The East Huron Gazette, 1893-03-16, Page 2'HIS SINS OF OMISSION.
P. T. STEAD REVIEWS THE CHARAC-
TER OF JAY GOULD-
,The Duty of Millionaires to Their Genera-
tion—What Demos Will Do If It is Not
Done—The Personal Habits of the Dis-
eased D?aiti-Billionaire.
SLAVERY FOR CRIME.
A Novel View of Some Modern Methods of
Punishment,
Among all barbarians there are two
methods of punishing crime. One is
through the revenge of the person in-
jured, and this it without doubt the
most prlbinitive..The other assumes that
through.,his crime the•criinifial forfeits
his right to liberty and becomes the slave
of the community: At - first the two
methods seem to be distinct, but they
But, after all, it is not so much by the are really closely connected, as ma yy be
direct abuse of the power which money seen by studying their habits of the bar -
`gives that the millionaire of to -day will barian communities of Africa. In punish -
be weighed in the balance and found ment through the vengeance of the per -
wanting. It is not so much the sins of son wronged it inevitably happened that
commission as those of omission which on frequent occasions• he would be too
'lie piled at his door. The wealth of weak to do what, among all savages,
such' men as Jay Gould is a sceptre oft was esteemed his duty. In such a case
power. The failure to exert that power he appealed to others of his blood, and
in the promotion of the great causes - by their aid. in wreaking: his vengeance
which mark the progress of humanity became thepossetsor of the wrongdoer's
is an offence which cannot be atoned for person. Among our own ancestors,
by any amount of tithing of mint, anise as among the negroes, , the clan fend
.and cumin. Private beneficence, even arising thus °led : to slavery. 'In : Africa
'on the most lavish scale and conducted slavery rests on the clan fend and also
`in the most secret way, can no on what may be called the . "convict
more compensate for the failure to lease system,' under whichwhichat member
exert the authority and influence that of a clan is enslaved by his cansmbn as
a millionaire possesses in stemming the a punishment.
' tide ,of vice, ignorance and savagery, and 'iue savage kills the wrongdoer. The
in promoting the advent of a higher and barbarian enslaves him. In the civilized
nobler life. The regular tatendance at condition of humanity the State attempts
a parish church does not justify a mon- to prevent crime under a system de -
arch in allowing his frontier to lie open signed to educate and improve the crim-
to the incursions of the foe. Of the mil- inal. But in every civilized community
,aiaire, more than of other men, may consisting of any considerable number
it i}e said, in "getting and spending we of people savagery, barbarism and civil -
' waste our powers ;" but in the case ization exist together, all these methods
e
Vet millionaire it should be "getting ' of punishment can coexist.
en+ehoarding we lay waste our powers. , In America we. have the savagery of
`it was computed that around the bier of. ! revenge through the lynching, the bar -
Jay Gould were gathered some dozen barism of enslaving the criminal and the
men whose united fortunes amounted to humanity of attempting' to elevate him
one hundred millions sterling. . all existing as distinct methods, or as in -
No necessary work can long be left consistent parts of the same method of
neglected. and if millionaires will not 'dealing with crime.
distribute their own wealth and use their People who think at all can hardly
great position with great souls and think differently about the uselessness
hearts, they will find that they will come of the vengeance executed through our
to be regarded by the hungry and thirsty frequent lynchings. They are the re -
Demos much as compensation reservoirs salt of the uneradicated savagery which
are regarded by the inhabitants of the generally coexists with the highest mei-
cities who have constructed them to re- lization yet attained. But while all
`plenish the stream which their thirst thinking people will agree on this point
would otherwise drink dry; These great many who can think have 'not yet de -
fortunes of 70 millions and 100 millions voted sufficient thought to the evils of
:and, 300. millions of dollars will come slavery for crime to I. able to under -
:to be , retarded as the storage service stand that it is not the best possible me-
,npon which mankind draw in sea- thod ofpunishment.
sons, of ac srcity ' and drought:. That - Under any system: of- punishment by
is the. use which society will make - the State it must-aesnme -control of the
'of its- millionaires if millionaires criminal, but this control does not ne-
`do not anticipate the inevitable , by cessarily imply thitt he shall be a' slave,
..ntiliziitg, their -millions. Some .people as the essence of slavery lithe enforce -
imagine that the. progress of democratic meat of the labor of one Person for- the
:socialism will tend to discourage the - profit of another or the community.
