The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-29

ed with the 'push's" cade Of laws. No
oath is administe cred, and there Is no
ceremony or form of Introduction what
soever, although the whole police force
Of Australia think otherwise.
PUSH government is in all cases
monarchical. Each push" is ruled by
an elected king" who retains office
for life or good conduct, and whose
power within certain we'll defined linn
its is absolute.
The first and most stringent principle
of push" law enforces obedience to
constituted authority, what the
| king says goes" is their own phrase,
and contravention of the maxim Is
punishable in the first instance with
the sock" in the second with death.
The sock Is not an entirely original
species of torture, but it is popular with
all larrikins, who dearly love an oppor-
tunity Of witnessing It's infection. The
offender is stripped, grasped and
strapped face downward along an ordi-
nary wooden bench, whereupon the eX-
ecutioners beat him in turn with a
stocking filled with wet sand until his
flesh is completely raw. He is then
sailed and kept in durance until recov-
cry. On such occasions proceedings are
conducted with the gravest decorum;
no one is permitted to speak, and unne-
cessary violence is sternly prohibited.
No sympathy is manifested for the VIC
tim, and such q circumstance as pro-
test against the barbarity of the pun
ishment is absolutely unknown. The
death penalty Is rarely exacted except
against outsiders who have incurred
the push vengeance; but in either
case the method employed is the same.
The king" chooses for executioners
score of his subjects, of whom at least
seven are the latest recruits of the Or
der. The victim, who is often stalked
for months before he can be found In
or decoyed to favorable spot IS.
when caught, surrounded, stunned ana
thrown to the ground. No lethal weap-
on is employed, but each of the push
silently kicks, and continues to Kick,
the body Of the PROSTATE wretch until
life is extinct. The whole twenty are
thus equally rendered guilty of murder,
and probably no member of any push
has been enrolled for a longer period
than two years without being thus
stamped with the hallmark of push
DOM" which is the brand of Cain.
Each member of push on enter
ing his order signs his name in the
Push Book" and is by that simple act
unwittingly constituted criminal for
he becomes an immediate accessory af-
ter the fact to all the outrages perpe-
trated by the push"
If member desires to sever his con-
necton with his push or to depart
from the push" district in order to re-
side elsewhere, he Is allowed to do so
only after signing a confession of hav-
ing single handed committed the last
capital crime of which the push is
Jointly and severally guilty. This doc
umenta-and there are many such-is
handed to the king" who files 1T in
the Push Book" which precious port
folio is naturally kept in place of Sc
curity. This book is the one really
weak spot in the push" system, for
once lost and conveyed to the hands OF
authorities the whole push" must
stand before the bar of justice self-ar-
raigned and self-condemned as muir
derers and accessories. No push
however, realizes the danger that men
aces. and in their blind ignorance actu-
ally believe that their safety depends
upon the careful preservation of these
CHASTITY memorials. At important
gatherings the book is required to be
produced so that members may nave
an opportunity of reassuring them
selves by perusing confessions which
they fatuously imagine transfer and
fasten their joint burdens upon the
shoulders of absent individuals.