| Show THU Wl OP OF Gil The Tho Th worn wave of or crime crimo sweeping over Now New York has risen so alarmingly that some nome citizens are aro talking about tho the necessity of tIt organizing a II vigilance committee It lien has generally been sup supposed posed that such auch extraordinary Institutions belong only to lo the Infancy Ot of settlements before tho the complete or organization of society on civilized linen linos Who could have havo imagined tho the possibility ot or R a backward reform to say sav savage age n o condition conditions In one of at tho the largest t and most civilized cities of tho the world worM where Immense sums of money mane are spent sPlint every overy year for tor police pollee protection and the administration of at Justice Ju What t IB Is the tM cause o of tho anomalous condition T There Thoro are aro A correspondent or of tho the New Now York Wrid ascribes th the alarming prevalence of ot crime to tho th Inefficiency of ot the tho Police Commission Commissioner er or On account of ot his hI Inexperience we are toll told hn he cannot sympathize with tho men over whom ho rules rulea with autocratic power newer und and these become discouraged and net act ns us automata In Instead Instead stead of Intelligent beings And nn au automata tomata tomato do not make mako good police mon nion Another cause Is tho the yellow ellow Jour Journalism our of Now New ew York The Tho papers constituting that class claM seem to take tako a n fiendish delight d In displaying before the th reading public every overy detail of crimes actually committed mid and then to draw on an Impure imagination for tor supply when tho reality Is exhausted The crimes and follies of ot wealthy mon men monand and women aro especially 8 paraded be bo tore fore the public and the tho effect of or that thatIs Is III to breed contempt for tor law and In Indifference in Indifference difference to crime Sometimes they thoy even evem cast a II around murderers This Thin Inspires to lo Imitation There Is no doubt about It the tho yellow press to together gather gether with a certain class ot of theat thoat theatrical entertainment Is III responsible for Cor forthe tho the growth of at the tho murderous sentiment wherever Its Influence Is felt Tho The Themore more details ot of crime dwelt upon and horribly illustrated are known knon to at af affect att t ct morbid weaklings so DO violently that thoy they aro are impelled to 10 seek ek renown even It tho end is death Vigilance committees cannot cann t remedy the evil Were the tho mob to take lako the matter In hand through such luch a so called committee the probability Is that crimes would multiply still sUIl more Many Manyan an innocent person would be made to surfer sutter as an is always tim the ca case e when mobs operate There hera would wo ld bo ha retaliation tion and finally anarchy The Tho ho remedy In Iy to place at al the head of or tho pollee police de do department a II competent man roan and at the tho same time trace the evil to Us sources el Jot time the r I stuff that Is daily aIlY sold to he public as news and amusements |
