Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-10-24
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, OCT. "a, 1856.


also from the ,.sia isqn: moral de Ia ,FrGace,''
by NJ Query himself member Of the Church
of Rome, which has been approved and adopt
ed by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Par
is. we find that the annual average of commit
tails for mHrder id France is about lqS9, which
gives THIRTY on Il murders to each million, ger
sersn qnd h III iiraes mo c tian in tngiand.
gain the criminh statistics of Austria are
most carefully kept by an .sfinperial Comnis-
sion for Stafissics.' From the latest Of these,
published list year, in two volumes. and en-
titled DIG Scpis * d,s Oes ear his hen hats-
ers a4ses, = we find that the yearly average of
murdcrsin Anstris, one of the most intensely
Popish countries IN Europe, is 1925, being
THIRTY SIX murders to each million, or nine
times more than in Engllnd.
Farther the govern entail returns OF crimes
in Btytril, which also regularly published.
and the latest of which are entitled ..Beitrgge
eur Staiis'ik des Konigreiches Bayern, fir
niaun, MunrIen 1882 shows that the yearly
average of murders in that country is 3ll,
which, when cpnplred with the amount Of the
popnlation, that by the census of lS49 was A.
$50 ,75I gives about sIxrY-rIcHr murders 10
each mlliIOn! or seventeen times more IMAM
in England. M $3.50 .fr. t.r,. 3 ...,ssg Z
It appears tiat there official COVER
mental returns from Spain or Portugal; there
fore Mr.. Seymour, whose figures ire drawn ex
clusivcly from such sources. is blised 10 pass
them by. But in order TO give some proxi-
| mate idea of the state Of crime in that peuin
sula, ne quotes, inpassing, French authority.
who states that in 5. ain The mnrd ers and at
tempts at innri der amount, on the yearly, aver
age, 10 about 250-to each million of the pop
ulation
And now as to the Italian States. The first
of these is Sardinia, which is at present dis
tinguislied> above all the rest for its progress
in frc, institutions. And it appears by the
returns of crime given from the police in AL
fieri, and cited by him in Mitternlaier, that in
thlt Kingdom the yearly average of murders
is 10l. SO that the moment we cometo Il
PopIsh rntry in which the struggles of the
people have somewhat relaxed the Papal yoke,
the proportion of murders instantly drops
lawn to TWENTY in the million. The next Ital-
| ian province is the two Lon di $, Were the
| Pope is still supreme and accpringls the pro-
! portion of crime instantly arises again; for by
the retnrDs of Mitterm 'ier% the ye rly averigc
of murders in the Lomh ,rdies is 225. about
! FoRrY-FIxE tns eaci. million of the populutionl
! Next in ORDER is bigot.d Tuscany in which,
! ,ccorling 20 the same authority. the returns
/ of all crimes for the nine years ending 1888.
| give 81 murders on the yearly average, ma
| king FIFTY MURDsRs to each million. or f,celre
| rnd hqIf' times more. than in England, Tn
/ ;,ii tha for ~ va
| given in ilitt trrmaier m, ,ie the annual average
Of murders ia which gives about NINETY to
/ each million. or ''ren'y-t,o and a half times
NOR. than in England, - -,--g
! And now asto the P,pal Ststes. The Pom
/ tifcaI government. naturally anxions to en-
/ s'iroud in d ,rkness the Dire ,dfril stite Of the
I c',nntry. have taken care to publish no official
I returns Of crime. But. happily for our snli.,ct
! from the statstical nformatonwhich DR.. Bow
/ ring procured some time since, by order OF
| the British government, for commercial pur-
1 poses. and which, has been printed by order Of
| Parliament the ANIMAL average OF murders IN
! the Papal States can be saielf recl1oncd II 33a,
/ which. as the population is only . 99S III,
I gives about oNg HUNDRED AND THIRrEEN 10
| each million Of the population, or t,reufv-eieit
/ times more than IN England! Bnt it seems
| that Popery owns more fearful Accitama
than this. For in the neighboring kingdom of
| Naples. which is. if possible, more Popish
| than the Papal States themselves. and in which.
] in ls48- the Pope took refuge when flying
/ from his own subjects. the criminal calender
| of one year as given in Mittermqier--and that
! the year 1882 long before fIe scenes of the
! last revolution-contaBs the awful numb ber of
! 194 murders which, as the population was
| then little over 5000, ,00o, makes ONE HUNDRED
! Ann stv4NTY rouR mnrders to the million. or
/ forfr- kres ant tait times more than in her
/ etc England! W hilc in the whole of Italy,
1 where the Church of Rome is supreme, AID
/ where neither Eihle nor hereto is tolerated,
/ we gather fronrahe same authorities that the
/ yearly average of'mHrders is 1868! We ask
| DR.. Wisemin if he can find any thing TO equal
! teis among the MolEtwks, the Cherokees, or
/ the Caffres; and this il the land in which there
4 are upwards of 20 900 priests and monks and
! nuns! And yet there are still found Popish
priests and newspaper, editors who have The
ignorance, or the andacity. or both,4 to raise
the question of the comparative mt,rality Of
Protestant and Popish countries! .as.
/ al 'om ~ 100.
Who is not struck with horror at this com
/ parative disregard of human life inlands which
/ are, and ever have been, under Popish teach
d ing and control7 fopery is as she was in the
1 days when she welded against the Reformers
the potent weapons of the torch and thesword,
as if they were diseased limbs for which no
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