The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the WorldHarland, Robert O.
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The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World
Harland, Robert O.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Moral conditions; Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago
But the Vice Trust must have its toll. That graft of $104,000 is carried
to the under lords and again the capital of the deadly combine is swelled
while its victims starve!
THE CRIMINAL DOCTOR.
Even science has prostituted itself to aid the Vice Trust collect its
tithes from the lost women.
In the South side "redlight" district about ten physicians who are
graduated from good schools have sold themselves to the lords of vice,
crime and sin.
These men are employed to examine the women inmates of the houses to see
if they are suffering from diseases of a venereal nature that might sow
the seed of death in thousands of men.
This practice is also carried on in the other "redlight" districts.
It is the biggest farce in the whole system. It is a criminal perversion
of science.
It has to the resort keeper an advertising value. The word is sent forth
that his girls are "healthy," or the man who accompanies her to her room,
sees stuck in a prominent place a certificate signed by a physician
declaring he has examined her and found her free from venereal
afflictions.
It is a terrible and criminal deception.
Those physicians are supposed to give each girl a personal, clinical
examination each week.
That is rarely done.
For this "examination" these girls are taxed fifty cents a week and given
signed certificates. Often they do not see the physician for months at a
time, yet they receive their certificates.
The physicians making a living at this terrible exercise of their sacred
profession are slaves of the trust. They sold their manhood to receive the
position. To the trust they give back a large part of the money taken
from these unfortunate victims.
This graft, is said by those acquainted with the subject, to reach $15,000
a year!
THE PROSTITUTE AND THE BEER GRAFT.
It has been demonstrated that the graft yielded by prostitution direct is
enormous. It has been shown how the disgraced and fallen women not only
give up a share of the earning from their dying bodies, but also are
compelled to assist in the collection of subsidiary graft.
But the Vice Trust has not finished with the picking of the bones and the
sucking out of the marrow. There is still more to be taken for the price
of sin and shame and misery.
The women who have the seeds of death in their bodies must be pushed and
shoved swiftly to their dishonored graves. As they go they must yield more
gold to the money lust of the vice lords. Gold must be their price even on
the brink of the grave.
The Beer Trust must fatten on the last pieces of flesh and the last drops
of blood!
There was the Kimona Trust; then the Laundry Trust, and now the Beer
Trust.
In order to further its business and increase its income, these
unfortunates must poison their already decaying systems with quantities of
beer that would revolt even the average drunkard. They must inoculate
themselves with the virus of slow death!
They must drink, drink, always drink!
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