The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-02-09
BISHOP FALLoWs AND JUDGE
BARNES ADDRESSED THE
GRAND JoURs Asso-
CATION.
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he Is CRIMINAL by nature. biSnOp raj
lows told you that II per cent of the
men and boys out on parole returned
and SO per cent never returned. I
would reform a man before he is sent
to Joliet at all | would parole a man
for the first offense as they do a child
of the Juvenile court, and you will
find that you will save more men anil
make them good citizens than to brand
them as criminals when they might be
saved. Think of giving a man from
I TO 20 years for stealing box of Gig
ars, he may tell you when he comes out
to support 4 family how much help he
is going to get How much better it
would be for the judge with all of the
evidence before him to parole the man
and save him from the mark of Cain.
There was a man who was a union
man and who had been discharged, and
was not permitted to work with union
men. His family were starving Il 'c
want of food He was arrested charged
with stealing a carpet and selling 1t IN
order to buy food The judge hearing
all the witnesses both for and against
this man and it would have been an act
of mercy to parole him for this first
offence. Those are the men who don't
know anything about the case. He
knows too that if he does do right that
he will he permitted to retain his citi-
zcnShip and keep his record clear and
his name untarnished What do YOU,
gentlemen. think about it notice
this. that when YOU sentence a man To
the pcnitcntiary and turn him out by
parole it follows him right back here
into the community | know men who
have turned states evidence and the
very fact that they had admitted that
they had committed crime had fol-
lowed them. How the situation
changed since the jury fixed the pun
ishment. I have a case in mind of n
boy who was indicted by a grand jury
for an attempt to hold up some boys.
ard when the case was tried it was
found to be a tin pistol that he had
ridiculous. and vet that boy. If he had
been permitted to have gone to prison
would have been for all time to come
stained with the blot of 4 criminal.
There Is nothing To me 50 unjust rs for
three men on the pardon board to say
how long a man shall stay in the pcni
Tertiary when they do not know any
thing about them. not even the record
Is before the board OF pardon. I have
NJ mind now 4 case OF 4 union man
who stole some clothing and sold them
to by bread for his wife and children.
He was arrested. indicted. bound over
t. the Criminal court and sent to the
Ccnitentiary The evidence showed
that he had been barred from his union
and was not permitted to work. Do
YOU think 4 man like this should have
been given an indefinite sentence and
branded as a criminals Then | say
that | am against the "Indeterminatc
Sentence Law for the sake of moral
ity | am against it for the sake o.
Justice. to the individuality and would
rot repeal the Parole Law" Not at
all. But | would make every sentence
a definite sentence. year. , years, :
years or 5 years. But upon the theory
of revolution don't let us go back
have been down to Pontiac school and
had those boys to promise everything
good to get out, and no sooner ou5
than their return. What has the indef-
mate sentence done for the criminal !?
Nothing. it is the very same thing now
as it was before this act was passed
What is three politicians who were ap-
pointed for political reasons to do with
a man in time of reformation What is
it done to reform him. They have made
scalpers out of them. The Parole sys-
tenn does not reform him in the peni-
tertiary.
A union of the parole system with the
now present parole system is my deal
"A criminal will be reformed by segre-
cation. Every boy knows that when
he is put behind the bars, that he is
in the criminal class. The only way
you will ever reform a man is to re-
form him before you put the stigma of
crime upon him. and that is to permit
the judge before whom he is tried to
parole him for the first offense.
have another case in mind and that
Of Colored man who was sent to the
penitentiary because he shot too quick
" II was during a strike. he was 4