Evening journal., 1901-03-26
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than worse. Tha sailor and the soldier.
until recent years, met il in the same
way. and with no loss of spirit or 10y
atty to their flag Custom. fer them
has d.ssociated IL from disgrace. 1t
was simply retribution. In civil life
however, to the grown man, II is, and
always was, mark of degradation in
the eyes Of the community But as a
penalty for crime it is consequence
of degradation rather than a cause Of
it. 1t was the crime that really de-
graded.
lLAsHES WORSE THAN GUILLO-
TINE
"The criminal breads whipping main
lly, as the boy does, because It hurts.
Ia French physician, at the head Of the
lgreat prison hospital at IoulOn, In a
work on the characteristics OF c0nvicts
has said that the abolition of punish
lment, accompanied by torture, mas ne
suited in greatly augmenting the num-
Der Of hOmicides A convict, whom
he quotes, had been sentenced to fifty
stripes.
All, said the man, that Is worse
than fifty strokes Of the guiliOtine- One
suffers during 1t, and after IT, too
let us admit that, degraded as such
man is by his brutal act and the brutal
heart behind il, he is furthhr degraded
by the whipping to which he may be
sentenced. So far as concerns his re-
'lations TO his particular friends and as
s0ciates, he ought to be; and this,
however we may deplore h s fall in the
eyes Of the world at large, is a strong
argument for the iniiiction of this par
lticular penalty.
SOCIAL STING GOES DEEPEST.
The social sting often gers deepest
A man hates to lose caste among those
with whom he associates familiarly. The
term jail-bird' shows how the com
immunity regards the man who has been
lonca sentenced to imprisonment. But
his matas often look upon him as none
the worse for IT, He has simply bAn
lunlucky. Let him be stripped and put
under the lash, however and he sinks
in their estimation. 10 may Indeed.
have another good tendency from that
livery fact. IL may drive him from out
lcf their company into that of honest
men again. But, be this as ii may, TO
lfog cns criminal deters, by the very
disgrace of it, hundreds from crime.
ITO boys 1t could bring little of dis
lcredlt or disgrace. It is a remedy that
the world has always recognized as be-
longing to their time Of life. In the
great schools of England birching has
been freely dealt out by the hist teach
ers, and it brings no shame, unless
there be a want of pluck to stand IL
bravely.
RESULTS IN SCOTLAND.
In Scotland whipping was strongly
recommended as the general punish
ment for Juvenile offenders. in a Paria-
mentary report presented in 1895, by a
departmental committee appointed TO
lcOns.der the subject. In 1898, 1856 boys
had been thus fOgged insbsad OF being
lsent to JAIL in 1894 PCS; but the effect
Of this report was such that in 1886
There We're 46S sentences to whipping
land only 3SS to Imprisonment, while
there was a diminution Of the total
number of juvenile offenders convicted
by 17S.
Virginia, in 1898. reverted TO a sim
liar policy by statute authorizing
whipping to be substituted for fine OF
Imprisonment, at the discretion of the
court, as the sentence upon a convic-
ton for crimh of any boy under lf
years Of age, provided the consent OF
his parent or guardian be first given
MAY BE WHIPPED IN PRIVATE
Let any one familiar with the ad-
lministraion of criminal justice, and
ldesiroUs to make it better, turn the
light of his own experience on this
subject; and as he looks back on the
mOnOtonous routine of the police court
with its sentence after sen.
itence inflicted on the habit
lual rounder, to whom the Jail has b.
'lcome a home, he must see cause T.,
iconsider If one good whipping at thu
outset might net often have save,