The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-02-13

without nothing to eat and nowhere to
go when night comes.
One Of the most marked evidences
Of the growth Of the spirit Of the Good
Samaritan is the fact, that men are
making a scientific study of crime,
When men are disposed to account
for wrong conduct on scientific basis
there is some hope of the millennium APP
preaching or rather that we are ap-
preaching the coming of the time when
the lion and the lamb shall lie down
together, which being interpreted.
means. when the lion will lose his
appetite for mutton.
{ The reiormatory has for its task
the turning about of the impulses, the
tendencies and loves OF mighty
/ force, which impelS the victim headed
down Stream to about face and move
/ against the current. to stem an awful
tide and face an energy that the victim
has unconsciously generated by sue
| ceSsive Weddings to temptation.
growth. rather a degeneracy that is
just as natural as the spread of the
btter-rot or any other like disease.
which possess the germs of disintegra-
ton. Moral decline follows the same
law as operate in the up building of
character: for there is a natural law
in the spiritual world: and it is the
province and duty of the state to pro
vide for the reclamation of the erring
ones as well as for the education OF
the growing ones The former is less
attractive and has received the at
tention of the few; but these have
been by deep love for humanity.
The casual observer of our prison
system will think only of the vindic
ton of the law in the administration
of its requirements. and will fail to
estimate the value of the lives and
souls of those who have given way TO
temptation
AS was stated earlier in the paper.
the scientific study of crime and Grim
inals. -criminology- a recent sci
ence, but il is one that the onward
movement of tha IN o., hos thruct ,,,,on
US, and We must face its problems with
the same spirit Of searching for the
truth and the betterment of humanity
that propels in every other field Of
progress. In many of the great re-
formatory movements of the race
these have been crowded upon the
hearts and consciousness of men, and
were held there until men were willing
to tackle their solution Matters OF
SO grave Importance are not settled
till they are settled right
Quoting from SPIT Call. of Massa- |
chusetts, In his article on "Eduea
ton and Crime" in the June number
of the Education" he says. Per
haps the most remarkable sign that
the human race is advancing toward |
higher things is the growing impress.
sion that education. religion. ethics
and the like. can be studied in the spirit
of science. The hope Of the future is
becoming less and less conferred in |
the speculative, and more and more |
in the gospel of science. II is because |
of the great value attending a sclen |
tic investigation of any sociological !
study that so much interest is cen.
tered In the New York State Refor.
matory at Elmira, New York. to which !
reference was made
II has been but a short time since .
the people at large, in the thought of
the prisoner cried punish him, shut
him up, grind him down. make him I
suffer. get even with him, XIII him.
misuse him somehow. the william.
Supt. Call declares. we are above
this now in theory. but much of pris.
on practice is on plane but little
higher But we must remember that
some of the school disciples is tine.
tured with the spirit born of the in
QUESTION There are still some literal
Interpreters OF the rural school com.
mittee-man's philosophy preached to
the Magi of the country grocery. that
Although children taken as bever.
age do not need it. he was satisfied
there are occasions when capital
for children is vary sal.
Ibrious.'
Crime is becoming more and more
as a disease. as the common
ailments Of the human organism are
lue To some disorder of the organs
If our physical being. so is crime the
'esult of a disorder or perverted af
ection or passion. The state does moi
hesitate To restore the enuiIibrum of