| Show lilt 1 HUM WltKtllNLsS The Mlnlalcrt association ol itt city comjrising a oonrlelerable auto her of detiomloati coat clemymeii bai given Ito cudorecmnOt 10 the oIale mol or Kov Mr Jmckwood et to tie crime which Is I allowed to go ou ID certain quurlen and for which HIP polio department in held miaiureatlj responsible Lett where thu matter now li 1 It places tills city ID the tllua tloo ot having one of the worst acl ministrations In Its pollco uopirtment of any city ot Itsslzj a corrupt ad mlnlgtratlon It Is ctmrjed that In I certain lima especially lujurloui to morality the lawlesi I element Is J por milled tooicrato at will aud that In tome inspects tie administration Is I In league with tlioso crime that am most elcbailnit to moral life Just at present we are not Inclined ipeclally to lutcrfora In the combat that Is being wazed If tho police department li able to relieve Itself ol the chargca made it oucht to exorcleo that privilege or II the responsibility Is I beyond and above the power which that dpaltmool coo ex ernie Ibo fart obonld tue koown Certain It Is that In the public mind hero and abroad Ibo mlnlitern will be looked upon us having catabl shod a prima lucia cast and leaving attain where they are the reputation ot the city will not bo mprovod Too way forward Is for tho police officials to I bow thai the minister are mistaken mis-taken or to Inaugurate a reform that will wife away the stain It may be remarked that the accuracy ac-curacy of Dr liocbwoodj statement admitted does not Involve much of what Is known M tho Chrlstlau tie ment In the community for the criminal classes with which police hobnobbing and laxity are charged are not such aa ore IcDuencud by religious training or nco clzad membcrsblp In aoy religious body At th ra00 time the condition described suggests to those engaged la religious work thai them la eforo I them u atern duty rho chief obligation of religion Is to save and where there are criminals there Is I need 10ln them from the error of their ways If any means to do eo Is available further where thorn Is I n public administration that pander to crime there tea coil for changing that relation cither by Ibo puiilibuinut of I curb ponderers by using such other means aa will eflecttue desired reform Thorn Is I a still further rotponslblllty upon religious teacher that of pro Tooting an Influx Into the ranks of crime If this duly could In perfectly performed by ustora of the flock Ibo other problem would bs greatly ilmtll fled nut bis is not the case Them Is ito much laxity too much Indul genes for wayward inclination Fcnalbly no particular refoim lu the I police administration may be fleeted by Ibo exposure of crime which he Mlnliters attoolatlon tutu endorsed teruaj a the exposure Itself was not ac certablo to tUoBb who llatoned to or road it But If It will awaken parents educator And moral and religious teachers to an Increased diligence that will prevent from among thoe under j their care further acquisition to the ranks of wrongdoers a great goad will have been accomplished This clly does not by any means deserve n Intolloo as a rooter 01 wlchednov but there are needed i some ImproVt menu which can be made readily |
