Show THE EPIDEMIC OF MURDEBS Yesterday there was another murder in this city and so far as known it seems to have been a most foul and brutal one This is the fourth murder that has occurred in this city this year The Beutler murder was a most mysterious affair and Is still shrouded in mystery What is the matter that there is such epidemic of murder This is a peaceful lawabiding community and people feel safe as they walk the streets even during the late hours of the night yet these murders can hardly hard-ly 1 fail to convey the impression to all the world that is the world that takes any notice of what transpires In this city that it is a lawless city where crime Is rampant and it will be hard i W r to explain away the facts that give rise to the impression And when there are four murders In four months I there is something radically wrong What is it and where Is It AH understand un-derstand that murderers do not do I their deeds In the open and that they i I try to conceal the evidences of them as well as they can but when they are so frequent as they have been in this city this year the perpetrators of them must feel that there is more or less immunity for them either through the existence of a not very strong public pub-lic sentiment of condemnations such crimes or else through a not very stringent enforcement of the laws oran or-an inefficiency on the part of the officers of-ficers One thing needful to put a stop to these crimes is the rousing of public sentiment against all lawlessness for when a small and comparatively I small offense against city ordinances Is permitted it opens the way to greater crimes Ajtommunity can no I more wink at and condone offenses j I against city ordinances and that is I done in this city and then expect that lawlessness in other and graver forms will not come in than a mon can commit com-mit small trespasses against the moral law and the law of the land and be in no danger of going further To permit per-mit one law to be broken is to invite the breaking of all laws |