Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-09
RECORDS OF rpn' THE DIFFERENT KINDS ru.
 isH IN SEVERAL sra4.I 4 N

the Influx of Foreigners-..s sS''s
 She Records, Ohio Seems .o ''i' Y.
 Michigan and Florida the wo,.. 7. '''A
 Nine out of every ten m.n,, which part of the count. - U asia most wickedness yonld Sa Atlantic seaboard. Their ansse a would be based on the facs as'aas s \ large cities and particular1-TV -V, \, lla are situated there and aima.e.V NeV body thinks New York city ,'ss is ts. 2 edest place in the United 's S.l lae '
 The records of crime do l nos s'sIla [, this assumption and a eonn,s nv' eel' the police records of EastarD ,pansI ali < ern cities is quite fayorabblaa b aua York, Philadelphia, Boston Y'e 7. the hastern cities. VI ~
 The population must. af o... taken into consideration when ega.s parison of States is made. sa ius, when their relative illiterrasors sss' {, the subject of statistjeian:, Thus considered, the Rmni,a compares most favorably p's r1,. other State in the Union ms a"s judged, also, the two worst s,as S Michigan and Florida mss a crime list is swelled, it Is said I influx of lumbermen to tha nu., of the State, while certain tS n.y. Florida being almost in their nj. rs state may account for its condss d !
 The average of certain manm. ing States is lowered by fbs sl there of foreign workmen wb. Sz their crimes with them Ns,. setts and Connecticut would ss'' E reputation of having the best nss the country were it not for tbs E guese and other foreign laho,ssK tract q to Fall River and sE places where there are biz msE manufaetories of various kinds E of the most dreadful crimes in Sk nals of the law have been pquaE in those extremely law abiding S That is why they do not raDg E high among the virtuous.
 The same is true of New Ym k or rather of New York State le of the city. It's crime" record digiously swelled by the rapid b the Italian, and the imported d t. of other nationalities. E
 The records show that the Yeu people in the United States sr men and women of Ohio. OutdE hundred thousand inhabitants Of only 54 commit serious crimes a year. And when the police best" they practically mean honest. If you take any hl crimes committed in this vast try, you will find that 90 of tia thefts, burglaries or robbeFies
 The second, third, fourth ali E best States, that is, most
 States, are those lying adjaaE Ohio, like Indiana, PennsylyaHa ouri and Kentucky. Those q uous ip the other direction aa of the Western States, partf California, and some of the S States, including two of the States.
 Some people will tell you that enness is the cause of all otha But the criminal annals sh0F there is no truth in this Statems the Eastern States twice as mE dictable serious offenses are com as in the Western States. B Western man becomes intol three times to the Eastern man
 Assaults and other crimes otF also seem to have small relation honesty and very little eonnectif drink. The most violent Of all people of Tennessee, but i'll
 honesty they are third best sl regard to drink they occupy sIa among the States. a
 It is safe to say that alnoa one has somehow formed the sion that the inhabitants Carolina are a shiftless as Fa wicked set of people. This is one of those general lmple which will not stand inyests is a slur on the State when
 nished excellent citizens and
 magnificent scenery. AS q l stern fact North Carolina ial ter than fourth in the pyraaaIa tue formed by the various sa the cause of it's crimes, lill'ela them down to a somewhat u