The Penn's Grove record., 1891-04-24

her child amid the most abandoned wretch
Of the town. Many OF che offenders 10 th
prison sclpt on the floor, with nothing blu
eermin-covered blanket over them. The
people crowded and wan and wasted a
half suffocated and Infatuated. i said to I
men, How do you stand 1t hereS' &c
knows" said one man, I'VE lave to stand il
Oh, they will pay you when they get OIL
Where they burned down one house tn
will burn three. They will strike deeper t
hssassin's knife. They are this minute pie
ting worse burglaries.
Some Of the city jails are the best places
know Of to manufacture footpads, vag
bonds and cutthroats. Yale College is n
30 well calculated TO make scholars, nor HIS
ward so well calculated to make scientist
nor Princeton 30 well calculated to ma
theologians, as many Of our jails are Gale,
lated to make criminals. All that those me
do not know of crime after they nave bee
In that dungeon for some time. Satan
Vaccination cannot teach them. In the ii
tufferable stencil and sickening surrounding
Of such places there Is nothing but disea!
Tor the body, idiocy for the mind, and deaf
for the soul. Stifed air and darkness an
vermin never turned a thief into an hone
man.
We want men like John Howard and S
william Blackstone and women like Eliz'
beth Fry to do for the prisons of the Unite
States what those people did In other day
for the prisons Of England. I thank Go
for what Isaac T. Hopper and DR.. Wine
and Mr.. Harris and scores of others hay
done In the way Of prison reform, but W
want something more radical before wi
come the blessing of him who said, II was 1
prison. and ye came unto me-"
Again, In your effort to arrest this plague
OF crime you need to consider Enthusiastically
officials. Woe unto thee, o land, when thy
king is a child, and thy princes drink in the
morning" 1t is a great calamity to q city
when bad men get into public authority.
Why was 1t that in New York there wa,
such unparalleled crime between 1856 and
lS7lf IL was because the judges Of police in
that city at hat time for the most part were
as corrupt as 1.-THE vagabonds that came before
them Tor trinl, Those were the days of high
carnival for election frauds, assassination
and forgery. We had all kinds of rings.
There was one man during those years that
got one hundred nj twenty-eight Thousand
dollars in one year for serving the public.
1t is no compliment to public authority
when we a " In all the cities of the country,
walking abroad, men and women notoriou.
for criminality unwhipped of Justice. They
are pointed ont to you in the street day By
day. There you find what are called the
fences" the men who stand between thi
thief n the honest man, sheltering tn,
thief, and at a great price handing over the
goods to the owner to whom they belonged
There you will find those who are called thu
''skinners, " the men who hover around Wal
street, with great sleight Of band in bond
and stocks. There you find the funera
thieves, the people who 60 and sit down AND
mourn with families and pick their pockets.
And there you find the confidence men,
who borrow money of you because they
u dead child In the house and want t
bury. 1t, when they never had a house Of
family; or they want to go to England and
get a large property there, and they wanl
money back by the very next mail.
There are the "harbor thieyes,n tn,
''shoplifters," the ''pickpockets,n famou
all over the cities. Hundreds of them with
their faces in the Rogues' Gallery, yet do
ing nothing for the last five or ten years
but defraud society and escape Justice
When these people go unarrested and un
punished it Is putting a high premium
ais of this country, "What a safe thing il
Is to be a great criminalr Let the Law
swoop upon them. Let it be known in
this country crime will have no quarter
that the detectives are after IT.: that the
police club is being branaished; that the iror
door OF the prison 10 being opened; that tn,
Judge is ready to call on the case. Too gresa
leniency to criminals Is too great severity t.
Again in your effort to arrest this plague
crime, you need to consider the idle popu.
alton. OF course ! do not refer to peopl, |
who are getting old, or to the sck or to those
who cannot get work, but I tell you to lool |
,ut for those athletic mon and women wht |
will NOT work. When the French noblemar
asked why he kept busy when he had 5,
ng 50 | may not hang myself.h / do MOI
,ars who the man is, you cannot afford to b,
die. It is from the idle classes that th,
classes are made up. Character |
water, gets putrid IL 1t stands still TOT |
ong. Who can wonder that in this world
where there is SO much to do, and all tn,
iosts OF earth and heaven and hell ar.
,lunging into the conflict and angels are fly.
ng and God is at work and the universe Ii
l-quake with the marching and counter
marching, that God lets His Indignation fal
lpon a man who chooses tdleness.
] have watched these do-nothings who
pend their time stroking their beard and
etouching their toilet and criticisng in
lustrious people. and pass their days ant
lights In barrooms and club houses, loung-
ng and smoking and chewing and card
They are not only useless, but
hey are dangerous. How hard 1t 10 for
hem to while away the hoursi Alas, 70,
If they do not know how to while
an hour, what will they do when
hey have all eternity on their hands
'hese men for a while smoke the best cigars
nd wear the best clothes and move In the
ighest spheres but 1 have noticed tuat
cry soon they come down to the prison, tn.
lmshouse, or stop at the gailows.
The police stations of this cluster Of cities
urnish annually between two and three hun,
red thousand lodgings. For the most part
hess two and three hundred thousand lodg
ngs are furnished to abio bodied men and
7omen-people as able to work as you and !
re- When they are received no longer al
ne police station because they are repeat
rs they go to some other station and SC
hey keep moving around. They get their
BOD at house doors, stealing what they car
y their hands N in the front basement
lille the servant is spreading the bread in
back basement. They will not work.
lime and again, In the country districts,
hey have wanted hundreds and thousaudi
laborers. These men will not 20. They
not want to work. I have tried them. ]
ave set them TO saving wood In my cellar
see whether they wanted TO work. I Of
red to pay them well for 1t. have heard
le saw going for about three minutes, and
len l went down. and 10! the wood, but no
wi They are the Fest of society, and they
and 10 the way OF the Lords poor who
ought to be helped, and must be helped,
ID will be helped.
While there are thousands ofindustrious
e n who cannot get any work, these men
ho do not van any work come in and
axe that plea. ! am in favor of the res.
ration of the old fashioned whipping post
r Just this n class Of men who will not
ork--sleeping at night at public ex.
in the station house; during the dag
ting their food at your doorstep. In
isonment does not Scare them. They
0uid like it. Blackwelfs Island or Sing
ng would be a comfortable home for them.
ley would have no objection to the aims !
'use, for they like thin soup, IL they can,
u get mock turtle.
propose this for them: On one side OF
em put some healthy work, on the other
lie put a rawhide. and let them AXE their
DICE. 1 like for that class Of people tbs
mt hill OF fare that Paul wrote out for
, Thessalonian ~loafers, III any work not,
should he eat" By what law OF
d or man is it right that you and I should
] day IN and day out, until our hands are
stored and our arms ache and our brain
Is numb, and then he called upon to sup
what In the United States ace about
o million losfera They are . very danger
5 class. Let the public authorities keep
Dir eyes on them.
Again, among the uprooting classes I place
!, oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain
tent Is Christening, but altar that, when IL
ives q man TO the wall, aud he hears his