The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-08-16
THE SERVITUDE SYSTEM.
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In the majority the present system penal
tud does not reform criminals Why? thing
existence produce the very
conditions it is striving annhiae harsh be-
deals with criminals ma discriminating be-
youthful These are not the
OF its failure, but they
essay
Let note the condition of convicted today
his conviction he transported these
punishment Once inside the great walls after the gates
have changed behind him. he has two alternatives submission
death Nearly all submit Life sweet prison.
day forward to the his release the
most petty details mapped him.
hand of He regulates rules
refractory punishment comes swift and
The wise prisoner submits the inevitable
of it. He isolated from his fellow Silence imposed
He left his imagnngs. If they bad he is bad
This condition of affairs does away with independence
slave Then the day of his release he is full liberty with
previous preparation The consequence that
out of five the criminal becomes temporarily intoxicated with
the Of his freedom He mistakes liberty for license He
himself the
follows swiftly.
the prisoner released he is given miserable pittanc of
few dollars This expended quickly If he has
in the meantime starvation him the He fall
theft charity He generally preference
the the latter distributed by the soaed organzed
Society does receive penness xponer with open
Therefore he compelled associate with his old class for
onshp for he must associate with The old temptations
placed before him. Once he back in the ums with the
glamour of the dance halls drink shops
criminals and but the sums forever Our poet
has fitting appelaton He
wll-so he falls
The present system stiles the higher emotions From
men the criminal enters the he is merely machine,
speak He classified, catalogued, still
greater machine called the institution And the institution only
unit in still greater machine called the And it only unit
the He supposed to know nothing either of Pato
of Pades He leads monotonous existence In
the criminals faculties fail under the
grinding day day. year year Then goes
The reformaoy system nauguaed the years.
Of the greatest strides made toward the right conception
criminal problem Its object the juvenile offender
from the hardened criminal and while his faculties still
mmatured to shape them into form which will good
citizen instead of a awbreaker
In taking up the criminal problem for solution it should
lbe kept mind that the criminal abnormal product
freak anything of this kind He
misguided human. He is beast, but intensely
The criminal is product of unnatural civilization.
The human created for the qualification of
The human created for the qualification it,
Yet such the state of affairs today Many suffer that few
have pleasure Universal socialism the natural of
mankind All artificial Universal socialism will eradicate
crime It will eradicate It will do with of the
greatest evils assailing mankind today
Wise penoogs beginning realize that kindness
effective than hashnes and they shaping their actions
noble hearted who devong their ame
iorang the harsh conditions of the criminal Mrs
Booth the Little Mother" of Sing Sing such May she
achieve