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Show GEOGKAPIIY OF ClilME. Murdor a Product of Laok or Olv-Ulzatlon. Olv-Ulzatlon. Tho ItestralnlnK Inflnenra of Itrllnlous Voiitlinent-Cosintrlet Tlir tlia Most Murdrrs Aro Committed. Murder, ecoginplilcally considered, Is Hie product ot lack of c!villzutl6h, writes Prof. Oottlnrjer In Ills "Moral lntUtIcs." Whenever a Btato of jfov-crnmcut jfov-crnmcut Is in a Btatoof disorganization ilio peoplo becomo dcraoralUcd, ediica-ioual ediica-ioual and religious progreba Is nt a landstill, and murdor is bound to in-"renso. in-"renso. It is essential to lay great dress on the religious feeling of a oinmunlty, because compatatlvcly fow .lurdcrs occur In Turkey, a country ranged and unsettled In Its nf-alrs, nf-alrs, wherein n largo proportion )f tiio peoplo are lacking In civil ir-v lon and culture. Hut tho Islam faith i productlvo of a certain religious -icntlmcnt In these uneducated rn.T-.6CH which provents murder, tho greatest crimo ngainit human and dtvlno laws, 'ornpared with Turkey, Orceco, onco ie sent of civilization, but now demoralized de-moralized nnd degraded by Turkish in-Hionce, in-Hionce, without tho prohibitive power if tho Mohammedan rcllg lon.mnnlfcsts ho truth of this assertion by rolling up, n a population of less than 2,000,000 people, 810 murderB, and 473 felonious i;.saults, an avcrago of ono killed or tnalmod for every 8,800 kouIs. Tlili number ovcrshndows demoralized Iro-Innd, Iro-Innd, where for n number of years tho .uobt terrible agrarian crimes, murders, mur-ders, arson, etc., have been Committed, tho outcomo of tho atrocious feeling between landowners and tho peas-intry. peas-intry. Another country with a largo per-ontago per-ontago Is Spain, nnd an lncrcaso In bloodshed goes hand in hand with its Trudunl decline. A glance at tho criminal crim-inal statistics of tho United States lemonstrates that murder reaches Its highest percentage among tho uneducated unedu-cated class, who can' neither write nor read. In tho state of Texas, for ox-vmple, ox-vmple, ono murder occura to every sljrht thousand flro hundred inhabitant. inhabi-tant. In Illinois this percentage is onsiderably lowered, ono murder being be-ing quoted for every ilfty thousand. Germany of lato yoara shows an In--reuse of murdor cases and assaults, liorn out ot socialistic tendencies. The nurdcr porccnlago of Great llrltalu is jmparatlvely small, with tho excep- Ion of London and Ireland, and personal per-sonal t.afely in England nnd Scotland h commended on all sldoi. Kvon fow thefts nro committed iu the level por-ions. por-ions. France, Sweden, Denmark, llol-jlum, llol-jlum, Holland and Switzerland record jiutilcr btatlstics similar to those of Germany. Ger-many. Ko substantial data, can bo obtained about I'ussln, but tho striking strik-ing Increase in ))littcal murders, signalized sig-nalized by tlic nihilistic and socialistic era. nee.l.i no commuiit. No statu In tho uilJ rolls up moro revolutionary ittno-(. and crimes nt the present tlmo ihnu "nssia. Durinj; tho year 1880-hT. iho List niitlicntic. report tlmt could bo ibtniuod, threu thousand persona wero U'prtfwl to Siberia for llfo. An wlt!i sululdo and murder, It is with Thefl eo.'rraphleaJly speaking. I.nclcof 'iiliiir ' uud vlvlllziVtiou U synonymous nith InCJ'iised theft and dlbhoncsty, not s) r.mcTt on account of tho immoral tnd depmved condition of the peoplo as lircctiLC of luck of protection. Theft In iwodcn nnd Norway, In Denmark ami the c::trcmo north is exceedingly rnro. Thu oriontal and Southeastern states show nn nlnnning nmoiiutof theft, and no::t to America Turkey, Russia, tho italkau btatus and Ilnugary contain tho most crooks. L'rnud'in nl 1 Its-various denominations, ranging from high-grade swlndlo in Its manifold phases down to small tihady transactions which hover between be-tween dishonest practices nnd technical techni-cal oruiloun of tho law, has Its homo principally in tho lnrgo cities of the world. London is a perfect mecca for swindlers, whllo throughout Kuglund, with tho excpptlon of London, busl-ncsi busl-ncsi dealings nro characterized bv ..ouml principles of honesty. Comparatively Compar-atively little fraud is practiced In the northern and western Mates, us Sweden. Swe-den. Norway, Denmark und Finland. Holland, Hclglum, Trance und Swltsor-ltfil Swltsor-ltfil rank favorably In thlsjoipect. In 'ieimany nsli'll.lnf decllnn' N tuitleca-'ilo tuitleca-'ilo in frnuduknt tiwiiaottons. Tho amu conditions luoU of civilization nnd education which prevail with other crimes pertain to fraud. Spain, Italy, Grocce, Turkey, and,' nbove nil, Ui'Sbln lead tho line. |