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made OF someone for public appearances as
venge for their failure to in under the banner
Of some sort OF compensated protection.
St Joseph county has a sheriff and South Bend
a police department. supposedly somewhat at the
service prosecutors office for the purpose Of
gathering evidence and bringing offenders TO JUS
tce but the police especially under special direc-
ton at present. have invariably been hindrance
rather than help. helring violators the
law to escape. rather than to catch them-that IS
If they CHANGED to be properly hooked up with the
administration machine. The prosecutor does not
feel that it IS his duty do the work the po-
lice department at hs personal expense,
penurizing himself while the city administration
goes on squanderng the publc's money. maintain
ing a police department that does nothing,
with such seeming public approval.
The of the term, seeming public approval"
Of significance connection. The refer
ence is the fact that the public that howed
so for law enforcement, including the church
es their pastors and people-with very few hon
orable exceptions-didn't seem to want it at all;
that is if it was to be invoked by democrat and,
in consequence, react to the discredit OF a repub-
lican administration such as the present city ad-
minstration is
Morality and law enforcement be damned, has
appeared quite the sentiment Of pulpit and rev be
speaking their hypocrisy in pretending religion
elevative of their politics-and this not only of
the churches, but an application that seems to be
long quite as consistently TO the civic spirit
time ago by the Chamber OF Com
MERGE. All yes it going TO take interest
in the morals Of the community intent upon max
ing the city a better to live in but of course
appears after a that would
interfere with any entrenched property political
advantages. Assuredly then IL is not to Pros
Schwartz, under all the circumstances. 70 bear
the cross alone" That ne should determine
tire from the office the conclusion Of his present
term. is a natural sequence
And neither does he owe 1t to the democratic
party, any than TO the community, TO make
the race again In view Of the Encouragement
with which he was surrounded from that source, as
if fearful that he might contamnate the party by
undertaking anything like a law enforcement pro
gram, Mr.. Schwartz does we'll to leave the party
as well as the people. TO bestow their political
affections upon someone else He leave the Of
with the consciousness Of having done his best,
despite adverse conditions operating against him,
and that consciousness is reward enough In private
life, he be his master, and that which is
his is his Conscience will no longer bind him go
on casting his pearls before swine" which it
seems to US at least about what the extra eff
forts that he has made, amounts to-
Maybe Mr.. schwartz's successor will be better
equipped financially perform the duties OF prose-
cutor upon the income that the office affords-to
the satisfaction Of such successors conscience Pos
sibly too by playing politics with the Office he
make it advantageous, not only to himself, but
better to the party that elects hn-while. OF
course, if he be of God Own Party" then his
title. no difference rotten will perfect