Show NURSERIES OF CRIMES tue THE denver papers are quite exercised over ft a statement by a local clergyman named dean hart this gentleman asserts that the public schools are irresponsible for the large increase of crime during the past decade or two and also for the multi multiple cation of t a loone his theory theora is that in the absence of moral anti and religious teaching in the schools the children grow up virtually criminal inasmuch as no training has bus been given them in the practice of restraining appetites as lons and evil tendencies in reply to the clergymen the denver adwa contends that the increase in crime is due to unrestricted immigration the census statistics shew to some extent the ratio of crime between alien and native born the figures when in a certain way make a showing unfavorable to the foreign element but when handled in another way the contrary Is exhibited for IDS instance tRUce north dakota has a rate of foreign population of to natives native in 1890 it had a rate of paupers haupers and convicts to each million but its as reseed value increased during the decade per cent this shows that where the foreign element most abounds wealth increases more mere rapid ly the wealth of south dakota in creased 1040 per cent in ten years of montana per cent and so on in other states where aliens most abound the question as to what causes and is causing the large increase of crime in this country is a timely and appropriate one foreign immigration may be a source of crime but it must be acknowledged that bat this does not meet the issue ideue it was shown in a recent magazine arti artl cle that of venal voters in connecticut fully 67 per cent were of the pure american stock the writer an american himself admitted the accuracy of hie hj figures with a sigh for the degeneracy of the puritan corrupt voting to Is as a much a crime as aa abeel stealing and the situation in connecticut in instructive iu in a discussion of this kind of course other statistics prove conclusively that a very large proportion of the worst wont criminals in this country are educated so far as aa book learning may be considered edu cation that the lack of moral and religious training in our public school system is one cause of the increase of crime Is ie coming to be acknowledged by the most thoughtful people of the age |