Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-03
ENGLISH JUSTICE LAUDED.
II. Clay Evons Thinks Human Life
Cheaper in United States.

Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee VINO
has just rclinquished the post of American
consul general at London. at the end ct
three years service. was recent arl'i'.I
in New York on the steamer ST Paul.
Il was just quitting London VIXEN good
Dyes We're being said to Mr.. Choate. tho re-
firing ambassador. who has more than
maintained the high standard of the past
in the embassy of the United States at the
court of St. James he said Prepare
items were also in progress for the reccp-
ton to be given for Mr.. Reid by the Pill
grims' Society. and. an evidence of his
popularity and the warmth of welcome thai
awaits him. the list of subscribers TO the
affair within forty-eight hours was OF IN
pre- cedented proportions Mr. Evans con
tl.ued:
The most permanent impression that 1
brought home with me from the English
metropolis was the prompt and effective
administration of law under The English
system, and The respect il comma nds
while everywhere crime is SO reduced 10
he minimum and order preserved. II
brings into relief the shortcomings in our
OVID country. where our education and
practice of the law is along The line of
iechncalty. The keynote of English adj
ministration is justice, though technical
evasion must be thrust aside.
The public service Is free from graft.
The London policeman is not clustering
fellow but he goes quietly about his du-
ties, and when he raises his finger in
crowded London thoroughfare the traffic is
controlled. The London bobby is only
moderately paid, but even that is not a
plea he could successfully urge in his de
Tense if he We're found TO be helping out
his income by accepting brides for blind
ness TO infractions of the law
The man who is appointed to place on
the force. after civil service examination.
upon his assumed fitness. must serve
sX-months' probationary period. AT ld
shillingS a week as his pay. and during that
rt.,f.rR srt, CT,
cnce of drill and work and work and drill.
He then becomes a full member Of the
force at - shillings a week. with chance
for advancement TO the maximum az -
shillings. He may have temptations o 40
a little grating, but if he yields, and II is
ever found out. he has ended his career as
a public servant; and, as far as his chances
for reinsta tement are concerned. D" nlSht
as well pack mis- trunk for Australia or
jump into the Thames. He is out and os-
traciZed
The judges of English courts are less
numerous than in this country. equal pop,
ulafion of the constituency considered, AM
they are much better paid-from G3Ho 10
e1,J09 year. There are fewer OF them
be cause there is more prompt admi1!lstTd-
ton of law in the punishment of crime,
and as the treatment of convicted criminals
Is more drastic. there are fewer criminals
Crime in London, the famed East Emu
including the Whitechapel district, notw1th-
standing is at the minimum. The NUMBER
oil murders committed in metropolitan Lon
don-which, after the fashion OF greater
New York in its encompassing quality, en-
braces seven million popula tion-was ohly
twenty-one in the twelve months or l:pl.
The number in 1902 was twenty. and IN
1888 only seventeen. And an equal NUMBER
of murderers promptly convicted ana
as promptly hanged. The coniristed cheap
ness of human life is notable IN the lact
that during the months of Novembe- ana
December of last year there were eighteen
murders committed in Scranton, Pa, ana
it is my information that thus far no eX--
cutions have resulted as a retribution.