Show J THE CRIMINALS The authol authorities i es' es in n Engla England d are co congratulating themselves that crime has Ims greatly decreased in England and t they they give long tables to prove that fact Tact We think it very probable and crimes have iner increased ased in about the same ratio in this c country and the natural and almost inevitable inference is that in s some me way England's authorities in conjunction conjunction conjunction con con- junction with hc her steamship companies have a arranged ar- ar 1 and send their lunatics ranged to evade evad our otti laws and thieves cs and murderers to the United States Nothing demonstrates more clearl clearly the strength of our country turin than that we have been able to maintain a re reasonably well veIl ordered countr country Y despite de despite de de- 1 spite the thc fact that the Blit British sh isles is and the continent conti conti- I Jl nent nt of Europe have haye been sending us their scoundrels for the last s seventy five years Those that come ome from the thc British isles arc are generally bruisers C lt and out ont while from southern Europe we have c the thc canaille and with the crowd the black hand nd da in the where those f and ind we e read ei e every lay day press vagabonds are working out ont the old feuds that have C come down from father to son for no one knows how many years ears in the tIle old country They come in Iii the thc guise of of- poor immigrants immigrants- with just enough to to evade the laws The They arc are er very and humble at Castle Garden but when they get t away iway they go out to prey upon the whole re- re ii public tc In Iii the Y v very ry old days layS England l used sed to sen send k t. t J. J those chaps to Botany bay bar A good thing ought to be imitated we ought to Jo have haye a Botan Botany bay Wt- Wt Y could very Yen well afford to lo take talc one pf of the Philippine islands Jd and put a n patrol of g gunboats around m it o. o and aul then ina d tl ina man 1 has been convicted of oC or a X in n. n the l United U tc States Stabs s send tI l' l It fl v li el lively business Jor a few 5 years years' mS- mS but it Id grow less Jess anti and less because a 1 wholesome would come to lo cl criminals that if ii they the com com- a crime Clime and aUlI were caught and ail convicted they would not have an easy in the thc for rOl a a few years ears find and then be he turned out to lc l again up upon n the countr country They would know J iJ at the they would be Je sent SOuL away tra and sent f to a p place ac where e the only tsa way n through w which they could li would be he lj by earning t I their heir living j in That would d deter tel from committing ting crimes W a 1 great many f J nd the law a should be so io o changed that no man inn ulti pul get to this his country rl from the British isles y without first fiLst securing a certificate from froni the auf authorities au- au f M that he lie has liis been a n decent man nian all his life U C and lud never nC convicted of crime In southern Europe there should not only be this certificate of the the civil chu nut aut authorities but there should be one from froma a priest who lio has Iii's known Imo the cm emigrant gIa t all his life or for rot a H number of or years and who is h willing to tJ guarantee hi his good citizenship t r If all the money spent in ill arresting trying an and men wh who arc are guilty of r f capital cri crimes could d 1 d be ta e paved and devoted to educational purin pur pur- pur in ten there would bc be in inthe in years not noL a man iii n the United States Stales who could not nol read and aiL write nd q that to top too has it us disadvantages a This Ibis n man aU jhio Colonel J H. H never ou ought ht to have haveNe Ne l pe permitted to learn li read lead or write lite That jay jay-bc be a fl t hard to t say a ay but it is true truc m and l U-er U c i 1 is a lar e percentage of men Il walking around streets who would ha have ye heel been Letter of oft ha hal hac l othey l never neter ne been given the time rudiments ments of an r an and the country would lI bo ho vastly vasily better r 1 off because c they wy only use their c education a as ns n. n means e ins to further their disposition to lo c commit m cl crimes lues I f. f |