The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-06-13

evil will decapitate you. Harboring
or segregating evil in the center of
the city is Ike driving cancer, lep-
rosy or gangerine from your hands
and feet into your heart. Harbor
it anywhere and twill spread every
where. Let the devil in your kitchen
and he will meet you in the parlor.
Toy with him in the byways and he
will ride with you in the highways
while mourners weep behind Do you
ant the
Scorpion On the Baby's Wrist
to creep up his leeves and bite him
on his bosom? No--you strike the
scorpion clear away from the child
and stamp 1t to the earth. Our new
charter commands this conduct upon
our Mayor and police, To elect
man who would do otherwise would
be to pay him $4,000 per year to vio-
late our charter, lower our ideals,
debauch public morals and promote
perjury and perdition. 1t would be
like boosting Beelzebub for point Of
the old ship Zion.
Less Crime and Lower Taxes.
The loudest cry of our city is for
less crime and lower taxes. 1t comes
from quarters high and low; frcm the
Negroes dreary hovel where his fam
ished wife and children await his re-
turn from prison and from the palace
home where the prodigal son or
daughter has dallied dolefully with
the demons, l will bring witness
whom none will deny. Chief Henry
CuIran in his last annual report to
the Mayor says our holice made
1880 arrests in 1911 and 1905 in
1912; an alarming increase of nearly
20 per cent. in one year. If our
taxes had increased at that rate we
would have had a revolution. Our
constables and deputies, l am sure,
arrested as many as our police in
1912, for it was memorable year fer
crime, as all our court records show.
So there were nearly $4,000 persons
arrested here in 1912; an average Of
about one person to every family.
last year we enrolled about 1900
in our schools and $4,000 in our
courts. From our public high school
of virtue we graduated 151 glorious
girls and boys; and from our public
high and low schools of vice we grad
uated far greater number of felons,
murderers and suicides This is ap-
palling 1t shows a horrid growth
Of crime that needs heroic treat
ment.
On January 4, 1913, the Banner
printed the New Years wish of OUT
Chief Of Police, Henry Curran, in
which he said, L wish for fewer police
cases in the Police Court; not for t.
benefit Of my department, or myself
but for the benefit Of mankind and
the good women, who so often have
to suffer by arrests that we have tC
make.
THAT was a noble wish from g
, kindly heart. o, my countrymen!
, We answer Chief Curran's prayer
and the prayers of our grief-strickeI
homes. We must stop the crime
breeders if we would reduce crime
Furnishing peccadillos, little snakes
and small offenders will avail bu
little, so long as we feed and pet THE
monster mothers that breed them
Any Mayor who becomes the pc
champion of the crime breeders anC
r home-wreckers OF our city, become!
, pest to every household. A Mayor
| private and public life should be {
, constant inspiration to all that Il
. true, beautiful and good. No public
: official can be better than his privat,
, life.
+ DR.. W. e. Hibbett, our health Of
i. ficer, is ably pursuing the righteou
2 policy of prevention of disease; AM
! that is the only true policy to pre-
: serve our health, peace, money an
= morals.
J., Il am running as the enemy of n
! man, the friend Of all. l am tn
: enemy of the devil and all his wick
, edness, but the friend of every fel
T low-being. l came with no swor
, for my fellowmen; but | would com
! like ST. George of DID, with a swor
for the dragons or evil that corrup
our youth and ruin our homes; an,
thus free my fellow-beings from tn
bondage of vice and help them on t
! higher life.
Taxes and Debts.
. Our taxes are too heavy. Behold
the burden! Every family here ha
, to pay an average tax per year o
/ $40 to our city; $40 to our county
, S11,5O to our state; and $50 to on
, nation, This staggering yearly ia,
of $211.5O per family is too much. Thu
. poorm an may think he doesn't pa.
that much, but in some way he does
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