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Show contemplates' a crime, ' secretly, perhaps without knowing it, believes that if he doe commit the crime and ia arrested, by hook or erook he will got away.. That urges on the coarser kinds of crime. Then we think the press of the United States is responsible for a good deal of increase in crime. The most respectable newspapers love to depict and magnify every form of criminality. If a woman is involved, and one generally is, her picture is displayed, dis-played, the prisoner's picture, the jury's picture, the judge the whole business; and what ought to be condensed into a conple of sticks is spread over columns every day, whereaa if a very superb speech is made in congress or anywhere else, unless the speaker has obtained national fame, the speech is either dismissed with three lines or some reporter that never has and never can write a speech gives what hi calls the substance of it. The whole bearing bear-ing of the business is that one horse thief, or murderer, mur-derer, if he commits a real crime and is charged with it, is of more consequence to the public than all the statesmen in the land. Then again a great many men are out of employment em-ployment and there are no two things that load so much to crime as idleness and ignorance. Then a million of people land on our shores every year, most of them good people, but mixed with the others there are no end of criminals, and the first manifestation that we get is when some man is assassinated and it turns out that it was the black baniihaLwaa aftpr him. Then there is a feeling among people that the government is very much more anxious to have it sounded through the papers every day that some tritHt is being prosecuted than to see some thousands thou-sands of people who need work get it. It u not the duty of the government to give work to people, but it is the duty of the government to take obstacles out of the path of the people so that they can work if they want to. For instance, we do not think it is gootj policy for the government to tie np every treasure on the frontier ' and tell men who are struggling for a living to find something rise to do, that that treasure belongs to all the people in the United States. If our government would take the money that we lose in interest every year on the money that we pay out in fares and freights, and with it put some ships of our own on the sea, the result would be that a mighty contingent of our people would be engaged in coal mining,. iron mining, min-ing, smelting iron ore, making steel of it, building ships, repairing ships and sailing ships to the great ports of the world, where our manufacturers and merchants could establish branch houses and to soon as they got acquainted with the customs and lannase of the country, thev could be oncnins ways where idle men could find employment. , Thev we have another class which seems to be growing, who want something for nothing, who love to get np on the street corners and tell the people how they are abused, . how they are discriminated dis-criminated against, how they do not get a large enough proportion of their employer's money for their labor. . ' ' .. ' " . . . -All these things tend ta poverty among the people, peo-ple, and when a man is destitute he gets dark thoughts; if he has a wife and some little children he gets desperate thoughts, and ia ready for any kind of crimes Then our communities have grown careless. The cities are not looking after their poor. There ought to t a man in each ward to report to aome authority every week the condition' condi-tion' of the poor families in hia ward, and relief should be sent them, either direct, or employment should be found for the heads, of poor families. This will go on until there will have to be either a war or an overhauling of affairs, because this country is so great and so rich that it is a shame for aay man to have anything like a cause for eomplaint of it. . - . ' IS CRIME INCREASING 7 ' Another discussion is on whether lawlessness is growing in this conntry or not. We think the reasons are several why it is. One is that the criminal procedure in our' courts makes it difficult to convict a guilty person and then there are so many chances for a new trial or for a. reversal when appealed that theman who |