Excerpt from Education in Americanism A few months ago, I was riding in a car in a neighboring city. Two men, evidently from the middle walk of life, were sitting behind me, and I could not help hearing the following conversa tion: Well, I see they arrested Bill for stealing a couple of hams; to which his companion responded: Yes, and I suppose he will go to prison; if he was a rich guy, there wouldn't be any danger, but a poor devil don't stand no show in the Courts. The other agreed with him, and they proceeded to ...
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Excerpt from Education in Americanism A few months ago, I was riding in a car in a neighboring city. Two men, evidently from the middle walk of life, were sitting behind me, and I could not help hearing the following conversa tion: Well, I see they arrested Bill for stealing a couple of hams; to which his companion responded: Yes, and I suppose he will go to prison; if he was a rich guy, there wouldn't be any danger, but a poor devil don't stand no show in the Courts. The other agreed with him, and they proceeded to discuss the subject and to cuss the Courts. I wanted to turn around and tell them they were gravely mistaken; I wanted to explain to them that the statement we often hear quoted, If a man steals a loaf, he goes to prison, and if he steals a railroad he goes to the United States Senate, is a gross exaggeration, - nay, a posi tive libel upon our institutions. I wanted to say to them, Go down to the police court of your own city, and you will find that the arrests for minor offenses for the past year have averaged some forty-five each day; and then go to the records, and find that in ninety per cent of the cases, the Courts and the law, have permitted the unfortunates to keep out of prison by the imposition of a nominal fine, or the favor of a suspended sentence. I wanted to tell them that as a matter of fact out of the thousands of cases tried every day in this country, that only in a very small per cent (1 would say less than one per cent) substantial justice is not administered. I wanted to cry out in protest against the source from which the mis-information comes, which is conveying these dangerous ideas to the American people - the yellow newspapers and maga zines, and other purveyors of falsehood and scandal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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