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Ttmere fs honor among thieves.” ‘There isn’t any such quality in the fraternity. There is fear which seats Ups, but there is nothing akin to loyalty in it. The criminals ere all first cousins of Judah and there is not one of them who would not sell his own brother for m price if he » thought he could do it without de tection. “Thirty pieces of sliver? was the price of the Crucifixion. The current © market price of betrayal tanges be- tweén a “‘C” note ($100) or a Grand ($1,000). We buy this kind of in- formation at the market and pay for ft C. O. D. Sometimes we buy bad - information, but we never buy a gold Brick from the same man twice. If they want to continue to do business with us the information must prove up under our investigation. It Usually does. . | Help Given to Authorities. . In spite of the fact that AI Capone made public acknowledgment when jhe was convicted that the Gecret Six ; bad licked him, we do aot claim the = credit for the long series of convic- tions of public enemies accomplished by the Stat Attorney and the United States District Attorney. We have been helpful in apprehending criminals, in developing evidence, in the protection of witnesses and in doing many things for the prosecu- tors which they were not able to do for themselves, and they have been kind enotgi iv wane puvua acknowledgment of the value and effectiveness of the service. We are not required to account for the money we spend except to small auditing committee whose per sonnel changes monthly. This com- mittee destroys all money records every month after it hes given its certificate that it has examined the accounts. The purpose of this is obvious, The continued existence of the records might jeopardize many of the agents and operatives of the committee. Many of the ringleaders of the ¢ “ayndicate” are now in jail, but the biggest step in breaking up the politico-criminal alliance thet hed become the invisible government was taken In the municipal election « year ago when the thieves were turned out of the temple and a new administration pledged to good gov- ernment was elected by an over whelming majority. The Secret Six doesn’t claim the credit for this, bat :) the Association of Commerce had a fot to do with ft, and the same administration as counsellére tm the. \'. reorganization of the municipal aye ‘ group has been altting with the new > « * We cotild not have picked @ shan better qualified than Anton J. Cer mak by training, experience nat- ural capabilities to reorganise the eity government and bring ordar aut A. A. Sprague to the post of Com- missioner of Public Works. Colonel Sprague is a leading citizen of Chi- cago, a wholesale grocer, # director of banks and railroads, a man of courage, ability and integrity. He bad served the city well in the mme office under Mayor Dever, and there was no one better qualified for the post, which he accepted at great per- sonal sacrifi At the time of his “appointment he was chairman of the Citisens’ Committee for the Preven- tion and Punishment of Crime. For Corporation Counsel, the Mayor [appointed Francis X. Busch, = lead- ing member of the bar and a lawyer lof ability and integrity, who had held the post under the Dever Admints- . ‘tration. ‘The Mayor aleo appointed « Civil Service Commission of outstanding ability and integrity and it has been busy weeding out the scum in the police and other city departments which had come to the top through bribery and corruption under the previous administration. To the post of City Sealer, who is the inspector of weights and zheasures, he appoint- 4 a merchant whose principal busi- ness is selling bottling supplies to the citizen who prefers wholesome home- brew to bad Capone beer. | ‘of their gutters except for the greed that brings them out en masse to get the easy money that the prohibition Jaws have tempted them with. The ifattest of them have been trapped, but there is still a lean and hungry horde of others and we will continue to fight {peofit 14 taken out of beer apd booms. €