Twenty-five per cent. may safely be 600,000 00 allowed for the Criminal Expense of the City Law Department, Appellate Division, Supreme Court and Miscellaneous Expenses Commissioners of Jurors’ office, 50 53,550 00 per cent. for Crime Coroners’ Office, 50 per cent. for Crime 79,850 00 Miscellaneous Criminal Expenses in 220,000 00 the Courts of Greater New York Private Penal Institutions that 250,000 00 receive petty offenders ─────── $24,748,738 46 The Cost of Crime to $6,000,000 00 business men and corporations in Greater New York for Private Police, Detective Agencies and Watchmen Property stolen and $5,000,000 00 not recovered Bank losses by fraud 1,500,000 00 ─────── $12,500,000 00 Loss in Wages to Families of Men 5,000,000 00 Sent to Prison ─────── Total Amount spent yearly on $42,248,738 46 Correction and Repression of Crime The budget for the present year calls for the expenditure of $156,545,148.14 to carry on the city government. A little more than one sixth of the money appropriated by the city government for the year is spent on crime. Admitting then that the expense of crime touches almost every avenue of domestic and civic life, the only question is how long our national, state and city governments can continue to pay such enormous sums for the maintenance of police, courts of justice and the costliest and most expensive kind of prisons and penal institutions that money can build and furnish, without landing the country in irretrievable bankruptcy. With all the loopholes in the law which favor the murderer, it costs the city at least $10,000 on an average to send him to the electric chair, or even to State prison for life. There are 200,000 criminals in the land to-day, who are a burden on the taxpayers to the extent of more than a billion dollars a year. But this loss to the country, as we have already intimated, is incomparable with the greater loss sustained by the kingdom of God. The work of reaching these brothers in stripes belongs to the Church, and she should prosecute it continually till she has brought them to Christ for healing and saving power. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE AGE OF GRAFT.