Investigation of records of transfers in the department showed that thirty per cent of the transfers were caused for such reasons. The record sheets of men showed, in many instances, that a few days before their transfers they had antagonized the great Vice Trust by attempting to do their duty to the public which entrusted them to enforce the laws. As an instance of how the "transfer game" may be worked with telling effect even on a police official who refuses to give his powers to the protection of gambling, the following suits the purpose. A prominent political leader, anxious to gather spoils, went to a certain police lieutenant on the North side, and said to him: "Well, we're going to start something up this way." "Not unless it's on the order books and the captain stands for it," answered the police officer carefully. Result:-- The next day that lieutenant was transferred by the powers of the Vice Trust. One hour and a half after his successor took his place, the new commander was seen watching a street faro game in progress. He stood across from it and watched the gambling combine's agent skin the "pikers" and he never moved to stop it. Certain policemen in Chicago who are compelled to arrest certain well known criminal characters, cheat justice even after the arrests are made. They send the criminals to certain corrupt criminal lawyers. Then when the case comes to trial, the policemen lose their memories and do not remember the incriminating circumstances under which their prisoners were taken. These policemen receive a percentage, amounting to about fifty per cent, on the cases which they give to this class of shysters. Could Chicago have a deeper blot of shame, dishonor and disgrace on her escutcheon than the present police department? Can the condition be remedied? Is there hope that some day criminals may be locked behind barred doors that gold cannot pick? There is always hope while honest men and women live and struggle to build up a city to rear their children unsullied. The police department is only one part of a great slave system. The evil is back at the ballot box. It is the old and only solution here as elsewhere, in the conditions that make Chicago the "wickedest city in the world." That solution is the annihilation AT THE BALLOT BOX of the powers of vice, graft and sin,--the Vice Trust with its Directorate of Ten. The civic conscience will arouse itself from its lethargy and some day purge out the evils that have thrived so prosperously for so many years. CHAPTER X. 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.