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Peril to Civilization ;
The London Eng.) Spectator In a
long article commenting on the great
increase of crime in the United States
in the. last twenty years, regards thl
situation as a grave menace to civili
sation and appeals to the American
nunnla tn imnnso rniWonl reform In
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the administration of lav before na
tional calamity comes. :
"We venture to say that it the Amer
ican judges had the standing and pres
tige which belong to our judges," sayS
the Spectator, "the rich men who now
use their money to corrupt public of
ficials and public bodies would find
themselvse in jail, either tor contempt
of court or some open breach of the
law.-- ; ... " I
In England judges are not appointed
from the. ranks of great corporation
and railroad lawyers. They do not
ride on passes, and if a corporation
should offer one of them a "courtesy"
the man who offered it would be sen
tenced to a long term of imprisonment
at hard labor. - When he l ot to prison
he would do the "hard labor" the same
as any other convict for in English
prisons there is no favoritism. The
increase in crime in this country which
eminent men all over the world agree
is" a threat to civilization, is. largely
due to -the character of thf judges. The
people generally, while .they' render
obedience to the decrees "of the courts
hold the judges in constant contempt.
Last year while going down to Omaha .
there sat in the seats immediately in
fiont one federal and two state judges.
When the conductor came around all
three of them presented annual passes.
Ever .since that time the editor of The
Independent has been trying to'formi -late
a sentence that would express his
supreme contempt for them, but has
- never been able to construct-one thr.t
would do justice to such a sight -
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Senile Senators end Pure Food
It is the old, corporation plutocrats
in the United States senate that, com
pel the American people to come tail
ing along behind all civihzationVcheek
by jowf with the pig-tailed Chinese,
not only in the government ownership
of railroads, but in many other things.
This is the only government on earth
that allows merchants to sell adulter
ated and poisonous food for the money
that is, in the business. Oi. Wiley the
government chemist, sas that the
prevalence of dyspepsia in this coun
try; to an extent known in no other,
comes from adulterated food and
drinks. A few old corpora lion senators
have long prevented the passage of
a pure food bill because of the crimi
nal business interests that put them
where they are, do not want such . a
law enacted. , The house has passed
such a bill several times, but itis al
ways chucked; into the waste basket
by these grizzled, senile corrupt old
senators, who spend the, most of the
time while they are in Washington in
the senate cloak rooms telling nasty
stories, but whom a criminal press
holds, up to tne people as great. states
men Any newspaper man who has
spent a year or two in Washington
knows what a lot of disreputables they
are. There are decent men among
them, but not enough to have appre
ciable influence upon the big lot of
corporation tools who run things un
der the direction of their masters.
Many of them have not had senr s
enough to make the corporations pay
iem for their services and have only
the "honor." of their poistion and the
salary attached to it as a recompense,
for all their dirty work. What" one
of them in tne last ten years nas maae
a speech that showed even an ordinary
intellectual ability? They are a bad
lot. , The scientists and doctors may
pile, up the proof as high as a moun
tain, but the senate will never pass a
pure food bill until , the corporations
engaged in the business of adulterating
food order their senators to vote for
one, and they will never do that until
some irate community wreaks ven
ceance upon them. ' ,
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Bre&d Riots In London
..' Great mobs of starviug men have
been assembling in the parks and oth
er vacant places in London during the
last, week. The situation "there is be.
coming dangerous. Every one declares
that there has been no such suffering
known in the last twenty years. The
steamships arriving in New York bring
such loads of emigrants that , the au
thorities at Ellis island have been
overwhelmed. Some of the great
steamers have had to He at anchor,
under guard, for 24 hours before they
could find a place on the island to land
their cargoes "of steerage passengers."
The depression seems general all over
Europe. If the people there are starv
ing, they certainly can't buy Ameri
can goods and. our foreign trade must
fall off. That has always preceeded a
depression in business in the United
States. It is the same old endless
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