| Show COMSOS SENSE AID HUMANITY words fir or reason on a subject that Int interests crests all Chilin Miliza fion tion the following appeared appear eJ in a paper yesterday t dieb 0 lie peterson who was at arrested the other day at evanston Eva naton lor for a stealing the watch of her schoolmate mrs anna auns jackson Jink gon an oad en lady b has a a confessed the crime and says tha kho d does oes not know why she did it she was fined 3 5 and costs 35 and lan in jill the above seems to have been written with buch such a jaunty air as to giva give it the appearance of cruelty every paper in the city tor for days has contained one or more notices of the same affair I 1 suppose that such items are considered by the managers of newspapers as simply business enterprise ter prise and from that standpoint are ate legitimate enough bat but how does it a appear to the po poor 0 r girl when she finds t that h these adver advertisements of her have shut every decent door in her face how flow does it look to others who are striving with clouds over them to despise actual want to challenge the bitter utter pangs of hunger bunger an and d at the r fame ame time to live blameless and proper lives how does it look to the pit who is devoting his frilan aie to to the task of purging society of its moral lepers it is admitted that this poor girl has a spotless name that it is her first brat of fence and moreover that she cannot coh comprehend how bow or why she committed the theft she did not seek to conceal the watch nor did she try to extenuate her guilt and she was rev revolving abing in her mind some plan by which she coull return the stolen property when arrested surely it seems that sufficient clent humiliation would be suffered sufi ered in the recollection that she had betrayed the confidence of an old schoolmate who was befriending fri by employ employing inz her and it if this were not enough it seems that if the court who sat in her case had bad given her a wholesome lecture and pictured to her the rough path of the transgressor and in conclusion clu cl bad had be he suspended sentence during good behavior aa as is frequently done and cautioned the newspapers newspaper not to betray betra her to th abe public u all 1 that the full ant and complete ends of J justice U would have been answered all right minded persons will agree that the aim of legal punishment is to M protect hect society and to restrain tho the vicious will this unfortunate girls incarceration in a filthy prison cell and within the easy hearing of 0 indecent language from mouths months of the most vile tend to defor 0 her will the notoriety gained from this her first transgression gres Rree egression sion serve to protect society from her proclivities or will it not rather incline her to the path that leads downward will it not mold the plastic conscience of the young girl into a chalice of crime will it not make her henceforth the care of the state the ward of the city or town into which inclination may lead her bli blighting h lug her tier presence how flow was it t that h at in her extremity there was no christian woman to take her by the hand and point her to a pitying christ flow was it that when she was facing the tribunal of justie for the first time in her life and stood off in sheer desperation the bold phare of coaree coarse men infinitely viler than she that some christian father ather who a ho has sons and daughters daughter a did not give his bond to the court tor for its costs ad pledge hi himself for her future behavior and show her the better path that leads to peace the legally cons stated authority bavine having jurisdiction in cases has branded her tier a thief and sent her out into the wilderness of despair to her the social world will hereafter be only a dream and every christian boma home will be shut in her face alence forth there Awill be no rest for or her foot for the voice of the world will be ringing in her ears earn and mockingly crying move ilove on this ia is no place for fora a thief no respect respectable 11 hie man fiill III marry each such a woman woma n anil and the hope of 0 one n e day having a happy homesille home will sill p parish or ieh in her thoughts ru rurh rl to nothingness in the beama midday sun sao there is conj place where eha she cay may find ahme a one place where tho swift einred hours will fly lightly by siy I 1 tell ou where ministers of the gospel goepel I 1 ye who a stand tand in pulpits surrounded by all the luxuries that pampered wealth supply to declaim can against malevolence in a le and plead fur charity and find for pity for the distressed city missionaries ye who have girls rids ot of your own that ye love aa as the apple of your eye this poor friendless crying girl can make her home in a brothel there ebe she can learn to revel with the most vile there abe she can rob the pockets of a drunken lover over with no crit rillon of conscience with no fear that an officer of the law will run her ta to earth have I 1 overdrawn this picture indeed I 1 have not it I 1 use vehement lan language it is because the case I 1 cite cile fu fully inage Y justifies idies it only to think of I 1 it a young cirl girl scarcely more thin than a child is suddenly exposed to temptation she listens to the siren voice she yields i eldo she falls C contrition 0 nutrition follows swift and relentless but the deed is done and she cannot undo it she lies awake nights contriving con contriving trivin 9 how a she he may return the tile bato watch h before being confronted with proof that she is a thief would not her tender years on only ay 19 plead with the court for JOB jap tice fleet to bay say nothing of sympathy 7 A week or two ago a shooting took place between a man an and d his mi mistress in a room on one of the most popular bet sh aeta of oden ogden the police knew of it the newspapers knew of it but because of the prominence of the parties not a word of it wag was whispered in the news newspapers papers bat but the poor girl fading feeling less restraint probably because becane e she was in tho home of a so schoolmate hool mate purloined por a watch Is hunted down by officers of the law made to stand in open court to plead and is branded as a thief and turned into a vile and vermin infested cell with reputation gone means of earning a livelihood gooe gone everything gone simply a moral human wreck A young man if guilty of delinquency deli quency in may y brave the world and if be he ha bava aln plenty ty of nerve may defy the corive world d and in a manner get on pretty well buta but a but stumble lel god pity her deny it as much muc h as Is 3 you rou will inveigh aa as much as an Y you ou will against the j ustice of I 1 my proposition and in this iao I 1 will i agree gree v with you but it is nevertheless an unalterable fact and so I 1 say I 1 am justified by every law of 0 equity and every ever instinct I 1 stir ti act of humanity to forc forcibly itil call it tan the p publics blics attention 0 o the injustice that sometimes results when the ends of evenhanded even handed justice io Is sought and I 1 would to god my pen were barbad with fire and not a soul of you should sleep steep till this unhappy and unfortunate child is out of prison and her mind and bands are busy with honest employ employment menti X |
