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Show WHAT TO DO. It is not a great reputation for a city to acquire ac-quire that hold-ups work in it with practically no interference. This city has less policemen than any other city of its size in America. Then their duties are most severe because of the great blocks; the hiding places in the centers of the blocks and the vast area over which the city is spread. In such a situation there should, while the terror of hold-ups remains, be extra patrolmen, resolute men in citizens' attire, and enough of them to be within easy striking distance of each other, and with this understood the man-killers would quickly disappear. Again there many saloons and dives, where idle men are wont to sleep and loaf through half the day. Every one of these should be visited daily by the authorities and every man who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself should be apprehended. ap-prehended. ' Then there should be block patrols whose business busi-ness should be to' find ouf the condition of every family in the block, for there are very many poor families'. in the city whose wants may make the head of the family desperate, for almost any one ; with hungry children that he is unable to feed, would go out and get something even if he had to commit a crime and risk his life in doing it. The terror here can be quickly allayed if the citizens will do their duty in supplementing the efforts of j the authorities. We are liable to have yet three J months of more or less winter weather; there is a good deal of suffering here; there is liable to be y more; the strain should be removed from the worthy poor, the unworthy should be made helpless help-less to perpetrate any more deviltry. The trouble should be stopped by prompt action before some awful crime causes hot-headed men to commit j a greater one by hanging some innocent men. I The way to have something that is necessary to be done accomplished, is to do it. 1 |