Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-04-23
RECORDS OF CRIME.
THE DIFFERENT KINDS THAT FLOUR
18Th IN SEVERAL STATES.

The Average of Some Sections Lowered by
the Influx of Foreigners-According to
the Records, Ohio Seems to be the Best
Michigan and Florida the Worst.
Nine out of every ten men if asked IN
which part of the country was the
st wickedness would answer the
=.antic seaboard Their assumption
would be based en- the fact that the
large cities and particularly New YORK
are situated there and almost every
body thinks New York city is the WICK
eldest place in the United States.
The records of crime do not bear out
this assumption and a comparison OF
the police records of Eastern and West
ern cities is quite favorable to New
DIRK. Philadelphia, Boston or any OF
the Eastern cities.
The population must. of course, be
taken into consideration when COM
palison of States is made, just as it is
when their relative illiteracy is made
tie subject Of statisticians' reports
Thus considered, the Empire State
compares most faForably with any
ether State in the Union. And thus
judged, also, the TWO worst States are
Michigan and Florida. Michigan
crime list is swelled, it is said, by the
influx of lumbermen to the upper half
of the State, while certain parts Of
Florida being almost in their primitive
state may account for its condition.
The average Of certain manufacture
iag States is lowered by the influx
there of foreign workmen who bring
their crimes with them. Massachu-
sets and Connecticut would have the
reputation of having the best people in
the country were it not for the P0rtu.
guese and other foreign labofefS at
tracted 10 Fall River and similar
places where there are big mills or
manufactures of various kinds. Some
of the most dreadful crimes in tie an
nails Of the law have been peFpetrated
in those extremely law abiding States.
That is why theg- do not rank very
hiah among the FiFtuous.
The same is true Of New York city
or rather of New York State, because
Of the city It's crime record is pro-
di@iously swelled by the rapid knife of
the Italian. and the imported citizens
Of other nationalities.
The records show that the very best
people Ia the United States are the
men and women of Ohio. Gut of every
hundred thousand Inhabitants Of Ohio,
only "A commit serious crimes during
year. And when the police report
best they practically mean most
honest. If you take any hundred
crimes committed in this vast coHn=
Try, you Will find that 50 of them are
thefts. burglaries CT r0bberies.
The second. third, fourth and fifth
! best States, that is, most honest,
States. are those lying adjacent to
Ohio. like Indiana, Pennsylvania. Miss
oHri and Kentucky. These conspic
uoUs liz tie other direction are some
Of the Western States, particularly
/ California, and some of the Southern
States, including TWO of the Gulf
States.
Some people will tell You that drunk
enness IS the cause Of all other crime.
But the criminal annals show that
/ there is 70 truth in tAis statement. IN
tie Eastern States twice as many in
dictable serious ofenses are committed
as il the Western States. But the
Western man becomes intoxicated
three times to the Eastern man once
Assaults and other crimes Of violence
+ tt4sJ SGGiiI ~ nd t. S44dH fetallBH 10 us
i honesty and very little connection with
drink. Inc most violent of all are the
people of Tennessee. but in point of
honesty they are third best; and with
regard 10 drink they occupy sixth place
among the States.
1t is safe 70 say that almost every
enc has somehow formed the impress
sion that the Inhabitants of North
Carolina are a skiftless as well as a
wicked set of people This, however.
is one of those general Impressions
which will not stand investigation; it
is slur on the State which has fur
nished excellent citizens and supplies
magnificent scenery. IS a matter of
stern fact North Carolina ranks bet
ter than fourth in the pyramid of vir-
tue formed by the various States. and
the cause of its crimes, illiteracy, keeps
them down to a somewhat innocuous
Or petty grade.
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