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Show SJJ l I 'I he dcertiiK in the sH 1it f . C. .4. .. number of men sentincetl M ptiXlUt QSttXlX to iniprisonment, with- tW x. ! . out ii corresponding tle- "" iCUtltttlUl yi'tilflUll 'rtase in the number of HE -:: e runes committed, inn) H ny THOMAS SPEED MOSUY. u iwrlinll duo to the S Mlnourl i I'jrJon Attorney. I'Xtl IISI0I1 of tllO parole Bt I ' sstem for ilrst olfendcrs ,Wt Wo arn b no means to H judge the tlhcienc) of n jiemil code mere! by tho number of persons sen- nB tenced to imprisonment In m opinion our pemtentinry sstcm, upon fl the whole, has made quite ns main criminals as it has cured mJ Kcciiliwition, or irofessiniinl iriminalism, exists more oxttnsixily -jB in Kurojie than in America, although in somo respects criminality has jl Intel niereased in the Unitiil States 'lhe high j SH nenous tension i amnion among us is responsible ZSS55. fjHj for n growing neuropathic condition which is most f ih Mt favorable to crime 'I he general lack of industrial w Wt condition is deuloping thousands etery jear who ifflt A Xj lime never lenrneel to make an honest living, nnd i AJRi V K who, sooner or later, llnd tin ir way into the paths of IflvJT' yL (S crime Such iinproemontBas are needed in tho iennl x5c3f' Wk codes of this country ore not in the dirtction of Sjtjs H mrrensod settritx '1 lie ct rtnintx of punishment is 4py tf Wm of fnr more nnd in the preicniiiin oi erimo man f J Of its severity, and laxity of administration cannot r MK be corrected b) amendment of the laws dtp xm |