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. aenti 24s un grthy of civilized man, and is gmall aad backward minority of the py... hat is onlygnore hooey. “The desire for try has been motably ‘ im ; saturn emotion as any other,. + ivert _pasince. -But it does not velax its 1 * mankind. No healthy human @ gull wan-: murder in England tomorrow, and |. ton injury without feeling @ powert * 3 glmost infallibly within six montha- who isck that impulse are not normal come to the oné change fhat ‘would 7 women; they are saints, and the number of them is almost . “Let them be. so modified that a | Gnfinitesimally small. The reat of-s, when We are put’ i i upon, try to strike pack, and if the putting upon is violent - we strike back just as violently, Pe ea 8 OF Bot Jet the fact that be is ready > What is thus natural to individuals is quite as natural as sufficient evidence that be will. I do aot suggest de-* --~". $0 society 88 3 whole. When a Dillinger runs amuck in -priving him of his first bite; no doubt he has an inalien - - * geommunity he menaces every man, woman, and child in able right to it, like any other dog. Let him go.¢e ac . it, and the whole population demands that he be put down. eomfortable jail or reformatory for his first offense, and At wants the cops to seize him at once, and the courta to _ let him be paroled in due course. But if he is caught. ish him quickly and severely. No one save & few | with a gun in his hands a second time, ready and willing :- goft-heads calle for a report on his psychology, or @ study to take the lives of innocent people, Jet him go-to the of how he might have been agved from crime by feeding . gallows or the-chair instanter. -- oe ae him on better victuals or sending him toa different echool. ~ - 1 ace no objection to parole : What is demanded is simply his condign and adequate tal criminals. It works, in fact, pr punishment, that he may pay up for his crimes and be _ proportion of prevented from repeating them. . i in | i Jreforming him, for no one really reformed; what every one wants is to get rid of him.- will be actually » , «The effort of the theorizers to prove that eriminality near tomorrow? ‘The only fit doae for auch f is a disease is the thing mainly responsible for that _ineorrigible criminals i They will keep on kill- abuse of the parole system which turas loose more than * i ison or out, ao jong as they are ali half of all the criminals of the United States every year. * The only way is to Y : But the more elaborately they describe their “ paycho- finally and forever. pathic personalities *” snd other such leboratory eonfee~ « --- ea eee, . 7 tionery, the more plain it becomes 2) 2-25 8 ee that they are simply describing... . ““ what all rational men calf crimi- ~* uals, And the more they argue...» _ that these criminals ought to be. - . treated as invalids, the more con-"..-” _+yineed al} rational men become "that they ought to be sent, to - + prison for life, and. if possible ers ee is a ge : a HE. same wizards are unaei-~ St mously opposed to capital pun- ~~ ief argument is... revent them, then it is only “be- ©: Panes ea oe Pause we have never given it 2 - . ; othe part of the cope! —.. - »fair trial We hang only 130 mur-..:2)~] “eg: asthapbe derers out of 11,000, 3 procedt:s7 I : “tng almost as silly 28 drying #6 i hold back Niagara with a tennis."*. racket. What if we hanged 1,000, 5 000, or 3,000? Would it dis- “+ guade the “ psychopathic person-"" alities” of the year following ¥ - _ from committing other murders? | ~~. _° Perhaps not all of them, but cer-, om wees ->. -tginly some—and meanwhile we'd - : be rad of 1,000, 2,000 or 8,000.-°° r, murderers. Society would be re.-<:7 ! Feved of their menace once and for alltime.- - =. - - ¢2 - "The English, at the close of the seventeenth century, faced a wave -* - ..of erime far worse than our own. 5; a "All the roads of their country be-