| Show sound bound words from mr Illar hornli gh wo we havo have go me times felt obligor to 11 hasty busty words anti anil injudicious acts but never without heartily testifying to the greatness of hill For vices to the in many foully yebra yo aird of 0 f solf bonyi ng work ila ho added another to the ohl dobli gallons of now york to him last 1 weak by b a speech ai mado made lit at a public meeting 0 ol 01 the gilbert library nail and all alii lac society ceaty oaring daring ilia melior part ol of ill ako tko a mooting III tin 9 a groat great deal ot of the iho 1 buat l nona had been tallied talked about call ing criminals helping hadid to prevent them from ragain filling falling into cri crime me disordered fair play lenient treatment eto etc some bonio of the 1 speakers not having baving hadit their a ou rance the chairman called on mr air agh borgh or who MM loss in tho the audience mr air bergh came forward reluctantly saying buying that if lio apollo it must mint io ile 60 to 0 paoo nil fill that lad bull been previously illy e bail urn that tho the meeting must tiko il cc tile ile ho believed belio voil that this maudlin notion nonsense flea about criminals crimin aln should stop kind poor raon men null and their uro are starving while vila miscreants urn pam pore borei 1 in ia luxury ila would not merely I 1 reform bonal institutions but abolish all n 11 of thorn them except the higher grades grai leB acid rovito r ov ITO the whipping post for minor of fondes criminals now coul minor to got comfort it bla lodgings at our oar publio public hotali liot oln calle 0 liila feml alio only any to help a man reform who ban boon been in prison is to bond liin him to u place where ho he is not known for thoro there i is no chance tor for him where hois ho is known and any reformation bused based jn an tho the suppo supposition a that there is ia Is ia falso anti and injurious inja nona thin was waa ilia of mr borglin berghs a cob which was pungent mad wity witty si and I 1 tho the audience lua ilia hits with I 1 in ahter and applauded him to tho the echo colio the meeting wua was completely demoralized null ilia alio of tho the so violy bioty were hour tily disgusted with tho ilia exception of tile tho whipping poet not suggestion Bugg thano words will bo be cattily approved ly by every sensible sotta ihlo man who lina hits really thought on this tion toi himself iro self aud and even in favor of 1 tho the whipping hipp ing post thoro there is ia a strong and growing sentiment on thu grou ground that it I 1 11 I 1 the only effectual preventive livo of what aru are known na he off elison in it community whore where a bozon lallos wall laid on la thage tho penalty nalty for stealing and other minor ouan a I 1 soa tho the dread of tho the cat Is ia a powerful preventive tivo of crime bat leaving this question quasti aside abide there can bo be no dolbt that thoro is groat great need of moro more stringent law wa I 1 moro more rigid enforcement of li onal ties and greater comment co rumoLt sense in tho the work of reforming on offenders endors it is 10 an opoa question whether tho the age now la in operation for this letter latter end do not result in greater harm harin than good to tile lio themselves find and to the war community inanity at large they aro are in the hands 0 of a low few 11 0 old id women of loth both sOx adies its ua as some ono has happily de 8 people of that description who intentionally or unintentionally por par suade criminals crimin iila that they aro are victims of a disordered disorder od conscience dison eod rather then than depraved clop raved unfortunate tuoro than guilty 0 needing reform instead of guilty of punishment whether this thin sort bort of stuff IB a likely to produce a real pon poni 1 tomoo knoo in a criminal and load lead to it a genit fee no reform or bo be a fruitful frait fruit tal fal source of hypocrisy and load lead to it a pretense pro of reform orm for tho the suke sake of favors that muy may be 10 gained any ono can guess without much bucu those who are ara familiar with the workings wor kinga of this thin sort bort 0 of 11 reform tire aro most skeptical us to its value and the very men who know most about tho the criminal classow aro are tho the loudest ondein in their denunciations of this sentimental BonU mental claptrap that Is ia talks talked by tho the 11 reformers this sort cort of talks has also a demorit zing effect on society fit at laigo go it tenda ends I 1 to lower the moral of tho the 01 community mm unity none too high at its ita boat best moko take publio public sentiment Bonti mont acquiesce in in tho the lax administration of tho the luw law and loud lead to such scones its att eudea dad tho chii last days of balbo anil and cox tho the moral backbone of tho the community neoda needs stiffening its conviction that trl minal and unfortunate are ara not synonymous terms needs strengthening from and proba it must be insisted that a mans will 1 I I 1 counts for something and that if ho yields to temptation it is ia not because his eon con bonce is disc asod but bat because his mi turo turn Is depraved avoil slid and therefore thero foro guilty in abort a good doal more of 0 tho the old preaching ol of fundamental moral truths it Is demanded as an anti aati detoto tho the liberal moral theories which have grown out of the ilia 11 liberal iberal I 1 theology of the day crime is ng ina I 1 liko like a groat epidemic inna grows by what it feeds upon the 11 reformers have used lavendor water and cold cream as comra os as null and tho the opi damic hia has increased ai I 1 t it not ti me for eliae so me thing more effo tivo otiva to bo be tried I 1 new york examiner anti and chronicle |
