St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
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Crime and Error Flee Before
tIle Force Of Loye--Great-
est Thing in the
Universe.
BY S. 1. CARY, Jennings, La.

{ By S. L. CARY, Jennings, La.
. Looking backward few cen
turies to the beginning of mod
ern history, A. D. 1900, and yor
5 learn that Egyptian darkness en-.
) veloped the world. All alike
slaves of Kings, Priests and En-.
! prors by divine right to own anc
rule men and things. The days
of the past had been turned into
starless night and few crowned
heads made laws for the millions.
, justice and mercy were weeping
in hiding places and hope was
hidden by despair. OF course
justice was reversed and all op-
posers of existing conditions
were classed as criminals and
their punishments as horrible as
desperate men could invent
stoning, crufxion, the rack, boil
ing in oil, and their victims,
Christ and his apostles, Socrates,
Stephen, Gallileo, Columbus, and
Joan Of Arc, all lovers of truth
and human rights. Latter it was
learned that severe punishment
did not lessen crime, but only a
little over a hundred years ago
| in England 100 alleged crimes
were punishable with death.
But civilization says all just pun
lisl1ment should be reformatory
and confinement not to punish
| the criminal, but to protect So
ciety. Prevent crime by JUS
tiee. Educate the ignorant and
criminal classes industrially and
give all equal right to life, lib
terty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness. and there will be sign in
the sky Of a great awakening a
jubilee of mankind when the tri-
IuInph of peace will be greater
than the triumph Of war, and
such men as martyrs were made.
Hof will be the leaders in the mil
Elenium of modern civilization.
Do your own thinking. Think
the truth, speak the truth, do
the truth.
The world and the church have
been very unfortunate in it's.
choice of unbelievers to burn,
cruelty, stone or boil in oil.
How can we hest get rid OF
the criminal classes Of today?
Answer Find work for the
idle; teach every child a trade.
It has been fully demonstrated
that intellectual education can
not take the place Of useful la
Dor. The II. S. census of 1890
shows that of So, 1874 conyicts,
81, ,246 were ignorant Of any
trade. The recent census makes
a worse showing. French sta
tistics of so years show number
Of indictments in 100, 900 of each
class: agriculture, s; liberal pro-
fessions, 8; factory, IA; COM
merce, Is; domestic, 20; without
trade, 405; and in reformatories
the per cent is much larger Of
the unemployed; so much so that
an industrial education would al |
most eliminate crime.
There is good time coming,
boys, a good time coming,
when right makes might, when
love rules and fear is cast out.
When ghosts, witches, demons,
fakirs, hoodoos and devils are all
banished from the mind and rel
egatedto to oblivion. Then a great |
change will come over the spirit
of our lives and it will be said
truthfully. The way of the
trangressor is hard. " Now, toI
go wrong and to do wrong is
easy. There's good company all
the way down, but in the near
future the bad man will be lone
some. His road will be narrow
and crooked, and the road to-
happiness will be broadened and
we'll travelled. Instead of a good /
man gone wrong it will be a bad
man headed right. The signs of
the time all point upward, spirit I
ually Intellectually, physically.
Moral questions are discussed as
never before by pulpit, press and
public. We spend 800 million
dollars yearly on public educa-
ton. Physically we are far in
the lead Of any other nation, SO
the command to go forth and
subdue the earth was never as
near fulflment as now. The dis {,
covery of the power in stream
now challenged by the power of b
electricity, now followed by the +
greater discovery of a middle
class by a civilization which not Il
only increases their wants but
also the facilities for supplying
Them with paying for them.
Steem railways, electric railways, +,
canals aud wagon roads with j
modern machinery and the most
labor on earth, with
The sons of earth awakening to
find we are hungry, naked, and I,
n the prison of ignorance. Our