The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-30


bers of that party who had been up
right wise. and bold enough to refuse
to follow Mr.. Chamberlain into his
plan of taxing food, or to follow Mr..
Balfour into his plan of secretly aid
ing and abetting Mr.. Chamberlain
The effort to bring Great Britain
back to a high protection tarlft sys-
tenn will fail. 1t is some Sixty years
since that country passed from under
the vicious dishonest, oppressive Sys-
tenn, and practically adopted free
trade, save upon perhaps a dozen ar
ticles 1t is to be hoped that the Lib
erals can be returned to power pc
fore very long. The people over there
ought to take warning at the eHpef-
fences of the American people under
the most villaniOus, outrageous ROPER
system that mems greed and depfaV-
ity ever devised. Take two examples
| know a North Carolin1an, gentle-
man of high and commanding record
and standing, who paid sou IN New
ork to hat manufacturer for me-
soft wool hat that turned out to De
quite half cotton, and who had maie
in London a fine, elegant pure WOOL
hat of the precise shape, for $3.50 or
so cents less than one-half The VIII
mington and Weldon Railroad if 1T
needed 100 tons of steel rails would
have to pay $500 a ton more than an
English railroad would have to pay
American manufacturers for the same
quality at the same time.
l had not read Hon Carl Schurzc
very able, judicious, admirable letter
on the very important issues in the
present campaign, when | referred so
admiringly and justly to the Capital
speech of Hon. John Sharpe Williams.
Mr.. SchurZs discussion as | have sta
ted above is excellent and most impor-
tant His letter is dignified, courteous,
acute. and incisive. 1t is an admirable
and important campaign contribution,
and must do good in the North. Mr..
SchurZ has been in the Cabinet ana
United States Senate, and he is not
only the abieSt German who has eve"
become citizen of our country, but
is really one of the ableSt pubic men
of his party since the war. read
a partial | have seen-of the very
remarkable speech of r. S. Senator
elect Rayner of Maryland on the
campaign issues. He is a great man,
and he will have no superior IN the
Senate when he takes his seat. uni esH
[ must except the venerable senator
Morgan, of Alabama. | do not recall
any thing better of its kind than the
three-fourths column I saw of his
lence and interest, and is worthy OF
any statesman. 1t is wonderfully
pungent, vigorous, truthful, lucid and
distinctive If all the speech is as ex-
cellent as that portion l read, 1t is ont
of the masterpieces or our country IL
you see it. be sure TO read It,
While Northern writer's give the
South 'particular fits" over lynchings
and Iawless militia, they are also d.
recting attention over the increase OF
crime in this country, and especially
in New York city, in Chicago and In
Mississippi and it is not to be Won
dered at. In Mississippi crime IS SIM SIM
plv horrible In eight months ending
3Oth of August, 1904 there are known
to have been 500 murders chiefly
among the lower classes and negroes.
It is attributed to the higher wages or
the negroes who spend their money IN
gambling and drunk enness. In one
month New York city had reported
"a murders, 6S robberies, 81 felonious
assaults and 253 burglaries. That IS
an awful record. In Chicago hold-ups
and robberies are almost innumerabic.
The Chicago Record-Herald seems yt'
think that the signs are that "a great
and rapid change is passing over TINS
country" and that respect for law
and order is leaving US" 1t thinks
human lie Is SAFER III IldlS IMAM ~
Mississippi. A daily record of crime
and railroad disasters fill the papers,
In New York the complaint is 100 few
police and 400 additional are called
for. There are 4,500 now in the boT-
oughs of Manhattan, Bronx and RlcA-
mond. The New York World holes
that slow trials are the main cause OF
general increase of crime. In England
there is no appeal in criminal ca 5os.
ION the other hand, the prosecution
If criminals in the United STAGES Is
fast degenerating into a CHASTITY farce.
The murderer whose means permlt
MIN to retain shreWd counsel is almost
certain to escape punishment. Trials
extend over weeks and often over
months verdict of guilty gives no
that the criminal will pay the penalty.
Appeals are multiplied" The Chicago
Record Herald calls out hastily Tor
alertness, Vigor and discipline in the
police" The World says a great many
crimes cause no arrests to be made.
And so we are drifting into chaos ana
saVagery. There were 287 hOmlcldeS
committed in North Carolina in 1908
more probably than occurred III the
past forty years preceding the great
war. Bad criminal laws, defective
methods, leniency of judges are per-
naps the main elements Of destruction
against life and society, and for me
protection of crime and criminals. III
not that what causes the brutality and
reign of savagery and crime?
THEODORE BRYANT KINGSBURG.
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