Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-15
Conclusions About Justice

First There entirely too many technical crimes and
much creation of crime by legislation Every who has
ends and has sufficient influence the Assembly and
gets the failure do what he wants to have done enacted into
crime To spit street of nastines caup
in branded bottle perhaps infringement of right to assist
ignorant at the polls perfect his ballot affect the
result of the election the failure customs duties to the
Government inconvenience but of these
ues crime To call them only leads confusion of thought
and remsne of conduct These examples long cate
extended that citizen be that what he
does he is offending against criminal statute.
very much doubt the efficacy the effort prevent
wongdog elevate the standards of life by punishment
have scrued the faces the DOCK observed their
and listened their stories, endeavoring whether
could find line with which separate them from those out
side, and always Men as they
hamnerng of life misconduct comes
ncapacy think accurately properly
sequences am satisfied that most men they
able with their characters and the circumstances which
front hem Since the beginning of the historic PERIOD eight
thousand wears ago the annals of mankind have been filled with
the records Of attempts to prevent by the nfcon of punishment
lines conduct considered the time Objectionable but
recognized later periods have been conducive the
of the Experience has shown these
have been futile All kinds of punishment have been tried
hanging U>neadng burning mutang disemboweng quarng,
gougng out the cutting out the tongue cropping the ears
branding sndh III the stoeNs drowning using e rack ana c
others which ingenuity this direction could
devise Strange the effect always to be TO
increase the number OF oenes Violence begets Violence The
burning the South has mmeasuraby increased the
Of special crime it intended In Jamaica.
where such specces occur this particular crime is almost
unknown In modern life old forms of punishment have been
abandoned except
The former anachyonism and will have
disappeared 1t must be plain philosophical observer that
slowly giving prison conducted like
The food is plentiful and nutritious. The is
good behavior have frequently had convcts
them and transfer them from the
prison the Eastern Penitenary because the latter institution
could Tickets of leave which
permit prisoners parole All Of which shows that the
old idea of hammering putting walls around them
being gradually punish
the whipping children home and schools
abandoned and quite that the day far distant
will be recognized that the punishment of
This is, of different proposition
the abandonment the
tn he of
burglar who insists upon coming into in the night
upon an entirely different principle.
Third The general opinion be that since the
always heretofore existed it is likely
me The kind of reasoning might have been
applied royalty slavery prescraft and other institutions which
lost their hold the world after being
destruction of for the
passions of and tthe of the thought the subject
that do to the acquisition of property the evil would be
eadcated Its existence of that there
which society constituted violates habtuay
the the foot which abnormal
life points to the Of the boot
found the results be prevented 1t is easily
nothing inherently the
ought to be encouraged II accompanied
important duties which society
themselves The ought sucke
young the ought provide for her necessities