New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-06
CRIME AND EDUCATION.
THE SUBJECT BEFORE THE SOCIAL
SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.
PAPERS ON IMMIGRATION AND MoNoPOLIEs-
DIR. wAYLAND on THE POWER OF THE
DEAD,

Saratoga Springs, n. y, Sept. B (SpcciaD.-The
American Social Science Associations department of
Jurisprudence opened this morning with an adj
dress by the chairman, Professor Francis Wayland,
dean OF the Yale Law School A paper read
by S. T. Dutton, of Ncw-Haven, on Education and
Crimes lie said that in former attempts TO prove
that education IS specific for crime too much has
been made of statistics, while important factors have
been overlooked, 1t has been forgotten that crime
is largely physiological and comes from inheritance.
The fact has also bben overlooked that education has
been In the past almost purely intellectual and hence
unsuited 10 act directly upon criminal tendencies.
Education has, however by long, slow process,
produced those moral and social conditions that
favorable to the detection Of crime and the restraint
| of criminals. Mr. DuttOn showed that heTedty IS
| the most considerable element in crime, but that
ntemperance and immigration are Of vast importance.
| Modern philanthropy Is the direct outcome OF edlr
cation and this it is that IS solving many problems
| relating TO crime. In order I'd make education a
direct curative for crime certain things are essential
in the methods Of training the young First, 1t must be
remembered that physical nfrmlties are reflected in
the moral character OF the individual; therefore,
physical culture and the Of health must be Of
! first moment in school training Second the State
must inaugurae child work by the establish
| ment of kindergartens, especially 800 for all
neglected Children and for those whose surroundings
arc 50 bad as 10 endanger their moral welfare. Third,
manual training must be present In the entire school
curriculum. The study Of nature the pursuit OF the
manual arts and the play of strong moral influences
are calculated TO children TO honest and useful
| citizenship
A paper was submitted by W. NJ. F. Round, Of New
| York, on Immigration and Its Relation 10 Crime In
| America
THE Economic Law. OF Monopoly" was the subject
treated at great length by President T. b. Andrews,
Of Brown University. No economic laws, he said,
| prevent the permanent existence of monOpOies or
the extorton by them of prices more or less beyond
| those which competition would impose. 1t Is I'M
doubtedy conceivable that monopollsts should sell
at a mere fair advance cost Just as it is that com
pettve producers should give away their wares out
right But as no economic force leads to either OF
these results, the economist cannot take account OF
| them, save as baro incalculable possibilities. in
most of substantive Industries monopoly pro
duction is to arise II 1t Mas not already done
So and only sort OF legislative regulation can
protect consumers from having 10 pay ncclessly high
for their products. If things left to drift the
measureess and ntrnsically benign power Of massed
resources and central control will without fail inTe
TO the good Of the few and not that Of the nany The
rich will grow richer and the poor poorer. The ulti
mate victims VIII be the laborng masses and the dc
voices of the feebler industries where effective com
binatiOn is the least possible.
lie further added that while he might DO considered
an alalmlst he was not alarmed. Our sole present
needs information courage and willingness TO take
steps in industrial evolution so soon as they are
The Dead Handa was the title of a paper read
tonight by the Rev Or. II. L. Wayand Of Philadel-
pha. He asked how far can meu allow themselves
TO be held motionless in the dead hand of former
generation A man may get. all he can under the
| forms OF law, and use 1t as he will and may pre-
scribe absolutely how hts property shall be used after
his death These have been reckOned axioms and the
strength of the Will of the dead man seems to gain WITH
age The requests of the dead are blindly followed
long after their easonabeness has become notorious
wills made in passion, for spite in nj OF Jealousy
or vanity This Is equally true OF beqlesits for so, SO,
called charitable purposes. 1t Is absolutely certain
that the teststor will be absolutely ignorant OF me
needs of the generation following him. Any system
which holds us mi the dead hand of former generations
is conspiracy against human liberty, human progress
| hulnan welfare