Foreign Language Press Service

[Law-Protected Thievery]

Chicagoer Arbeiter Zeitung, Aug. 30, 1888

In a country like America where certain forms of wholesale thieveries are lawfully protected and promoted, and where escape of punishment for the worst crimes is made possible with the aid of money, and where even children "stick up" each other and rob - in such a country it is inevitable that the underworld has to come to bloom no matter what means are being used to stop it.

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