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Show r uJili itaitri. States Jfcuat gastrin 3li a SUuUut j Ily IlllAND WIIITLOCK. The TWrorm Mlyor or Toledo, Ohio " ' fiur jxnal svMom is fuiltiri , unlj we do not tf a -?WV ',"M " Xl' flnvirmwnu liitvi tried it for tiiatitnnds I v H "' ""' ""' our government in reported as saving Unit I .-r- C5 tin- ti mil lie v to irnne still exists Our jh'IihI system 1 f) cmlv Imrt Htiil never helw ill victims, direct or in- i- jt dins I, whether the) arc inmicint or guilt) It deter ,l """' '""" wnit'liW criimt nnd makes hvpooritos ol I CtfiS more, mid it wludl) ignore economic or social mum tflf " for ctiiih and makes no allowance for persuiutlitv II i h failure Ixiwiise it is founded in fear and hatred and cruelly and cowardice. It mercilessly grind the poor and tho weak in tin- interest of the strong. It proceeds from and dwell nn 1 1 Iwid in man, not thu good. We idiall liave a system tlmt will do good only wlien soeittv recognise iU own resjMinsibilit.v for crime and live up to it, and whtn it dwells iixm and develops the good in man instead in-stead of the lwd. 'llio present winter will witness man) hardship I. cause of the Wall nlwl tuio. There will lo main umi out of work and many hungry, and there will be more small thefts, hnld-tiH and wintoi crime, or, ns some might my, "winter necessities" It might Ixi writ fol the government to get out some statistics showing why t lie re in more crime after financial hhucs and industrial depressions limn in good time Why tho liold-np mnii and purso-snatchcr alwayn turns tip with tho first cold wpnlhur, nnd why, when the mill shut down, there arc more hohoc and yegg on freight train. You might pursue nil these little crime to their original source and cause. It would not lu long before1 there would be no necorttil) for statistic on (nine, and then, in mine idle hour, the clerks in the statistical hurenu iniglit occupy tlii'infeUcii with tracing the relation between the vulgar crimen of force mid Moleiue cud the nrlitic crime of craft and cunning artistic crime which do not vc to break laws because they make the law a to suit thunsclveJ. |
