| Show st boals A keign of if terror the city of baltimore seems beema to be given giten oer er to misrule arid and scarcely a paper per reaches us from that troubled city that does oes not contain an account of some highhanded outrage committed against the peris is or pro peaceable citizens murders d have mome become of ct such frequent occur rence that unless peculiarly atrocious they have hav a ceased to t attract attention gangs gan of row dies associated into clubs the naces names ot of which have a disgraceful notoriety noto nety throughout the countie counti parade the streets in in open aty diy and scorning the screen of darkness for them their deeds of infamy plunder burn and m murder mader ader to their hearts content and I 1 in contemptuous defiance of the inefficient police olice outrages Oa trages of the most startling c character ar acter are constantly perpetrated 1 and apparel apparently ti with kith impunity it was but the other da day t that at an unoffending citizen was stopped on the t e street and for refusing to treat the two hig highwaymen liway is who h e topped stopped him was knocked down dow n byo by one neon and d shot through the head by the other A little while be before forean an indignity of the grossest kind was wa offered at midday on the public a bile street to one of the most respectable cadies ladief in the city no ko one is park pu shed for any of thesel outrages but this system of toleration to vice ice la is working out oat I 1 its is own retribution the business and trade of the city are 2 suffering T in conse se bence in a late number of the exchange it 11 is is announced as a fact to be deplored that many profitable contracts have haie been lost to the workshops of baltimore r simply imply because the work on the jobs could not 0 t be be prosecuted there without peril to the property p itself and to the lives 0 of the laborers e engaged 1 ae d on it the exchange ochae laments lainta a that such a condition of things exists ehlts but says that the die unhappy truth must nevertheless be recognized that we live I 1 i a community where the law has hai no majesty or terrors and the strong liana hanki is is master maste it is a sad state of affairs that calls balls for uch such a confession we allude to it here in it no spirit of vainglorious vain glorious exult ion for heaven knows know sour our 0 own wn condition is is bad enough but rather in in humiliation that any an city of the united states should present so terrible a spectacle andee and we allude to it also with the hope that the lesson it teaches may not be lost on those who have the guardian guardiani ell thip lah 0 of f our own city in charge the e tendency to anarchy which bieh some declare to tobe be inherent in all democracies develops sion vel Ps itself first in cities the worst pas a of the worst men find in in crowded communities muni ties their proper theatre and are most pa potent 0 1 1 tit for Ini mischief the strong arm of tile the law 1 alone enforce Sya a vigorous public sentiment can restrict las lawlessness an and d keep violence in in check when these conservative c conseria tive agencies are ae fettered or corrupted then crimp crime becomes bold and viciousness runs riot not A lax administration of UK the laws so unhappily y preva prevalent lent at present at attains tais its maximum 0 of culpable recklessness reckless nessin in the criminal tribunals of our cities time lime arid and again in this city or of st liada L juis men inen have been bee n turned loose on the community dripping with the blood of t their be I 1 r victims victim the coats aoun being wholly in incompetent to convict if while bile there is 13 yet yetti timea ewe would ese escape ape the fate ate that has already overtaken taken our sister city of miltimore Bilt Blit imore if f we would preserve st louis under the dominion of law and not bu subject b ct our citizen a to the mild mercies of a r knob ino then must is lie e reform in the matter of administering justice our oar police system too I 1 needs attention ard and thorough borough reformation As at present con it I 1 is almost worthless wort blesa for all the purposes that a police fo force ce is i ite inte te ded to rogues swarm b ere from all quarters carters and commit their depredations by night and by day in in total dis disregard rezard of 0 the poh police e and without let or hindrance from any one under the present administration st L louis auls has become a very rouges paradise it in bevera beveral I 1 districts citizens cave have been obliged ed to combine and establish a fatral for the krot protection action of their property the city p police 1 I ice tur r t the he same purpose bet being fig sea scandalously y in inefficient ef fici licie ent nt A department that has proven prove n itself BO 80 wholly incompetent to the discharge i ot of its proper functions is is undeserving of public confidence and should at once be rem remodeled oil aled OT off such principles as will ensure its greater efficiency in in future good and reliable men inen should be selected for the police in its eve every r y blanchad branc bran band chad graduation in crime should no 1 longer 0 n ger be made a prerequisite pre requisite to appointment we he draw attention to these matters for the benefit of those in power admonish g them at the same time that with wilh them rests the responsibility of rescuing st lo 10 los 18 from the carreer of anarchy and mi misrule rul e toward v v inch circumstances are acidly hurrying her and the effects ot of abich even in in a modified form are so BO painfully co in the present c condition condit ondit I 1 on or of the city of baltimore 7 7 ment of his hie elpe expenses 8 es there are the literary abo know whipple and r y talkers too 1 have sl 1 Nr written itten for Apple applelona App letona tons the legal talkers who regard you as aa a jury of twelve men 01 before b whom they it will III argue pro yio or orco cou for fora a consideration tile the one idea la talkers ke vi bo fasten you by the buttonhole button hole to the llie hobby bobby and then comes the gents it ho may eay arid and say little else le leago go te 2 |
