Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. Winnipeg. April 13. The dangerous classes or. Talmage the Rich finds them among and the poor. Teof crirat1." tic took Dies Vii 20, All the Waters tie River were turned to be Man of wealth and Leisure no kills time in doing the other extreme Are the criminal poor the Espern Tel and despairing. Hew Yonk april Talmage in Leonti Nonnee of the course of sermons on the ten Pla Fruto of Tho today area Check to Law Ain licences in the Brook Lyn Academy of music in the Forenoon d it the Lan Herald service at the jew Oil i univ of music m the even ing of i for his t x that were nil the i egyptian none could have Bei to than this. Tho Nile is the hot Egypt. Its fish Tho food its Waters the irrigation Garden and Al Sld its condition decides the Prosperity or the doom of the Empire. What happens to the Nile happens to All Egypt. And my in the text that great River is Encarna dined it is a reel Gash across an Empire. To poetic License to speak of wars which Tarn the Rivers into blood. But my text is not a noetic License. It was a fact a great Crimson appalling condition described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Can you Imaino a More awful plague the modern plague which nearest Corre in Jones with that is the plague of crime in All oar cities. It halts not for bloodshed. It shrinks from no carnage. It bruises and cuts and strikes Down and destroys. It revels i the blood of body und soul this pig us of crime rampant for Ages and never bolder or More rampant than now. The animal police reports of these cities As i examine them Are to to More suggestive than Dante s inferno and All Christian people As Well As reformers need to awaken to a present and tremendous duty if you want this plague of crime to Stop there Are several kinds of persons Vou need to consider first the Public criminals. You ought not to be surprised that these people make up a Largo portion in Many communities Tho vast majority of the criminals who take ship from in rope come into our own port. In i860, of the forty nine thousand people who were incarcerated in the prisons of Tho country thirty two thousand were of foreign birth. Many of them were Tho very desperadoes of society oozing into the slums of our for an Opportunity to riot and steal und Debauch joining the Large gang of american thugs and Cut throats. There Ore in this Cluster of York Jersey City and thousand people whose entire business in life is to commit suicide. That is us much their business As jurisprudence or Medicine or merchandise is your business. To it they Kring All their energies of body mind and goal and they look upon Tho intervals which they spend in prison As so much unfortunate loss of time just As you look upon an attack of influenza and rheumatism which fastens you in the House for a few Days. It is their lifetime business to pick pockets and blow up safes and shop lift and ply Tho panel game and they havens much Pride of skill in their business As Yon have in yours when you upset the argument of an opposing counsel or cure gunshot fracture which other surgeons have Given up or foresee n turn in the Market As you buy goods just before they go up 30 per cent. It is their business to commit crime and i do not suppose that once in a year the thought of Tho immorality strikes them. Added to these professional criminals american and foreign there Are a Large class of men who Are More or less industrious in crime. In Ono year Tho police in this Cluster of cities arrested ten thousand people for theft and ten thousand for As Lault and Battery and fifty thousand for intoxication. Drunkenness is responsible for much of the theft since it confuses a Man s ideas of property and he gets his hands on things to boat do not belong to him. Ram is responsible for much of the assault and Battery inspiring men to sudden Brav Ery which they must demonstrate though it be on the face of the nest gentleman. Soc1etv threatened on All sides. Ten million dollars Worth of property Stolon in this Cluster of cities in one year cannot As Good citizens be Independent of that fact. It will touch your pocket since i have to give you the fact in. The Way of reformation and Sal vation. Yon say these people Are i suppose there Are Hun or feds persons this Day lying in the prison bunks who would leap up at the Prospect of reformation if society would Only allow them a Way into decency and respectability. The uncharitable judges. You say i have no patience with these i ask you in reply How much better would you have been under the same circumstances suppose your Mother Hod been a Blasphemer and your father a Sot and you had started life with a body stuffed with evil proclivities and you had spent much of you time in a cellar Ami obscenities and cd Hsiug and if at ten years of age you had been compelled to Goon and steal battered and banged at night if you came in without any spoils and suppose your Early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and filth and de cent society had turned its Back upon you and left you to Consort with vagabonds and wharf rats How much better would you have been i have no sympathy with that executive clemency which would let crime run Loose or which would sit in the gallery of a court room weeping because some hard hearted wretch is brought to Justice but i do say that the safety and life of the Community demand More potential influences in behalf of Public offenders. In some of the City prisons the air is like that of Tho Black Hole of Calcutta. I have visited prisons where As Tho Nir swept through the wicket it almost knocked to Down. No sunlight. Young men who Hud committed their first crime crowded in among old offenders. 