The Republican journal., 1913-10-16
Profit Through Crime.

u He EDITOR OF The JOURNAL: Will
n rlnt in your paper, for Inc, a few
.ec 9ns from the editorial columns of
oilers Weekly, which seem to me
Or rs If even wider circulation than
gE-u them in that valuable magazine.
g1.t ike to see them reprinted in
'sr. aewspaper in the country, and
1'f Jch headlines that they could not
s:s9e he notice of any man, woman or
al. They are entitled 1.-The Man Who
AXIS Money cut of it."
In Salem, Ill.,, a terrible crime was
united by an eighteen year old boy.
s -stltied that he had drank a pint of
3sg and eight bottles of beer the
.gt. before. The superintendent of
.hools joined tie ministers and other
mleas IN the protests against what
hey 1escrlbed as the real cause of the
I'M That boy was in school five
5afs ago and was as fine boy as there
Va 70 town." said Supt. Thrasher.
Booze IS responsible for his present
tate, The editorial reads: who are
De sf4wers and whisky makers who
lnaa ed this crime and made money
d, It by supplying liquor to dealer
trohlbltlon town. They are probably
-g- y respected citizens of Peoria, where
10 social odium attends the making of
Money by the stimulation OF vice. If
d. dleago Tribune" can identify these
as' aud print their photographs, it will
ll' se more to the many public services
'li1' rave distinguished that paper.
q man who had been drinking was
5eliog TO load dynamite in Baltimore.
D'el2aag angry he seized a hook and
a4cA NJ INTO the box. An explosion fol-
98e4 which killed scores of people.
.1tsrs says: eff the Baltimore Ameri-
.a' would find out which one of the
Noflnent, respected citizens of Balti-
" aDFe made the whiskey that Bomhardt
prank, 1t could publish his name with
@e rest of those responsible for the cat
s'Fophe, and render public service far
!. IO'e important than the pun ishment of
u. ae foreman whose bad habits had been
t T.. 1lated since boyhood by the trade
aoIl Which this pillar of society derives
s ~. income, and through it, his position
Ind power. -
g.. VI murder commented upon in the
S ~ vein by the NewOrleans Item, Col
MI NJ. avs: why didn't the newspaper
E fts INQUIRE further? Why didn't the
i@l. send out one of its young reporters
ssl nIl out exactly what brand of whisky
r ,s.l this particular tragedy? To have
E r.. photograph of the owner of the
n %a'a-a citizen of Louisville, KY, Sc
sre behind all those ramparts of re-
,p5g' ability which wealth can build
nv sU1'u be d novel but perfectly possible
r al eF tremely useful departure in jour-
jDr W. Ohrlstmas night. negro in Wash
p,;D d. c., committed a horrible
p',..- In court he said, Il drank so
h. quor that night don't remem-
H. H.. Coiliers says: "Our idea of eff
n journalism would be for the
I'M. -eS 10 nave its reporters investigate
IT,, "hat brand of liquor this negro
pr I,tf' md out the manufacturer and
no. Ills photograph, with the simple
N VII wv This is the man who profted
7 NE crime"
of - :, August William J. Fisher, a clerk
NJ It lsthmian Canal commission in
psoa nlhgton, interfered at his boarding
|sb AM with drink crazed man who was
|ns r''ng MS family. In the struggle the
been was killed. The dead man "had
d ano ufinklng for several days." That
|eban@ougn to explain how a man was
|sIa peed into brute-but who made and
|desr dispensed poor Altdorfers death
|poisanng whiskey? For what brand of
klJGuf 9ld he pay the highest price of
h. a' With the portraits of Fisher
Ia n 'toorfer should have been publish
hor ae Portrait of the man who got the
On Tor this particular homicide. 4"
sboIi,,san mother case Golfers says The
O., % OF lynching. not its extension,
H., .' desire. Yet 90 far % justice eoes,
would be more Of it in hanging the