The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-07
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| Criminal statistics are never pleasant read
Ing even IL they point 10 i1p1overenL iS
| know bow @1oy people lave done y eSt soey
ought Dot 70 DO Il Iees pleasant thar 20 Be IL
formed What extraordinarily good actions nave
sikC0i EsG popular coLdnel- There are DO ga
tis;iee Of she T'GiStA- How many Pt%pis 20 g
ebcrch With Fes olaTity, Dever touch a!eohoi
AID abstain from larceny, are fAe's alec are
peyer published 20 she pA'ioo. for he SIMPLE
reason that they carDox be kroEp; tuf Low
nspy people are caught within the iSW-S very
poor rsst IF national charscreE-Is . feature n
economies which We are hound to pcDoer al
ruAlly. and 70 make tie b@sE Zee q, fcE govern
meut-
Ireland kas ALWAYS teep E-oinI@d az by Eng
LAID a. very exemplary IL breaking The Com
UsDdusnts al impzfaFion - hlc. 'U pes tnat
E0gisnd js exemplary IL she contrary Gnc more
xitky,5 ground C-.tsin kIocs Of Ia 1-bTess-
rg are Inevitably p,oducec BY Certain EtDd-
OF irT5Es;IDg legislation OF II may -SpPen tIia'
social accidents proc ace IN one country KID,
@. crime which are bat rar- II Apo'oe Ayr
riar ooSrsgesT IN Ireland were tte Frcc1ci OF
tie a1ino=i,ies which existed b=f~-=a landlord
and tenant; they we're inevitable, -oF, ci
coarse. IL 3 Christian AsD.e, brit as 8 osEura!
~ o 3erce of wrath. II j. satisfactory 10 L I'd
tosI rbis SOFT of pegsoDal vIo!ecce oas in
ueuseiy decreased of late ear; 90 much SO
taA: whereas tse average about tre.re years
ago Wa srA,ed at ;s24 the recent return sho~s
an average of l15. Crimes OF this character
appear TO have decreased under wiser and
more suicah!e ieglslsrocI the Coercion Code
DhNEBk pEO1UCcO oH0 AcANcN ~
gTavSIe resentment
As general outline, il may be priD arily re-
marked that there Is nuch less crime q Ireland
than there u+ed to be; while il Is also observ-
able-and this fact could be instructive-that
there IL less e-lue IN ireland than I'd England.
From the table Of - ind'ctable offences. s0n-
mArily disposed or aud aleo from tbe table of
Noticeable Offences noE tammariiy disposed
Off the same instructive lesson is derived
that there are from thirty to forty Fer cent
fever criminals" in Ireland than there are
in more prosperous England. This ejaculation
is, of course, made EIin reference 20 tie popo-
latiops-relstIvely, taking Thousand for
tboosaod. One curio1s statistic Gomez oct IN
the Report, that Dublin, al the 81 Dor hood
of Dnb!io, are pre- nineut in Sommltlals for
crime. In Dublin, the coumittsls for crime
reach one hundred and ten in the ten thousand;
in the seven towns Dexs TO DabiIn, they reach
nine; whereas outside these seven towns the
average is foGr; which seems TO show shat the
capital is not elevating. Yet Dublin is more
English than is the reet of Ireland. Perhaps
this may offer q solution.
One more fact we will notice. for it is curl
ops. There are more policemen in Ireland
than there are criminals For every nineteen
criminals there are twenty-five policemen :
which seems 10 give the polcemeR the sdvAn-
faee. We have still, however, 70 deplore the
VAST number of such offences as are brought
about through the habit of intemperance
Not only is there NO amendments, there Is In
crease "Mor- than = third of the increase in
the offences dispoeed of summarily in ls15 In
Ireland may be asSribed 10 Convictions for
drunkepness;1 while ouch was the number in
the aggregate, that it exceeded by So per cent
the Same kind Of convictions In England.
Here, then, is q field for generous service; not
q field for legislation-tor the law can do li:te,
except impose greater punishment; and pun
ishment is of no use in such cases-but for the
active missionary lsbors of Individuals who
will devote themselves to sobering Ireland. 1t
is such pity that An admirable people, whose
very ardor predlsposes them 10 salty, should
be pilloried in the police courte, and condemb-
49, for no nfr
whiskey' Every one of the offences " HIGH are in
cluded in such a list as murder, stteuptst mur-
der, N anslaug liter, stabbing, endaD gerlnR safe
~ of passengers on rail ways, concea!IDg the
birth of infants, aud uulA1fu fully abandoning
children under two years of age" may be attrl-
buted, in point of impulse or emotion, TO the ar
titici4l excitement of inteu perauce. IL IS
really d very seTIous matter. In EoE !4Gd We
are always crusadIng sgain-t Intemp-rance !;
but ia Iceland the victims of the = e&kn'7ss are
more uuDcrUus than III EDE!ard by 30 er
cent" THIS Is to be regretted, not only On
tire =cDye OF crime AID Of tine u.t7etie- "nich
come it's tram, bot because II lb an ItJas'ice
TO the reputation of people WHO axe 80 I'M
mtus-i, hyperion to their own fojb.=s
There TemaiGs, However, the fact, cieaTl :
proved by the statistics. that could the Dublin
element be got TId Of nnt OF Iceland, the popu
latlou would be ffeer from really grave crimes
than any population in EoroPe. Indeed, the
two draw-Oacss 10 Ireland seem to be D bin
and wbiskey; The former IL would be difficult
10 remove, but the latter might be reasonably
diluted. In regard to snch Offences as are com
monty called immoral, there is certainly ne
Country which deserves such fair repute ~
in senzely Catholic and priesr-ioving Ireland
houtalembert bore testimony 10 TINS fact II
one of his teEderest passages, and 30 has man!
| q well Informed traveller, who possessed spiri
enough TO appreciate it. The only defect o.
the Irish temperament is q too genial digposi
| ton, a too quick self-surTenderiDg TO bonhonl
mie which Degets Just exactly that characte
of misfortunes which appear TO be vicious il
Themselves. Emotion may be perfectly limo
| cent: bot when whiskey puts the torch Il
emotion the whole fire brigade of Ireland can
| not quench it.