The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-12-04
DALDWINFAVORS
WHIPPING ! POST
AND FLOCGINC
Governor Of Connecticut is
Speaker at Conference Of
State Executives.
URGES SEVERE METHODS
Thinks Sterilization OF Assail-
ants OF Women Is But a
Just Punishment.
URGES SEVERE METHODS
4 ssociated P>es3 Dispatch.

Associated P>e93 Dispatch
Richmond, va, Dec 4. F.ogging,
IN soma cases, for children; tie
chipping pest for yiolators Of GER
tain laws, and sterilization Of as
s.GlaG,s OF women, were adyocatcd
BY Governor Baldwin of Connect
cut in an address dclivered this
afternoon before the governors
here, IN lis speech Governor Bald
win declared that he was more in
sympathy with the classical school
of peaolCgy" than tho new or
no;aier one, mainly made up of sen
t!mental humanitarians or theoroti-
cal Psychologists.
The forme~ school, he said, main
taiEs that criminals should ord
-rily be punished by subjection to
s2sro form CT suffering; the other
that they should ordinarily not be
made 10 suffer for their misdeeds eI-
eopt as nature forces it upon them
through the mind, but that theis
treatment by the State, should he
aimed primarily at their moral i'm
proFcment.
There is a certain crime Of which
one seldom speaks, covergsr Hal4r
win continued. "Its very name has
corne to be banished from or news
papers Yet the thought OF it is a
daily terroc to every woman in the
south and brings a sense Of unaasi-
ness and constraint into the life OF
her northern sisters. 1t is the cause
Of most OF those lynching eases
which disgrace our civilization. II
is to be kept down only BY the
SCI crest methods.
LynoherG Go Free.
"Is it too much to say il the
courts are not ready to apply these,
the people will? The people who
may thus be,ng some ruffian to his
death will moi be the best people in
the community They may occa-
s,onally seize the wrong man. Bat
has conviction ever yet been had
in the United States of any one Of a
mob of lynchcrs for hanging a ne.
gro accused Of rape?
"That crime does a wrong to a
woman which many of them have
deemed verse tha4fdeath. Such a
man is no fit subject for an inde-
terminate sentence. He has proved
his inherent weakness of VIII power.
IN every case Of Arape, in my judg-
mant there should be an operation
Of sterilization
In discussing what he termed the
two schools of modern penology,
Governor Baldwin said:
Modern penology, in both schools
las accepted Imprisonment as the
main method Of Imprisonment. The
old plan bad been to use capital
punishment very freely; bodily mu-
citation occasionally; aogg.ng often.
Capital Punishment.
Capital punishment which in
Biackstones' day, England inflicted
for 160 offenses, is now universally
restricted to very few, and has
been totally abolished in many iu"is-
dictions. Visible, bodily mutlation
has also d sappeared. Flcgging re-
mains only in exceptional cases, as
for children. So far, it secms to me,
that it should be preserved.
"a prison, do what You will, Is a
fheorless place. and its associates
undesirable. Its maintenance brings
q large expense to the State, which
the earnings of the prisoners, in
most cases, are quite inadequate to
meet, particularly when they are
serving short sentences. The inde-
terminate sentence is the remedy
fer this, ct present most popular
But for certain classes Of offenders,
it hardly fits the case
"a wife beater, for instance, or
the burglar who uses torture, to
compel his victims to produce their
.Hamables, ought to suffer certain
punishment which he may know be-
forehand. 1t seems to me that the
prospect Of whippng-of course
a moderate and private one would
often best answer that purpose. |
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