Show I > WISE LITTLE WILLIE HAD ONLY ONE REQUEST BUT THAT WAS IMPORTANT Well Aware of the Privileges of Prisoners Pris-oners About to Ce Sentenced Culprit Established Good Hard Sense It is my duty to tench you a score o s-core lesson said Horatio Poppdn ham whon Willie Poppenham got home after playing hookey all afternoon after-noon Now I want you thoroughly to understand the situation Dont Imagine that I am punishing you because be-cause It will give any satisfaction tome to-me personally And I want you to realize thoroughly that I am not doIng do-Ing this In auger I do It simply as a duty It Is very often necessary for judges In flue courts to sentence men to undergo punishment and the sheriffs sher-iffs and jailers and wardens have to Inflict this punishment Do you suppose the jude gets any personal satisfaction out of It when ho sentences a man to be hang or to undergo un-dergo Imprisonment Not at all Very often the judgos heart Is almost broken because it Is lie duly to Impose Im-pose such sentences And so It Is with the men who nave to Inflict the punishment They do not administer It In anger I suppose they would Inmost In-most cases prefer to let the offender go free If they could Just as I would much prefer to let you off now If I had only my own feelings to consult But there aro diMes which officers of the law owe to society and so they are compelled when a man docs wrong to see that ho Is properly punished pun-ished If people could do wrong without with-out being compelled to suffer for It many of them would be doing wrong all the time thus not only Injuring others but also injuring themselves It Is the same in your case If 1 permitted per-mitted you to go unpunished I should be doing you a wrong and I should also be wronging the rest of the family fam-ily If you wero allowed to do such things as you have done and suffer no chastisement you would soon go from bail to worse breaking your mothers heart robbing me of happiness and spoiling your own chances for tho future fu-ture You see the family represents society so-ciety on a small scale and the family fam-ily like society must havo its sacred Inws When these laws are broken the laws of the family It is just as Important that the one who breast sa them hall hn mmffiliprl na It IB tin nn portant that the criminal who breaks the laws which society has made for Itself shall be punished In a small way you represent the prisoner who has been found guilty by the jury while I occupying the position of Judge am compelled to pronounce sentence upon you and Say father In court the prisoner is always asked If he has anything to say before tho judle sentences him Isnt he Yes And I am going to extend that privilege to you What have you to say Please let mother bo the sheriff |