The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-25
1H!ND PRISON WALLS-By Julian Hawthorne
OON ~INN f1ENS ME.KClLESS KEEPER
Which Mr. Hawthorne Tell of Men Who Have Been Beaten
Starved and Killed by Neglect and Cruees at Hands of Prison
Guards and Who Have Powers Practically Unlmed-The
Horrors OF the Dark Hole, Atanta's Star Torture
Chamber, Far Down Below the Earth's Level

~ ltfEltS love tnelr CuDS, mems tneiI
chickens. dogs love their mas
ters. and all these will fight ant
die In defence Of what they love
Human mothers generally love their of.
.nring Love in the common sense 1,
common or instructive and involves M
moral quality. 1t Is love Of ones owr
,n,t~contains n better form Of self love
Rut mercy il Of higher birth. Ami.
mails know nothing Of 1t; savages and
the lower types of man ignore II. We
ascrihc divine source to 1t when We
prav God to have mercy on us: we dc
not ask Him to love us. All higher re.
urlons enjoin 1t.
Mercy is love purified from self. OF
wholly atruistic. 1t Is a man 10 q
another not because OF blood relation.
shin ar because of expect cd benefits ov
even because of benefits bestowed but
on the simple ground that he is his
amman brother, child of the same di.
vine Father II is purer than the racial
feeling. and 1t includes the animal crea-
,on outside humanity in its scope-as
,Ar Bible puts it. 1.-The merciful man is
mcrciful to his beast"
II is the Golden Rule in manifesto
ton. We see in the one to whom We are
nerciful ourself in another form. under
different conditions. and We do to him
~ We would have him do to us. II
Gems to require "a certain maturity of
mind acquired or inherited. children
Glow puberty seldom have II. It is
,,slly forfeited and Indifference N tho
,Nering Of others is readily es,ah-
: shed
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nave re"'arheu heretofore that
'l"C'"iS vi prisons shouiu De men OF the
"sheS, character IN the State-at least
dS h'sh as what We would wish to as
'foe To our Judges OF the criminal
'"h'h' Judges SEND men to prison: but
prison guards and wardens have charge
u them during their imprisonment, with
lowers practically unlimited.
H'''H''u PoWcI 10 trust 100 0Tuu.
us for any mortal. for 1t should pre-
suppose perfect knowledge, all pene.
rating intelligence, boundless expert
"nce and the mercy which is born to
'hese-for there Is bastard brother Of
mercy which is Of the parentage Of ig-
norance and cowardice. which shrinks
rom the sight Of suffering from mere
pusillanimity Of the nerves and does
not recognize that suffering may be
mercifuny inflicted or permitted and
h"neficently endured.
But the community does not select
It's prison officials on the basis above
Indicated; 1t Is satisfied II they be COM
petent to handle men," have a saga
cous familiarity with human deprarity
VIII tolerate no nonsense. can indite
plausible reports Tor the department and
how good balance at the end OF the
hScaI year or as guards and under
irappers Keep the men submissive and
"rderiy and allow no outbreaks.
AS Tor knowledge a public school
lucation Is ample. with such intelli-
-rnce as may be supposed TO go with II,
ana the experience OF ward heeler or
mug VIII ordinarily sunlce TO pass
indicate AS matter OF iact. the COM
'uh!tS never knows anything ABOUT It's
son o'hclais uhtii some speciai scan