Year: 1876

hold that the Office Of polio eman is
or ought to be, an honorable office. Ii is
an Office that should properly be esteem.
ed by society above that Of soldier. A
friend OF mine has told me of little girl
who calls the man we irreverently term
bobby the PEAcEMAN. Herein is a
happy and even noble ailegory. bright
with sensible suggestion. Why should
not an able Home Secretary sit down for
a day, or mayhap week, and work it
out into practical shapef


The Policeman, or Peaceman, should
have much the same qualifications as GER
tain officers in the Church: he should be
the husband OF one wife, vigilant, sober,
modest, not ready to quarrel and offer
wrong as one in wine, not double
tongued, not given to much wine, not
greedy of filthy lucre-let him be taught
TO feel the true honorableness Of his
office and even to magnify it,


| say be Is greater than a soldier, is
your true Policeman. Tine powers with
whom he contends are not only OF this
world II lac be sterling man and a
good Peaceman. he will apprehend that
he also is one OF the missionaries of so
ciety. For him there is not alone cltch-
ing and making ready for hanging. or
other method OF security, but work akin
to that of the clergyman, the doctor. the
brother or sister of charity.


In the police force now embodied there
are some who feel after this ideal dimly
though honestly. But they are few
The other day in Whitechapel l came
across a finelooking man keeping pub
lie house, where common sailors and low
women congregated, who had been a de-
tective officer This is not the stuff
whereof Peaceman should be made Is
it not something worth while to be the
man who stands up between society and
anarchy, waving the censer Of authority,
as Aaron and his fellows stood aud waved
their censers between Israel and des-
truction? To do their work in a manly,
brave, yet gentle ways the chevalier
of justice should-is now accomplished
by the higher officers Of our home forces,
but 10y the Peaceman proper only rarely
Our system creates machines Of inexora-
ble law, or, too frequently, hypocritieal
temporizers with crime.


Mr.. A. j. Duffield, who will no doubt
be thought a lunatic. has suggested that
the policeman should be elevated. He
has proposed that briefess barristers
"stickit ministers, and young gentlemen
generally with more bone and sinew than
bhfl Ndil IlbHNiA1 hNAlAAf III An0 ENhNNFA
professions, should here find a work not
unworthy of their power. Is not this a
good suggestion? Have we yet realized
what might be done in the way OF inn
proving this great domestic service?
Why should we not have a noble order
Of the Peacemen? At present we show
our estimate OF the policeman's Office by
taking up shillings to reward his bra
very, or granting him f2 out OF the poor
I box for a broken head and ruined con
/ stitution. The proper recognition Of the
. policeman services should come from
I the State, and the head Of the State and
+ fountain OF honor Is Royalty. Institute,
/ therefore, for the police force an ORDER
or MERIT Recognize its true status.
7 Raise its character. Attract to il homes
/ ty, ability, and even ambition. Make
way, ! say, for the Most Noble Order o'
/ the Peacemen


I One word more. The safety Of society
I is committed to the care of this order
: Should it not also be an order of sobri
city? Every Peaceman should be total
( abstainer, whatever license we may give
. to other services. Make our new Order


models Of virtue, bravery, and self
/ restraint.