The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-09-29
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
CRIME INCREASING IN THE
UNITED STATES.

matter, but as to why tits increasing
ought to occupy the mind OF every
citizen with the aim of changing the
tide at least.
!. This Country has been held up for
considerable criticism because of this
gross onslaughtof crime that's going
on and especially when the guilty are
not brought to justice.
Andrew D. White, who headed the
American Delegation to the Hague
Conference and who also created
Cornell University and has acted in
many other National affairs gives
some vital statistics on this subject.
In 1901 there were III crimes ann
ually to every million people. Ia
Canada which is only an imaginary
line so far as the possibility OF actions
are concerned there are but seven
crimes to the million people.
Ten years ago one in every seventy
four sesreceived punishment while
today one in eighty four receive it.
Is there any wonder why crime is
in the Country?
1t has been reported that the reas-
on why the Canadians voted against
men in the dominion who favored
reciprocity with the States was the
fear "or bug-a-boo," that had been
raised about annexation and one Of
the chief objections to that was that
our laws are so loosely if at all en-
forced and crime so fragrant.
1t is alarming when the figures are
shown US.
One of the next great movements
in this Country should be the Rigid
enforcement Of law" all the way
from Preciuct Justice to the Supreme
Court of the UniteA States. The
wrong kind of mercy has been ex-
tended until Jurors and Attorneys,
in most cases, have been pleaders of
mercy blenders of law rather than
judges and prosecutors of the law.
And we cannot blame the Officers
much more than the average citizen
for they come from the rank and file
of our present civilization.
No law is any stronger than the
sentiment of the, people whose duty
1t becomes to enforce it, and right
here it may be said thatdhe coming
generation will be no more careful
in keeping the laws, regardless of
their education, than the parents
and teachers who by precept and ex-
ample teach them either the respect
or disrespectN
We often wonder why it is that
with the excellent training given to
children, they grow up with no due
regard for law, but did it ever occur
to you that one word against an
Officer when in discharge Of his duty,
though the latter may not hear it,
implants the seeds of disobedience
which later ripens into the act by the
son, than canNbuiIt up in decade.
We need go no further than our
own Village for plain examples. vet
they are SO close we blur our vision,
| fear.
At present the side walk improve
ments require that people stay off
them while in repair. The schools
have been notified but the boys ind
girls say the big folks walk an them.
and why cant we kids. Temporary
distractions are put on the walks
without permission or even placing a
light at night; trees are taken down.
some are planted which latter is a
good thing, but permission should be
obtained, also their planting NAV
conflict with proposed lines of the
City, etc water is run across streets.
trenches dug, tie posts erected which
are all out of place unless done under
proper order. The streets whom on
ened to the public belong to the CITY
or County and do not belong to the
individual so why should he 90 on
pr perty not his own.
These things are done repeatedly
yet we wonder why the boy te=sa
likewise when we have told ftAe+,
differently. \