People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — Worse Than Ever. [ARTICLE]

Worse Than Ever.

That Chicago is overrun with thieves, thugs, deadbeats, political boodlers, great rascals and any amount of canting, religious hypocrites, has long been known. That there are a half million of heathens there, persons wholly destitute of any knowledge of God and his ways, has been boldly asserted by some of its leading divines and never denied so far as we know, is known to all PILOT readers, but it is not generally known that Chicago has a gambling school in full operation, that was publicly advertised, and terms of instruction fully set forth. Twenty-four lessons, six each week till course was completed; twelve dollars and a half the first week, and six and a half for each succeeding week till the student graduates. As an inducement to enter the school, the proprietors of this enterprising institution guarantee employment at ten dollars per week to all who receive diplomas. As an evidence of Chicago enterprise and the general interest felt in this latest addition to Chicago educational institutions, we are informed that the advertisement brought two hundred and sixty applicants the first day. That a city which thus defies God and sets at naught every recognized right in the universe can longer escape the divine wrath we don’t believe. In the history of human depravity we have never known or heard of anything lower or more damnable.