The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-02-13
THE CONVENTION
ENDS WORK
concluded from Third Page.

thc best results for the entire body
This is wholly intellectual in its APP
peal
Secondly--He must be led to be-
come Interested In the community in
,erests. to feel that he must do his
part III making the ifeof the order
10 which he belongs as near ideal
as possible. This appeals TO his emo
tionaI being, it arouses his feelings
Third-He must be aided in the
exercise of his will power to execute
the dictates Of his Judgment and TO
carry into effect what he knows and
feels to be his duty in the case
This brings into activity the vohtional
element of his being. He is now
strengthened by this three-fold appli
cation Of power.
Fourthly-He must be aided, as far
as aid is needed, to continue in the
right course till habit is fixed, BY
doing over and over again the correct
thing Ii becomes almost automatic.
When this condition is reached the
individual becomes self regulating, and
whether he is observed or not his con
duct will be in accord with recognized
authority and he becomes indeed free,
free to act In accordance with his new
impulses, which is in harmony with
the best interests of himself and his
fellows. In giving emphasis to the
value of training In practical moral
ity. | would not be understood as ig'
noring the efficacy of the supernat
ural, the divine in moral reform, for
in my judgment there is no agency
so potent in helping the degenerate TO
regain and retain his moral manhood as
change of heart, which is a change OF
loves or feelings There are too
many witnesses confirming this doe
trine to gainsay its validity and
trustworthiness. This genuine reno
walton OF the human heart requires
the supernatural; not every one con
sents to its process, and in the alb
sence of this. the unconscious growth
In the right attitude toward questions
OF moral nature is indeed most es
sential
And while there will always be a
great disparity between the forma
tive and the reformative processes
in favor OF the former. there will al
ways be need OF the stronger aid.
ing the weak, OF the state or munic-
ipalty caring for those who are NOR
ally degenerate The Good Samari
tan is still on the earth, and can not
turn deaf ear to his distressed fel
low men,
In the early centuries of mans so
iourn on the earth he found it con
ycnicnt remove the wrong-doer from
among his fellows not soley because
OF the baneful influence exerted by
him. but because he had no means
OF keeping him in confinement So i,
grew 10 be quite common TO eliminate
the offender from the face OF the
earth. Even In these latter days there
are minds which see this method OF
protection TO our homes and no munic
qualities to be the most wholesome and
the most efficient However. we have
come to see. or are coming to see.
that there is too much in human
life to snuff it out Of existence be
cause OF some wrong tendencies and
even some overt act of disobedience
Of the laws of the land. There have
been too many reclaimed from their
lives of sin to allow us to be indiffer
ent to any proposed system OF re.
form
As to the relative cost Of the two
kinds of Institutions the formative
and the reformative, there can scarce
ly be any basis of comparison The
Rev T. H. Wines. than whom there
is no one more familiar with the stats.
tics of crimin0logy says that 10 1889
there were 10000 prisoners in the
United States, and II 600 inmates in
the juvenile reformatores. IL was
ing for these prisoners was about
sl5.000.000. or about $4,000 for each
individual. Doubtless another SIS,
000,e00 could be added for the ex
pense of the police department IN pro
tecting life and property, And this
Is not all; to the above should be add
ed the cost OF maintaining the courts
including officers. employees. detec
tivcs. etc. Again the cost OF the
property stolen. In spite of the police
protection. Is beyond measure. It Is
claimed that the proportion OF higl
crimes in proportion TO the population
Is one-third more than IT was twenty
years before.
The above figures are not given a.
absolutely correct. nor as showing
the comparative expense OF the two