Show WHY IS C IME increasing the timely article by J W caldwell sho showing eVing the discrepancy between the tha teachings of the last census and those of president Clev elands latt missionary address not only sets forth in plain light the lamentable weakness and sectional shortsightedness of tbt th president of the united states bui closer with two questions pertinent ta the time times which the writer desires to ta see answered viz 1 why is crims crime increasing in tile the east more rapidly than in the west 2 what shall we do to ta decrease crime both of these questions are answered by answering the first one it if one can caa point out the cause cause of increasing crime then the decrease of chure can be accomplished complis hed by the removal of that cause to toko take up the tha first question the general cause of crime is ia poverty FI 1 GUI actual conditions condition of poverty and from conditions which spring from thesa thes such as the fear of poverty and the false st standard aLdard of life which the tha fear oi of it and a corresponding wor worship ship C ci wealth sets up nearly all crime springs crime is greatest in the east there is tile the greatest concentration of 0 wealth and because under our present system of wealth accumulation tho the increase ere of poverty regia regularly luy accompanies the concentration of at wealth it If evidence is needed in confirmation of this terrible fact we might from among many oth have given similar testimony select the terse statement in progress aab ome by henry george GS eorge in tea squalor and misery wand and the vices vice and crimes that spring from them everywhere increase as the village grows to the city and the march of development brings the advantages ol of the improved methods of production and aird exchange it is in the older and sections of the union that and distress among the wording alac are alm becoming most painfully apparent or if one to go farther in evidence and to include england where a similar concentration of wealth is taking place and anai moi from thence such a man as profyr hr huxley who says in regard to his 1 I have no pretensions to the thai character of a phi philanthropist laii and I 1 havo have a special horror of 0 all sorts of Jond sentimental mental rhetoric I 1 am merely trying fak deal with the facts I 1 I 1 he might hear bear him saying in his h As social diseases and cwi wwi arse in remedios remedies I 1 any one who is acquainted with the state cf the population W 9 all great industrial ce centers in this or other countries is is aware t amid a large and increasing m body of that population li cisore reigns Ru Bup preme As and I 1 tako take il A to be acre plain truth thit that throughout industrial europe europa there 13 11 not a 0 single large manufacturing city which is free from a vast mass of people whose condition conditi ozi is exactly that described bed and froin a still greater mass masl who living just on the edge of the he social swamp are am liable to be preci precipitated pital ed into it by any lack of demand for their their produce and with every addition to the population the multitude already sunk in the pit increase these conditions condi tiona exist because they are the legitimate ike and necessary offspring of a system of business distribution and social production which has fo its maxim marim the of the strongest and which is even now adding to that as if that not demoniacal enough the survival of the greatest consolidations of the strongest individuals 9 every stop step gained in this select survival of the strong throws out a certain number of to live as they can and elij every step gained in tho more exclusive survival of combinations of the strong doublet doubles and quadruples tho the number already thus thedis added to tho the ranks of poverty and the sources of crime the east is increasing in crime more rapidly than the west because the lie east furnishes freest scope for the social system of selfish individualism on the shoulders of this brawny and promis promising irig child but tyrannical adult ai lies es tho the whole responsibility for the increase in crime to destroy crime wo we must destroy the system and put in its place some some co effort in the prodoc i ion ann list r aurion of numan numan ties which would bo be controlled by the whole people tor for the public gool good but this we cannot do destruction other than by natures laws of ct gradual modification is ia dui erous and futile humanity c adnot skip any spot in it ib development even though it be beneath the straut taranta ty ranta lash and over ground wet with the teara of human suffering the system must wear itself out ont of itself arid and the perception of threadbare garments while announcing the tha end does docs not justify rial nakedness edness in the mic meantime antime however evil may be checked the loer of humanity must resist at eve every ry step the encroachment jentof of tho the asserted rights of paltry gain upon the rights of human life lifo life i is the thili for which lifes means exist melt are our brothers all men are there ig if something nobler in life than the heaping of its tools there is something better to develop in human nature than the greed for gain who are arc the sufferers ciers from this all of us not tile the poor alone though that were bad enough tho the idle son of the wealthy father is as ae great a curse to so biety v as the criminal crimi nil anil and generally the direct or indirect cause of many crimes he is 13 a standing menace to society a cause of nights of anguish to his mother and of a haunt ill dread that follows his father day and night ho he is one of the products of the times and true one of the causes ot of pastern eastern crime it is if something perhaps to see eee these things wo we may not be able to remove crime crima by the tha removal of poverty because the cause of poverty is bother so thoroughly built into our oar social structure but we can do a ni mans a worl work each in his own way in checking it and especially lit e 1 the ballot box bos W Q G TODD |