The cost of competition; by Reeve Sidney A

Author:Reeve, Sidney A[rmor], 1866- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Economics, Competition
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Published: 1906-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

basis. Final exclusion of prisoners not under sentence (although the proportion of them presumably guilty might be expected to remain constant) brings the growth of crime per unit of population between 1880 and 1890 down to 10.5 per cent. If this be the best that can be done by arguments in this direction, to prove that our proportion of criminality has been increasing at the rate of only

Fig. 21. The Growth of Homicide and Hanging: Chicago Tribune s Statistics

slightly over 10 per cent, per decade, the situation is bad enough to warrant the sober attention of the best patriotism which we have to offer.

Governor Henry M. Boies, in his " Science of Penology," gives countenance to a table of the growth of the country's homicides, hangings and lynchings for each of the years from 1882 to 1900, Inclusive, as culled from the daily press-reports by the Chicago Tribune, The results are

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