The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-18

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The next day she 10 given fen
minutss 70 leave the city, Now
did some kind friend take pity on
her because she had been unfor-
tunate,' had faller among thieves
the whisky sellers, and got drunk
did any one intercede for . con
veyance to take her to her, home,
il perchaDce she had any No.
she henced with greas alacrily
1fw get the meaning OF the. SEN.
tence It 10, she went on foot the
best way she could, while the man
who comes here from Winchester
and gets drunk, is furnished With
ride home at the expense of the
Township. But some one says
the woman wss sTloose character;
as I looked in the face OF the man,
as hs told how he got drunk and
about his good family I thought
the facts did not Hcomport well
with the statement and thought
that Il it had been true, that he
had felt ~ much regret as he ex.
pressed, he would have started off
as soon as he was free to 90, and
made the best of his way home.
instead Of talking OF It ~ he did.
among The large number Of audi
tors present in the Office without
the least evidence Of feeling of
modification on his part; he cer>
tainly did not impress anyone
present, As being very good char
acter. It is due to M. Parry to
say that he only yielded to this
iDfiictton on the township, at tho
urgent request of Mayor Poe.
Whsa viii people learn that there
i 10 NO sex In crime, that the trans
gressor Of law shoald be punished
according to the enormity of tho
crime. irrespective of sex.
| Now VS. ask, wnichr of these
persons showed the best character,
the woman who hedeed with alac-
rity,' in other words went ont of the
city - best she could, or the man
who unblushingly begged a pass
to take him home; We leave the
reader to judge.
But why put the woEan in the
calaboose, don't the city have a
prison especially for women con :
nected with The Homer Have
not others been taken In the street
and conveyed to the female prison?
Then why sho1ld this unfortunate
woman be thrust into the calaboose
infested with bugs that dioth not 2
AT the female prison she would
have had the kind attention of hu-
name women, and no vermln to
contend with. and perhaps some
word dropped by her attendants,
might have been the means oi
changing her character, fer they
act upon the principle that such
women sunk low in the scale OF
society are human s.ill-worthy o!
the best efforts to reclaim them, as
ssGad has mads the reprohats his own,
And elaioed the outcast - his right"
Dotted all over our beautiful
city are whisky saloons, licensed
10 make people drunk, and as crime
is the legitimate result Of the Ii.
quor tra6ic, when the court grant,
the license it is. with the ful
knowledge of the evils that grov
out Of It. Then the city Govern.
ment appoints policemen to spicl
, up'othe victims; first license me-
i to make victims, then another sc
t of men to gather up the fallen vic
> Tins Of the legal trap. But, say
; one. it furnishes employment Ycl
! but At . fearful cost to the powe
Q that sustains the traffic as well a
9 the agent who deals il out. I'll
doom Of the man who puttet
The bottle to his neighbor's liln
and maksth him drunken also
!. s.ares them in the face, as the Law
Of eternal justice are inflexibl,
there viii be no escape. NJ.
. A traveller in America tells
o story OF an emigrant who, bein
/. on his lonely way to the back sci
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