Increased Lawlessness

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 24, 1910

Increased Lawlessness

IN the World To-day, a Chicago magazine, Mr. Hugh C. Weir calls attention to the increase of crime in this country. While Chicago, for instance, has but one fourth the population of London, it has nearly six times as many murders. The writer says:—

And now we discover that when our poets and our orators and our artists have finished telling of our greatness and our glory, we have fostered wickedness and lawlessness as has no other nation in the world; that behind our boasted institutions of government, the thug and thief and the assassin are operating with a vigor and a freedom duplicated nowhere else in civilization. And our crime and wickedness are steadily increasing. There are four and a half times as many murders for every million of our population to-day as there were twenty years ago. The significant fact about it all is that the rest of the world does not share these statistics.