Show the american hoodlum F few deiv of our people realize that the hoodlum is strictly an american product he could rot existing exist in the countries of europe because lecause te cause being youw and able bodied F he would be be at ai 0 once ault gobbled up by the military authorities and held for military duty in england there being n no 0 field for his operations he be would woul d be for forced C ed to take his hi place in the ranks ot of the criminal classes in the united states we lave have a monopoly of this pestilent and brutal creature the hoodlum does not at first belong to the criminal class lie ile only constitutes a corps from which criminals are recruited it is a great mistake to think that lie he is illiterate tho the contrary is true ile he has generally had more or less education he does not come from the slums but is usually front from respectable parentage and would have fair prospects in life if he would improve his opportunities but lie ho has developed an invincible aversion to any sort of useful employment lie he has a distinguish it g ability to loaf in i ahe L streets or public places with comp companions companio anious uit 0 tastes although he be will not cot work he be must live lire and he be prefers at the beginning to absorb the hard earnings of ilia his widowed mother or his industrious sisters with a lit tle lie more experience he learns learnd to monopolize tho tha precarious and pitiful resources of some wretched woman whose eril life is made more desparito das des and shameful by his outrageous exactions brutal at the beginning this despicable creature crea tuie tuo becomes wholly depraved dop raved and cruelty to ta women becomes his most common lu on characteristic for a few years yeAra he maintains such a worthless and blameful bhame ful existence becoming known as a turbo turbulent lur bulent lent disorderly fullow fellow until he be fals by gravitation into the bands the most brutal and detectable ol of all foreigners who have for the first time enell encountered entered this class of american citizens lave have declared that the only remedy for the evil was to enroll them foci forcibly bly and distribute them in various 3 military commands no ni such treatment is possible under our system For forcible cibie conscription is possible only in extreme cases and such follows fellows never volunteer or enlist willia willingly gly the class had not mot developed to any ex ent eat at the tha time of the ciu war but they are the product of the twenty five years of peace that have bate followed the bood hoodlum is essential a product of idle nebs if be could be set bet to work at the outset of his career he might be converted into a useful member of so society soei lety ety As is it a he be is a dead weight on society an unwholesome exer excrescence es on abs tbs body politic A L limes |