Show CRIME IN CHICAGO the thinking people of chicago arc are naturally enough deploring the amount of crime which exists in the garden city olevery of every description from petty theft up to the ruthless unprovoked slaying of a fellow man the efforts of the guardians of the public peace pence appear to be fruitless to arrest its progress 31 although they alre are aided by reform institutions of various kinds including scores of churches hundreds of sabbath and day schools all of which are sustained at the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars the jails of chicago are said to now contain twenty murderers who ore are awaiting trial and it is feared with come some xem semblance blance of reason that there will be no falling off in the number human life appears to be held of but little value in that place and the killing of a human being soon ceases to attract much attention after the deed is committed the law appears to have but little terror for this class of criminals the chicago in speaking of what it considers to be the cause of this deplorable condition of things says the steady inease of red band hand ed lawlessness is without a doubt due largely if not wholly to the seeming impossibility of securing a conviction of murder in the first degree egrek and then securing the hanging of the criminal rightly or wrongly the feeling is gaining ground among the people that were where the murderer can command money enough to insure sufficient legal delay the chances are altogether in favor of his neck if not of hia his imato escape from the dutches clutches of the law it only needs a conviction of this sort in the public mind to work a grave twofold two fold evil the would bo be murderer is thereby emboldened to carry out his bloody design tho the apparent powerlessness of the law and its officers to protect human life not goads the populace into usurping the functions of both and wreaking breaking wre aking summary lawless vengeance on he the murderer that there should be colorable ground for any r euch charge against the efficiency of the law in in so momentous a matter as murder is a disgrace to the administration of justice the law in a community like this ought bot to be less efficient or dreaded than the auto da fe of a california or montana vigilance committee has proved to be in those regions if the rua machinery chinery of the law be too blow slow and cumbersome let the process cessie be expedited when the jury has found a verdict of murder let us follow the wholesome example of england and reli religiously bously hang every one so convicted convicts the virtue of atit ar MAA hemp aaa ass deterrent lias bils never been given a sufficient chance govindi tov to vindicate itself this gloomy picture represents a terrible condition of society and is a sad commentary on the moral and spiritual status of many of tb the a people in one of the most christian y citi cities ea in the west by no people are mob violence and lawlessness more emphatically deprecated than by this community and we fay say let the law of the land reinforced bein be in forced and just punishment meted out to its violators |