, 1877-08-05

AID. DAILY, at the Poice~C Committee meet
ing, insisted on a large addition to the police
force, to be made Immediately. He refused
to consider the question of ways and means,
| where the money was to come from to paw
! the salaries of the proposed new policemen,
there being no legal authority for inc,uring
| the expenditure at this time, A part Of his
argument ran like t.-is, as reported:
| Ncw York, with its a=ca Of thirty square miles.
had five times US many police, and pad SIX times
much to keep up it's force. Phiade1phia's force
was one-and- half times as lnrge. New Orleans
paid S6O, 900 more for her police force than Chi
caso; and even Boston, with one Of the most con-
servntivc Municipal Governments IN the world
and with population 12;' 600 less than Chlcaco's.
had police force 200 stronger In all these cities
moreover, salaries we're higher. This exhibit, the
Alderman thought, wis not q very crcditable ono
for Chicago.
Aid. DAILY imposed little on the other
members Of the Committee with his statis-
tics. It might hare been replied to him that.
unless he included Brooklyn, New York has
not '' five times as many policemen rs Chi
cago:" although she has q great deal more
than five times rs much property to protect.
The population Of New York and BROOKLYN
is five times as great as that of Chicago, and
the value OF destructible property is about
ten times as great rs that in this city Phil
adelphia contains fully twice the population
aud four times the property Of Chicago,
leaving out land in both cases, which re-
qnires no police protection New Orleans
has been in state Of civil war for years, be-
tween the carpe!-bnggcrs and negroes on the
one side aud Whitc-Liners on the other.
which resulted iu the carpet-bnggers organic
ing q considerable standing army Of
policemen to fight their battles and
keep them in, Office New Orleans,
since the restoration of peace, can safely
discharge one-half Of the force, and we un-
dcrstand it is about being done. The city is
bankrupt, and can't afford to support half [
the number Of policemen that have been de-
vouring the taxpayers. As to Boston, al
though her population is somewhat less than
that OF Chicago, she possesses about three
times the wealth per capita The Bostoni-
ans have enough money loaned out to +
other people to buy the whole Of Chicago at
present depressed prices; they can well
afford to keep large police force to protect
their enormous wealth; but Chicago is poor,
BY reason of fire, panic, and hard times, and
has no money to spare for anything she can
get along without. AID. DAILY forgot to
mention either Cincinnati OF st. Louis. The
former is far richer city than Chicago and
not much less in population. Her propesty
IS all owned and paid for by her citizens;
she has never been swept by fire since she
vas wooden village. The police force
If Cincinnati is smaller than that of Chicago.
st. Louis hos never been burned up, and her
people have all their 113 years' accumu1a-
ions. She claims to have larger popula-
ion than Chicago. Her police force is small
II and is paid less than ours, and is less
expensive to support. St. Louis is more
ubiect to mobs than Chicago the Com
nunists arc far mora numerous, demonstra-
i've, md audacions and yet the present
'olice force there is deemed sufficient for the
'ublic protection, with the aid Of the military
nd the law-and-order citizens. Why should
ur citizens, in the event of another riot
ono time in the future, n3t help to disperse
and restore order? There is no surer or
etter protection than self-protection, and it
also the cheapest. The gods help those
lost who help themselves. HEncu--Es dis {