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This brings to mind some of the testimony which Diminution of Crime by Sunday Closing a Myth. rect supervision of the Folk police board. The following is known, St. Louis has more than one-half of all the saloons The "lid" was not on in 1904; it was on in 1905. As is well was given by Mrs. Fernande Richter, of St. Louis, the official 'record, according to State Auditor Wilder: Crim- "prohibition" on Sunday decreases crime. Crime has in- inal costs, St. Louis city, for 1904, $40,015.25; for 1905, $59,- the largest saloon center of the state St. Louis, under di- ment of the Sunday closing law did not reduce crime in The Rule of "Not Too Much." from the state auditor of Missouri show that the enforce- the House of Representatives of the 59th Congress ally was more than normal, so that when crime in 1905 ex- ceeded that of the world's fair year, it broke all records. for St. Louis, before and after the Sunday law was enforced, lies. Kansas City, Mo., Journal. 695.10. The year 1904 was world's fair year, when the population 65 The Missouri State Republican says that official statistics of the state. A glance at the crime record of 1904 and 1905 creased, under the "lid*' policy, or the official state record last session before the Committee on the Judiciary of does not prove the truth of Governor Folk's assertion that was away above normal in St. Louis and when crime natur-

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