Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-13
pARrGI1.
TwENrY.FouRTH PAPER.

during the trial, to the state of public sen
timent in Columbus must not be misunder-
stood as implying that was frendless, or
that the crime charged was SO atrocious
that had forfeited all consideration from
both my friends and the liberal, level
headed and decent portion of the COM
munity On the contrary, l had the evil
dence daily presented me Of the loyalty Of
the human heart and this loyalty has fol-
lowed me TO the present moment which ac-
counts for my changeless views and con
victions or which rather confirms those
entertained and which were taught me in
the virtuous home of my youth and pre-
served in the family Of which l am the
head. Ny very worst enemies in Colum-
bus-those who could see no redeeming
quality in myself-were the loudest in their
eulogiums of my wife and children, These
children have nowalmost all Of them grown
TO manhood and womanhood, and they
fully Justify the opinions passed upon them
bv the very enemies who ruined their
father
Tie public sentiment, therefore, to which
refer. was the one manufactured by the
filthy and malignant press of the city and
was composed of the usual rabble led by
the socially high and brainy personal
enemies I had made in the interests of the
masses. And the masses-the common or
plain people as they are called while
powerless to aid me, were my hearty and
loval sympathizers both men and women.
These masses were too decent and self
respecting to get up counter demonstrations
to the rabble, and having neither organ nor
voice In the press, they could only express
through private letter or personally their
feelings. Over five thousand ofthese letters
were received, and if the sheriff would ad.
nit the friends who called to see me at the
iail the manufacturing establishments and
themaiorty of the homes of the workingmen
would have to close up. In the face and
in defiance of the combined and scurrilous
press of the city, many Of this class sum
moned on the different venires disqualified
for service by frankly stating that they
would never vote for my conviction and
that did precisely what 1 ought to have
done"
The masses of the people irrespective Of
creed or race were my loyal, unchauging
and devoted friends; the vested interests,
the socially high and their sycophantic fol-
lowers without reference to creed or race
were my enemies, moving hell and earth
for my destruction (they could not move
heavenll From a camp of the A. p, A. to
the mitred head of a Roman bishop my
enemies marshaled their followiugs but
the brave. generous, and loyal masses to
whose service I had early dedicated my
pen. kept their ranks unbroken through the
long weary months Of my trial and through
the many years-the eternty--of my im-
prisonment
The ubramoutane among Catholics and
the unpatrotc among the A. p. A. IS made
common cause, both alike being the natural
enemies of @ man whose forbears trans
mitted 10 their descendants a belief in the
imperishabe principles of 'the fatherhood
OF God and the brotherhood of man, ire
spective of creed, race, or color.
II may be my province further along TO
more specifically illustrate this phase of
the subject, so that the readers Of these
papers will understand that human nature
after all is not as depraved in the aggregate
as the individual exhibitions of it would
lead the unthinking the cynical or the
superficial thinker to suppose. The poet
has truly said that the greatest study Of
mankind is man, and the student Of this
premiet science will even find in the peni-
tentiary and among convicts some of the
very best types of human nature This
may be a startling statement to the 'holier
than thou" class Of human beings, but the
honest criminologist and the experienced
penologist will bear out the assertion For
many years Of my imprisonment through
the humanity Of Governor Bushnell and the
tre.Ivaua- amanffnV-or
friend, Warden Coffin, I had compare
lively little else to do than to study and
write on the varying criminal types Of men
sentenced to the expiation Of their crimes
behind the gloomy walls Of the Ohio peni-
tentiary. The books, pamphlets and papers
I have compiled and written were COM
posed in the atmosphere and environments
best calculated to develop not alone the
exact truth but correct mental impressions
Of crime and criminals And were il
feasible to have written these papers while
a prisoner, instead Of now, years after my
release, and generally on a rush for printers
COPY, weekly they would possess much
more value from the criminologist point Of
view, than they can hope to command from
their disarrauged, desultory, and though
truthful vet necessarily hasty and in
digested character. II is my hope and pur.
pose, however, when the leisure hour finds
me, 10 re-arrange and re-edit these papers
and publish them in book form.
1 am reminded of story which will /.
aptly illustrate the difference numerically
between my influential and malignant per-
sonal enemies and the masses Of my friends, |
the former while few we're potent for evil, /.
and the latter while many we're helpless and .
impotent before the machinery which, aided .
by the press, is miscalled the public senti-
meut Of our cities and communities.
An unsophisucated denizen of apopulous .
city conceived the idea that he could enjoy .
the full fruition of his life only ia the coun-
try. His ideal was a farm, and the rural .
independence which knows not the police. .
man or the "keep.oli-the-grass," " restricted .
liberty with which the urbanite Is raised .
He located close TO the city on a small farm .
determined to enjoy at once the luxuries of .
the town aud the pleasures of the country
Shortly after his country life commenced .
he visited a friend who kept a leading res
taurant ia the city, and made the following
inquiry: