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Show IMUCtM: (If Clll)l-. Tug Chicago .tiiccince. a rellgloua Journal, has a long aillclo entitled "In-crrajw "In-crrajw of Crime." In very earnest language, It deplores tbo fact that notwithstanding all our education, religion, re-ligion, an 1 other appliances of an advanced ad-vanced cMlltatlou, crime h on Ihe Increase, In-crease, It then procevde lo give the cause. Th first and chlel cause lath liquor tratllo. According to the census and Internal ravonue rrorta, theie are only five Htatea In the Union where the number of liquor dealers la not more than one to onethousand of population. In Masaichuietta there Is one lo every SI 4 InhablUuts; In Pennsylvania one to 178; In Ohio one to 9)1; lu Illinois oiieloo7; III New Yolk on to 1ST; In CallfuralaonetoW; In Montanaoneto 00. Thiae figure are really startling. It la almost universally admitted that liquor has In every age aud In every climate l-een a source of crime. Unfortunately In our day and lu cur countryllsevllaaremoremanllret. Aa a law-defying, crlmeencouraglug agentthoaeloou la notorious It will be seen that the history of all great crime, of all irtlltkel crooknlneaa aud social rottenness, can primarily le traced to the aaloon, and that where lawon-forcing lawon-forcing aulborlllea are ojrrut ihe saloonkeeper I Identified with the corrujtlon. Gambling la the next great cause of crime. This vice has assumed glganllo forms outside of even the old stereotyped stereo-typed pbaaea of the roulette table and faro lay out. The chief of ollco of Chicago rtawatly said that II was sap. plug the very foundations of society. It waa no longer couflned lo Ihe upr chambers of saloon-, built held away In the parlors of the woalthy and refined. re-fined. He pointed to the crowda rushing to racecourses for no other uroe than gambling aia aorry Indication Indi-cation of th spirit of th llmef. lie alluded to tbegauibllug In commercial Irausaclloue aa also a factor In the destruction of legitimate Industry and conteuted trading. A third cause la found In poorly restricted re-stricted Immigratlou A large number num-ber of iiorsona who In their own landa are criminals aeek these ahorea, where they turn liberty Into license, and many of them gravltite to the prison. Hut among Ihe great causes which the .Mi ano aaalgns aa an agent In Ihe pioductlon of crime Is the nnwipaper. This, may sound atrangn,but the charge., nevertheless, la not eutlrely groundless. ground-less. The average editor ridicules the Umperance movement and religious reform mote than lie doos tbo saloon. He hulls bis coarse Jokes at the advocates advo-cates of morality. The ifiianoi as) a that newspaper editors who are helping Ihn devil must change slJee, preachers who are decrying religion must uphold It, and literary iieoplo who are aowlug the world with unbelief and pollution should quit their wlckedneaaand plant II with faith and rlihteousncu. |
