The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-06-05
PLEA FOR JUSTICE FOR OUR
CHILDREN
A Strong Appeal by Punta Gorda
Mother

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another villainous evil In the land that Is
, fattening and growing rich by means OF
|. the prosecution (call 1t persecutio.
our poys IN the aaine o. the law. We
!, claim to be great Nation, and 50 we
} are, the grandest Nation on earth. We
say we make laws for the protection OF
Society, and the furnishing of the guilty.
and so we do. We elect officers to do
this work for us, and we trust our lives
. and property into their hands But
|. Mothers. just let one boy be suspicioned
Of crime. whether there is sufficient
! ground for this or not do you know what
means our officers take to break down
the will Of such to make him confess?
or course you don't know. for we wo-
men are not allowed to see on the in
/ side of their chamber of horror
Under the guise of having the right to
do 1t, they can publicly take youth OF
ten years (or younger) up to eighteen,
| without even charge being preferred
against him. and they can parade him
grill him until Dantes Inferno is Sum-
| mer's dream compared to the q mental |
torture that youth goes through, trying |
| to make him confess to crime It mat
| ters not to them If he was at the place |
of the crime. or miles away, nor IL 1t was |
murder he committed, or a loaf OF |
bread he stole for starving mother, IL |
Is all the same. especially II the almighty |
dollar figures largely in it,
Under the protection of their badge of |
office they can thru process manufac- |
tured in the Devils own workroom, force |
him by suggestions of their own to corr
fess to any thing. They can work
through his sympathies in any way his
Satanic Majesty suggests, to try to force
him to own to q crime, whether guilty or 4
innocent, and all this with not 2 friend
near to help the poor boy. And when
they have completely gotten him in their
control, by crushing his spirit and de-
stroying his will power they compla-
Gently cross their hands over their cal
I%t,o k1,V ,V.t1 4Ixx
arise and call me blessed for I've pSt
another poor devil started on his way to
hell" They seem to rejoice in seeing
our penetentiaries fun Of poor groaning
human beings working out their moral
ieath sentences, and proud of the fact
hat they have sent one more mothers :
)oor boy to our Reform School, that is =
| stencil in the nostrils of buzzard
tnd then they can hug themselves with
he thought, now we can have one more a
tripe to work our Public highways" "a y
isgrace to the very name of decency).
But, IT, forsooth. they can't find the
-oods," and the poor devil proves an ALI g,
H. there they leave him with blot upon
is reputation, that. compared with, the g
nark of Cain was a beauty spot. But II
Je mothers have this thing to endure, =,
ecause, forsooth. it was enacted by one +
rearing the Badge of our great Com
we have no right to say who
hall have the power to grill our boys
nder a process so devilish as to pro- \
uce temporary insanity. Now while /.
ur boy is undergoing this mental and B.
sgal (?) torture. how our loyal (?)
riends flock together as crows to the CT
arrion. and hear them picking off the r
morsels. and rolling them un- -
er their tongues. or course all their
ghteous CD indignation and contempt
re waited on the balmy breezes and =
reach the ears of the poor II
lother whose heart is pulled out by the !:
pots and lies there quivering end bleed 81
ondemnation. AWAY with him. jug
im." mo compromise. more respect bt
'r a murderer than thief" (yet every
lief and s robber s ntfiass and sneak n4W at that5
truth above everything no use for
ar" (yet every man breaking his mar M
age vow is in the sight Of God and ~
ian a liar) how do we know his afibl 10
valid" (helping to hound him to his in
Ioral DEATH. Yes, mothers, these ex- -
eriences. mothers pass thru daily, and sc
your most vulnerable spot? How do ] ef
now. It will not strike me. and how do
lr friends 90 know they are immune
ords of brag and self praise viii cut no
CURE when the Badge" enters the holy VIZ
'ecincts of their sanctuary and cuts r.
leir idol down, and the Vultures begin -
leir feast And could Time turn back, th
I'd their past years and generations be
Id bare to criticising World( do you Sll
ink they would have no need to blush of
I'd the future years and generations
ought to view are they real sure that
) who condemned the loudest will not
ing his head the lowest? This is not efi
e only way in which q mothers heart ci4
eaks. Oh no, our friends O. have
anifold ways of drawing our hearts hO
oqd Maybe our daughter has taken
e step. only one On the downward el'
ack. Now see our dear friends (?) r ,,
ck together and pun her to pieces, and =
hen they have finished with her the an
ry devils in Dantes Inferno would not
ep company with her. But some day
Nemesis will arise, and the Aveilger
II b. on their track, and woe betide ioI
EN- If there is no City of refuge near :
I'd this Nemesis may be a heart broken ele
other seeking Justice for her own
lid in particular, and ell children in p" 1
neral. I appeal to you mothers to a. Wh
use yourselves to this infamy that is
lng perpatrated upon our youth, and gf'
lse and trace it to its stronghold. an,
hen we hear the first hint against the Vo'
nctity of our daughter, against the
nesty Of our son, face the music. trace
down, better find once in a while, our q
lighter i'm the bad, our son on his way OIL
he'll, than be i'm ignorance, and our Inn
ends(?) like Vampire, lulling us to ott
ep while they are draining our life aO1
pod, and some day it break Ike :.
NIB over our heads. All I've heard we
nk?" "did you know" etc. etc. adnau- id'
lm, until we dread to see certain par ha
s coming to our door, and how did we
ow that they would not, like The swine, Blu
on turn and rend us?
let us arise and demand jus 7
e and common sense for our children,
at the Law in which we so proudly Ent
ast may not through its cruelty, make .
instead of preventing them. RAJ
win be q pull, hard pull. long pull 80,
t if we all pull together we can win dII'
this as in other things, and our f01,
idrens lives viii not be crushed when
rough some circumstance over which Ledl
ey have no control, the Law sees fit to T., i
spicion them, for Gods sake, for the d Jul
ke of Justice. let us demand that our Oil
nth be protected from the same means
ey take to make a hardened wretch ,
wer before their wrath. MANY an in 1
cent party have suffered at the hands
the Law by being numerically hound SUI