“I will not see!”
Vice, like some slimy, hideous, mephitic, green-eyed monster from the deepest abyss of Hell has crept, sinuous and noiseless, on an unsuspecting people.
It has battened upon red, pure life-blood. It has fattened on white flesh. It has destroyed virginal purity, public morals and political honesty.
The monster has been insatiable. Satan, king of the damned dead since the Beginning, urged on the monster Vice.
His political minions kneeled and offered sacrifice to the incarnate Evil of the World. To save themselves they fed him of the rich and sacred stores of the city. They took their portion.
They are still taking their share.
They still feed the monster. They are its slaves; they, appointed by the people to safeguard them and to make their laws.
The monster Vice is fed by the police and politicians, who, under cover of night and darkness, plunder, steal, cheat and murder to satisfy its greed.
We speak not in metaphor; this is the literal truth. We shall prove it.
If Satan came out of the depths of his Inferno, away from the shrieks of the lost millions, he would wander from city to city until he reached Chicago.