This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...He was convinced that cities could not be trusted to enforce the numerous laws of the state, passed in the interest of public morality. Upon this point he says: "A prosperous commerce, progress in the arts, and the increase of manufactures have condensed our population in large towns and cities, intensified vicious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...He was convinced that cities could not be trusted to enforce the numerous laws of the state, passed in the interest of public morality. Upon this point he says: "A prosperous commerce, progress in the arts, and the increase of manufactures have condensed our population in large towns and cities, intensified vicious inclinations, and multiplied the actual number of crimes. This is apparently the price of public prosperity and wealth. Official records display to the public gaze an alarming increase of offenses against the person and property, of licentiousness and gambling, as well as of insanity and pauperism, that are directly traceable to lives of vice.... To deal with this advancing demoralization, the municipal police, however honest or well-disposed, seem to a great extent inadequate.... It is apparent that public decency and order and public justice require the maintenance of an executive body which shall not be controlled by the public sentiment of any locality; which shall be competent in its spirit, its discipline and its numbers to a reasonable and judicious but just and impartial enforcement of the statutes of the commonwealth." Basing his objections on broader and more fundamental principles, he says: "I object to this bill that it detracts from the powers conferred for the common welfare upon the executive department of the commonwealth, taking therefrom practically the means of enforcing general laws, and vesting them in local officers, who are responsible only to their immediate constituents, and not to the whole people."1 1 See Report of the Constable of the Commonwealth, 1869. This attempt to abolish the state police force, therefore, failed, and as the prohibitory law was re-enacted in the following year, the question of...
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