this reign of the triumvirate-Vice-Graft-Corruption?
We pray not. We are hoping that it may not.