1 saw in one prison u woman with a child almost Blind who had been arrested for the crime of poverty who was waiting until the slow Law could take her to the almshouse where she rightfully belonged but she was thrust in there with her child amid the most abandoned wretches of the town. Many of the offenders in that prison slept on the floor with nothing but it vermin covered Blanket Over them. Those people crowded and Nuland wasted and half suffocated and infuriated. I said to Tho men How do you stand it god said one Ina we have to stand of they will pay you when they get out. Where they burned Down one House they will Burn three. They will strike deeper the Assassin s knife. They Are this minute plotting worse burglaries. Some of Tho City jails Are the Best places i know of to manufacture footpads Vaga Bonds and cutthroats. Yale College is not so Well calculated to make scholars nor Harvard so Well calculated to make scientists nor Triu Ceton so Well calculated to make theologians us Many of our jails Are calculated to make criminals. All that those men do not know of crime after they have been in that Dungeon for some time. Satanic machination cannot teach them. In the insufferable stench and sickening surroundings of such places there is nothing but disease for the body idiocy for the mind Aud death for the soul. Stifled air and darkness and vermin never turned a thief into an honest Man. We want men like John Howard and sir William Blackstone and women like Elizabeth Fry to do for the prisons of the United states what those people did in other Days for the prisons of England. I thank god for what Isaac t. Hopper and or. Wines and or. Harris and scores of others have done in t in Way of prison re form but to want something More Radical before will come the Blessing of him who said i was in prison and be came Ortto the crime of mis government. Again in you Effort to arrest this plague of crime you need to consider untrustworthy officials. Woe unto thee o land when thy King is a child and thy princes drink in the it is a Jerreat calamity to a City when bad men get into Public authority. Why was it that in new York there was such unparalleled crime be tween 1808 and 1871? it was because the judges of police in that City at that time for the most part were As corrupt As the vagabonds that came before them for trial. Those were the Days of High carnival for election frauds assassination and forgery. We had All kinds of rings. There was Ono Man during those years that got one Hun dred and Twenty eight thousand dollars in one year for serving Tho Public. In a few years it was estimated that there were fifty millions of Public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had Only to Wink to the judge or his Law yer would Wink for him and Tho question was decided for the defendant. Of the eight thousand people arrested in that City in that these three cities pay about eight million dollars Worth of taxes a year to arraign try and support the criminal population. You help to pay the Board of every criminal from Tho sneak thief that matches u spool of Cotton up to some Man who swamps a Bank. More than that it teaches your heart in Tho moral depression of Tho Community. You might As Well think to stand in a closely confined room where there Aue fifty people and yet not breathe the vitiated air As to stand inn Community where there is such a great multitude of the depraved without some what being contaminated. What is the fire that Burns your store Down compared with Tho conflagration which consumes year morals what is the theft of the Gold and Silver from your Money Safe com pared with the theft of your children s Vir tue we Are All ready to arraign criminals. We shout it the top of our voice Stop thief i and when Tho police get on the track to come out hatless and in our slip pers and assist in Tho arrest. We come around the bawling Ruffian and Hustle him off to Justice find when he gets in prison what do we do for him with great gusto we put on the Handcuffs Aud the topples but what preparation Are making for the Day when the Handcuffs and the hop Ples conic off8 society be crib to Siv to these criminals villain go i Tuhcic and when it ought to say you arc in offender against Tho Law but to mean to give you i Opportunity to repent mean to help you. Hero to Hubli s Aud tracts and Christian inf Leuci a. Christ died for look and live vast improvements have been made by introducing into the prison. But to want something More than hammers and shoe these people. Aye we want mom to bin sermons on the hath Day. Society must impress these men with Trio fact that it does not enjoy their and that it is attempting to re form Aud elevate them. The majority of criminal suppose that society has grudge against Shem. And they in turn have to grudge against society. They Aro harder in heart and More infuriate when they Tomc out of jail than when they went in. Many of the people who go to prison again and again and again. Some Yean ago of fifteen Hundred prisoners who during the year had been in sing sing four Hundred had been there before. In n House of correction in the country where during a certain reach of time there had been live thousand people More than three thousand had been there tet Ore. So. In one Case Tho prison and in the other the Bouse of correction left them Insl As bad As they were before. The Secretary of one of the benevolent Moieties of new York says a lad fifteen years of age had spent three years of Bis in prison and he said to the lad w. And Ash sewing machine Ohi urn Cook stove and heating stove Baths toilet Ware. And arc Kery Ware Etc., Etc. All must be sold. Terms Cash. J. J. Golden auctioneer. Call and see our Stock of bicycles. Prices terms and wheels Are All right. Carruthers Brock. 453 main Street. By Joseph Wolf. Auction Sale of household furniture piano Sewins machine. Large plate Glass mirrors Sultana double Hoa Tore Etc. 200 St. Of tuesday april 14th. At 1.30, on flow monday and Rooming of Sale. I have been instructed by miss Earr who in giving up housekeeping to sell on the above Dato the con. Tents of her residence Campria Lotf in part. Hand some parlor set. Piano. Loco and silk curtains Cen Ter and fancy tables whatnot Extension Llano dog lamps Wicker rockers painting and brackets and Ora amento. Extension table Dinne chairs carpets China Glass and Sil ver fare Sultana double Heater very Fine lame British Plato mirrors Wooten the of four Well furnished bed Rooroh Flat grasses Springs blankets pillows and Linen Culna chamber Ware Cook stove Box stove Large assortment of Kitchen utensils Etc. Norca Erre. Terms Cash. Joseph Wolf auctioneer. Trotter Trotter general dealers to live Stock Etc. A comr Tant Supply of Hor i Are continually arriving for is from All Pointa in we invite correspondence with All who want Bone o buy or sell. Sixth Street. Brandon cents on the Dollar la what we Are Selling Spring insults Hata and boots and shoes Etc. All these goods have been purchased at Bank nip sales in Tho East auction sales every evening at 7 f. M. H. Ripstein co. Coo main Street i i i in spa Peri newspaper ;