HOMICIDE IS AMERICA.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 422, 26 May 1904, Page 6

HOMICIDE IS AMERICA.

«i Cr.ivae In ThUCapntrr JEyidenc* of a, Tesyjlile i fldi of Harder. Comparative statistics of murder •houiu teach us,, some lessons cf national I.uniHiiy. because, blink It •a wj may and especially that of himkidi, i§ a pretty accurate nuas;:;c e.T the attainment of civilization.-. T'.<re are about 10 CO reorders a. year itj. the Uni:ed Slates. Hr. Ti-.tl.ez'. Anderson, of London, has late;,, hjs ' readers by Stating tb.it in the 6,000,000 inhabitants «»* I. m lon there; fire annually on til 1 av».\ge only irbout IS murders. In -- omeritue a clergyman ■: .i: • of out ssoaU©?.'American il'.U': i r:r.::_i str.t"-I_l. at in h\? city (cf .-.,,;.:=; CP'\OQChyiabjita?lijJ tfjere v—t "v. ;f:e last f:-c years an aver-».-e of n : r'.y 3D "bomb Ides a yen.r, > r . v-s . -,«cicaQ 'Supposing-, ■ l:;--r--" •'. Ibat tli'C.ie people would i- :•-«• ;:e ';ir mare ciuai.ial whenii :,;-:•;! : gi-chcr by millions, it fol--1 ...« :' *'. If- the cle)' uan ! s city v.-- • l> >■■'■• n« LotuJu.. h-jrc would b»» n- t!y '■'■'(* mnrdcri> a year in it, i*-:le---' ; -'- '■"■• Kut. worse,is yet to r ,,.,.; i» •: f ;bc 115 murders in five vc'.r.- ,''••■.-■ were or-ly 23, convictions, ani i'-? '-vry worst is the fact that r t ' r ■ ■•■( er-nvicted miirdet- ,-.-• i-?: v . ?tl the death penalty! l"r-"n i i.i' .- i.le. surely, tbe retort no lonc°'- holds that the doctors put their iff' work beneath tbe ground ami t?i- lawyers hang it up. above it. "go much l.mrp srrr-wii. fo little ussd," may be : r -nently- quoted.' ' • . .