The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-04
CRIMINAL, MICROBES.

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than the disease problem, and be-
lieves that the microbes Of crime
may be discovered and destroyed.
His thought is that criminal ten
denotes are engendered by certain
bacteria which inhabit the brains
of men and women, and all that is
necessary is to capture the bacteria,
knock 'em on the head and that's
the finish of crime. He thinks
government should engage in the
business of destroying crime mi
crobes. This raises some interest
ing and delicate questions as to
what is crime and what are criminal
tendencies. IF the microbes of
crime are to be successfully dealt
with, they must be ascertained and
treated while the disease they pro-
duce is in the early stages, and that
is what Sir Robert advocates. This
brings us to. the consideration of
criminal tendencies, and the mani
festations of them. When a child
is born it is supposed to be entirely
free from vice or vicious inclinations,
especially since the doctors have
discovered that children do not in
herit their disorders from parents.
But in very short time the child
begins to load up with evil microbes,
inhaling them from the atmosphere,
absorbing them from it's mothers
breast, or, in these highly esthetic
times, imbibing large quantities of
the most violent of these creatures
from a vile looking bottle, topped
with filthy, villainous, black rub
Der insignia Of woman's degeneracy,
called nipple. Howsomever, the
innocent infant soon acquires an
interesting and strenuous assort-
ment of criminal bacteria, and the
battle between vice and virtue
which ends in the grave is begun
in the cradle. At the very outset
the child falls more or less under
the dominion OF one or more of four
different kinds of microbes-the vi
tiating microbe, the lying microbe,
the thieving microbe or the murder
Ing microbe. Observation teaches
that in matured men and women,
a considerable number of each kind
of microbe is present, but one par
ticular specie is generally in the as
cendancy. When men become thor
oughly impregnated, or saturated,
with a particular breed of mischiev-
Gus bacteria, the condition is made
manifest by overt criminal acts.
These are extreme cases of moral
distemper requiring prompt and
heroic treatment by the civil author
titles. They do not concern this in
quiry. They are not tendencies
but fruitions, The aim is, by care
tul observation of symptoms, to as
certain the habits and morals of the
different breeds of microbes that
invade the human brain and destroy
them outright or work their reform
alton before they become aged and
hardened; and it is the purpose of
this discourse to indicate a few of
the outward manifestations of an
inward tendency towards crime in
duced by the presence of wicked1y
disposed, though not utterly de
PRAYED, microbes. The discovery
and application of the remedy shall
be left to Sir Robert Anderson of
the British Royal Society. The
presence of the vitiating microbe
may be safely predicated when the
patient, If female, shippers and
smirks Unfortunately, swishes her
tail Tor train) when walking the
streets, rolls her eyes to the ceiling
when singing, fixes her mouth with
great care and nicely, is melted to
giggles and bushes by the same
thing, falls violently in love with
poodles, affects a superior social
caste, regards her and hers as too
good for them and theirs, and per
forms thousand other vain antics
which of themselves are unimpor-
tant, but allindicating moral anemia.
If the patient be male, the pres