Attacking Females

At once on the comnmtatiou of the death sentence of the infamoua Janitor Titus, for the death of Tilly Smith, an epidemie of outragee apon females appeared to set in, and continúes at the present time. Within a month of the general publication of that f act, our exchanges brought the intelligence of siz or eight similar cases of outrage and murder. Later the fiendish crime has asHumed a more diabolical aspect, if possible, for mere children are now the most frequent object of attack, and the cases are of such constant occurrence that no child can certainly be considered ssfe without a protector at hand. A populous street in a well policed city might be deemed safe for even children, but the outrage on a delicate child in such a place as Congress street in Detroit, but a few days ago, shows how all pervasive danger in, and how unsate innocence is when not guarded. It is high time this evil was met, with something surer than the present slow procesa of law, and sharper than the legal punishment tban the legal punishments provided. The ruin of a child, in this manner, is a crime worse than murder, and of what use in the world can the wretch be that will commit it? We oare httle whether tbe wrong is done by enticements, or by violence, the criminal is, in the former case a moral leper unfit to live, and in the latter a beast of proy that ought to be put out of existance as qnickly as possible. We are therefore a sincere advocate of the Mexican code. Prove the fact, and shoot the monster at once. The world will grow worse and worse until justice is laid to the line, and sympathy for crime, and with crimináis, as such is wiped out. In the late case in Detroit, the worthless villain, a dangerous, deprayed character, whose reformation, even if he could be reformed would be no reparation for the wrong be had done an innocent life, was caughl Ho there could be no doubt of his identity, and bad he been taken right back to the scène of bis crime, and shot nghl there, within an hour his hellish com panions would have been struck with wholeeome terror. Some auoh courge will eventually be taken if not by "due troceas of law," then by impatient and ndignant public sentiment. Philan;hropists are pnzzled to know vhat to do with "our dangerous classes." Begin to kill them as fast as they prove themselves dangerous, and they will oease to 'orm and disappear. At present, a villiiiu unwilling to work, hastens to make himself "dangerous" to beoome an object of sympathy and get his living by crime. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. And Thb Dbmocbat indorses every word of the article. It is sound from beginning to end.