San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-06
CRIME AND ITS CAUSES. .
Or What Makes Our Criminals.


iect few days since by an article in thu
Express, upon this great evil, and how t
abate IL. Now this is an age of thought
and of reason, and hence by reason We
discriminate between good and evil, cause
and effect, and in reasoning we deduct
this concl usion, which evidences itself ia
proof, which we denominate science
This then becomes a scientific subject
with which we are dealing and will give
this enquirer thought or two in crime
its cause, ETC., and could tell him its
cures, Again as to question.
What makes criminals?
Perverted natural laws makes crimi-
nails, trampling under foot that intiutiye
guide, as to who, and who are not adapt
ed. A great many united by law, and not
by nature, are uncongenial, as. the wife of
an uncongenial pair expressed 1t after a
fire in the house, in the way of big
quarrel. Seeing the cat and dog peaca0ly
laying side by side on the hearth said Old
man, why can't we live that way? You
happy they seem TO be. Oh, but says the
husband you just tie them
together, and you'ell see fur fly.
Such life as this is often too common,
and such evils spring from it, as is again
illustrated in the saying, ''live in torment
and you are sure to raise up little tor
menters." These evils are the result nf a
natural Law vieIa ed from some
cause otVentimes the cause of
money. As matter of fact in this war
like life the combative organs of the
brain are infamed The animal growth
versus the moral and intellectual, and
hence we have the animal predominating,
too much tare in the wheat field, conse-
quently no wheat.
Say two persons, very avaricious, thirst
ing for gain Of money, perhaps both sides
of the house have lived solely for money,
taking the advantage in trade, as the
word is, at all times looking how to beat,
and in this think it is right, the organs of
gain versus moral, conscientious re-
straint, now are even larger in the child
than parent, and he will be found to
avoidably stick to his fingers which will
get him before the courts for crime.
Why is all this? Holy writ says:
"Everything shall be known after its own
kind" Oaks grow from acorns, wheat
from wheat. You hear people blame a
man for being a coward; you will find in
every single instance a quiet passive
woman married to a dOminecring man;
perhaps money the object married. and
fear versus love always present. and the
mother stamped him thus: he is to be
pitied not cenSured. ard such children
may be. to some extent moral. though
not as much so a. his mother would have
given him. if her moral mind could have
been cultivated. Take drunkar1s. anoth-
times, for they inherit it, and
when old enough take to it like
ducks to water Whisky often is a great
evil Some time since visited a family
and saw in the cradle an idiot, some eight
wears old or more, the evils Of whisky. A
great many 1puny, sickly children, who
never seem to start off to grow. LOOK at
Lo Co. no hn iS
or chewer, or both. Children delicate
little things. little sickness to them like
frost to the flower. | once saw two
children, the father and mother
both used tobacco they never walked and
both died at two and three years.
There is always cause for evil
Just as Jacob deceived and lied to
his father Isaac. Jacobs children lied
and deceived him. Just as Jacob set up
the striped poles, and from mental i'm
preston raised herd of ring Streaked
and striped cattle. Just so is all proginy
governed and it is an unerring scientific
law. in all nature. can show you pro-
WINGS in the criminal line like this. A boy
the age of II, whose mother was before
his birth. forced to work in a butcher
shop. cutting up meat, and would even
90 TO the slaughter pens, and assist there.
Her little boy at the age of ~ induced
and decOyed little plavmates all to use
his Ratchet to chop them up, for fun. On
the contrary for good.
Take Zera Colbornes' mother before he
was born. She got her living by weaving
figured cloth, and would stop and reckon
how many of this and how many of that
will make figure OF this or of that and
her son at would often be found repeat
ing how many of this and that will make
this. He astOnished the world and be-
came the author of Zera ColbOrne's
arithmetic, which, embOdying the same
kind of reckoning. and which lives today
no doubt, in the minds OF hundreds of
teachers. Science is proven facts and will
awaken a thought to the thoughtful
AS is illustrated in the life Of IShmael
how reasonable and natural Hager's
hating, hateful feelings, caused by casting
her out among wild bGasts-shOuld have
made him a wild man; that Hannah's
piOuS devotion should have made Samuel
take to the altar. as ducks to water: that
Napoleon should be one of the greatest
warriors, though none of his ancestors or
brothers showed any such knack, is &C
counted for in the history OF his mother
Now. Mr.. Editor, | have stated that
which we will realize in every day life.
and | want to conclude this all truthful
article in the life OF Sampson, and it
would be well for every young man to
read the life of Sampson, and scratch his
reasoning faculties for its solution. Many
Simpsons of TODAY are taken captive by
DelilahS. Man wants and Graves female
devotion. and those who know how to
careSs and love and impress man are more
attractive, and generally the case, tn
modern day Sampson. does not find love
and kindness expressed at home as he
finds among Delilahs, and hence his de-
parture: but in all such you may begin tC
reason and that great fountain OF love a.
home is all. More anon. AN NJ. D.