Crime Open by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Aug 2, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 31.

Crime Open

By Editor

"Crime Open" is the significant heading to a recent New York World editorial. The opening sentences of the editorial read: "In several quarters of the city, life is no longer safe. The night streets of the district lying between Union Square and Long Acre and Seventh and Third Avenues are in possession of the disorderly elements. The police force is already demoralized, and the demoralization is progressing rapidly toward chaos." This condition in New York is nothing new. It is a condition against which the city has been contending for years, and matters are growing worse very fast. It is simply an outgrowth of the corrupt politics that shelter the police and other officers of the law while they form partnerships with the criminals and receive their regular share of the revenue of crime. And this evil is not alone in New York. It is sapping the virtue and uprightness from society everywhere.