The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-14

| WORST or all American clues, Out not so
corruptly governed as Philadelphia. Rob,
! berry and lawlessness are aggressive and
terrible, and lie and property are in
| peril. Is this eAtravagant? Look at
the statistics OF crime, and the mass
meetings oil the people that have been
held urging tor better police protection
The press denounces the city administra-
( ton, and people stand aghast. In one
mOnth-irom September 18th to October
! 2Ith-there were 394 burglaries and hold
ups and but 8S arrests. An account
! states:
| There are now more than LOCO cases
| awaiting trial with only four trial Judges
in the criminal court to dispose OF them.
| During the four days Of December go
inclusive fully 20 persons were held up
| and robbed, and in one instance a lawyer
| was shot while running away from his
| assailants. He died the next day In
the majority of cases the bandits have
| been young men, but In one case two
young girls initiated the highwaymen by
robbIng two young women in the street.
Saloons have been held up" and Pa
irons robbed. Other places of business
have been visited and proprietors and
patrons forced at the muzzle of re-
volVer to deliver up their money One
attempt was made TO hold up street
car, and two men were beaten into un-
consciousness and then robbed"
While murder, burglary and other
crimes are rampant in the North, crimes
raga in the South. In South Carolina
last year over 220 homicides occurred, it
has been stated Say what you viii the
Williams do not stand in awe Of the courts
now, and the fact OF a possible pardon
adds to their deviltry and readiness to
destroy. The bad men--devils incarnate
walk about like SO many small arsenals,
while the law looks after peaceable, en-
dangered citizens lest they should carry
pistol to protect purse and life. It has
been stated that in 1901, in North Caro-
lima, once so staid conservative and law
abiding, there were go hOmicides, while
IN the great city of London there were
less than 90 North Carolina has 1,900,-
eco inhabitants and London about 4.800,-
000-or about 100000 more than double
the population OF this State. Compare the
two reports, and stand aghast. Crime is
rampant in a State that prior\to the war
had an excellent record, good criminal
laws, faithful courts, heightened lawyers
and a love of justice, when human life
was not cheap and homes were safe.
The late German historian is regarded
by some critics as the most learned man
that lived in the nineteenth century. He
was estimated as an historian Of the first
ronk, but there are some to dispute this
claim. The New York "Boolkman" says
of him:
at is by his History of Rome that he
has always been most widely known ~
cultivated men who are not specialists.
This brilliant, suggestive, provocative
book shows the union of vast learning
with the graces of the popular writer.
1t is a supreme demonstration of the fact
that the most profound erudition is Who'll
ly compatible with clearness, lucidity and
charm OF presentation
The New York Review of Reviews.
discussing him, says he was ''the prince
of modern historians" The able British
Contemporary Review has a long pa
per on him by Mr.. Sidney Whitman. He
was OF medium height, of slight figure,
he says, with a clean-shaven face, full Of
wrinkles, and with dark eyes 'illuminat-
ingly expressive" l make an extract,
only from his view. He writes:
acknowledging in the highest degree
the mastery of an unequaled historian,
speaking publicly of him, l should be
obliged to limit in a certain way my adj
miration of his work. He has taught us
to combine Oriental with Occidental lore;
he has infused in history the essence of
large doctrine and of theology; his