Show WHAT IS TO BE DONE the thugs thieves and scoundrels of high and low degree who make of this city their paradise have got well nigh to the 00 point of impudence enjoyed by the late william M tweed when he be asketh well what are you going to debout li it it if we had bad any reasonable around for hope that the parallel thus then established might proceed proofed until he the same answer la is returned here that wb I 1 in n new york fork to the tammany chieftain we might endure the nightly outrages with greater equanimity temus assured that each succeeding bonef hastened the happy denouement nou ement but this does doeg not seem likely we are decidedly in for N it the tow law is 1 pow powerless erleng the constabulary invisible except when on dress drees parade the of our residents will not earvy carry arms and but few would use I 1 them I 1 it if they did and that Is where we war find ourselves undoubtedly 08 each ch unpunished act does but am embolden bolden the gentry of pad dod ded feet and skeleton key proclivities not only th this bit but it encourages others at a distance to dome come along and take a hand while bavi having havinga da A tendency to ovey tome the ibe scruples of the most thoughtful and backward among the lawlees lawle cs the spectacle of a man being made to stand and deliver within a tones throw of his bis own residence and with people actually passing while the robbery proceeds is one that has the effect of placing our city olty in a light most lovely and roseate to the probes highwayman or crack cracksman it could scarcely be surpassed even in chicago Rd eago and when we ka say that it places us in the front rank ran of modern cities so far as the specialty spoken of is concerned we do so more in sorrow than in sugar anger and without even a trace of things human that are radically and lankly wrong must find a quietus sooner or later the end and never cornes comes of itself as in the case of most other things because as 88 shown the less it is disturbed the more it flourishes alter after passing the point up to which forbearance is the rule the sequel is always a dark and unwelcome chapter in the history of any community but it has the justification to rely on that it hid hd become a choice between such record and a worse one and afterwards comes coapes the long hoped for condition of unarmed protection and security ceaseless vigilance something must be done and that quickly our streets must not be surrendered to thieves and cut fr fro 1 the going down of the sun to the rising 9 thereof with a period of undisturbed repose for them between times and our residences converted into arsenals barred and guarded as if we had returned to barbaric days nor should eltia us ns whose bent of mind Is ful and whose deportment and orderly be compelled to arm them solves froth from head bead to foot and be constantly on guard wherever they may go they are entitled to a better oo do a of things than this and we reiterate that by one means or another they will have it men wh on gen eral principles are opposed to war or the settlement of strife and disorder very often are loudest in their deman i for bloodshed and car natte nane because matters have passed the point of tolerance and peaceful methods are shown to be fruitless it if we have not reached that conditto conditio condi tio n yet we are uncomfortably close to it with every prospect of the remaining ground being covered without much delay A beginning suggested by some Is in to offer a large reward to the first man who kills a robber or burglar in the act and a larger reward for capturing him alive and turning him over to a committee of citizens appointed to receive him this is awful we know the mere suggestion will create aa a involuntary shudder with many the majority would doubtless with law abiding tendencies and a hope which 1 is not bedimmed through the violent shook of a personal experience be set against it we expect professor baynes day nes would have opposed it two days ago but what would likely be his reply it if questioned regarding it now the rest of us UR do not want his experience nor should it be thrust upon us |