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Community, the members of the Police Force, with few exceptions, devoted themselves to amassing money and levying blackmail in the manner indicated. The corruption was not limited to any particular portion of the Force, because by turns they were all placed on duty in the streets and districts frequented by the gamesters and had to be bought off from doing their duty.
Houses licensed for gaming were afterwards legalized, and the source of corruption stopped. The Police have improved, and are becoming a fine and intelligent body of men performing their duties satisfactorily.
I may reasonably ask, therefore, whether it be wise to re-open the question from which, when tried, such baneful results sprang? Shall we do so merely because some think it possible, or at least assert that it is probable, that similar results may spring from the new system? I very respectfully think that such a consequence is not probable and that it is a question which can only be decided by further experience.
The present...