Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-07
CRIME AND IT'S CURE.

OAOA1u ~ A4ND 1IO OOlOGs
The Lecture of Geo. r. Angel LAST Even
ing-An Array of Important Facts ant
Figures.
The unpleasant weather prevented large
audience from assembling at the House O.
Hope last night to listen to the lecture O
MIR. Geo. t. Angel, of Boston, upon the sub
ject of ':Crime and Its Prevention.'' Those
who faced the storm and were present were
we'll repaid.
He began by saying that the abolition of
slavery, the growth of free governments, the
elevation of labor, the coming up of women
towards equal rights with men, the highe,
protection afforded dumb beasts now than
was afforded colored men twenty years ago.
are indications that the human race is NOV
ing towards a higher civilization. Bat
many battles are still to be fought. Some
how or other, perhaps out of our great
civil war, has sprung an alarming in
crease Of crime. II has more than doubled
in Massachusetts in ten years. In the year
1865 there were 10000 criminals confined in
that State. In 1875 there we're 10000, and
in 1876 and 1877 the numbers had increased
States.
YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS.
The criminals are largely composed of the
youth of our land. Out of 415 convicts
sentenced to the Massachusetts State prison
in 1874 and 1875 moro than one half were,
at the time of war, boys of from six to
sixteen years old, and the same is true of
other parts Of the country. Three-fourths
of the criminals arrested in San Francisco
in 1875 were not over twenty years of age,
as shown by the police records; and about
one-helf Of those charged with larceny and
the lesser crimes were under
twenty-five years of age. Oat
of 1868 convicts in the prison at
Auburn, N. Y, 1882 had received moro or
less education in public schools, colleges and
academies and elsewhere. The chaplain of
the prison declared that the convicts ccm-
posed one OF the most intelligent audiences
ne had ever addressed, and more than 900 of
them were under 80 years of age.
From this subject, coupled with the remark
that only a snlall portion of the criminals
are found in confinement, he passed to
that of war and it's horrors and
SUGGESTED A REMEDY,
part Of a.! tue churches in the land against
it. There is power enough in the Christian
church, he said, to stop almost any form of
way, If 1t be applied. When the next war
threatens, let every clergyman preach a SER
mon against var, lot petitions be- sent
bp tho thousand into Congress
praying that arbitration be resorted to, and
let great prayer meetings be held in which
prayers for the averting of the scourge may
be offered up. He also would have our CON
stitution SO amended as that war shall not
be declared except by a ma jority vote of the
whole nation, upon which question he would
have wives and mothers vote.
Crimes against public health are largely in
creasing. Under this head the speaker made
some very important statements concerning
the diseased meats of animals that die on the
cars from cruel transportation.
At one of the smaller stock yards, over a
thousand dead were taken off in one month.
In another case more than a thousand dead
animals We're taken off one train.
The day he visited the Chicago stock
yards last October, 1888 dead were taken off
the trains.
1t was the rule to put into the stalls the
meat Of every animal that had one breath of
life left on arrival, though hundreds of
thousands were diseased and their meat
poisonous, and it was to be feared that the
meats of some that died on the cars We're
also put into the stalls.
The remedy was improved transportation,
better and moro merciful methods of slaugh-
tering, and a faithful inspection of each ami
NAL before it is killed and of it's meat and
and internal organs Immediately after. Mr..
Av,Cv Al,Dr -4@<l - H.
IN the manufacture and sale in this country
of poisonous and adulterated foods, drinks,
wall papers, other colored papers, cooking
utensils, and articles of clothing and under
clothing and other poisonous articles in
common use.
He stated that one paper he had read b.
fore Boston ASSOCIATION on the subject &C.
cupied eleven and half newspaper columns,
and that it would require an entire evening
to properly treat this subject alone. He
quoted various chemists and health officers
as to the increase of this danger and its
present gigantic growth in this country.
Partial relief can be obtained from this as
has been done in England, by appointing
analysists who are paid by the state to for
ret out crime of this sort, and complete pro-
lection can be obtained by q protective
health association, employing a corps of
scientists IN detecting and exposing adul-
terations in food and drugs, and by publish
ing and driving back upon the manu-
tacturers these. poisonous and dangerous
articles.
This nuisance, said he, is disgrace to the
nation. A New York reporter asked ono of
them sometime since why he didn't 20 south
in winter. "Well," he said, "when they
catches US up here they arrests us and treats
us we'll, and the women-folks brings tracts
to us erin ones; and on the whole faint 9
bad thing. But down there, if you scares
the women, the men gifts on horses, and
when they comes up they puts charge of.
buckshot into Teller; they don't mind them
things down there"
He would first provide something for mer
to do, and then, if they refused to work, and
it became necessary, let them be hunted
and arrested, and receive the extreme penal
ties of the law. For the purpose of tracking
them, dogs, held in check, to prevent them
doing them personal injury, might be en-
ployed.
Mr.. Angel thought it might be necessary
IN some parts of the county to change our
jury system SO that nine should be compe.
tent to render a verdict in cases not involv.
ing life. Also that murderers condemned
to our prisons for life, such as the boy
Pomeroy, who has already made five we'll
planned attempts to escape, should be ether.
lied and have marks pricked into their faces
to make % re-arrest, in case of escape, more
certain. He thought the Delaware practice Of
whipping thieves barbarous, but that incen.
diaries, those who throw railroad trains OIL
the track, those who commit outrages OF
extreme brutality, and the manufacturers OF
poisonous food, etc. might properly be
whipped.
But above all other things is the prouer