The Iola register., 1891-04-17


fists, nor Princeton so well calculated
to make theolOgians. as many of our
jailS are calculated 10 make criminals
All that those men do not know of
crime after they have been in that dun
geon for some time Satanic machina-
tion can not teach them.
1t is no compliment TO public author
ity when We have in all the cities of the
country, walking abroad. men and wo-
men notorious for criminality, un-
whipped of injustice. They are pointed
out to you in the street day by day.
There you find what are called the
fences. the men who stand between
the thief and the honest man. shelter
ing the thief and at a great price hand
ing over the goods TO the owner to
whom they belong. There you will find
those who are called the ''skInners,"
the men who hover around Wall street.
with great sleight of hand in bonds and
stocks. There you find the funeral
thieves, the people who go and sit
down and mourn with families and pick
their pockets.
When these people 90 unarrested and
unpublished. it is putting high premi-
um upon vice. and saying to the Young
criminals of this country. what a safe
thing It is to be a great criminal" Let
the law swOOp upon them. Let
Il be known in this country that crime
will have no quarter, that the detec-
tiveS are after it. that the police club is
being brandished, that the iron door of
the prison is being opened, that the
Judge is already TO call on the case. Too
great leniency to criminals is too great
severity to society.
Again in your effort TO arrest this
plague OF crime. you need TO consider
the idle population. When the French
nobleman was asked why he kept busy
when he had so large a property, he
said: II keep on engraving so l may
not hang myself do not care who
the man is, you can not afford to be idle
Il Is from the idle classes that the
criminal classes are made mp. Charac-
acter. like water. gets putrid if it stands
still too long. Who can wonder that,in
this world, where there is so much to
do, and all the hosts of earth and heav-
and he'll are plunging into the conflict.
and angels are flying, and God is at
work. and the universe is aquake with
the marching and counter-marching,
that God lets his Indignation fall upon
q man who chooses idleness? They are
not only useless, but they are danger
ou@
By what | Nv OF God or man is it right
that you and should toll day in and
day cut, until cur hands are tlistered
and our arms ache and our brain gets
numb. and then be called upon to sup
port, what in the United States are
about 100000 lOafers! They are
very dangerous class. Let the public
authorities keep their eye on them.
Again: Among the uprooting class
es | place the oppressed poor. Poverty
10 certain extent is chastening: but
after that, when it drives man to the
wall, and he hears his children cry in
vain for bread, it some times makes him
desperate. | think that there are thou
sands OF honest men lacerated into vag-
abOdism. There are men crushed un-
der burdens for which they are not half
paid. While there is no excuse for
even in oppression, state
it as a simple fact that much of the
5COunGrelIsm OF the community is con-
sequent upon i'll treatment. There are
many men and women battered and |
bruised and stung until the hour of des- !
pair has come, and they stand with the !
ferocity Of a wild beast which. pursued /,
until ii can ran no longer, turns round. |
fOaming and bleeding, to fight the |
hounds.
There IS another layer of poverty and |
restitution. You hear the incesSant |
Eailing for bread and clothes and fire. |
Their eyes are sunkcn. Their cheek |
bones stand out. Their hands are damn |
with slow consumption. Their flesh is |
pulled pD with drOpsies. Their breath |
IS like that of the CharEal house. They .
hear the roar OF the wheels OF fashion |
overhead. and the gay laughter of men
and mGid@ns, and wonder why God gave |
10 others SO much and to them so little. |
some OF them thrust into an infideli- |
y like that of the poor German girl |
who, when told in the midst of her
that God was good. said: |
NO, no good God. Just lock at me.
No rood God"
In this cluster of cities, whose cry OF
want interpret. there are said to he.
Is faC as | can figure it up from the re-
lortS. about 100000 honest poor who
ire dependent upon individual. state
md city charities. If all their voices
.Ould come up at once is wolsd be a
Erean that would shake the foundations
Il the city, and bring ali earth and
heaven TO the rescue. But. for the
nos: part, itsutfers unexnressed. II
itf in silence. gnashing its teeth and
ucking the bleed of its own arteries,
Waiting the Judgment day.
g. TINS wayeAaf vagrancy and hunger
ad nakedness that dashes against our
ront doorstep, If the roofs of all the
lOuses OF destitutiOn could be lifted 50 4
re could look down into them Just as
'Oc looks, whose nerves would be
tren9 enough 10 stand its And vet
here they are. The $4,000 sewing wo-
leR IL these three cities, some of them
D hunger and cold, working night after
light, until sometimes the blood snurts
'Om nostril and lips. 9
| should not wonder if they had a
ood deal better time than we in the fu-
ire, 10 make up for the fact that they
ad such bad time here. 1t would he lust (
Ike Jesus to say: Come up and take I
lie highest seat. You suffered with :
e on earth: ROW be !glorified with Me
heaven" @. Thou weeping One of l
ethany! o, Thou dying One of the
'0SS. Haze mercy on the starving.
eezing, homeless poor of these great !
tiesI ?
want ven to be made the SWORN o
lends of all city evangelism and ali :.
swsboys' lodging houses and all chill
ems aid societies and Doreas societies. j
lder the skillfui maRipulation of wives 2
ID mothers and sisters and daughters: '
t the spare garments of y0ur ward II
bas be fitted 10 the limbs of the wan u
ID shiyeriug. n
/ should not wonder il that hat that Il
IL give should come back a jeveled II
roneS, or If that garment that you p
nd ont from your wardrobe should u.
be whitened, and somehoy o'