New Ulm review., 1904-05-25
TEND TO PREVENT CRIME.
Juvenile Court Is Accomplishing
Beneficial Results.
Will Greatly Lessen Number Of
Youthful Criminals.
Interesting Paper Prepared by
Miss Emily Triton.

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What is being accomplished by the
women of this country in the way of
reform serves as the subject for an in
teresting paper by Miss Emily Triton.
The article was written by Miss Triton
during her recent sojourn in Califor-
MIA and was read at the last meeting
of the Current News club. It is as
follows:
No greater problem and probably
none SO vexing to mankind, is the
neglected state of our children and
dumb animals in the larger cities of
our own dear land. Perhaps with now
and then a glimpse of some heart
rending act of brutality in our sur
rounding country, where God made
man free to rule at his bidding.
But brutality survives now and then.
There is without a doubt no society
today in this whole land that does the
good work to help the helpless chill
dren and the dumb animals as the
Humane Society, who try to raise
mankind to higher and nobler eleva-
ton, and to spread the knowledge of
kindness and it's good results.
We dare not let our minds wander
beyond the horizon of our own coun-
try or allow ourselves to dwell in a
country on the other side of the globe,
when we see so much distress at our
own doorstep, when we notice that
in one of our own cities in six years
over 1000 young boys were brought to
Jail. The discovery was startling. It
did not speak SO badly for the boys as
for their parents and the state. Why,
it could be easily traced that most of
these cases were due to neglect on the
part of the parent or parent and state
both. 1t is not for the lack of good
schools, but for the lack of good laws
or the enforcement of the same. Look
at all the murders that have been COM
mitted in the last nine months. The
murderers have all been under twenty
years of age. In proportion to the
population there are twice as many
boys arrested as men. 1t is time for
the people to wake up, it is getting to
be a serious problem. Too many faith
ers think that their burden and duty
ended when they have supplied their
children with clothing, food and raj
ment. All! how little such men realize
that the most important training of
their little boys is left undone and
when the prison bars close over these
little lads the parents are too blind to
see their fearful neglect and mistake.
[ once heard Judge Lindsey from
Denver lecture on the juvenile court.
To me the best and most entertaining
lecture that [ ever had the pleasure to
be listener. One that was not only
an education but one that enlightened
many people that grapple in the dark.
The juvenile court is a court separ-
ate from the court that tries the adult
criminals, a law that cares especially
for young people who have drifted
into crime, an0 who make a special
effort to bring forth the good, and to
give them an opportunity to display
that which is best to their advantage.
Their place of confinement separate
from older criminals, as the effect up
on the young by associating with DID,
hardened, fallen men is to say the
least, very bad.
For hundreds of years the child has
been placed in the same category as
the adult in matters criminal. Yet he
must be twenty-one years old before
he is deemed old enough to deal with
his own affairs in the eye of the law
Varying from the ages from I to II
years in the different states the child
has been put on the same level with
the assassin. The state is now begin
ming to waken up, to act as a wise
parent. It is to do the part that the
home has failed to do, to correct where
the parent has been careless and help
less. The victory of the establish
ment of the juvenile court is due to
woman, after a long and bitter light.
The women had a vote in the state of
| Colorado and they remembered things
when it came to election time Judge
Lindsey made the remark that the most
neglected being on the face of the
earth is city boy. He also laid great
stress on the environment of child
He said the last Colorado legisl ature
had made PARENTAL neglect misde
meanor punishable by a maximum
sentence of one year in Jail or 81, ,OO(
fine or both. He also mentioned tha
"a man in Denver was fined $50 fol
sending his little son into saloon te
buy beer, a woman was fined for al
lowing her little son out late at night
Society as we look at it from sensi
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