What Are You Going To Do About It?
The Cause of the Great Evils--A Warning--The Duty of Parents--Conclusion.
Christ, prostrate at Gethsemane and hanging in his death agony upon the
cross, prayed for a dying, decaying world's redemption.
Chicago was included in the divine plan of things since the beginning.
Chicago has not been forgotten.
Though her sins are as scarlet, they shall be washed as white as snow.
There is within the community a slowly awakening civic conscience. It
shall arouse itself to deathless activity and wrest the Windy City from
the forces that prey upon it. That is our prophecy.
The religious thought, the religious mind, the religious heart are ready
to do battle for the God of righteousness.
Behind the telling of this story of Vice, Graft and Political Corruption
has been but one predominating idea, the revelation of the truth about
Chicago today.
There has been but one hope:--the arousing of Chicagoans to the fight
against corruption by revealing the terrible evils thriving about them and
the delivering of a warning to those in and out of the great metropolis
who, innocent and unsuspecting, might be trapped in the lures of sin, evil
and shame.
On the great white, festering ulcer of Chicago's world of crime and vice,
we have turned the burning searchlight of truth. Into all the dark
corners, the pitfalls, the covered abysses and the paths that lure and
lead to Hell, has the light, blinding in its intensity, been thrown.
In the beginning we started out to demonstrate the theory that vice and
crime as they exist and flourish today are so, because infamous and
degraded men have commercialized them.
It has been shown that thousands of innocent girls and women are hurled
into the bottomless pits of Hell annually, not because of a social
viciousness that has no palliative, but because a coterie of Godless
creatures value their bodies and souls at so many dollars and cents.
It has been shown that back of all the wickedness and evil of Chicago is
the monumental and gigantic Vice Trust. The body, composed of a
directorate of ten men who for years have fattened off the sins of fallen
women and the crimes of inhuman men, has been vivisected and analyzed in
all its component parts.
Truly, we have painted Chicago as the wickedest city in the world.
We have not held it up and cried "Shame" for the sake of sensation.
We have sought to teach a lesson and utter a warning of vital import.
If the reading of this book turns the thousands of women who yearly stand
on the brink of destruction, and saves them as an honor to the motherhood
of the race, then this book will have been of infinite value.
CHICAGO--WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLD.
Its wickedness is the outgrowth of the terrible irreligious system of
commercialism that has reduced the sacred things of life to a filthy gold
and silver valuation.
As long as men whose consciences are stifled by gold dust, whose souls are
Godless, and whose hearts are dry and hard as rock, control our ballot
box, so long shall Chicago live under an infamous stigma.
When the ballot box is cleansed of fraud, then the forces of sin will be
dissipated and the Vice Combine of today dissolved.
The "redlight" districts must stand as pesthouses where death feeds on the
bodies of men and women until the political foundations of the Vice Trust
are dynamited and destroyed. So, too, the saloons, the dance halls, the
thousands of dens of infamy and hell-holes, where the seed of sin is sowed
in the hearts of innocent girls.
The police department, as we have shown, is a helpless, dependent,
parasitic body. The Vice Trust has enslaved it. Just as long as the Vice
Trust exists, so long will the police department do its bidding, while the
laws are forgotten and disobeyed and a taxpaying public is left to the
mercy of thieves and murderers.
But--
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Rise up and in a body of Christian manhood and womanhood slay the monster
of hellish iniquity.
But while the evil exists be prepared to fight against it for the sake of
yourselves and your children.
We have told a horrifying story to save the pure souls and undefiled
bodies of your sons and daughters.
Books have been written by the dozens on the question of White Slavery as
a warning to young girls and their parents as to how the infamous agents
of this soul and body traffic work.
The warning is timely.
But we have struck out into a broader pathway.
But one third of the lost women today are the victims of the White Slave
Traffic.
Two thirds of the girls who are dying slow deaths in the gilded dens of
infamy drifted there because they knew not the hideous, paralyzing truth:
because they dreamed not of the sorrow, shame, hunger, remorse and despair
that was to be their bitter mouthful from the chalice of life.
To save the girls and women who in the future may form that two-thirds
battalion of human slaves has been our aim in treating of the scarlet
woman and her tribute to, and reward from the Vice Trust.
Few girls who today are tottering drunkenly and uncleanly to a
prostitute's grave, ever dreamed of the fate in store as they sipped the
first glass of wine or felt the burning lips of an agent of Satan upon
their cheek.
We have set about to tell every woman what is the inevitable end of the
life of shame and sin.
To the girl who dreams of fine clothes, glittering jewelry, wine suppers
and association with men of brilliant character, down in the hell-holes of
Chicago, we say:
It is the greatest lie Satan ever invented to wrest your souls from God
and give your bodies to the unhallowed grave.
There is no hope to those who heed not the warning.
A life of sin in Chicago, is a life of slavery to the Vice Trust.
Over and over again on the rock of crime, the agents of that gigantic
combine will break each woman's body, taking flesh, pound by pound, and
blood, drop by drop, until the last merciless toll has been exacted on the
brink of the grave.
When the mask is torn off, there is nothing to lure in the life of the
underworld.
It has been shown how the thousands of women in the segregated districts
are robbed of even the last dollar of their immoral earnings.
To every father and mother we cry out:
FOR GOD'S SAKE LET YOUR DAUGHTER KNOW THE TRUTH BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Tell her of the pitfalls that are ever about her; teach her the horror and
ignominy of the life of sin that may be the consequence of one night in a
cafe, or in an evil dance hall.
