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Show A LAME EXPEDIENT. Mayor McClellan of New York City, has re-adopted re-adopted an old plan for freeing the great city of criminals. He has them, on conviction, placed upon a train that does not stop for the first fifty miles out of the city, and when it does stop has them set adrift. The unsuspecting people who live in the country about fifty miles from the great metropolis, will hardly thank the New York mayor, for even thieves are obliged to have food, more or less clothing and some place to sleep. Why should the people in the rural districts have loaded load-ed upon them the flood wash of the great city's crooks and hobos? Are they a select company that, like the students at Columbia university, when they graduate in their respective professions, profes-sions, must try the country to practice in? The business is as unjust as it Is foolish and illegal. New York Is the blgget city in America. We know because some New York journal puts out the news every day. It is not only the biggest, but the richest and grandest and leads America in every great and splendid thing. It is reasonable then to believe that the ordinary thieves and burglars who watch the bankers and stock brokers there and read the daily papers, become the most expert "criminals in their respective lines, in all the country. Would it not be a good idea for the great city to provide HHiiHBBHHBHHHHHai for this very enterprising class? What to do win, them ought to be an easy problem to solve. There is plenty of work on the streets of New York City; there is nothing that this class despises so much as work. Why not open a reform school for them on the streets? By what reasoning can the mayor of the city find an excuse for burdening the country with the city's thieves? If transportation is the best device, why not lease a section of Staten or Long Island and set those public-spirited gents to raising their own beans and potatoes? Mix a little common sense with justice and the thing can be honorably done |