Show CHICAGO'S iLl BAD li E Statistics ha have recently been heen laid beCore before be be- fore Core ore the tine public to the great discredit lt of Chicago There are a good many matters matter not wholly able In Chicago Chi Chi- cage cago but hut In tho tine present instance It Iti Itis Its i is s the tine criminal record which attracts attention The following table will wi show what has been called caled the tine windy city In comparison with wih other big centers centers cen cent of oC A American activity Murders Murder ur er Burglaries Chicago o 22 22 New York IS 20 Philadelphia 7 1 15 Cincinnati Cincinnat C r 26 Cleveland eland 2 1 r 1 if 19 f Boston 3 42 2 1 if St. St St Louis 5 40 13 1 San Francisco Frncisco 7 10 38 The Los Angeles Times Inclines to a this appalling record to r rampant trades unionism and delivers ers el It self Itself of quite a sermon taking as Us its is iste t te text ext t tine the the freedom accorded anarchists p prior to t the e Haymarket riot and ant consequent con con- E sequent wl wholesale hanging Th he I i Ington Star holds hols that thai local Industrial i a f factors actors serve er e to complicate the problem problem 1 lem cm that the packing houses bring In Into into in- in Ino t to o the city a horde of Europeans so fO p poor pOOl ool that the they easily drift into criminal criminal crimi crimi- un nal al ways Chicago Itself If IC are a re to 10 be relied upon la lays las s at least a apart apart aart p part art of the blame biame upon Its Is thousands o of f saloons and Is going goin to drive many malY o of oC f them theme from flom Its Is streets by Imposing a a. 1000 Icen license e S Chicago In spite of oC the showing Is n not ot wholly lost It I Is not going to tl b be l lost ost Against the above record in c rime crime should be hc set the Iho relative e means mean t 10 l o prevent or to punish it it- I. I Chicago o c covers COVer more more territory than nn any other c city el ity excepting Greater New Ne' ew York and amid anc i It t has hns fewer policemen to the thc thousand thou thou- r sand ain of or population than any city in the tw c Besides a deficient number o of f the tho men in blue there has never n cr b been een that cordial respect for or the policemen po 10 l Icemen when hen four found that is the basis o of ot f the tine popular observance ance of order T Tho he p policeman Is the tine representative o of oC o f the law lavt the e expression of oC the states stales d dignity and anti power But as the force Coree h has las as been so 10 small smal the lie Ideal has bc- bc c como com a sort of fiction which men do ho donot donot hoot n not ot accept seriously ly Those who al always ci- ci ways obey the tine law need no pOl policeman eman But those b by preference malicious find t tho thc he opportunity for crime so JO o great that t they hey the take lake tine the small smal chances an and despise de de- tie tie- s pise the thc pet petty force that lint Is sent a against them Give Chicago the thc police polee protection t that hat other cities cites have mare have and such s showIngs show show- oIn o i In Ings s as that above e aho will vIll wi not again b be beu i published u bh i shi ed |