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Show Homicide ln America. Compnrntlxe statl"tks of murder should teach us some lessons of nntlon-11 nntlon-11 1 humlllt) bemuse blink It ns we may irlmc and esieelnlly thnt of homicide, Is 11 riett) accurnte measure of the at-tiinment at-tiinment of elxllUitlon There nre nhout 10 000 murders a cir In the United states Sir Hobert Anderson of London Ins Intel) astonished his renders rend-ers b) stntlng that In the C 000 000 in-hiibltnnta in-hiibltnnta of London there nre nnnu-ally nnnu-ally on the nx'einge onl) nhout eighteen tnurdcis In 11 sermon on crime a ckig)innn of one of our smaller American Ameri-can cities recently stated that ln his tit) 'of about :0"000 Inhabitants) there were In the Inst Hie jenrs nn axciftgo of nenrl) thlrt) homicides n yeur, sajs I Atncikan Medicine Supposing there-I there-I foie tint these leople xxould not become be-come far moio erlmlml when massed together by millions It folloxxs that If the elerg)nnns city were as I irgo na I ondon there would be nearly 100 mur-deia mur-deia a )euivin It Instcid of eighteen Ilut worse Is jet to come Out of the 14" murders In fixe )cnrs there were only twent) three conxlctlons nnd the xerj worst Is the fact tint not one of these conxkted murderers suffered tho denth penult) Uron one side, aurcl), the retort no longer holds that the doctors doc-tors put their bad work beneath the ground nnd tho lnwjers hing It up uboxe It So much hemp giown so little lit-tle used," may be pertinently quoted. |