Show i CRIME IN t 1 That the thc lar larger American cities arc especially given to o or including Is Ia a that has many times In Yc We arc or orf tim tho columns of find not to f i belld fully Cully b by tabulated facts giving In be beI between I and the tho I tween this countrY countr i European nallon I AccordIng to Hu hUSh h C clr In Tho ThoI I World of oC Toda Today whIte while our poll pollee are gathering In th thI thc I J I drunk there thoro are fir some somO per perSons J f Sons whom the tho law never noer touches but I I who aro 1110 engaged In the tho systematic ot oC crIme ns as II a lIe lIeI H HI I I j moreover that persOns A AI I week are murdered In coon coun I I i I I try while for lor such efforts as are ure being crime I is isI I I mado to repress or punish It I j costing the tho nation 1 a any dlLY i It Is the tho graver graer crimes that escape here The ordinary low lor punishment ii I and ands I eJa class drunkenness and pilfering s II the various petty pett of crimInalIty I are Arc far less evident In America than thanIn In Europe and amI mc arc far Car CarI farless 1 I less ss prevalent Yet It Is i the j I unit and punishment and chiefly chien the latter hitter of the petty offenses offense of tho thoi i t weak teak and the tho pauperized with which our costly system of oC law and chien chiefly concerns Itself I I I Mr 11 Well WeIr finds that Chicago aver axel averages ages 11 murders In Il year eal In the i t I same ame space pace of oC time Paris Pane records only 16 1 murders and attempted murders murder 1 i London lour four times the tho size of Chi i cage caso has only 20 0 murders murder In tim tho I I course coarse ot of twelve months Georgiaa typical o of the average Amer Ameri i I I ican 45 r more than the whole hole of the British f I Moro roro are nrc murdered In Inthis i this count country In a year ear than are killed on tho railroads In three years the tho i J victims of if our OUI murder murdel total moro more r I I tItan thon the losses of the British Ann Anny In j the tho Doer Boer War WarI I t I Ii Mr Ml Well Weir says I Ten thousand persons person are murdered I I I In tills this country every overy stron stran f a I sled poisoned stabbed or beaten with witha a club or a 3 sandbag Of the murder murderers I ers 2 In are arc punished Tho ThoI remaining S free t I In man many of our States the proportion of oC convictions Is only hal half as great In 1 I I Georgia for lor instance only 1 I In overy Is punished In a 11 recent t I census of oC American crime digesting I I I the tho nation as 3 whole the statement I was mode made that In only 13 per r cent centt t of our homIcides do we secure a con conI I t j While In AmerIca the number of oC f murders has increased four our and a halt half halftime j time for Cor eer every million of oC our tion the tho rest of the tho world shows no such increase The increased d wicked I neBS Is confined to our own borders In the march of ns as ap apI applied I plied to tho protection of oC public ilfe I and public property says lS Mr II Weir 1 we have fallen Callen behind We mIL may lead end the globe In many things I We assuredly lead It In crIme In 95 93 I per cent of the tho homicides of Germany j f the SUm guilty person is 11 brought to justIce i In Spain the number of convictions I Is 95 85 per cent of the total number of crimes In France It Is ci 1 per cent 1 In tab Italy TI 77 p per r cent In England 60 50 I per cent This is III the condition long suspect suspected I I ed cd b by many observers that our OUI coun I tr tl presents toda today After Arter our poets and orators have hao concluded the tho j I and perorations Is by byI bythe I I the actual facts acts convicted 1 of being the th thI I f chief criminal nation of the tho world Bo Be Bot Bet t I hind our bolted boasted and really excellent I Institutions of oC government the thug and the assassin are operating with a aI I t I vigor anti a freedom duplicated I I I no noI I I whore else elso In civilization I J t I That is the tho for or this appalling t I of civil government In I I I country Not that the people or of the I RepubliC are naturally more mOle I I I to crIme and leedS deeds of violence that than I the people o of other othel nations not at all allI j I I I The explanation is IR that the few who are Inclined to crime are not convict ell cd I 1 The Tho police In many and the ward politicians In other cases are arc more or less In league with tho criminal element In New York Cli l per cent of o the I arrested for or beset crimes In the red t I light dl districts are freed Creed b by the ward politicians politician In Salt City nests of oC criminal and degraded humanity i sro are herded together for Cor the express purposes and proUl of oC Immorality This t Is carried out under the tho apparent pro of the tho police and the tho connivance anti participation of certain high city officials themselves In few Cew other cities perhaps Is Ic the alliance between r dC and these of vico i which arc the chief breeders of crime 1 and ruin III sQ open and amid flagrant as a In InI inthis this ell city And In no other of the tho I I 1 I smaller American cities are arc the evil I I results moro plainly manifest Nightly i hOldup robberies orgies orgle of drunken I I I t rIot awl and a plague o of the vices of oC So SoI Sodom I I dom are all flaunted before the pUblic to time the horror and alarm of the tho thoI I whole populace yet et these Conditions I I elicit from the tho rulers of the political r i i gang that Itt Is responsible for their con continuance barely IL a om aI smirk or at most a weak and paltry apology and some ome ridiculous talk about mys alleged 1 of oC fifty years ago In the these conditions condition lurk the real roal dan gors to tho American cities and to the can Institutions And while these conditions In thU city reek to high hOll mm II In their ery time the s ol c of the pr present city ad administration administration ministration pretends to Ia say that time tho do not exIst and that the tho real which confronts title state and Cli Is timo tho domination of oC thC bier hier hierarch arch arc In party Ho long can American citizens hero here endure this rule rulo of crIme and this debauch 1 bauch of oC civic do de |