The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-09
INCREASE OF CRIME.
0minous Facts Brought Out In
a Sermon By Mr.. Dunlap.
LAX ENFORCEMENT or LAW.


o sermon IN the First Christian church on
ssDefanlsers ard scapegoats. ia which he
dealt in a forcible manner with the in
crease OF crime and its causes, among
which he gave leading place 20 the lax
enforcement Of Law. His tsxt was the
parable Of the unjust steward. from Lake
xvi .l-f3. and his sermon vas as follows:
ssThe reading Of this teri has always
stirred within ms . feeling of revaiston
tor defauItsrs, aud made me keeniy alive
20 the fact that every defauIter from the
beginning has sought some scapegoat TO
hear his sins away. i use the terms in
their broader sense. for everyone who be-
trays trust II q defaulter. IL 10 another
name for sin, and all TO some extent find
themselves defauIters, and il 10 question
able " no calls the louder for the scape-
goat. the great or the small defauiter.
Neither cry much till they are caught.
THE city Is the plaee where CRIMINALS
find their homes. The FIRST murderer.
Moses tells rs. went to the land OF Nod,
took him q wife and built q city. The rule
has held that the corruption OF the ma
tons has ned 10 the cities, and there in
tensihed its viIeness. Ancient Hebrew
history tells as Of two cities in
the richest valley OF the promised
land, eenlers Of wealth and fashion
and passion. till they became so
tal Oh VICE inst GD1 Hfut an
angel TO deliver the only righteous family,
and visited npon those cities storm OF
FIRE and birthstone that consumed them,
and their foundation sank far below the
level Of the Mediterranean. Following
upon them came the cities of Egyut and
Babylon, Greece and Assyria. OF Palestine
and italy. that In their turn rose to
mighty eminence. and through the cor
rupsion that flowed into them persisted,
and have lain buried under the ashes OF
a volcano. the debris of their own walls.
the sod Of Arab dominion ard the guard
of Mussuiinen till the centuries have sped
away and the spirit of search in the
Anglo-Saxon family Of the nineteenth
century has dug through the ruins and
opened their Libraries and reread their his
tory. The story of each Is repetition
substantially of the other, and all are full
Of prophecy of the destiny OF every great
center OF population. commerce. political
and social corruption, vice aud crime.
Under an Anglo Saxon sky sits the
city on the isles. so great in the extent of
her limits. 50 mighty in her armies. so
rich in her treasures Of gold. so great in
her schools OF learning so vast in the
reach OF her dominion: but within her
fog-bedimmed portals and near to her
heart stand and cry her poor and debased
and sin cursed, asking help they do not
receive and breeding discomfort that
threatens TO shake to its fall the throne
upon which sits glorious queen today.
I'm this broad-landed nation, with the
bosom of her plains turned TO every sun.
with her hills filled with the treasures of
every precious stone, with her waterways
flowing into every sea, with soil prodnc-
ing every grain and fruit, with 65. 600, 900
OF the most enterprising people, with In
situations political, educational, social and
religlous-the very crown OF all history
sees her peril In the restless herd that
finds its way 10 our great centers of COM
meree. and there. forgetfui of all history,
combines 10 redress present wrong by
crushing out the eternal good for which
the heart of universal man yearns and
hves. New York. Pittsburg, Chicago.
Cincinnati, New Orleans. ST. Louis, Dem
YER. San Francisco, Seattle-with their
teeming hundreds of thousands. have
their masses that seethe and hiss. anarchy.
destruction, ruin moral and social. poIili-
ca and religious, and dares the good to
the teeth night and day. Saturday, sun
day, every day and everywhere, and
thTeateaingly menace with curse and
bomb until the lurid glare of such condi-
tons make tile murky moral night a dis
nal scene OF demon home and hiding.
The world Is growing better, says the
optimist The world is growing worse
generation by generation, says the pess,-
mist. Which is righi7 Some of the
figures OF crime seem to favor the gloomy
view of the latter. The London Times
points out that IN Liverpool the number of
persons proceeded against summarily and
bv Indictment has increased from 30 sat In
1850. 10 a2,s19 in is9o. aa increase OF 80 per
cent, while the number of grave offences
such as burglary and housekeeping. has
irebied in the same time. This latter in
crease is, OF course. out OF all proportion TO
The growth OF population In Liverpool.
From all countries, says the Times comes
the complaint. The statisticians of France
Germany and Belgium, even those who
think that on the whole there is a resiuc-
ton In the army Of crime. equally denlore
the blot, which appears 20 spread upon the
face of their civilization These figures
are supported by our own statistics. The
number of Grimm ais Is constantly increas-
Ing and Ia more rapid rate than tho
population.
According to the international record
OF charities aud corrections. in 1850 there
was one criminal to every 8. AS persons.
In ieSo there wasone criminal TO every SlS
persons. That's the criminals increase
about four times IS fast as the population.
In Massachusetts the proportion of GRIM
mails has doubled IN thirty wears In
England in $50 the proportion of Grim.
inals was about fenr times that of the
United States. In 1880 it was only about
What do these facts meant Do thev
mean that our institutions breed criminal.
much faster than those of the old co,1a.
tryI DO they mean that II this hcaxts<l
land az liberty We have too much liberty
and very lax administration OF the
iawsf DO they mean that there is a de-.
cadence Of reliSioa aud morals. and that
while eur missionaries are sent 70 convert
the heataea there are masses of our own
nation retspstns into heathentsmf Do
they mean that our penal method tend 70
make criminals instead OF decrease their
nnmbers9
The murder record q 1891 is the mos,
appalling an our history. Judge Isaac
Parker. of she United States district court,
IN his charEe 10 the grand jury at Fort
smith in February, iSl3, which was renr,,-
aueed IN the Fort smith. Ark, Tsaes. pre-
SCENTS some statistics that are truly start
ltns. The number OF murders known %
have been committed in iss9 he give. as
s,atS 10 isso the number had Increased
30 S.s0 In 1891 the devil seemed 10 fuIlv
Tei IN his work, SAYS the judge. ana The
number OF murders bad increased In = All
hearly double the number committed A.,
lsSas To these figures add the tindlSrov.
cred crimes OF the same kind. which Iud-n
Parker rec&onS ~ half IS many ps.,r, ana
we have IN roana numbers az least : IN
murders committed in the Uaited STATE.
81 1891. the percentage of increase from
yeas 90 year far exceeding the peyoen,a.- -
q increase Ct population.
1T - an appalling record. indeed. hu.
taege Is another startling fact sunplenen-
tary 60 this-thsl Of the T. so murderer.
esestitsd 10 iSsA1. only i01 wefe executed
pursuant to Jaw. while IL were
.saehed. sni 81 the S.9ss murder.
Srs of tsSai. there were executed hes -
while tso we're lynehsa. Ia 10 a strange
commentary uron the administration %