| Show growth of cities increase of orime crime or of late there has been much F speculation tho and a philosophical disquisition mft art to lu the iti increase crease of crime and arld tit the causer causes of it the ia stub 0 li birtt birti irti fact all the jail and prisons have hav haseben eben b enlarged within the pat pant few years eui eni enlarged arged more than in ratio with the or of the population and all or of of them are now tiow full to overflow demand fur still further enlarge meent merit A western paper rhotes notes that while in 1800 isoo the homicides in the united slates states were as one lile to loo 1003 of total pt population ipa lation in I 1 u 1860 th thy they y had risen to three thres a and one tenth and in 1870 to five and an J three tenths that la Is to say we had bad in proportion to population over five times as 88 many mu iders man slaughters excusable and justifiable kimm kiff killings mues lues in us as twenty years belore before W we e think thure there is no doubt that other and und lesser crimes have llave kept pace with these that larceny arson burglary robbery and forgery are five nive times as frequent now in a population lation of as th thuy they a y were in 1850 certain other coffle nees have gone still faster into popularity as perjury fraud and swindling tho the th increase of murders from I 1 1850 to 1860 wa wag per cent bays pays the I 1 indianapolis journal from froal 1860 to 1870 only percent whereupon it is argued civil war cannot be blam biem blamed odas aa the promoter of this thi orime crime the thettace J gur nur nal Z then points out what it thinks some home of tiie the causes As the incao ase of european emigration which brings us a large pr proportion portion or of the eil cil criminal minal an and nna refuse classes elates who live by crime erime prid 11 thru tiro afar tu favor this view thero Is 19 gue cne foreign to t every very five of native ablith while the foreign population 1 M one to jeven of nai natie t birth this is 14 the rule in irl the t tate or of initia in lii the whole country the pt proportion to p 0 r of foreign to native population tl 0 n is as one to six of foreign to native criminals one to three this is one cause the illy restrained deviltry of the south Js is anoche another if we may believe the but the primary cause I 1 the laxity of the law jaw iti ito it bringing to ashment Ish ishmit ment nt this wid will not do as his to crime in general the crim criminal hial stati ties that discusses are of those who have been brought to punishment it mry may held hoid as to homicide homicides we do not 0 that mure more than one murderer in ten Is ia ever brought to the gallows in lii this country if the penalty of murder were life imprisonment we think the convicted would soon amount to chrt e or four As to the main cause of the increase of crime in general we think it demonstrable from statistics and other facts and circumstances that nearly all clas cias besof crime have just about kept pace in with the eicem i of the growth of large farge cities arid and towns over the growth of the rural dla dis tracts the tile population of new york is but one million of the state hay bay four millions the city with only a fourth of the people pr produces producer daves moie mole than halt hult of the criminals chit chic chicago ago ako holds the tile like relation to the state of Illinois and san francisco to california A very large lange class of or crimes crimea result from want wani arld arid the irresistible temptations lations of if geee necessity nowhere felt half so no powerfully as in the great and und heartless heartly ss city where human selfishness finds its fullest development other classes of crime especially manslaughter and homicides which some same communities consider justifiable while others 7 pu jih them as murder while the thit they y aire alre frequent in the city are aimo nimo st unheard of in lil the country it is in the great elty eity that fraud perjury and forgery flourish and where too conviction is almost sure to follow indictment it if the accused is poor poun or friendlee friend les ies which most of them are if tile the great city with its churches moral mom reform societies multiplied charities helenee and art and kimmence collections of wealth be ber bent best A represent civilization it also is most of crime insanity and all phases of want and miery the argument then would seem to be that clime and civilization keep even pac it ix in not pleaseant pleasant to admit this proposition but we really a see no way to avoid it un ull less lesa we reject the pretenses of the cities as the we true exponents of civilization sacramento union |
