"I was obliged in the course of my professional duties while searching for a woman important to a case at hand to visit the Empire Hotel on Wabash avenue. A week before my visit I had read that the police had raided the hotel and arrested several girls who lived there. These girls were not prosecuted and were discharged the morning after their arrest. The matter was fresh in my mind when I made my visit. I questioned the proprietress of the hotel as to the recent raid, and she smiled at me and said: "'Oh, we have to stand for these police gags. You see we weren't paying protection money and they simply raided us as a warning. We are running full blast now and without any police interference, because we are coming across every week with our protection price.'" The protection money is gathered principally in the levee districts but it also comes from every other place in the city where vice is made a business. The protection money that is exacted from the keeper of the brothel is exacted from the keeper of the hotel, cafe, saloon and other species of places of infamy. Here is another example of the truth of the story of protective graft. An investigator for the Vice Commission corroborates our own investigation. This investigator witnessed the following scene and conversation. A man who had remained in a South side levee resort all night, complained to the police the next day that he had been robbed of fifty dollars by one of the inmates. Accompanied by two detectives from the Twenty-second street police station, the man went to the house. The landlady, when she heard his charge, became angry and while the investigator listened made this remark: "That man never possessed fifty dollars in his life. It's a frame up. Why are you police bothering me? Are you looking for more money? What do you want? I paid my protection money two days ago." We will show the price exacted from the prostitute's master in order that she may exist as a creature of vice and sell every drop of blood in her body to make more money. FIGURES THAT FREEZE THE BLOOD. In an investigation that took in the cases of 500 prostitutes it was found that their average earnings were $100 a week. We are aiming to be conservative. Let us place the average earnings at forty dollars a week, as a basis for figuring out some astounding results. There are 5,000 outright prostitutes in the city of Chicago. Five thousand women making forty dollars a week will make $200,000 a week. Five thousand women at forty dollars a week earn in one year-- $10,400,000! Is it conceivable? Is it possible? Tortured bodies of women yielding that gigantic income! These are the women who live in the levee resorts, the inmates of flats and hotels and the slaves of the cafe owners. Those women who live within houses whose owners pay protection for their inmates, give up half of the weekly earnings to the "madam."