"SAFER TO KILL A MAN."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13683, 17 March 1910, Page 6

"SAFER TO KILL A MAN."

The New York "World" publishes a remarkable interview with Mr Andrew D. White, the "octogenarian sage of Ithaca" (New York), who denounces in striking terms the maladministraof the criminal law in America. When he relinquished the post of Ambassador at Berlin eight years ago, Mr White began a systematic investigation of the immunity enjoyed by murderers in the United States. The fruit of his investigations the former president of Cornell University now sums -up in the words: "It is safer to ldll a man in the United States than to kill a deer." "As wo sit here to-day," Mr W T hite solemnly observed, "I will make a prophecy. It is now January 28th. I say in all sincerity and with profound regret that before the 28th of next January 5000 men and women in tho United States will have been murdered." The sympathy which criminals enjoy in this country is such that the savant sarcastically suggested that the State should purchase the Waldorf Astoria or some other hotel in New York, confine all the murderers in it, and "dine and wine" them until they die of gout. Mr White proceeded: "Twenty years ago there were abodt 1500 murders yearly in the United States. There are now 8000. The percentage of murders in the Uniteel States to the population is for-ty-three times greater.than in Canada and eight times greater than, in Belgium, which has the worst record in Europe."