The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-12

Those WIZ lin interest the changing
Il ard --.-. This now colossal power.
81 ..r.'.. -.,tss. probably Fastening
. ,ra l'.s'. ..ssted Empire, must have
-r o t ,.l Nth the steady growth
d been .at the intensified character
GRIM" - sroundrelism, and viii
#.E on the lines Of
r.. fraud. oppression, and a
.-~a!fa Of crime and false
gea. -..n truth is that so law
s... rarkIess this ountrv has
= If is away and beyond all
ger III the world today, where
E-.- .t. g~retense OF civilization
tr.'. f. is very sadly true be 1T
all. in this year of 1907. with
-a.t, resident. and the robber
n h'.- ...r 1arty on top, crime is
d Hel-' and the United States not
ra" -# mead OF all the great so
H.. .#tzed nations in actual law
1.. and crime, but have no rivals.
EE. Garner of the University
-...-. is Of the Political Science
-.--.sal. He has been studying
-aal. The social ana criminal rec
,r~ls Of the different nauoIs \ ms
aHsaet repoft Is ehuolStd - lne
t~er.cal Acauenly folillcdl
lr-tgaa ne IlSuieo ~ y nay
~ tr.s.. l on,9n,
-aI.rg - &C. 9 nch,dad IN 1eSE
tr ur 10 ,,ivas aIco 4ba exac,,-
M Az b Ito oo,r+e dnrdnr tho n +,
Tons ' - y n,os+ sbanafnl 1T
period ~ > so +bara 80 eno
sh ISL 80 bon3icidns !, tha rnito5
mlra'. III but los nersone suffering
STA In 1904. the
f.t.tl~- and homicides had reached
mum -,rore number Of 8 40 With
the en-. evacItions h bloodv
p-- .af increased more than four
.'g5- -.,ra the were but
.'. The Increase was 400 per
There were 80 homicides to
each 100000 of population in 1885,
and tn 1904. it had grown to 1O4.
mink al that. Now the shameful
contrast must be given-to show how
IL was beyond seas. You VIII near
ignorance saying ina the reason We
have so much crime now * the
large Increase or forelsn population on
these shores. But read 1afther, ana
behold the absurdlty n the lie. |
avail myself Of a or Prof.
Gamers report thai appeared lately
in the Richmond (Na.) Iimes-D1s-
patch. 1t says:
as against nearly 5000 homicides
:r tb, united States in 1909. only 321
reror+ad in the German Empire.
49, ,n~oximatalv 80 600 600 inbab-
+'ut onlv 222 in England and Wales.
France, with a population Of $4,000
000. and 81 in the Dominion OF can
ada. with n population of 100000
with 112 homicides 70 each million
Of the population in the United states
IN 1903. England and Wales had less
Than 10 GqO2), France Is 1-2 GS99),
tra German Empire less than 5
iS9g), and Canada about u G903).
Tn the city of Chicago in 1906 1877
homicfdes were reported. as against
~ in London with a population three
times as great % in Paris and IA in
Pa~Tfr inciudine attemnted
Nv, innression &c that IN 1907 the
,nrdars and borpic;das in +bie co,1n-
++ In excaad - o0o =, 1904 tha
,1rhar reached oe0O. in 1eo5 10
-S1. - 1ooc 10 ero oa a.
'Vo' III Ao'o' i0'ooL- : edu9 I'M
E@'aeetS' i6noIdlce' hell luIheu looae,
LLsIt - nolnlhg . true progress anu
ImlSLIanlls III II al IT Is llIns tue
WIN e,Icb . record as thaf given md
-. -oLn-aLofa 80 5ofaIoeoa aaa
nv a4ru ElaS 80 CIV
l@.asILes peiPetIateu py alu dilu coi-
SI''l IEe Wlcheu laws 81 lne couIi'iS'
Ue People Snould Hulk lieii iieduS ~
s.aIt anu unslhayi ne troEern1nem.
W. HI9 oouuCiS vii pul Ieh.ulS
", d qCaiteI o. eAlStSngG WIN auttt
.-o--Il9n9 eAE9tlH5, 'Ioupo $500 -
4'''"u I" cINlll@' 'loH u le"Hei'hIP'
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I do not know that Mark Twain
iSdmuPl Glen enSA considers himself
as Of Southern birth. but suspect ne
regards himself as of Yankee to the
central bone. He lives in Connecticut,
and has but little of the South in his
make-up. suppose he is like George
Cable. His parents were New Eng
landers who settled in Missouri, at a
he ft.'1 Vas b bopn in ii the year. earl 1857 a5,o 50 he is
now seventy-two wears of age. In his
jocose way he refers to his birth in
this wise as a recent sAutobiography:
"Tba ,,il1ooa contained q buparad
naoSia and I iporea sad The nonniation
bv Gnn reT cont tt is noore tban tbe
best MN in bictorv eyar dtd for anv
o+ber t0v-n II 49, not he oo6oe+
in me TO refer 70 This hn+ II Is trna
There is no record of q person doing
as D71cb not o,1or Cbo Lasnoara Pnt
7id - Gov r11orfda 100
L IeaQ Iour OF ms BOOKS years ago;
iaro 49, - mGit Wy ai4uSehs' ahu
go tin4 ID" Hts $500 "Irttliepo o. a Ger
49, - $50 nrI pooh ma l
M" v its W o. r"tlu1e, paruGu-
iGI ~ l. It's COtlSIl uCIIOIl anu ilGlDOO. |