Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-26

Major Archibald. They have active agents
who daily so to the jails and police courts
and meet the discharged prisoners and ex-
tend them a helping hand and secure for
them employment. "And many Of the reform
laws passed in Canada" said Mr.. Archibald
had their inspiration in this society"
The Prisoners Aid society of Montreal
was another society that looked after dis.
charged prisoners. This society has Just
decided to appoint ar active agent to meet
and assist every prisoner discharged from
st. Vincent de Paul penitentiary. In Winnie
peg local organization is now at work and
doing great good. A movement is also on
foot to organize a society Of the same kind
at ST. John, while the Salvation Army keeps
a prison agent busy constantly.
Major Archibald expressed himself as be-
ing heartily in favor of the parole system
''The wisdom of the parole system and the
discretion exercised in its administration
can be judged by results" he said. From
the adoption of the system in 1899 until the
close of the last fiscal year there were LOSE
paroles granted. OF this number e57, or
about 81 per cent have completed their
sentences under license without violation
Of the conditions imposed, while 325, or
| about 30 per cent additional have thus
far respected the conditions imposed, al
though their licenses are still operative.
Those who forfeited their licenses by SUBJ
sequent conviction and who represent the
/ really criminal element Of those under IL
cense number twenty-four, or but "a per
cent The remaining I per cent have been
recommitted for noncompliance with the
conditions OF the license but without charge
Of criminality against them during the
period they we're at large"
In discussing the parole system and the
| indeterminate sentence law, Major Arch-
bald said
| The question is not one of substituting
| for penal laws a sort of philosophical in
| difference which will, compromise public
security. 1t is the question of stimulating
moral forces and developing generous in
stincts which are able to prevent the Of
| Tense or the crime committed and after
the downfall of raising and rehabitating
| the guilty. No one possessed Of logic or
honest sense maintains the responsibility
| of the being who has done wrong. That
| would be to affirm the inutility of correc-
| ton or recompense II is true that phys
zeal constitution, education. heredity and
misery exercise direct influence on crimi-
| hality. Legislators have taken account of
these inevitable reactions in the prepare
ton Of laws and the graduation of pen
alties.
| I'VE hold the system of parole and the
| indefinite sentence systems are just Chas-
tisement without a possibility of pardon
and forgetfulness discourages and de-
grades the hope of parole or of a pardon
provokes to effort and restores"
| Disposition of Condemned.
| In a speech to the association tonight
Chancellor Andrews of the Nebraska uni
versty, after defending the indeterminate
sentence law and opposing the definite sem
| tence, suggested that in cases of murder
where the condemned convict proved OBJ
durate that instead of being put to death
he could voluntarily give his person to
physicians for experimental purposes. OF
this he said:
A recent issue of the Lancet reminds us
that Herophius of Alexandria used in the
fourth century b. G. to dissect living crimi-
nails sent him by the state for this purpose.
In the middle age criminals were handed on
to physicians for experimentation with
poisons and reputed remedies. Perhaps this
was suggested by Cleopatra, who, when she
the prison vaults beneath the palace, have
slaves drag into her presence those con-
, son and another to see which seemed to
produce death the most instantly and the
least painfully She thus found the asp
bite the best, as 1t killed by quiet sleep,
like chloroform now.
A Partisan lady is said to have secured a
, handsome competence by letting out her
body to Psychologists for experimental pur-
| poses, while all remember with admiration
our soldiers who willingly occupied beds
vacated by dead victims OF yellow fever or
let themselves be bitten by infected stego-
myia in order to get evidence how that
fever is conveyed.
It is. I suppose a fact that no further
knowledge OF the human body is to be
hoped for by studying the cadaver. All ad-
vance in anatomy and physiology for the
} behoof of medicine and surgery, helping
against disease, pain and death. must come
, from the examination of living specimens,
preferably human. One of the most useful
, services to humanity which a live human
, body, could perform would be letting itself
! be experimental with, under anesthesia OF
! otherwise to help solve outstanding phys
! biological or biological problems. A body
used that way might easily produce benefit
to the race compared with which that of
, | soldiers death in battle would seem trifling
. One would not go so far as to wish hard.
ened murderers under condemnation forced
against their wills to serve science in the
l way named. but II such subject voluntar'
{ lily submitted himself for such service under
the strictest and most benevolent guardian
ship 1t would seem that the death penalty
4 even of an incorrigible murderer, NIGH
justly be committed therefor