The Story of Chicago's Subjugation to Political and Police Corruption--The Corrupt Ballot Box--The Mechanism of the Trust--The Prices of Sin and Vice--The Horror of Ruined and Purchased Lives--The Remedy. Seventy-five years ago a body of pioneer souls who dared death for the dream of individual liberty, wealth and happiness, founded a city, and after the manner of the times, adopted an Indian name and called it Chicago. The city grew, prospered, flourished; likewise did the inhabitants. Nature seemed to bless all who settled within her boundaries. Resources undreamed of were discovered. The lake breezes fanned the tiny flame of future greatness and the sun warmed the ambitious blood of the early inhabitants. She became the golden gate to the unexplored West. She became the cosmopolitan and central point of a world power. Chicago was talked of, considered, bargained with from East to West, and North to South. With vastness came power; with power, abuse; with abuse, vice; with vice, crime; with crime, graft. It is of CHICAGO, TODAY, we write. Truth sears, eats, destroys that which is but veneer and golden covering. Chicago has blinded herself to the hideous truth. She has hidden her head, closed her eyes and cried out: "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. Then, in this twentieth century of culture, refinement and progress, he would stand outside the gates, smile in triumph and speak this,--the living, shameful, naked truth: This is the CITY ACCURSED! This is the CITY OF THE LIVING DAMNED! This is the CITY OF MY DESIRE! This is the CITY AFTER MY OWN HEART! VICE, CRIME, CORRUPTION RULE:--MY TRIUMVIRATE! This is THE MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD! Satan would tell the truth. Chicago today is the most wicked city in the world.