The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-30


 ness being little girl. Apolonia starosta,
 who first gave direct, straightforward
 eyewitness testimony, apparently estab- fishing beyond question the guilt of the
 men and then repudiated her own evil dence.
 The explanation of the remarkable change of front the child declared that she had been instructed how to testify by the widow of the murdered man. Charges against the prisoners were withdrawn on the spot by the states attorney and the five men walked out of the dock free, by order of the court
 V ~------------~~~ question of the truth of the proposition that crime is more prevalent in the city than in the country.
 Many Reasons for 1t.
 There are many reasons for this. One Is the city is the abiding place. the habi- tat of the criminal. The opportunities of escape and the means of concealment are greater. William M. Tweed sat in room in Brooklyn and looked out of his window at the great city of New York for months while the police and detective force were yainly seeking to find and arr rest him. Again, criminals follow the paths of business You never think of looking for a wholesale drygoods store far out on the prairie. The merchant To- cates in the city where he Is the most accessible, and the larger the city the bet ter.
 Now, vice and crime are business, and they go where property Is and the null titudes are There also they find their friends and sympathizers. In such local ities and amid such surroundings their business fiourishes. It is lonesome and l tx ota o1 n Detection Is easy, pursuit Is quick, and friends are wanting. But larceny in the city is not half so dangerous, assistance Is near and the rewards are greater. One thing especially provokes crimes and that | Is the mob. Let a strike be announced | and body of employees attempt by force | to coerce their employers and how quick | ly a mob gathers. The criminal crowds | to the front to profit by 1t and plunder or | do violence in the excitement. l do not | turn aside from my thought to discuss | the reciprocal rights of employers and | employees There are some things too | plain for argument.
 l That in the absence of a contract bind | ing to the contrary there is legal right on the part of employees, singly or In a | body to quit work. that in case they quit
 there Is an equal right on the part of em- poyers to seek other employees, and that l there Is the same right of other employees | to take such employment when offered are propositions too plian for argument with those who have any conception of | the meaning of the Declaration Of lnde- pondence or believe that each man has an l inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness Force and violence | to prevent the exercise of these undues-
 toned rights are criminal A mob is it.
 self criminal. a mob appears in city.
 All Hasten to the City.
 "A kindred fact Is that the crank and l the fanatic hasten to the city to find
 the material upon which they can most easily work. Barnum, the snowman, ! divided the world into two classes, the humbuggers and the humbugged, and certainly the representatives of those two | classes are more abundant in the city 1 than elsewhere. Every visionary delud-
 ed with an idea-and he always calls it | new idea-which he fancies may revo- l lutionize the world rushes to the place where he finds the multitude to whom he
 makes known his revelation. There also
 are the constantl increasing crowds who
 seek city life under the hope of acquir- l ing newspaper notorety. position in life, | or riches They are the gullible ones,
 members of Barnums humbugged branch | of the human family. Chicago, in re- | spect to both classes. has been conspicu- | ous. Here were the Free Love cranks who would destroy marriage and the | home. and here came the leader of the modern Zion
 | No crank stays in village or in the
 country to advertise his vagaries, but each goes where he can the more easily reach the many. The ancient Elijah went | out into the solitudes of the brook. Cherith, and was there fed by winged couriers of the air, but the modern Elijah seeks the great city, there to- be supported by bipeds clothed in pantaloons
 and skirts and having every attribute of men and women save common sense. Every swindling corporation, every get rich-quick concern makes it's headquarters in the city. What do they who are en- gagged in such schemes, whether as crank fanatic, or swindler, care about the re- quirements of the law? And how indif-
 ferent are the ones gullible enough to be
 caught by such schemes to the regula-
 tion which experience has shown are nec-
 essary to protest the unwary against the
 wiles of the undestigning?
 Fighting Same Battle. You still have many valiantly fighting the same great battle and where is there a grander place for such struggle? This is the queenly city in that continental valley which is the final seat of empire
 Internal and external commerce find here their princely seat. Education art religion, are lofty and inspiring forces working through the crowded streets and amid the countless thousands of this in- land metropolis. From every race and cline have poured thousands into your midst and today Chicago is the world in miniature. The mightiest forces for good as well as the mighty forces for evil are working in this city. Who is there with the high ambition to be and to do for hu- manity but will find in the long strug- gle going on in this city place and op- portunity for his best and most perma- nent efforts?
 Waste no time or strength over trivial differences concerning modes and meth ods. Inllst under the single banner of civic purity. righteousness and obedience to law. Enlist not for one campaign only but for the war. Just so soon as that fact is known and all come to under stand that your single and resolute pur- pose is the maintenance of peace obed- fence to law that that purpose Is some thing not taken up today to be laid down tomorrow but the fixed abiding purpose of your lives. you may be sure that dis orderly clements will yield to that pur- pose and you will not merely lift your chosen city to a high position in busi- ness and wealth, in education, science art and religion. but will also make it one where peace and order prevail, where vice hidesits head. where justice rules and the universal voice of the law hears no resisting reply. Then and not until
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