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Show Canada' freedom from Crime. The annual report of criminal statistics sta-tistics of Canada shows that there wero only twenty-five Indlctmenta for murder In tho Dominion during 1899. Of these only two wer left without final action; nlno persons wero acquitted, ac-quitted, three were detained as Insane, and eleven were convicted and banged. There were no lynchlngs This la a remarkable record for a country of over 6,000,000 Inhabitants, where the people are so widely distributed aa to make constant police surveillance Impossible. Im-possible. One causa for this bappy result Is that Canada haa not. like the United States, great cltlea whose criminal crimi-nal population Is swelled by offenders coming from ether parts of the world, I Nor do emigrants from southern Europe, Eu-rope, who ate mora addicted to deeds of violence than the races of northorn Europe aettl In the Dominion. Yet Wort thtto rvorlng""caute are not sufficient to account entirely for the remarkable smallneis of Canada's criminal record. |