The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-07
JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY
A GREAT MORAL ASSET
This is tue View Taken by Burlington
Man of Colorado Man Who is Visit
inC the Sfafn

IAS tkC DtdtV.
Burlington, July 4.-Judge Ben B.
Lindsey, Of the famous Denver Juve-
nile Court, was the Chautauqua speak
er here last night and made a pro-
found impression. In an article in.
one Of the local papers, Mr.. Erwin A..
Holt, q warm admirer of Judge Lind
sey, gives some interesting and timely
reading about the l~ive-wire. Judge
from the Colorado city,
One Of the incidents in Judge Lind
Sey's career, as described by
Mr.. Holt, was that last year when
charges OBTAINING his character were
published by his foes. At that time
former President Roosevelt wrote
Judge Lindsey a letter of approval
and endorsement, saying among other
things:
Il have been reading with keen in
~terest, and with even keener indigna-
ton, of the assault which is now be-
ing made upon you and those under
and with you in Denver.
1T is much more han a matter of
mere local interest.
You are one of the men who has
done most Of the moral awakening Of
our people. When Oh wrote The
Beast and Jungle you rendered a ser
vice that hardly any other MAJ would
have the courage and the knowledge
to render.
You attacked evil in the concrete,
not merely in the abstract. Plenty Of
people are willing to attack /. in the
abstract: for no courage is necessary
in such a diffuse assault.
But very, very few are willing to
face the intense bitterness Of counter
attack which follows upon assailina
evil in the concrete.
"YOu stand high among those few
who are willing to render this great
Dr;oo u,itH n 6nn nr1 h;Oh dicrn0nrT
of the cost to yourself. And one who
will turn your book and read the
character of your attacks upon the
most powerful and sinister leaders Of
the political and industrial overworl6
and underworld will realize why yol
tare yourself singled out for ferocIous
attacks and why the attack upCu 70,
is made with such ingenious power o.
misrepresentation.
in the same connection, Mr.. Holt
article sets forth, the Philadelphia
North American published a strons
editorial defending Judge Lindsey ant
raised for him and the couses h
represents Il fund Of over "a hundref
thousand dollars.
Mr.. Hollis article further says:
The great missionary Of Labrador
DR.. Grenfel. said he would rather b.
: in Judge Lindsey's boots than tn
rector Of the most fashionable chur
in the largest city.
l Born in Jackson, Tenn, in 1869, o
good old Southern stock, his p ent
/. later on met reverses and moved t
| Denver when his good mother wa
I left a widow in his early days am
from then until now he has had on
continuous struggle after another.
us Of worldwide anne, known &
G .The Kids Judge
] His unique Juvenile Cour wa
= started in 1901. His method of sen
fencing is putting boys or thir hon
or and giving them permission to Ell
c ter the Industrial School at Colder
= Col. unattended. out of over 5ot
s ONLY 5 nave betrayed this trust.
rs the author of several books
: iuyenile work, including 'Problem
of the Children also The Beast /
the Jungle and others of thrilling III
:: ~tereSt.
r Wrote a play. which will be stage
/ in New York. aoout September, prom
sing to be especially good.
was ,anuldate for governor Q
a the I~ndependent Democratic ticket !
e 1906.
Really Judge Lindsey is reSarde
as one of our greatest moral assets
- If YOU are content you nave enouS