Christian herald and signs of our times . man. We want men like John Howard andWilliam Blackstone, and women like EhzibFry, to do for the prisons of the United St;what those people did in other days forprisons of England. I thank God for 1Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Hand scores of others have done in the waprison reform ; but we want something nradical before will come the blessing of himsaid : ** I was in prison, and ye came unto Again, in your effort to arrest this plagucrime you need to consider untrustwoofficials. Woe unto thee, O land, whenking is a child, and thy princes drink
Christian herald and signs of our times . man. We want men like John Howard andWilliam Blackstone, and women like EhzibFry, to do for the prisons of the United St;what those people did in other days forprisons of England. I thank God for 1Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Hand scores of others have done in the waprison reform ; but we want something nradical before will come the blessing of himsaid : ** I was in prison, and ye came unto Again, in your effort to arrest this plagucrime you need to consider untrustwoofficials. Woe unto thee, O land, whenking is a child, and thy princes drink inmorning. It is a great calamity to a city ubad men get into public authority. Why wthat in New York there was such unparallcrime between 1866 and 1&71 ? It was beethe judges of police in that city, at that tfor the most part, were as corrupt as the 1bonds that came before them for trial. Twere the days of high carnival for ele(frauds, assassination and forgery. We ha April 15. 1891. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. 227. •STOP THIEF: rods of Rings. There was one man duringlose years that got one hundred and twenty-Hit thousand dollars in one year for servingle public. In a few years it was estimated thatlere were fifty millions of public treasurejuandered. In those times the criminal hadnly to wink to the judge, or his lawyer wouldink for him, and the question was decided foric defendant. Of the eight thousand peoplerrested in that city in one ye4r, only threelousand were punished. These little mattersere fixed up, while the interests of societyere fi x e do w n. You(now as well asIdo that one vil-I in who escapesInly opens thepor for otherHminalities. Itno cnmpli-lent to publicithcrity whene have in all theit i e s of thepun try, walkingproad, men andomen n o ton-us for crimin-ity, unwhippedjustice. They•e pointed out> you in the street day by day. There you findhat are called the fences, the men who(and between the thief and the honest man,loitering the th
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