The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03

predCnCQ a really dDle SER
mon, and that may be affirmed with
cut eXaggeration. 1t was on the1st
chapter, 4th verse of Galatians, and
was all aglow with clarity of argu
ment, power of defamation, distin-
guished force of expression, sweeping
interest of thought, grand outbursts of
rhetorical flights, and the glory of an
inspired message. He was indeed
wonderfully impressive and in prop
err sense eloquent at times. He
preached the old, old Truth of God,
new lights with new fads and theories
and PHILOSOPHERS, but that he was d
servant of God, preacher of right
eouSneSS, a worker for salvation
among men, a shepherd of Jehovah's
flock a messenger from Heaven. He
was no stranger at Fifth Street
Church, having been it's pastor for
three years. He was greeted with q
large congregation, and scores of in
hand-shakes after the services ended
1t would be an enlightening investi
cation if one had access to statistics
in all countries in regard to the crime
of murder. Two points would have
to be inquired into: First, what effect
education has had upon criminality,
and, second, what has been the effect
of abolishing hangings for murder,
and electrocution also. Has capital
punishment diminished murder, or has
it's repeal or abolition increased muir
der. Crime in the United States has
steadily increased. In the States but
rarely if ever, hanging for murder has
there not been increased. There is
but little doubt that including the
United States the number of murders
in 1894, was more than 10000, per
baps $4,000. At any rate from 1881
to 1883, the average number was
5000 exclusive of our own country.
A writer in the Judicial Review for
April, 1891, had this:
From 1881 to 1887 the average an
nuaI number of murders in the prin-
cipal states of Europe (Russia ex-
cepted) was 9,20S. thus distributed:
Austria, $50; Hungary, 1921: Spain,
1854; Italy, 3,606; Germany, 557;
France. SAT; Belgium, 1872; Holland,
IS; England, 31S; Scotland, 60; Ire
land 129. If he add Sweden, Den
mark, Norway, Portugal, Roumania,
Servia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia.
Greece, we shall certainly reach the
cipher of about $4,000"
He states a startling fact, that in
the European countries with the in
crease of education there was an in
'in very threatening manner" Great
Britain was an exception. There has
been a large diminutiOn of crimes of
an atrociouS sort in that country, and
the writer quoted from thinks THIS
may be aScribed with some probability
to the wholesale execution of Vaga-
bonds in the days of Henry VIII. ana
his successors-74,000 having been
hanged in the reign of that monarch
for tn ~ n s.
portation of English criminals to Aus
trala and America, thus removing
them to conditions of life more adapt
ed to their natures. Since the PERIOD
when puniShments were mitlgated in
Europe, crime has increased largely i'm
the coutries where such mitigation of
punishment has occurred.
Everywhere he says, "where the
death penalty has been altogether or
almost abolished. murder has increas-
ed in an extraordinary degree. In
Belgium murders increased in
frightful manner, whenever the
knowledge of the abolition of the scat
fold spread among the masses. From
1865 to 1880, murders increased from
81 to 100. In Prussia, where for many
years there had been no executions,
murders increased from 242 in 1854 to
SIS in 1880.
Many years agoI bought Appleton's
"Encyclopae dia of American Biogra-
ply" l found it SO partial, so sectional,
in comparison, that | reviewed it
sharply and with hearty rejection
New England New York. Pennsyl-
vania and other parts of the North
came in for full representation in it's
pages-little Massachusetts,. for in
stance, with 2,6S6 sketches of its peo-
pie, while great Texas had white
man only, Arkansas 3, Florida IL,
Missississippi 26, and so on. Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, was SO I'M
pressed with the vast greatness of his
own State, with little Connecticut with
1896 representatives in the work, that
he wrote for the n. Y. Century pa
per some years ago, in which he show
ed how ability was distributed,
in this country. He takes Appleton
seriously and as correctly representing
the actual ability of the States and
sections. He gave the distribution
of ability by States, and said that
the table relied upon showed that the
production of ability has been remark
ably concentrated, and has been con-
fined, on the whole, to comparatively
few States. A few comparisons Will
prove this. Two States, Massachusetts
and New York, have furnished more
than third of the ability of the en-
tire country. Three, Massachusetts,
New York and Pennsylvania, have
supplied almost exactly one-half; and
five, Massachusetts,, New York, Penn
have produced two-thirds of the total
amount" A more one-sided prJudi-
ced view could not be taken Ii you
would take the actual average of the
ability of the 1855 men OF
Massa chusetts and apply 1T to
the ableSt North CaroIlhiailS
of the past. instead of 500, the
number given, it would probably be
900 or more, possibly even 1000.
What a great folk grew in given
section, they being allowed to do the
Dragging. l saw book elo-
uuently advertised some time
ago, of Northern manufacture and OF
large proportions. Among the selected
orators the South had less than
three. Nobody but people of New
England variety and prejudice ever
thought the South barren in oratory.
So long as it is given to the North
to compile books and publish CYCLIC
pedias and write histories 1T will be
the specially endowed and only glorl-
Gus part of this country. All the
brains are gathered up there, and
| the cry is all the year round, How