Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-03-28
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achusetts l6 per cent; in New Jersey,
80 per cent; in Maryland, Pennsylva-
MIA, and Virginia, between 80 and 40
per cent; in New York, a22 per cent; and
in New Hampshire and Connecticut
the ratio remained about the same. A
very large proportion of the conyic-
tons for crime, is from the foreign
population and making allowances for
the increase from this source it is esti-
mated that the average decrease of
crime IN the States mentioned, between
1887 and 1917, was nearly or quite sc
per cent. And yet many are making
themselves unhappy over the mistaken
idea that the world is becoming more
and more Sodom, which is ripening
rapidly for the just vengeance of Hea-
ven. No one can disp ute the fact that
there is crime and sin enough among
men to waken the adherence of heaven
and of the pure of earth, but that the
world is becoming worse, we do not
believe a word of it. Statistics and
figures will not lie-they are above the
authority of all the fears or impressions
of partial observers.
It's contrary to the immutable law of
progress which is stamped upon all that
God has made. Vice produces unhap-
plness-indeed, it is a direct war upon
happiness, and mar is too fond of ex-
emption from the penalties of natural
law, to wilfully incur its penalties with
his eyes open. He ignorantly doubts
the certainty or probability of punish
ment, or he wOuldnot sin. But light
Is being scattered-men are coming to
know that bad air, improper diet, excl
ting stimulants, tight Iacing, and too
little sleep, are injurious to the body;
and such reformation as has occurred
In the civilized world within the last
twenty years on these subjects has ne
yer before been witnessed in the same
length Of time.
Earth and its inhabitants do not 90
backward bun are constantly rising in
the scale Of perfectioe. Nature abhors
retrogression. Mules may be procured
but nature evinccs her Reproduction of
the vile amalagmation by preventing
them from reproducing. The white
and black races may mix blood, but
nature denies fecundity to the third
generara ton of the mulatto, who rare
ly reach the age of twenty years.
Art, mechanism, and science are
opening to the world the means of phy-
steal and mental improvement. Edu-
cation is more general than ever before
the press and the pulpit are illumi
mating the world, and it were indeed a
sorry fact if, under all these facilities
for becoming better and happier by
having abundant means for such I'M
Proyement, ifman wasreally becoming
daily more wicked and blinded to his
highest good,
True we hear of more crime than we
did 80 years ago, because newspapers
have increased thousand fold, and the
more repid modes of communication
bring states and nations into a more
intimate acquaintance: besides, the tel
egraph heralds murder or fire from
St. Louis to Boston before the blood
of the victim or the ashes of the edifce
are cold, and all along the lines thou
sand presses record these facts. and ten
thousand locomotics, steamboats,. and
stages scatter the paper wings of tho't
to millions of greedy readers. Is it
strange that few antiquated conser-
natives should shudder under such a
concentrated record of crime, and be-
cause they thus hear ofmore than they
did when it took week to 90 from
to New York, and when not one family
III twenty took even weekly newspa-
per?
Teach man the laws of Physiology,
md he will not carry Goals in his bo-
som-pour liquid fire into his stomach
make smoke house of himself-or
lace the breath of life out of his lungs.
Then the sin and misery of these prac-
tees Will cease, except among the fool
hard and insane. Teach him the laws
OF his mental nature, and you awaken
dread of perverted animal feeling.
and inspire his moral and intellectual
powers with desires after light, truth.
and purity.
incorporation as general education is
extended we lessen the incentives to
vice, by giving the means to all to be-
come honorable and useful men; be-
sides, the public sentiment is thus rem
dcred mors sensitive TO every devclop-
ment of crime, and therefore these
plague spots appear more glaring on
the veStmcntS ofSocietv, from the sim
pie fact that a clearer light and broad
contrast reveals them.
A boiling kettle always sends the
impurities to the surface, because the
scum is thus revealed it does not prove
that there is more impuritv than when
1t slumbered at the bottom, or pervaded
every drop of liquid: even so, if cdu-
cation, general intelligence, and moral
elevation, make the scething cauldron
of society display what ofvice there is.
in strong light 1T does not by any means
prove that man is becoming more de-
PRAYED. Thank God man is becoming
better, as he is every day becomino