The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

with five young children, aged from 10
to - years, a boy of II years, does
wrong, steals apples from his neigh
bor's orchard, or takes the key of the
pantry. and pliers the jam pots; he is
found out, and we punish him for it.
Do we separate him from his brother
and sister? Do we Danish him from
all his young playmates, and make an
out-cast and pariah of him? No, we
punish him for the fault, admonish him
and there ends the matter. Now, men
are but children Of larger growth. Why
punish them more severely because 1t
is so? Is 1t not enough that he is so
punished? After he has paid the
penalty is he still to be punished? Is
his punishment never to cease? After
paying the penalty of the law, is the
still greater penalty to be his, the pen
atty of loneliness, banishment from all
good influences, deprivation of the
means of honest labor, denial of his
rights as man, and of every good
thing that a man prays, hopes, works,
and lives for?
say to society, this man has paid the
penalty, let that penalty end, when the
prison gates close behind him, and he
once more enters into the active lite OF
the great human family whose father
is God. If we acknowledge the univer-
sal fatherhood of our God, then we
must also acknowledge the universal
brotherhood of man. | say to society
this man is your brother, and however
mistaken his past life has proven to be,
you have still duty to perform for
your brother, if you acknowledge the
universal fatherhOod of God.
/ If you only acknowledge self, and
do not believe in the brotherhood OF
man, and care nothing as to what be-
comes of your fellow-man. then l say
this paper is not written for you
Glass Judgment, and sweeping con
demnation are your ways of dealing
with fallen man, and though this way
of dealing is neither good for the con
, demners nor condemed, it still suits
, the purpose of those who wish to shirl
the duty that is laid upon them. Bu'
I believe that there are many wh(
j, have courage enough to defy thu
worlds opinions, and to set at naugh
! the worlds ways, and because they &C
9 knowledge the universal fatherhood O
God, and brotherhood of man, they ar
n ready and willing to aid and assis
+ their brother, who, through ignoranc
r and sin, has gone astray, and served
8 sentence behind the bars, howeve
Il much they may hate the ignoranc
+ and sin that led him astray.
e I ask society to remember that at
the human character of developed hr
II manity, that conducts us to our notion
e of the character divine. In proportio
p, as the mysteries of mans goodness VI
? fold themselves to us, in that propo
h ton do we obtain an insight int
is Gods" Your brother goes out anon
re you with hope in his heart, believin
b. that in you he has friends; FRIEND
O. willing and ready to assist and pr
x tect him in his upward and onwar
C, way. 1t is seemingly little that /
h. asks, but to him it is everything.
We First, he requires work, and then
h. be let alone to do that work. He h;
es paid the penalty of his former wron
is doing, let the dead past be buried al
of let the present alone be count'
OF against him. Trust him in his wor
le- believe in the sincerity Of his desi
of and craving for new and better fl
nd ure, aid him by counsel and advi
Id when needed. and put before him SOL
nd better place than the saloon and mus
a hall, to pass away his leisure hou
Stop all interference with him
at either police or detectives, except
to Just cause, and you will have few
ate men here for second and third tern
Ter Regarding work, say to society, wo
to should be provided for the discharg
he prisoner from the hour he leaves t
lot prison.
Another duty of society is to :
iIy that some such law as that which tt
ily have in Canada, be passed and put