Evening journal., 1901-03-26
Also Thinks Lash Is PreVCn-
tive of Crime
LASH WORSE THAN CUILLOTIYE
FIOgging Of One Criminal, by Its Dis
grace, DcterS Hundreds
From Crime

Whipping as punishment for
orime lis gaining many advocates. who
point cut the poor results OF modern
humanitarian corrective methods. In
the current number Of the Green Bag.
Simeon r. Baldwin, Iii D., OF New
Haven, has an article, in which he
says
About the middle OF the last CEN
tury n wave OF humanitarian senti-
ment rolled over the civilized world.
lt began in the United States and end
ed In Europe 10 brought with IL many
good things. II left behind 1t also
certain amount OF sediment Part of
this sediment was n mushy conception
of the relations OF criminals TO society.
What was society to do with them?
Wdsc they, after all, very much in
fault? Had they not been children OF
evil. by inhsrtan0o from ancestors for
whose rascality or It's consequences
they ought not TO be held responsible?
What right had one man 20 punish an
other? Was that not an affair that bo-
longed solely to God?
WHERE DELAWARE WAS WISE
>. Under the influence OF such coEsid-
cratcn whipping was struck out OF
tho criminal codes of Southern Europe,
and most of the American States or lato
years, II has been rcinstated in few,
! Has il been right rcinzlated, aud has
5 little Delaware been wise In always re-
Z tanning it?
al II am one of those who would answer
both these questions In the afirma-
! tive. / believe that human govern
a ment exists by the permission OF God
In Trtfu Win
! Justice on earth. l believe that for
! grown men the main object OF crlml-
nal punishment should be to punish
d and that reformation Is a secondary
g matter, and generally a hopeless task.
p THE CRIMINAL UTILITARIAN.
"The mcral sense OF the community
demands that he who has committed
= some act of criminal violence against
D his neighbor should be caught and
made to smart for it. The criminal Is
lgernrally a uulitarian. He has COM
lmittCd the crime because il Will bring
him. he hopes. a certain good, and at
worst can only entail upon him a cer-
tain evil. This possible evil
I is remote and contingent. The
good Is immediate Society must make
tho evil heavy enough and distastsfll
tuDubu lNOulWtlhN lAt tltAif1uibA uuNNI"
tainty and distance. To measure out
lcrima by so many months or years In
jail is 10 use but a rough yard-stck.
JAIL MEANS BETTER FARE.
"a London magistrate OF long ca
lpgience, Sir Edward Hill, once sad
that long sentences make very little
difference in their dserring influence
upon criminals as compared with
short ones, for the simple reason that
/, the criminal classes are devoid OF
imag.nation. They do net and cannot
picture to themselves the dragging mo-
notony. year after year, of prison toll,
or month after month Of prison idle
ness with that vividness and sense OF
reality with which 1t strikes an indus
trious citizen. Whether they are sent
up for two years OF for twenty seems
: TO them Of slight account
mo sentence in a county Jail, be II
long or short, is greatly dreaded by a
hardened criminal 1t gives him. In
most cases. an assurance Of better
housing and OF better food than he is
in the habit of gaining by any other
? mode Of exert.on. He has never taken
= into his soul the full measure OF the
r good OF liberty
WHIPPING ALWAYS DREADED.
} "On the either hand, whipping II
dreaded by everyone, man or child.
5 We shrink from It first and most, be-
= cause it hurts.
"It is no degradation to a boy to be
whipped by his father. or by his
mastcr at school That is not his OBJ
lection to e. He feels that il is a
lralsonablo and natural consequence Oi
misdoing, and leaves him better rather