Show AEREST THE TOUGHS The city is full of toughs Nobody will dispute this proposition No one will even doubt it if ho will stand on a frequented fre-quented tnoroughfaro half an hour ahd note the characters that will pass bearing on their countenances in their gait and in i every movement undisputed certificates that they haiL from Bitter creek There aro thieves burglars pickpockets sandbaggers sand-baggers and cutthroats Nightly houses aro entered and plundered by members of tho gang almost every evening men and women arc held up on the streets and rob bed of such portable valuables as they may happen to have on their persons In some instances belated pedestrians have been unceremoniously knocked down by the plug uglics who do not even reauest their victims to stand and deliver It is confessing only the truth to say that with the going down of the sun a feeling of terror comes upon the people which does not depart until the coming of tho morning light We do not recall the time when the condition of things in respect re-spect of the matters referred to was worse than it is today there never was a time when the criminal clement in the city was more numerous more vicious more daring or more desperate THE HEKAID does not mention these things for the purpose of reflecting re-flecting on the police administration but in tho hope that measures will I be adopted for driving the scoundrels out aud relieving the community from the strain that is upon it It is suggested that those measures should include the arrest of the roughlooking strangers who arc so numerous about town and tho compelling of them to give an account of themselves We have very good laws in this respect If a man cannot exhibit legitimate means of support if he has neither money nor employment em-ployment and is unable to explain how he lives the Jaw assumes and is usually correct cor-rect tliat he is a criminal and provides fort for-t Ms punishment That is the Jaw which should be industriously applied those days L until the town has been freed from the burglars and highwaymen or these characters char-acters haveJjeen put whore their power to do harm will be limited to the minimum Arrest the loafers bummers and those who have criminal branded all over them and if they caiinot prove to the satisfaction of the court that they exist by honest means put them to work In tho gravel pits and force them to pay for what they cat and wear If a campaign of this kind shall bo vigorously prosecuted for about a track we believe the knock dwns will cease and the newspapers will Lave fewer burglaries to tl recount while the icputatipu ot the city as a plaw of residence will improve Unless Un-less ti rein of terror which is upon us r shall tc brought to an end the streets will t be gin UF t > tho toughs after nightfall and hoLiC ot1crs will have to arm themselves them-selves ace stand guard over < < their persons I N property fioii dark until dawn |