1907......8,712..........---------...............

1908......8,952..........---------...............

1909......8,103..........---------...............

1910......8,975.........91,972,266...........97.5

Total......191,150


We are blood-thirsty enough, God knows, without making things
out any worse than they are. Our murder rate per 100,000
unquestionably exceeds that of most of the countries of
western Europe, but, as the saying is, "there's a reason." If
our homicide statistics related only to the white population
of even the second generation born in this country we should
find, I am convinced, that we are no more homicidal than
France and Belgium, and less so than Italy. It is to be
expected that with our Chinese, "greaser," and half-breed
population in the West, our Black Belt in the South, and our
Sicilian and South Italian immigration in the North and East,
our murder rate should exceed those of the continental
nations, which are nothing if not well policed.

But of one thing we can be abundantly certain without any
figures at all, and that is that our present method of
administering justice (less the actions of juries than of
judges)--the system taken as a whole--offers no deterrent to
the embryonic or professional criminal. The administration of