Show 0 DR WHITES PREDICTION The president of Cornell university Andrew D White is credited with mak making ing ng the gruesome prediction that at least persons will be murdered in Ip inthe Inthe I the United States during the year rear 1910 That is the personal belief bellet of ot President White and not a conclusion that may maybe maybe maybe be accepted as a fact without any men mental mental reservations tal It may mayor or may zuay not prove true That there are many many homicides In ln this country goes g es without saying There ore are also too many man y murderers who escape their just I deserts at the hands of the law The Increase of crime is due in large mess meas measure I ure sire to this last fact In order to make this la impression slon more clear the record I of at the tile resent present governor of Tennessee I may be put In evidence During Juring his hia I term in office Governor Patterson has I pardoned nearly one thousand crimi criminals nals tale of high and low degree and nearly ne lY two hundred of tHe tha t 6 desperadoes turned loose upon the community were were mur murderers murderers murderers With such leniency shown men who have taken human life Ufe upon one pretext or another it is le perfectly nat natural natural natural ural others with homicidal tendencies should go forth and slay and take their chances There have been a number of ot brutal murders in the United States tates so far ar arthis this year but not anything like l k a fair proportion of ot tho the predicted predl ted by President White as bound to occur be before before fore tore the first aay ay ayot of January 1911 Some of at them have taken tak n place in ln Salt Lake and other lives may be taken by thugs during the coming co months It is high time the Iron heel of the t e law descended upon murderers as well as all other malefactors |