Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-17
|GERS In THE CITIES.
1ere Crime Fiourishes and the Poor
Are Suffering.
rhe Young Demor.lixed a.d Led Astray-
Naken To Prison and Berded with Grin
in>is, and End Themselves a. me
Siiest of the vns-Dr Tai "a
msgc'r. sermon.

Dr. Talm-ge's text Sunday was
psalm Xxx, -: The boar o,st of the
vood doth waste it. and the wild beast
the field doth devour IL"
~ this homely but expressive figure
Sld sets forth the bad infiuences
ich IN olden time broke In upon
heritage, as with swine's foot
ling, and as with swine's snout
ting the vineyar,ls of prosperity.
nnsis true then is true now.
oeen enough trees of right
planted To overshadow the
Tn, had il not been for the
ho hewed them down. The
truth would long ago have
pleted had it not been for the
Is who defaced the walls and
down the pillars. The whole
build have been an Eschol of
clusters had il not been that
bar has wasted il and the wild
|bf the field devoured il.
propose TO point out you those
whom 1 consider To- bc the destructive
asses of society. First, the public
animals. You ought not To bc sur
Used that these people make up a
arge proportion of many communities.
In 1869 of the n, eco people who were
Atry $1,000 were of foreign birth. Many
them were the very desperadoes of
bciety, oozing into the slums of our
tiles, waiting for an opportunity TO
lot and steal and debauch, joining the
large gang of American thugs and cut
/throatS. There are in our city people
whose entire business in life is 10 com
init crime That is as much their bust
ness as 6urisI rudence or medicine or
1erchandise is your business.
AHo IT they bring all their cncr-
gies of body, mind and soul, and
tey look upon the interrcgnumS which
they spend In prison as SO much un-
fortunate loss OF time, Just as You look
upon an attack of influenza or rhcu-
matism which fastens you in the house
for few days. II is their lifetime
business TO pick pockets and blow up
safes, and shoplift, and ply the panel
game, and they have as much pride Of
skill in their business as you have in
yours when you upset the argument
of an opposing counsel or cure "A gun
shot fracture which other surgeons
have given up, or foresec turn in the
market so you buy goods just before
they go up 20 per cent. 1t is their
! business 70 commit crime, and 1 do not
suppose that once in a year the thought
ofthe immortality strikes them.
added to these professional crimi-
mails, American and foreign, there is a
large class Of men who are more or less
Industrious in crime. Drunkenness is
4 responsible for much of the theft. since
il confuses Il mans ideas of proprictv.
and he gets his hands on things that do
not belong TO him. Rum is responsible
for much of the assault and battery.
! inspiring men to sudden bravery
which they must demonstrate, though
it be on the face Of the -He~s->stntle-
man.
You ffcfT,-to pay. the board of every
criminal. from the sncal, thief. who
matches Il spool of cotton, up to some
Anan who cnucts "A BLACK Friday. "
More than that, it touches your heart
N the moral depression of the commun-
ity. You might as well think to stand
In closely confined room where there
are so people and yet not breathe the
II vitiated air as TO stand in a community
where there are so many of the de-
PRAYED without somewhat being con-
taminated. What is the fire that
burns your store down compared with
the confagration which consumes
your morals? What is the theft
of the gold and silver from your
money safe compared with the
theft of your children's virtue? We
are all ready to arraign criminals We
shQRts&t the top of voice, "Stop thicf!!
the police get on the track
II, hatless and in our slip
assist in the arrest. We
~ the bawling rufian and
in off TO justice. and when he
prison what do we do for him?
S 7',N grea sgusto we put on the hand
Fcuffs and TIC hopples; but what prcpar-
z satiOn are sTe making for the day when
Nthe hanGeiffs and hopplcs come off?
Society seems to say to these Grim
mails, ''Vfllain, go in there and rot!'
a when you cneht to say, You are an
offender againafxp Jaw, but we mean
Ito give yoif 1n opportunity TO re-
Pent; we meansto Bclp You Here are
AfRibles and tracts nlIsk Christian inhu-
Il 2nces. Christd died 1oPsCd Lool, and
ye. vast in1proSefnents have been
pc by introducing industry into the
son; but we want something more
hammers and shoe lasts 10 re-
these people. Aycwc want more
3: ermons on the Sabbath day So-
IL does not enjoy their suffer
tha& 1T is attempting 20 reform
Elevate them. The majority of
iinals suppose that society has a
yidge against them. and they i'm turn
We grudRe against society.
srhey are Barber in heart and more
nfuriate when they come out cf Jail
han when they went i'm. Many OF the
#people who go TO prison go again and
again and again. Some years ago. OF
~ 800 prisoners who during the year
had been in Sing Sing. 500 had been
therc before. In house OF correction
In the country, where during "a certain
reach of time there had becu 5000
people, more than 1000 had been there
before. So, in one case the prison.and
in the other case the house OF corrcc-
ton, left them just as bad as they were
before. The secretary of one OF tho
benevolent societies OF New Yorl, saw
lad 10 years OF age who had spent
three years of his life i'm prison. and he
said TO the lad: What have they done
for you TO make you bcttcr"" "yyeu