| Show ff r WHY SO MANY 1IIIMKMIM f I Foreign criminologists hale lately 1 C given kind attention to the moril status of the population nf the United States I I and has assigned various causes For the prevalence if homicides A contributor 1 i to the Churchman argues that the ion d III ton Is I due chiefly ti the long Civil mar hlch resulted In ill r < taid < of the j sacredntis of human lift lurid I a milItary rro Itary l Impress upon civil i government Ii and < n contempt tr the latter ana n I habit of carrying weapons concealed Tho CIvil War uas or much longer duration than any modern ct lltct and < durli e tho long time of strife scenes of carnage uere frequently wltn sied it This I had git effect Aftr tho war came the period of reconstl union with Its Inefficient civil government resultIng result-Ing In some Instances In contempt for legal Proceedings and In the assump tlon of a kInd of military character h I > the officers of the law police nhprlfft and constables being armed The vleu that the homh Idol tendency tenden-cy Is I large r due to the long strife I that left Its Imp can upon the nation seems to he pretty well supported by 1 facts Thor an of course other causes but that one desert a special attention American Institutions were founded un the law of llljerty which Is I the law of Justice In contradistinction to despot Ism which Is the rule by force In the Civil war mans capacity tar eltgov eminent was aeuiel testtu u n Unto force To that extent ft retro grosvloii took Place and tile K nunll their lostsneaklns ot nmn 1 conrIltiolls may not yet have been fully reon I crcl Nor Mill It Ic mill the POOPIO 1 hall IInMtaoI fully that Far vondl l lion do nd longer exist that private dlfllcultles that cannot Ix I eUI1 amicably amic-ably must he referred I to the i courts and that the legal authority must be re pelr end defended < even against moh |
