The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-01-07
THE LASH.
A Word In Favor Of the Whipping
Post
What it Costs the County to Pun
lsh Crime.

The rapid increase Of crime, and the cor.
rsspondins expense attending the arrest,
prosecution end maintenance Of prisoners
after conviction snd sentence, have become
subirc's Of the d~epe-t impos, to those Who
have to shoulder the burden through taxa
ton. The causes of this increase Of CRIME
.re many, and develop ~ the age progresses
aud opportunities Offer.
There 10 slwsys, even under the bsss Of
circumstances, . certain per esn,um Of each
generation that are criminals. But one
great factor ar cause in our modern Grimm
81 history 10 the decentralization that follow.
ed - . natural sequence to the late war.
Young men vhO left the good country
home. aud wholesome restraints vent into
both armies, end came out vicious, dep: avsd
and worthless. These have taken TO the rosd,
and either wander in companies or singly,
plundsrins. rubbing or murierine whenever
and sherever opportunities present them
selves. We do not mean that all tramp
were soldiem-fsr from IL; 3ut We me.n to
say ,hss large number Who we're mustered
out Of both asmies became . curse to socie-
y. and to this clsss we're and IL heiny added
the scum that always exists in large cities
Driven from one, they tramp to another
and are ever on the move from the aveng ing
lash Of Justice. foes to the human race. until
the gslloss. the bullet. or starvation and
disease cut short their career.
Another new element With which We have
had TO deal since the war-and one tha,
hss iscreased crime fourfold-is the negro
Liberated from the restraints which held
| them in wholesome snbjreiion and which
made them producers instead Of consum m
. very large proportion OF them becsm.
consumers inasead Of producer., and lhres
~ sdd,tio"sl burden upon society. They
must iive-if,hey eat not the fruits Of ,hei
; own labor. they cert ,inly do those OF other
There 10 no evading the curse 90 il CAT
be called . curse) that has fallen upon tn
human raee-that IT shall live By the swes
VI i,s brow. There il only one alternative
and that ia /. recourse to crime to evade tn,
the unallersble Eat. And thousands resor
to is-vorss than ell, the number daily in
cseaaes.
Our peni,entiar;es are filled 70 overflov
,ne our county j.ils are crowded. ~
sooner has . session Of . criminal conr
empiied Jail. than it il Immediately file.
BY ano,herse The expen-e Of m,in.aininl
these criminals in our county j.iIs come
directly from the packets Of our people
every dollar Of il. For i, mn.; ne remem
nered that the county jsil never produces
dollar in any shape, manner or iorm. D.
the contrary. the grounds, The Drilling. thu
salaries Of the officers. the food. elothin,
and medicine Of these criminals must be pai
for, and paid BY honest PeoPle-not GRIM
insls.
This. Of late, has become such busde
- to demand the immediate attention d
our legislator. To give the reader an lie
Of the eIten, Of II, ws will take the book
Of one Justice of the Peace of this CITY
Justice Clark-ior the past month, and ~
the numler Of criminals that h.ve b-el
convicted in hrs c"ur,, and the terms Z
which they were sentenced: