Evening star., 1925-10-22

vict on the evidence submitted. -
He has q better home III Sing Sing
than out OF Sing Sing" In Sing
Sing is an $4,000 theater. where
movies are first shown before they
reach Broadway. Every Saturday
and Sunday the convicts see pro
fessional base ball, and their hard
labor" with which they eXpiate their
murders, robberieS. frauds and other
crimes, consists in working three and
/ a half hours day.
Justice Talley adds: The prir
cipal cause of crime in this country
is the pampering of prisoners by sell
timental reformers, who fail 10 re-
aliZe that at least twothirds OF the
inmates Of such prisons as Sing Sing
are men who have adopted crime as
a profession, and who have served a.
least one term before the present
sentence. This country is suffering
from an Indictment which proclaims
1t TO be the most lawless country on
earth.
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Justice Goff of the New York
Supreme Court says: 1T can safelr
be stated that in the history Of this
country we have never before been
confronted with anything like the
criminal conditions we have TODAY
Not a day passes that there is not re
corded in the newspapers some ter
rible outrage
William h. Joyce, chairman Of tile
National Surety Co, reports that s.
6UO,OO0 600 are taken annually by
fraud. and If crime increases in the
United States next year as it has this
year over last. the number of murders
in 1926 will be $4,000 and property
loss through crime 10000, 600 600
billions, not mere millions
Chief Justice Taft says: The ad-
ministration of criminal law in the
United States is a disgrace TO civiliza-
ton. The trial of criminal seems
to be like a game of chance, with all
the chances in favor of the criminal.
and if he escapes. he seems to have
the sympathy OF a sporting public =
In the last 279 days there have been
2SS murders in Chicago. Only J in
10 murderers in America finds that
there is any truth in the old saying,
Murder will OUT; the out of 10 are
never apprehended. OF those arrested
only ! in 10 is ever punished
In todays news from Chicago comes
the report that blackmailers have ex-
torted from wealthy citizens more
than s1,000,000 within the last few
months. Even bootleggers are com
planning TO the police that they are
robbed of their profits by blackmail
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Eminent authorities in law denounce
the tactics of lawyers who, regardless
of the known guilt of their clients Will
use every possible technical trick in
the laws to free the criminal. The
fiction that even his lawyer is not sure
of his guilt soothes the conscience of
such criminal lawyers"
Roscoe Pound, dean OF the Harvard
Law School, says: Criminal law is
the almost exclusive field of the lower
stratum of the American bar
Dean Vance of the George Washing
ton University says: "Bluntly, the
American lawyer has proved a failure
In no other free and civilized country
are the laws so i'll administered as In
these United States. In the admins
tration Of law America lags two gen
erattons behind the rest of the civil
iZed world"
1t is generally conceded that the
cruX of the situation does not lie in
enacting more laws: rather in en-
forcing what laws exist. 1t is not tie
purpose of the Prentiss Commission
to Suppress Crime to rely on states
men. but to enlist all good citizens t.
organize for law enforcement, under
present statutes, including a sweeping
away of court technicalitles which de
feat justice. This may involve the
disbarrine not of all criminal
lawyers" but all lawyers who are
criminal in their practices, defeating
justice and bringing law into dis.
repute.
In 1904 we had I lawyer to every
700 population we have now 1 to $40;
England has 1 to LOO: France, ] to
400; Germany. l to $500; Russia, to
81 900. and China-the celestial land
has no lawyers at all
We have the greatest proportion OF
lawyers, in the world. and the reputa
ton of the most crime and the worst
enforcement of law.
DIR. Thomas B. Simms, head of the
department of philosophy, Trinity
University, in recent lecture said:
I'm spite of the fact that some of
our fine men are in the practice OF
law. the legal profession has the
lowest standard Of ethics of any Of our
worthy vocations."
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