"accumulation of these bilge fortunes; it • When the State, as the Sovereign,-
le
overeign,Tis more:likely tbsit Demos will regard cises the sovereign perogative Lof pun -
Iris millionaires. as the cottager regards ishment to prevent crime and to educate
-his bees. These useful insects spend the the criminal the convict community be -
;livelong summer day in collecting and comes an organized society in which the
-hoarding up in their combs the golden convicts , are the subject of a paternal
:;plunder of a thousand flowers, but when authority which makes them subjects
the autumn comes the bee wishes to instead of citizens only that it may teach
take its rest and to enjoy the fruits of them self-control and self-government.
its summer toil. But the result does If, however, the State sells the labor
'not -altogether correspond with the ex- of such convicts,, we have a reversion to
pectations of the bee. A few more Jay the barbaric method of slavery as a pun -
Goulds and the autumn of millionaires ishment for crime. In Africa. when a
...will' be near at hand. member of a tribe has committed a fel-
' -He was more or less an invalid all his ony, the " headman " of the village keeps
life:' It has beefi said that he scarcely ' him imprisoned only . until the next
knew what it was to be without an ache. slave gang comes along. He then Bele-
Certainly he was afflicted with dyspep- gates to the slave dealer the power and
ria and neuralgia for many years. He prerogative of punishing the convict,
was of a very nervous temperament selling the convict's person as well as
His.face had a faded yellow hue, looking his labor.
at times, waxy, vet few men took better Only in this does the system differ from
care of themselvea than Mr. Gould. It our own convict lease epitome For we,
has sometimes been . said that he oma- too, surrender to those wfio for their own
sionally overate, but this probably arises profit are willing to become public execu-
from the fact that the slightest intern- tioners; the State's supreme prerogative
per ,ncein eating affected him more than of controlling the person and the labor
e nest` men. He was seldom out of bed of criminals. The difference between
Iater than eleven o'clock at night, except our system and that of the African vil-
`on those evenings when he would take lage is merely The difference between a
his children and grandchildren to the title by lease and a title in fee. In each
theatre or circus. case the community, finding the care of
He abstained absolutely from spirit- the criminal a burden, surrenders h*m
-nous liquors and never used tobacco. His to those who are willing to assume it 1 or
doctor told him a number of years ago profit. The African slave dealer and
that; it wouldn't do him any harm to the American convict contractor acquii e
smekea little, because it might divert each his title to the labor of the criminal
his mind -from the cares of business. He by assuming at the same time the dele-
laid ie a great supplyof the most expen- gated sovereignty of the community and
sive Turkish cigarettes and essayed the the functions of the executioner of the
feat. But it was a dismal failure and community s decree of punishment.
the office boys in the Western Union Under the American system the con -
building reveled in -the Turkish cigarettes vitt contractor buys the labor but not
„which Mr. Gould threw away. A mod- the person of the slave. He can kill the
est cap of claret was all he ever took at slave by cruelty or neglect and yet lose
dinner and he cared nothing especially no labor as long as the State can supply
eeout. the brand or quality. --From the a fresh convict instead of the one killed.
",Character Sketch of Jay Gould," by This is the disadvantage of our system
'.:T. Stead, February Review of Re- as compared with that of the African
views. village; for there, when the slave dealer
kills a convict, it is his own loss, and
The Dead Level of Work, seihititerest tends, to make .him more
Mr. Gladstone's intellectual activity merciful than he would be with a sys-
;la;- remained, even in his declining years tem ander which the convict's death
sine of _ the marvels of public life. His would cost him nothing.
-iiielodionsvoiceiias lost its peculiar re- It is hardly necessary to say that such,
'sonance and purity of tone, but there methods of punishment do not prevent
are Pew other indications of his 84th 'crime by correcting the criminal. A
criminal is not the less a criminal for
becoming a slave, but is likely to be
brutalized by his slavery. And the State
itself commits a crime against its people
as well as against the convict when, for
the sake of gain, it abdicates its sover-
eign power of correcting him and vests
it in unofficial persons not in any sense
representatives of the people, who, under
pretext of executing justice on the erim-
inal, use him fortheir own' gain, regard-
less of the justice through which the
civilized:State is bound to make, -his
punishment a,correction.=St. Louis Re-
public.-.
year:
How can the intellectual vigor and
extraordinary vitality of this Ieader of
men be 'accounted fort That is a ques-
tion- which
ues-tion-avhich Mr_ Gladstone himself is
pre-eminently qualified to answer. His
explanation, when recently asked what
;was the secret of his -remarkable activ-
jty, was embodied in.a homely analogy.
