The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-11
Revolutionary Elements in England.


The police has been recognized necessity in many
rural districts But if necessary in the country how much
more necessary in towns? English have grown
up in Irregular unmethodca way without check
troll One hdeous of brick has been added another
with regard to nothing but the gencies of casual employ
ment and dubious speculation In these the industrious and
the idle those who seek work and those who avoid work. the
honest and the dishonest the subordinate ministers to the
luxury of wealth and the ordinary drudges of the loom and
the Wheel congregae on the terms of precrous and tran
silent tenure Among them those who have better
days. and those who have only evil days. those who
have lived deceny among decent folks and look back to
happy hours and those who have known happier
home than their present One general description BELTS
them all they all subjected to poverty, they all know
Its pangs and its temptations Neghborhoods like these
grow up with startling rapdy around the centes of great
cities No knows how they occupied traces
the of their supply Barely year passes over before
and their obscury make them the of those who have
good reasons of kind for avoiding central locai
ties population teens in hem of which many be
unemployed, idle and not few evil disposed Seeing
in its abodes few of the blessings of wealth civza
on the which reared in these suburbs has little
for authority and little regard for law It's political
theory summed up the belief that good
another The economical theory which is favored by many
of this class is that rich people good deal we'll off,
and that poor is justified in lettering his condi
ton in any way he community of this very
establishes its principles and rules of conduct and these
frequently not in accordance with orthodox notions about
ORDER property and government One of its social axioms
is that is meritorous act to heave brick parson
policeman. Whatever the fathers and mothers of this
society be- the second generation invariably exaggeraes
their special angs Brought in bones where there
no recognition OF authority and where its exercise resented
tyranny the boys and girls not likely to be docie
obeden compaisant Loyalty patriotism, and respect
for for the most part unknown 1t would be we'll if
the negaon of these qualities constituted their sole defect
To those whose of duty calls them night into the
lanes and alleys abutting great thoroughtares
situated In our suburbs is unnecessary recount
how much beyond the limits of even crude license" the
founess of language and conduct habtual the
children of London and other cities goes Scenes after
dark in streets which would not be tolerated in Paris
Lyons or Marsees French boys and girls behaving like
the London boys and girls of whom speak, would be
to prison bread and water On this of the subject
forbear to dwell at present opens field of serious
contemplation but has only bearing topic
In 30 tar as 1T illustrates the utter want of control in which
many of the children of poor grow up. License in
childhood becomes lcentousness in YOUTH and turbulence
in middle age Plenteous employment and high wages send
forth crowds of flushed and reckless Mohawks hot fray
Spree into the midst of daily traffic. employ
ment and strikes send forth the mobs less noisy
less tumuuous but resolutely bent exacng black mail
from the quiet and the tmid Both think any interference
with their lark ntoerable encroachmen on their ma
tural liberty. Let political agitaon-above ALL an agita-
ton organized against authoryappea for their support
srahway the strength Of their thews snews and numbers
is enrolled swell the forces of gasconadng demagogue
spouter of sedon Meanwhile the goes ncreas
ing There whole districts the confines of the merop-
oils through which decent fears to walk
winters night alone and unarmed districts in which there
literally chances of insult or assault than there
would be In many parts of savage Africa.
What is the remedy for this? There are two remedies
One is the remedy which American ingenuity has extempor-
lied under similar difficulties. Let every who has to
walk to his home three miles north northwest of the
Regent Circus four miles towards the docks or two
miles southwest the bridges take revolver with him.
Or again. if there has been any district made infamous by
the nightly disorders of it's youthful rowdes let body of
respectable themselves constitute themselves into
Vigilance Committee parade the infested districts engage
and shoot down the obnoxious ruans This remedy would
be both simple and compendous 1t would achieve it's end
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