Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-01-09

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ough to take AWAY all SeJf-respect, tina
he loarns to lel-k urion life as of little
value. And Thus he l.nyes na,.e jalil O
g.c1uate fr5n the groJyeat sohocl oil
crime, ready with his criminal jan
guage, hl.l distorted Imagination, his
b!lll cd sensibilfdiels, his self-rocqect
ard re pect for human life gone. ready
WITH .ll these to enter u-cn a career
OF crime. Thus THE punishment which
THE Jail inflicbs does not in ore degree,
imr.'0vo ttc physical, mental CIR moral
corpi,Ucn cf the prisoner ara only
scrtll L i'm forth to swell UAe c.0me ra-
tio.
Tr,m The Jail if the missioner is SON
treo1, his I exit place Of pun. rnert is
tle i-1lmG ory Or prllon according to
his age Ard willie 01is provision is
r.-lt ...r,t the younger should mot be
al we'd - cJ-1late with Uho cider
/ cr.r diQll, stlil tie cCnGlJSiCrs and pro-
uflcrs in tae ralc.n5tCEes are not
IT, as Will -rcInce the moral
stu ct hcf the young criminal to any
Coyrce. WhetLar the criminal is
so-g from the Jail to the reformatory
or To The prison. he is sentenced for d
definite period of time. Nothing
could be mere absurd. AS Though
civlliars could determine beforehand
how lors it would taIke to reform a
man, 10 develon IN his nature a moral
force ITO help him to re LIST future temp
tlJ3oGs, to reconstruct his brain so
thai r'asCn nav rule.
Nov VI, lat means ere provided for
the 1c1,cm Of re criu'l'rlJl while he is
in rc13n? He lis given food, required
to work aIbcg; six hours a dry, Drovid
ed v. n n u-lTfortz1lie bed ard 10 far
as rlay;I,cal wants ard comforts are
concerned, he is we'll sucOlied. But
rlotIh'rg at 2ll is done for his moral
future, s.nd so Wien he gees from the
pm, IN branded not Clly with the rame
OF Clinral but in manw cases with
Tire "lcck-Eep" gait and finds himself
wiz out friends Cr the krclwlo5-e Of
amy omr,oymo-C save the hum5lest. it
is not surprising that he should long
f-r the prison again. Scornei by the
class Cf society who might help him, he
seeks the Glars which will receive him.
HIS becomes their leader. And as vain
and proud CT his position as a ruler
of nations, he seeks still higher honors
! himself tack in prison and now what
are the results? His sensibilit,es are
s5il mere 'blunted, hts vanity increased,
It's daring strengthened and his intel
l!go-,c in his profession increased.
This is what the rrison does for the
criminal. Surely the ratio Of crime is
only increased.
imprisonment for life and capital
punishment aim to prevent crime by
removing from the criminal the power
of committing Ut. How many crimes
are prevented by these means? In the
first place, when a criminal commits
a oriIme, he either does not think of the
results, or else he hCOes amid dares in
some way he can avoid thon. So that
even if he kLlows The result of a certain
act will be Imprisonment for life ac-
cordng to the sentence, he ctill so
firmly believes that by good behavior,
or some chance means he may escape,
that, as LNmbros and many others af-
finn, he is not prevented from the
crime. But what about hanging? The
utillty of legal punishments depend on
their Justice and the general recogni.'
t,Cn of their justice. How far Ia capt.
bal punishment recognized as just?
BeCcaria, Hume. Barrett. Leonard, Sir
Vim. Meredith. Benithlam, John Bright
arid Blackstone. all denounce lit as a
relic of 'barbarism, and agree THAT from
the very fact THAT it was the first Dun
i5hment used, lit is MO longer suitable
means Capital punishment" says
John Bright, destroys the reverence
for life; for it croclaims THE fact that
kings, parllaments. judges and jurles
determine how and when men may be
put to death." Not only is it the lack
of reverence for life displayed by caDi-
tai punishment but most of all the in
terest taken in such executions that
rerders. the death penalty Worse than
useless. The scenes of executions and
Eanglngs are published in such accu-
rate descriptions, pictured in such life
like reality, that instead of inspiring in
society terror and horror for crime
the criminal, and perhaps the one, who
but for that wonld not have been one,
are stirred to criminal action. 1t is
not fear, butt the certainty of punish
ments that make them effectual. 1t
is true that legal punIiShments only
raise the risks which the criminal as
sumes" and the greater the risk to
be run the more desperate the crimi-