"'There was once a road leading out of
London," he said, "on which more horses
died than on any other, and inquiry; re-
vealed the fact that it was perfectly
level: Consequently the animals in tra-
veling over it lased only one set of uus-
cles.,:
Continueemployment- Of the #fame
physical poi. els - on the tens ties- in -
The Perfect Bloom,
"17a not the bud though wonderons fair' '
Nor yet the full--erown„fegal Foes
-vo1F �erihanstiton:--and:deierioration, -It Ent hat rare charrn,.haifseen, half fines s ,
ltf'`. 'ed;and :vtl exercise of- - u> mherepicybreaat
a L�itjeean tLesir:
at muaclea . -the 'ale a A p gush whcro her sweets repose.
of ,ph w atageil lumodest bliss,
ciiple is tly applied, to a . a `by fee sun's Warm; loving tries..
ment I ftpictions. is- not workthat: niche child. though,dimpled fair,
O! yet the woman's the i face
-breaks down the men, of: our flute a# That a moa�t ham: -�1►t sweet east
though its busiest of all .ate o4�'i ani w's biaaab.
"what= rl vats amens force and :''=be bloomet .. en there,
.tea..
u' '� li onions. conceu- ` Her clear', lure Brei till." oId` Tar••
:`tration-o€ pi eruponthe-same objeet. The glcrrof Hope'agateBier. -
'What 'the- -majority of . workers i `~ grant this perfect opens flower
need¢is no. xbat col..q. :from : Maywea arum ithetu o blight;
complete -serrata of : activity. but araatl said,icood o
ratherhe res t invehredin strange `=M' ores ewer,
o€em
tom* ught ,: iewr�ork -w ti ht.
Tribute: - Then'ishisgl fiapr iaee; a . iva
O'ershadow her with wings of byte.
"._d sale' of . , r_ — - _ -Rosa Ilart'wiek nave.
A is to lin English pian, what is risme
4.- Mr . .� ` �,b *er, the nature -f: f has SI d Fon.ever thi>Frl of our pet eco--
tirade' `: , � e influence in producing bald dearly everyone ane..: Fos'
nese €e our hair coli, 1 there rs tits titan, the very re-
-`than dri �er°cento€ sltl , enc wheat of gArd1y, who will race Iseult
IS gray twenty scent of ,t les 11ibrary to and `from bail to straw
:ten= pen_ -cent of iron he room. ge the ill vane of $cont=
im&..-
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ha tw6 of the and phnr match. A singed &&ger`,: ar a
:that nearly every o es eacbt ,com o ttte oe mat; is a i not matter
beef a d t ilk. leave r chest ical pared 3o economy of one '
ton the sire bf a�atirtg match to three biers Then we al
'know .a woman caught m arshower,, will
$10 wor h of feather ether than
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THE
Always
Prom
Father
Blood
Thererms:
rowidabo
Mr. Gla•.
tthehief'
sod. Per
among th
the fashi
stories
a� day
a "
Likenessbitla
other gre
I picked
of these
evening
characte
before fo
never can
especially
"No 1" of
series of
that of th
sibilities i
printed in
fore he w
at least, t
of Mr. G1
abroad.
There c
ins told o
Gladstone,
in basin:.:
siderable
rose, when
and, I bell
In those da
of wool an
combined
agricultur
alike• ther
lation on
still on m
and plc
Gladstone
country ge
has been in
with him.
to Montro
and an exc
wives on th
the market
and doings
though to
people they
ter the sma
tetort. The
hey have
old gentle
his tongue t
giby t
a thrifty • •
trickrded upon
into town Q
going up th
ket on her
stopped her
her a shill'
penny or so
shook her h
it up to th
whom G .•
this he off
replied, the
ner the nig
or else eve
This only ' .
have the
strength of
7s. 6d. Th
took the m
into Montr
achievemen
ay, avoids,
after that.
He had ga
ing up of his
that they sh
ed to orderly
self -manages
to discuss ar
manner of
arose, and dl
debated the
Parliament
grew the esist<�
fere arrive'
dtgnated f�
and the chil
to thrash ow
should be hi
meanwhile
cord to exec
reached. T
a tax on the
Little fair -f
and with 10
clear views
should be pl
at extreme is
The others W
ly voted hi..
to hang the
wished. Re
found this d
other nails
at the places
They heckle.
made reply:
work, and I
You're bonny
Master Wu
know peace
This early
is recalled b
many other
big leaders
mhave
have their o
them. Wha
stone from
manner in
combine this
Tess fi ityt of
most histo
new ideas an
must use ••
because the
career are
and ma
paralleled s
such a bewil
and issues, t
phase of it a
stand on its
even rotative
atone or
derstandsays so.,
somewhere,
done. The
even the el -
�vstelt him
,tray. Now
wor.eager
him trippia:
him his weir,
lant charge o
the instant h
1851, bis co
inferences h
demonstrates
the tine of
the opinions
covers the sc
dug that