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Show Great Cities Corrupt to Core j The great cities of the country, Salt Lake and Ogden ex- cepted, are seething with vice and corruption. Underneath j the thin surface veneer there are conditions that should shame ! i our civilization, A story of appalling conditions has just come ' out of Detroit where matters were thought to be about right. j One man, Judge Ferguson was appointed to make an investigation in-vestigation of graft and corruption. He examined thousands of witneesses. He brought to light a $20,000 000 a year gamb- ' ling and prostitution racket, and various political graft and corruption rackets. He indicted 500 men and and women, among am-ong them the mayor and a dozen other city officials, and scores of polieemen, among them the one sent to protect him. Of the ones he brought to trial 94 were convicted. It can be done-even by one able, honest ma:. Verily, the great cities of the land Are as ripe in their ini- j quity as were Sodom and Gomorah. The reckoning is near. |