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Printed tnd Pnbllahed dj the Propriatera ▲bohibaiiD Fbhvt snd Gmoboi Qlik at their ttgiitored Printing Offioa. Thunt* Btartei Oaauuro, Prtvinolal Dlikrlol*« 0lft«9 Oiltay if NtwiZwii. i MONDAY VLQwas* 25m 1898

The great crimnooloul, P o feBBor CeaareLombroso, writes : TboaO who asset t aa • matter of coarse that criminality ia alwayi aa effect of poverty have not o ndiad the other side of the qaestioa— "hat iuwhich crime is an e fleet of wealth. Wealth may conduce to either vice or viitae, according to tho character of it3 pos£Bj8ors, and thia ia especially true of great wealth, which, like great power nod too mach education, may become mtaral instruments of des per«bism. Ia America Borne of the Sbatea most pious to crimes are rich. In the richest, for instance, Ehode Iilamd (200 dollars to each inhabitant), there is a large oamber of crimes, 0.11 ; Id Massachusetts, with almost cqu &1 wealth (190 do'lue), there is double the amount of crimp, 0.20; about t tit same proportion a8 that of tho dinr c of Columbia, where wealth is is or ily 100 dol are. Some poor contrie p, like Dakota 30 (dollars per iudividua l)> Alabama (20 dollars), show tin veiy lowest amount of crimiLaity. In France and Italy criminality i ton creases in proportion to the lucre nee cf industrial wealth. Poverty may and does often impo'j! to curtain crimes, especially thsfb ; but wealth in its turn in a ocurca of de eenerdtonon account of nmny ca uses* It urges to crime through vf mity» through that tarrible desire ' to cuD a figure in the world' which Is - aae of the greateet causes of crime again &t pov" orty. Another [ oiat thst should not be forgobben iu comparing the, crimes tcommitted by the rich and pco^ i^ than the poor ore fur more oaiueroaa fcbsii the rich, and btsides, which is more to the purpose, thy tparchasa immunity from puuishcaeati, e9peciuUy

CRIME AMONG THE RICH.
