El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-31

The increase of crime is due to crime
inherited. The penitentiaries of the
country are being crowded to suffOca-
ton and convicts are being leased to
relieve the congestion of prison walls,
but crime is in no wise abated. The
criminal begets a criminal, and that is
all there is to the problem. But 1 do
not mean to say, of course, that all
crime is inherited crime.
Insanity is on the increase. We ar
rest the insane man, try him, and con-
fine him. When we incarcerate him
we have, perhaps. left at large some
of his offspring. In due time, his off
spring, or at least a certain percentage
of them, are likewise tried for and
convicted of insanity. But the branch
continues to spread.
Enlightened Age.
We are living in what is perhaps the
most enlightened age of the worlds
history. Never before, we may feel
assured, has enlightenment been so
general; and never before, we may also
feel assured, was general enlighten-
ment so necessary and vital to the well
fare of the human race.
Crime has kept pace with the ad-
vancement of goodness, paradoXical as
the assertion may seem. Or perhaps
between crime and goodness, morality
and immortality, is widening. We I'M
derstand crime better than we ever did
before, we abhor it more than ever
before, and yet we stand apparently
helpless while we behold it's steady in
crease. We are discovering that prison
walls do not eradicate crime. We en-
force the laws because we must, not
because we hope to thereby solve the
question of evil, or stamp it out But
it must be stamped out. for there is
no other hope, and in order to stamp
it out we must stop the breed.
Now, 1 say that your correspondent
is telling the unassailable truth when
she asserts that we do not give the
care, thought and attention to the rear
ing of our children, generally speaking,
that we give to the dogs, chickens
cats, etc, which we seek to breed. How
wonderfully has the general standard
of fine stock been raisedi What has
become of EHe old time Texas longhorn
steer thai used to roam the plains?
Supplanted, of course with highbred
shorthorn cattle!
Choosing Husband.
Well, would the right of the wOma|
TO choose her husband tend to uplift
the standard of the human race? 1
say that it would. 1t has often been
asserted, by way of humorous response
to the urging of this right in behalf
of a woman, that she does the choosing
anyway. That she does, in a measure,
is true In other words, she may en-
courage her sutton if she likes, or she
may, on the other hand, show him in
no uncertain way that his suit is not
acceptable. But the fact still remains
that she may not talk sense" to a man
until he has taken it upon himself to
say to her that he wants her for
wife.
The real truth of the matter is that
there is altogether too much romance in
the matter of marriage. The woman
must be shy. or coy, or modest, lest she
appear too forward and willing to suit
the man, and when he proposes she
must fall into his arms and accept him
instanter, lest she seem too unwilling
and too doubtful of him. She may then
make an exceedingly poor contract,
while she might have made an excep-
tionally good one, could she have talk
ed sense to the man whom she most
MOdesty to Be Cherished.
MOdeSty in a woman is to be cher
ished next TO her virtue, but we demand
of her a false modesty that is harmful
to civilization and cruel to the human
SOUL Why could not a modest woman
say to any true man: Il be-
lieve that I would like to be your
wife?" Why not?
And why could not the man and the