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Rh most representative and reliable newspapers of various cities. Some of Mr. McClure's deductions are: "Lawlessness pervades the land; unrest and discontent have been bred by the general prosperity. We have become the money-center of the world, but this has but bred a feverish appetite for gold, with all its vulgar accompaniments. We would call a halt upon our captains of industry who have brought our country to its present height of frenzied speculations. Our greatest financiers are racking their brains to circumvent the law and the people, and by lawlessness achieve wealth, being careful only to keep just outside actual violence and the common jail."

"A judge in charging a jury gave facts showing that the number of homicides in the United States for three years, was one-third larger than either the total number of persons killed upon the American railroads in the same period of time, or the total losses of the British army in the war with South Africa. The exact figures given by Judge Thomas were: killed on railroads, 21,847; British losses in Boer war were 22,000, but the number of homicides in the United States in a period of three years, was 31,395."

President Hopkins, of Williams College, declared in an address before the members of the Patrio Club, that "The prevalence of crime in