Show I II I Mercy an and Men en I SEVERITY in punishment is what we need asserts Judge M.A. M M. 0 A. A Kavanagh of Chicago instead of the plentiful instances I of and that criminals mercy parole encourages to repeat In years now long gone by they used to hang a man convi convicted con- con vi ted of of stealing a sheep a loaf of bread or an article of cloth cloth- ing They rh y- y whipped men men accused of still lesser crimes and they penned them up in black holes No method of torture but was tried on men women and even children accused of viol violating violating vio vio- l lating ti g then laws l laws then existing Criminals were drawn and quartered b burled buried ried ale li e and burned burped at the stake Mercy was unknown And still criminals followed in each others other's footsteps Men went went from the whipping post to r repeat peat their crimes Escape from dun dungeon eon cells har hardly ly ever meant reformation It doesn't doesn r seem that of punishment f 1 seem severity or extraordinary ry I leni leniency l' l cy has h had d much to fo do with the prevention of crime the making of criminals or the reformation of the 1 What the world needs most to understand is What causes crime r rn J. J That known it will be necessary to remove the causes b t J the criminal becomes an extinct species of mankind It has b 4 ee demonstrated that neither merciful treatment of criminals nor cruel cruc P punishment niSI e t get at the c cause use t- t |