. The literary digest. not rehable evidence to support the wholeindictment, which rests on prejudice and publicity given to socialdiversions, criticism of alleged immorahties, and violations ofpolice regulations, as well as to crime. This publicity andcriticism of city people, intended to be corrective, also furnishtexts for the rural pulpiteer, the sensational Chautauqua lec-turer, and the reform statesman, who are anxious to preach asermon, deliver a lecture, or make a speech on the shortcomingsof the human race without treading on the toes of his popular history is often written
. The literary digest. not rehable evidence to support the wholeindictment, which rests on prejudice and publicity given to socialdiversions, criticism of alleged immorahties, and violations ofpolice regulations, as well as to crime. This publicity andcriticism of city people, intended to be corrective, also furnishtexts for the rural pulpiteer, the sensational Chautauqua lec-turer, and the reform statesman, who are anxious to preach asermon, deliver a lecture, or make a speech on the shortcomingsof the human race without treading on the toes of his popular history is often written. Sin, vice, and immoralitj-vary according to locality, even in this country, while changingcustoms and changing legislation maj even change the nature of crime. Old times were changed, old manners gone;A stranger fiUed the Stuarts throne;The bigots of the iron timeHad called his harmless art a crime. So ran the Laj^ of the Last Minstrel, and there are bigotsto-day who call the innocent amusements of other days crime;. ^ liUUUKL\NS NKVV MOKMOX of the Mormon preacliing-places In the United States described as centors of propaganda and they have been able to change the law so as to condemnsome things they once indulged in and defended. The census office, being no respecter of communities, re-cords cold facts and figures, and while these do not make sen-sational reading, they are capable of refuting charges made with-out investigation. Thus: These census records show that there is a larger real andrelative church membership in the cities than in the country;that there is a smaller percentage of divorces in the urban Statesthan in the rirral States; that there is a larger percentage ofhomicide and suicide in the rural States than in the urban States,and that in many parts of the United States the cities arefreer from capital crime than the country. For instance, thecensus office shows that the small cities of Kansas have a recordof homicide four times as great as the la
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