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Many factors contributed to the lower rates , but the single most important one has been the greater apprehension and punishment of criminals . The purposes and motives of Jesus may be but poorly understood by man ; but in this woman 's case we see the possibility of stories strange and untrue getting afloat , and it appears to have been the wiser course to make plain the truth then and there . Such a fallacy may have been the less perceived , as most of the popular governments of antiquity were of the democratic species ; and even in modern Europe , to which we owe the great principle of representation , no example is seen of a government wholly popular , and founded , at the same time , wholly on that principle . To my mind , a program such as that put forth by BEDA would have been the wiser constitutional course . Certain top-heavy dahlias , looking over the palings of his neat well-ordered garden , had swilled as much as they could carry - perhaps a trifle more - and may have been the worse for liquor ; but the sweet-briar , roses , wall - flowers , the plants at the windows , and the leaves on the old tree , were in the beaming state of moderate company that had taken no more than was wholesome for them , and had served to develop their best qualities . As Labor leader , ever-cautious Kim Beazley would have been the better choice .