Show A tion the recent developments of the number magnitude and immunity impunity of crime in thia this city new york antl ana the writer might mig h have thade truthfully said in every other city have roused the ht attention of reflecting men and awakened intensely I 1 u a apprehensions of the future one of 4 the dairl daily dally journals to which we are accustomed accustom ed to lox look for tor sober views of 0 things holds the following language an gnage guage who cabbe amazed at the tiie free talk about vigilance committees and lynch law have not mot our courts been constantly warned that the they y were fast los foe losing ing the the tha confidence of the tha people ri 19 1 e has not th their air inefficiency become public c scandal Is I 1 it not known that under their administration not one murderer murder erin in thirty is brought to the punishment the law ordains Is it not notorious that though dozens of murders have been committed within the last eighteen e b xee tee n months but one of the perpetrators pr etra etta tora torp has hab as expiated his offence offense on the aca bl dand and that man suffered only because be h e was a apor p or ignorant despised P drunken nim nih na negro M how long do our courts imagine thab that thia i d of things thin can continue we tell them we have bave to told d them before and we repeat that thab they y are hazarding their functions by the thear ir unfaithfulness withful the e body of our community will hot forever consent to be trifled with they will not submit to this perpetual insecurity of life if will not punish crime the people I 1 1 e will punish it i it is weakness a to blinco blinka tei tel this s fact fac t it is idle to cry law and order when therel there is sno no law and order i self solf preservation is the first law of nature it must be had it will be had if our courts will not protect the be community against the assassins blade and the th murderers bludgeon the community will ultimately fall back backup upon oa their own natural rights and protect themselves there is ii a limit to all ali buman human endurance there is latent in in the human bosom an inborn and noble hatred of murderers which no earthly power canray can stay when once fairly aroused this is a startling IV repel i the thought wp wo will riot not beli bell believe belleve eve weare on the eve ve of such a day as the reign of terror would 0 id introduce is magistrates a t to know whither bedig gw their inefficiency e ia a tending it is well weil that our police ers should look the possibility of calamity steadily in be the face it igl is time that our staid and sober bober citizens who haq tae tir ily part an fn in the miserable party strafes of the dayt dayi i should arouse themselves to action we must hl have avd reform and that speedily probably there thero was never a time inthe in the history of this city when so much crime was committed with BO so much impunity as at present our are ri notoriously idatte inattentive tive absent in aeed td fed and some efthem of them are found 1 n ahi 4 healt P violating the la laws a th they are arg set to prot protect act pet if it this state of things t I 1 ns n s grows worie worle the tb remely remel y will be awful Y observer feh feb |