In the most defiled pages of the world's history, can you find a parallel? It is not brutal, primitive, disorganized, heterogenous vice and crime, such as inoculated nations that crumbled to decay; it is systematized, organized, commercialized corruption. It begins with the power created at a debauched ballot box! It ends--? God alone can tell where it ends! THE MEAGER PURCHASE-PRICE OF POLICEMEN'S SOULS. The police department in a large majority is corrupted. But the evil hides behind that body. It would be like paring a corn to destroy that body. The root is still imbedded in the flesh. POLITICS--prostituted and debauched--is the root of the evil. The honest policeman is but a plaything. If he wanders into a vice king's district he is tried out. If found wanting in rottenness his transfer is effected. A more plastic man is found to fill his place. The police department has sold its soul of honor for a mess of decaying pottage. Because:-- It is estimated that of the $15,000,000 in graft annually, the corrupt members of the department receive but ten per cent. They do the slave's work, the pander's work, etc., for a bagful of blood-dripping dollars! THE BATTLE OF GOODNESS WITH THE POWERS OF HELL. A saint might sit in the seat of power,--the Mayor's chair--and be powerless to stem the evil. He is the creation of an election. Vice is the creation of satanic wisdom and diabolical cunning. The Mayor of the city is battling against the sea of iniquity about him. He has appointed municipal physicians to cut out the moral cancer that is rapidly destroying the city. God speed this noble work. But we tremble when we think that in the end it may be futile. Justice has scarcely any way of reaching these criminals. They create their own power, build the citadel of crime and vice about them and dwell securely within. To save herself Chicago needs a new civic conscience or the stimulation of a latent one. Chicago needs leaders,--men willing to become martyrs for the sake of their city, their children and their children's children. 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.