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Show (.R01VTH OF cnniE. Tiir Government directs atten tion, b j ubiihed circular oer the signature of Iottuater Wana maker, to the frequency of armed attacks upon tho United States malls, for purposes of robberj The est is siciaily named as the fle'd in which mail robbers tlouri h and o(ieratc It is o ten the case, how eer, that dramatic er'ormances of the kind in question occur in the east, where the country lias been settled for a long time This form of crime has become to conimin that the Government fee Is impelled in a general wiy, without reference toaux sjic-cial case, to offer eraJed rcirards for the nrre&t nmf e-onviction of the desperadoes who ei g ige in it This bare fact is a sa i comment uuon our times nud cii illza.in This will be 'ecu at onee, w heu it is eonM lered that it oulj refers to one jhase of criminal it while thousanJs of ether forms are rampant and the country is fuil of individual and factional violence V quarter of a century since it as commou for the youth to real rithavidi highly colored descriptions descrip-tions &f the criminal ex lulls of such noMcesm thieverj and high waymau'hip as Jack Miepj hard, Claude Uuil, Dick Tur m it al Now tie bojs can get much more thrilling audromautic hteratu-e in the j-auie Hue ly reading in the newspipers of the day accuntc de-cri de-cri tions of actual tmnactIons tiiat are of almost con taut occurrence ''ueh men as tlioe named were specially noted becau-e f the scarcity of thtir cla s in the times when tin flourishtsl Tlie notoriety ofmau of their kind in our own da anu who excel them in daring in the extensive character of their transactions and in almost ever o'her direction lastslit a few hours comparatively becau-o of the great number of criminals of tint kind lt.nis as if no soonr is onu remarkable criminal operation Jr Itrated than another which eclipses it follows upon its heels audciui-c it to be ls!Ihtor Vcdjctrof! larjreachers assert, leciue of the soothing character of the announcement, announce-ment, tliat the worl i is growing moralh better (lnl a few da s ai,o a local jrofes ed dispenser of Ciospcl trath made this absurd as sertion, nnd thus t laced himself in the category o'fal e teachers who c- peace -it-e, when there is no Ieaee " Crime of every kind seems to be increasing with alinr mg rapidity throul out the ccun try 5ucli a circular as tliat KmjoiI ty tlie government through Mr U nt-nmaker, nt-nmaker, would we Ulieve, I, tin nece--sar In any other cmlired nalion Is it no a i anomaly for nn depart mi t to call upon the general ublic to jro'ect it igalm anj cla.sof crimiuils '-ureh it is a confession of weakues in tic hapeofnu acknowledgment that the government cither does not have th facilities for self protection, or it does not care to aj j ly them This circular seems to reverse the orderofciil government, lcaue in l-.ee ef it beiu the duty of the ieoi le at large to J rotect tl e govern ment, it is the exalted anl imn tivc dut of the latter to i rotect the l.t j le at large There is more n tins Milled than appears on the surface It is lut one of the liases of the times tint lead thoughtful peojle to a k whither the Hepul lie is drifting |
