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Al Capone — Part 8
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m wn operation undergoce mers! At Hopkins, Tracts Social And Political °<) 1
eit Min Mad raristions ta toca. ___*_ Development Of Racketeering -._ MEE
Pal eathered in the forty-two years tt | themselves, but then gangs began in-; te with the nants;
ie che founded Hull-House, a wettlen. | vading each other's territory and sana tavoart and of Bqasc,” sha.
Rae house in what then was the heart af). pesuited Ts ; *
Chicago's Italian colony, the social! sosiier Mayor Thompeon for two Jaut of the industrial change trons
e Nobel peace prize, expressed her : ne
Btruggie Of Factions | police, and the police were helpless
In the first place, she said, Chicago’s{? the Point even to having to take
gang wars are a product of the fac-'tides in the gang wars at dimes
jtiana) struggle te control—end, benes,| Miss Addams anid it was too sarily
ME to increase their profits from—organ-|'© past judgment on the edministra-
B ized vice: Bootlegging, drug-peddiing, ;Hon of Mayor Cermak, ‘
gambling, prostitution. Miss Addama| She did axy, however, that “it wo
emphasized thet the four went hand|be untsir even to compere him with
in band and that these fights for viee|Thompere” end that “Cermak made .
monopolies had been going on before |# president « Board :
probibition and in other cities as well{County Commissioners, being sepe- output, und how this process devel
ax in Chicago. jeially mterested in the humaniterian
SMe «Prohibition, she sald, merely made aspects of county administretion.”
4 the profits bigger, the gos! more en- | Sees “Grounds For Hope”
Miticing and the struggle, in comet-" “Pye very fact that be is s Demo-
quence, more intense, It also brought pret and Thompson was a Republi
in Hts wake, she eaid, wholessle racket-'1 ane grounda for hope; hia electic
gering in other fields than those of meant, at least, that we got rid of the
enabling racketeers to terrorize| ny oity Years at Hull House, sbe said:
merchants, laborers and small manu- “Slowly through the years one is
° SEE ay eck forced to recognize thet the increase
BS Mss Addams referred to. « passagel org) me is connec ved he
. in her Second 7 wenty Years at Hull) »roughout the community asa whole,
. is bi il for ‘no social institution can sscape
it is big money that makes Chics® |e the vanity it
gang wars so murderous. The cliy Lot's _ conammunt which gives
the key to the rich trade of the Weat|DTiD wal sui"n either Promotes or
and Northwest in whisky, wine, gin retards Seed: . .
and beer, exactly as it does in wheat, jFeared Tax Losses :
hogs, furniture and more staple com- To fpstrate, she told how efforts to
modities, Certain Chicago citizens|restrict vice in the roadhouses around
tection, upon governmental corruption-/older boys in our meighborhood wi °
Fane ee co tachine’ worthy a thel oct opexy ‘old and tod’ are “be wise’ as to the location of the hid-
name in Shicago. Had there beer always secure in the conviction thet if #88 Sctivity. oo - :
Tammany, & sthooth-running Nlone of them should get caught he wii{ Feels Blame Overestimated
. machine, things would have gon®/not be severely dealt with, that local ? Despite afi this, Min Addams said, |
mat 4,| politicians ta whom he and his family she feels that prohibition’s responsl-
“pat gang warg—violence—would have! sre attached will take care of him. And bility for crime has been overesti-
y “Gangs would bave had territories, Telling bow from her Hull House |
apportioned ta them and in thoes tarri- (vantage point she had can,
~ {spring up-iz loft. and private br: roused public opinion checked them mayen art
aking the place of the cornet: ' She be ‘ Nile
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