Show I I Modern Conditions Make Criminals Criminal There has never been a time when it has been so difficult for people of culture cal cul turo ture and education to mako make a livin living suited to their cravings Never Kover have luxury and enjoyment of life lifo been more alluring than today Never have the tho temptations been greater creater to tho manor man nian or 01 woman of education ion who gets gats Ats little or nothing for lon long tiresome hours of oC monotonous work Under modern conditions the woman becomes a courtesan and tho man mau a criminal They arc forced to stint themselves surrounded b by luxury to remain remain remain re re- re- re main poor while they nrc dreaming of wealth wenith and luxury and arid this creates revolutionary roy rev thoughts and hatred against tho the existing order of society Havo you rou noticed how m many ny rich neb upstarts upstarts up up- starts were I poor and intelligent but not note e educated 1 I r I do o not believe e that t the tho o founders of the tho or Vander Vander- I hilts bilta were tortured in their youth by dreams of wealth and luxury t as aro are many edu educated hut but poor young men of today Men Mon of intelligence of business s instincts and acumen tho they were it was in in their nature to mako mono money and tho they made it The did not want money as a means of satisfying their thir irresistible blo ble wi wishes and they remained Spartan in their tastes even even after tho they thoy had become rich To grow rich a person person must not bo be too sens sensitive not too nero ncr nervous ous not tortured by dreams or led by bv imagination on To 0 get ahead ono must bo ho saving economical and aDd cn energetic energetic- Nothing Noth Noth- In lug ing is PIO o much of a drawback as too much imagination The educated but hut poor young man n is too impatient hi his brain is 16 t filled with lon longings and ho longs Jons for luxury luxury lux lux- ury for wealth ea th an and i he compares his own poverty with the wealth and luxury lux lux- ury un of those ho i en envies It is thus that ho he becomes a a. criminal He ITa sees only the tho goal the money the wealth The glitter of the gold old dazzles his eyes ces and he rushes ahead to grasp g throwing down all obstacles in his hig way he ho bursts the doors door which bar him fro from n the treasures he ho craves He i is s ruled by byan an aF irresistible desire desire that of getting ettin h ii It hii is one of the characteristics of thA educated criminal that his intelligence e deserts him when ho he commits n a crimo crime that is hinders him morn moro than it helps him His Eis intelligence does not serve en his bis criminal intention but is overshadowed o owed owel by it The lawyer Jaw Hau who shot hi hia moth moth- law in in in Frankfurt has a false beard made which fits him BO so poorly that tho the railroad conductor notices it Everything he did directed suspicion toward toward toward to to- ward him from the very cry start The Tha Goulds of Monaco make a woman disappear disappear disappear dis dis- appear whom everybody even k knew cw to associate associate asso asso- clate with them only Their preparations were so 50 poorly made that they they had to carry tho mangled body with them in a trunk and aDd the blood oozing from irom tho trunk gave nv them awa People like th these so arc are not born bor crim crim- male Tho They Thoy are people who tackle something they know nothing about about something they thoy are not fit for And Ana everybody ever wonders How stupid these people were How could they the conceive such a foolish plan and carry it out so 80 clumsily 1 The possibility of suddenly getting gettin into possession of great wealth and make their dreams true fascinated them For they are dreamers To make a dream true they commit a 11 crime crime In Ina a wonderful manner manner John Gabriel Borkmann Borkmann Borkmann Bork- Bork mann expresses this dream t I I feel fee these chained millions he says tas II I I feel how the gold stretches out toward rao mo its alluring arms I see them before me those these treasures that have become alive In the tho stillness of ot tho the ni night ht I whisper to you I love lore you with ith your following of power splendor and glory Upon this attraction men strand and become criminals How lIow strange One may have committed a crime like liko Lawyer Law Law- yer er Hau Han who shot shot his mother law and still remain sympathetic sy These people after all are aro idealists out ont of place though the the- expression ma may seem The ideal they have formed of life of- of fonts the tho imagination of these people so strongly ly that the they aro are una unable le to bear life as it is Every ery epoch bas has its characteristic crimes Durin During the time of the Rom Roman u Caesars it was the tho emperors themselves who committed the most niost crimes The imperial murderer was the tho typical criminal During the period of the tho Renaissance Renaissance Re Re- crime was the order of the day The fhe Italian princes had openly hired pangs gangs in their employ to rid them of their enemies At the time of Caesar Borgia Borcia tho the aristocratic murderer was the tho typical m criminal Durin During the tho rei reign n of Louis XIV it was custom to got get ot rid lid of a burdensome wife or rich undo uncle by poison and there thero wore poison kitchens whore you could get et the tho necessary dishes dishos to set before your victim The typical al criminal of today is tho the educated but poor man or woman Woman not not the tho born criminal or the ono one who turns turn criminal from irom actual need These form tho the masses masses of the petty criminal but the tho educated criminal is the type of today to to- day his motive motivo is is not need but longing and ana craving foi wealth and luxury has foreseen this typo type in his was vas tIm the extraordinary young yonn man who must become a L criminal to get et rid of ot material cares In lb Ibson's ons on's John Ga Ga- briel briol Borkmann the tho hero horo becomes a criminal because ho he hopes to carry cany out his wonder plans In E. E Bornstein's Bornstein s 's Tho The Thief the thc wife becomes a criminal criminal crim crim- inal to get et tho the gowns in which which- she hopes hopes to please her huband r In n The Tho Ideal Husband Robert Rob ert Ch becomes a criminal to lo got get ct ahead in in the world and Borkmann are aro too extraordinary characters to be bo types The Tho young nina man who wants to get out of poverty not to carry carry out great reat plans not from lore lovo of power but bat because ot ota ota a i cra craving g for lifo life of case caso and luxury is 16 15 a typical modern fi lit figure ure fh The poets sympathize 8 with tho the figures figures figures fig fig- ures that create anti and arouse public sympathy sym sm path pathy with them and aull there are uro indeed sympathetic criminals What makes them appear sympathetic to us is is tho the fact that wo we realize tho the injustice of their position In the idea of committing a crime matures slowly Borkmann commits his crime crimo crime fascinated fascinated fasci fasci- with the tho idea to to such an nn extent that tuat ho does doeR not realize ho bo is wrong Tho The in Bernstein Bernsteins s 's play Le becomes mes a thief through h chance Does Docs this s giving jD in to tho the tendency towards crime crimo signify y strength or 01 weakness weak weak- ne ness s 7 is tortured by terrible tar ter pangs of conscience II He lie c w was s too weak for his crime Borkmann remains insane insano afterwards fl as fiS ho was waR before The thief in iu Bc Beinstein's play feels fr-ela nothing nothing noth noth- ing ins until she eho i IB s found out and the tho hero heroin in in play feels that his crime I calls caUs for strength th not weakness He lie affirms his crime puts tho the question most drastically IR IB JR i it better leUer that an old woman continues to live whoso life ia is of value to herself else no or anybody than that a young man bv In- her money is enabled to live tho the 1 life fo he craves craves for fod The sympathy which the tho poets feel and which they arouse arous in their audiences audiences au au- and among m ng their readers is founded on the fact that these instinctively instinct instinct- hd ively feel that the miery caused bythe by bythe bytho the tho criminal is less than his bis own misery In literature tho the higher innate justice jus jus- us tice bce conquers iu in in real life it is the justice jus ustice us- us tice tire of right richt and law whose justice is often doubtful |