The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-06

memory and name forever and--don't ask
cent Fourteenth street, between Walnut
and Cedar streets is graced by u disgraceful
public pump. That pump as it now stands
is sublime nuisance, The waste water
lunning therefrom has the internal habit Of
cutting up the street most outrageously---a
habit which makes those unhappy people
who have cause to pass there with their
teams, forget their days Of youthful in
nocence, and utter forth language not at all
sanctioned by the revised edition. Will
the street committee have the street repair
ed and arranged matters 80 that the water
usually wasted will cease to do damage, as
heretofore2 Will it do this and do it quick3
There is the street committees immortal
chance! Hundreds of unfortunate people
will ask them for lock of their hair, and
as many will beg their autograph. They
will be mentioned in the prayers of men
saved from the temptation to use language
not authorized out of the pulpit. Many yet
unborn will bless their names. Did ever
immortal fame offer herself 30 chcapl
In q lengthy reply toa defense Of the
prosecuting attorney of Mclean county, to
whose neglect of duty the Bloomington
Bulletin charged, was partly due the
looseness with which criminals in that
county are prosecuted, and the disregard of
law among the people of the county, as evil
denced in the recent hanging of murderer
by mob, the editor of the Bulletin uses
the following very sensible language, which
the prosecuting attorneys Of this city and
county will please take to their hearts and
seek to profit by: IF the officers Of the
law-the lawyers of the peopc-were as
heartily devoted to their work as the law
yers of the defense usually are to their client
the perjury Of men making affidavits for a
change of venue would be exposed and
punished, and the patience and activity of
the people would not often be worn out.
The officers Of the law, not the people, too
often become tired-are too frequently
made weary by brides or by inability to
faithfully and competently perform their
duty. 1t is true that our criminal laws
might be somewhat amended to their bet
termcnt; but in general they are good and
wise laws and were used satisfactorily in
the protection of life and property during
centuries when ignorance and violence
were common. To-day the practice I'M
der the criminal law of Illinois is in
| force in England and in the New England
states. In England the detection of crime
against person or property is usually fol-
lowed by conviction and punishment, and
| in England the accused has all the benefits
that he can obtain from the technicalities
of the law. But there, public-prosecutors
know the law and have the ability and dis
position to enforce it, In the New Eng
land states murder is frequently punished,
and New Jersey justice-the certainty of
punishment for crime in New Jersey has
become proverbial. In many of the coun-
ties of Illinois, murder is punished by
hanging, but in Mclean county murder
was never punished by hanging until it
was thus punished by the mob Of Saturday
night. This is fact II is not fact be-
cause the supreme court is partial to Nc
Lean county murderers. 1t is not fact
because the criminal laws of Illinois are 50
defective that murder cannot be punished
under them. Murder is often punished
under these laws in other counties It's
not fact because no murder that could be
proved has ever been committed in Nc
Lean county. There have been not few
cases ofmurder most foul in this county.
If then, neither the supreme court or the
laws are to blame, why cannot murder be
punished in Mclean county, The only
answer is, because either the people sympa
thise with and protect the murderers, or
else our administration of criminal justice
is faulty. We please to believe that the
people are not to blame, and we are there
fore compelled to come to the conclusion
that the criminal laws are not enforced in
Mclean county because of the fact that the
officers of the law are either incompetent,
neglected. of duty or corrupt
CARD OF THANKS.