Put this book into her hands so that she may go forth to battle with the
powers of evil and pass through the white fire unscathed.
FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.
To be prepared for life's battle is the first victory.
If your daughter in the future is to make her living in the big city,
prepare her for the temptations that will beset her.
The truth may be an awful revelation to her, but the facts set forth in
this book, showing the fate of the scarlet woman who dreamed of love,
luxury and pleasure, and plunged into the lake of infamy, may save her
from a similar fate.
If you will save yourself, mother and father, from sitting about the
fireplace, wondering in the aching sorrow of your heart, as to where your
rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed daughter is, teach her the facts as we have set
them forth.
Teach her that it is not the White Slave Traffic she must dread alone.
Teach her that it is the place of amusement that seems innocent, the
drinking of pleasant drinks, the association with characterless men.
Once she tastes the fruit that is forbidden, the rest is days and nights
of drifting on and on until the whirlpool of vice swallows her.
For the sake of a glorious motherhood, for the sake of a new generation of
men and women who shall make earth a picture of the eternal Paradise, let
your daughter know the horrors of sin in a large city.
All that has been said of the girl applies to the parent and the boy.
The boy here and the one who comes to Chicago must also know of the paths,
luring and attractive, that lead direct to the gates of Hell.
As you tuck your darling into his bed tonight, think of his future.
To be great he must be honest. To be a leader he must be pure of heart. To
be a true citizen he must be filled with the love of a true and chaste
womanhood, a despiser of mercenary ideals, an advocate of good government
and a supporter of inflexible and just laws.
He will carry on his struggle in the maelstrom of a large city, possibly
Chicago.
Is it fair to hurl him into the midst of temptations without weapons to
fight the demons of sin, crime, vice and corruption?
Tell him the truth. Let him read the truth.
Every young man should know the evils which wait ever ready to trap him.
He should know of the great Vice Trust, of its system of slavery, of its
power and scope of operation, of its daily bartering of flesh and blood,
of its alliance with the dishonest gambling combine.
Then he will be prepared to gain the ranks of those who will battle
unwearyingly and ceaselessly against the monster.
Better that your daughter should sleep today underneath the green sward in
the country church yard, in the city cemetery, than be the slave of a
dastardly vice system, wearing her flesh away, damning her soul and eating
out her heart for her vice masters.
Better that your boy should be taken from you in the flush of early
manhood than that he should grow up to fall a hopeless victim to the curse
of a great city.
God gave you your child. He gave you a terrible responsibility--the
salvation of that child's soul.
Therefore, prepare him or her for the battle "that goeth on unending to
the tomb."
We have told the story of a City Defiled, of a city given over to the
powers of darkness. We have shown the existence of a Vice Body and how it
protects and feeds its thousands of slaves, permitting them to live to
turn more drops of blood into gold for them.
A PICTURE OF CHICAGO.
The story is a picture of Chicago, drawn only after the most thorough
investigation, but we venture to say that investigation would reveal the
same conditions in all the larger cities.
Sincerely we pray we have done good. Our exposure was undertaken with a
sense of duty to the 2,000,000 residents of Chicago and to the thousands
that swarm into her gates daily.
Chicago needs civic leaders, civic martyrs,--men and women who will lead
the army of Christian warriors to battle; men and women who will lay down
their lives that their homes may be without peril from the terrible vice
plague,--that their children may never know the face of sin and vice.
Chicago is full of latent good, religious enthusiasm, moral courage. It
needs to be aroused.
One concerted blow struck at the head of the monster Vice would cause its
death.
Let Chicago's Christian population strike the fatal blow.
Let us engage in an honest rebellion with patriotism to our children, our
country and our God, in our hearts.
Overthrow the Dynasty of Vice! Overthrow the corrupt political system that
established and today sustains the Vice Trust!
Voice is without power adequately to describe the inferno that burns about
us and daily offers to the god of the pagans as a propitiatory sacrifice
the souls of men and women.
The human mind, if it could conceive the real horror of the meaning,--Vice
Trust,--would be paralyzed by the revelation.
Chicago needs human redeemers,--God-inspired men and women.
Human persistency, concerted effort, backed by unconquerable wills and
hearts that hold God as a perpetual visitant, cannot fail.
We of this generation have a sacred duty.
That duty is the scourging of the Vice combine and the cleansing of
Chicago. That duty devolves on the reform leaders and their thousands of
Christian followers.
THE STORY IS CONCLUDED.
The story is concluded. The trail of graft has been followed from the
ballot box to the dive, from the dive to the house of prostitution, from
the house of prostitution to the gambling hole and on up to the houses of
those debased public men and people-appointed guardians of the law, who
are today weighted down with the gold, created by the melting of vice, sin
and crime in the melting pot of the underworld.
Chicago waits for salvation.
Who shall bring it the "tidings of great joy"?
Every father and mother, every man and woman, every youth and maiden.
As a mighty army let us go forth. As a mighty army, with God's armor upon
us, using all the means at our command, let us meet and conquer the
enemy.
With hearts thrilling with the horror of thousands of souls precipitated
to endless darkness, with souls full of divine charity for our brothers
and sisters, let us annihilate the Vice Trust and its minions.
Let the battle cry be--
The Universal Brotherhood, all for God and God for all.
In the place of dives let us have gardens; in the place of dens of infamy,
playgrounds for a growing generation.
The revelation has been made. Now is the time of expurgation.
From the Wickedest City in the World, Chicago may become through
persistent and systematic attack on its Vice Trust--
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL OF ALL NATIONS.
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