The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-14

population. A day. or a wreck, or
month, more or less. costa a low.
grade negro nothing at all in oppor
tunlty or In money. Tho native ne.
groes OF Delaware know their place
and make no trouble. They are far
above the average in habits and In
intelligence, but we have a floating
negro population which is definitely
bad, and we must safeguard our peo.
pie. white and black, against those
VINO come from all parts Of the Shore
country TO the canncrles, work few
weeks or months and then pass on,
only to give place TO another lot j.-st
as bad. or even worse.
The negro with city habits 1, q
worse proposition than the farm
trained hand, who is usually law
abiding and useful. Delaware can
handle her own negroes with little or
no force, but the passing throng of
bad men needs attention, and thew
file by with eyes front on the whip.
ping posts. Cells mean nothing at all
TO such men, white or black.
Delaware is absolutely free from
all rorms or white slavery. This par
ticular form OF crime Is punished
here without recourse 10 the Mann
Act or aid from the Federal authori-
ties. Did the whipping post do
nau2ht elEe but keep cadets out oS
Delaware 1t proves ITS eternal value
here. in every other State In the
Union In which there is large city
tho white slave problem comes up
with degree OF regularity. The
same people who condemn the whip
ping post wiring their hands and won.
der what to do about the cadets and
their wretched victims. Delaware
answers. Whip the Cadet"
Years ago gang OF desperadces
undertook TO rob Whining ton bank.
They tunneled under the building,
and would have carried of $4,000
in negotiable securities but for the
suspicious OF an alert Waterman.
They we're arrested, and on trial paid
one attorney very large fee solely
TO the end that they might be saved
from the public whipping. The late
great Chief Justice Lore sentenced
them TO long terms in prison and to
the utmost limit ot the Law as 10
pilory and lashes.
There has never been bank
robbery attempted In Delaware from
that day to this by professional bur-
glars. These men we're bank rob-
bers OF the first grade; the same men
who managed one OF the sensational
robberies IN New York-the Metro.
politan Bank, l think. That type OF
criminal never considers Delaware
now for second
A prison term means nothing at all
Ia him. but be would never dare show
his face in his usual haunts after the
lash fell on his bare back In q Della
ware jail.
All prison reformers and all hu.
manitar!ans agree that the object OF
all punishment is to prevent crime
remotely to cure the criminal. We
are not discussing the cure OF Grim.
male. We are discussing the whip.
ping post per Sc, and / submit that
the whipping post has prevented two
OF the most terrible of all crimes
short of murder-white slavery and
burglary. There is grave doubt
il my mind If there has been single
burglary In Delaware within twenty
years committed by man who was
entirely sane and wholly sober, and
] do not recall any second offenders.
II will not be seriously questioned
that society has right 10 protect
itself. If the whipping post proves
TO be perpetual and potential pro-
tector against the burglar. the high
wayman and the cadet. why cry down
its effectiveness? New York had an
epidemic OF gunner; Chicago had an
epidemic Of highwaymen; Boston and
Philadelphia made war on cadets.
Delaware simply painted her whip
ping posts and multiplied school
houses.
Within recent weeks, in Phila del
phia, Judge Norris g. Barratt de-
clared from the bench that nothing
except Il thoroughly good whipping
at a public post would serve to ade-