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"It has been the cause of much of ghe in_efficiency of our democracy and in a large measure it has been the cause of our very democracy itself. It has been at the foundation of our unrestricted immigration, and of our universal suffrage. We have adopted its promise of the«divinity and worthâ€" whileness of every individual, and we have made it possible not only for the meek but for the ignorant and the incapable to inherit the earth. ‘‘It has been «repeatedly asserted that America is a Christian nation, and though the name of Christ noâ€" where appears in the Constitution of the nation or of any state, and there can be no question that in no other nation of the earth has the philoâ€" sophy of Christ been so universally understood and so universally conâ€" trolling. ‘Christianity, general Chrisâ€" tianity,‘ says the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, in the case of Updeâ€" graph vs. Commonwealth, 11 Serg. & R. 394, 400, ‘is, and always has been, a part of the common law of Pennsylvania _. .. not Christianity with an established church and titles, and spiritual courts, but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.‘ Cause of Lawlessness "Paradoxical thought it may seem, it has been‘ the influence of this very Christianity which has been the cause of much of our seeming lawlessness and of much of our lack of enforcéâ€" ment of the criminal law. It has been this Christianity which has been the: cause of much of the soâ€"called sentiâ€" mentalism which has occasioned jurâ€" ies to acquit, judges to put upon proâ€". bation, board argd governors to parâ€" don and parole, and which has been the impelling influence in the creation and preservation of the many rules of evidence and procedure which have sought to safeguard the interest of the prisoner in our criminal trial. | SENTIMENTALISM S _ | DEFEATING JUSTICE JUDGE BRUCE TELLS HOWJ Noted Jurist In Address Anâ€" alyzes Modern Conditions and Points Out Dangers of Emotionalism Sentimentalism and emotionalism in American courts and on behalf of criminals are playing hob with proâ€" per and adequate performance of jusâ€" tice in the United States and it is time, while not ignoring Christ‘s teachings, to use them rationally and give the murderer his due. Judge Andrew A. Bruce, professor of law at Northwestern university, before the Fathers and Sons club of the Onarga Military academy at Onarga, III., did not mince words in chamâ€" pioning a doctrine of swift and sure punishment to fit the crime. Utilizing various Old and New Tesâ€" tament texts to illuminate his disâ€" course, Judge Bruce hit hard against flabby emotionalism which is so apt to free a murdered and permit the murder‘s victims to suffer unjustly. He said in part: Mistaken Emphasis "Thexe has been often a mistaken emphasis placed upon the story of the woman taken in adultery and of the thief on the Cross which has miliâ€" tated against the enforcement of the criminal law. Summer Dance Pavilion at Diamond Lake May 28 Music by Frank Wallin and His 10â€"Piece RAY BROTHERS announce the opening wiTe 'm"'"u?'y\‘m"“ GVE mt wz PAIM TN _Nl t of their : man has forgotten the doctrine of( election and of foreordination, and| (where even the churches of authority and of precedent, whose ministers and | }priests assume to themselves thel right to interpret the Scriptures, and | to determine what portions of them | | their parishioners shall read, have not !only not been able to control the inâ€" vestigations and literary and social ; | and intellectual contacts of their folâ€" |lowers, but have themselves been compelled to lay stress on the huâ€" manity of the newer dispensation. Old Hebrew Idea | _ ‘The ancient Hebrew regarded the] man who had sinned, and under a| theocracy every one who has broken \the law has sinned, as one who had} | cut himself off from Israel, and such being the case, no effort was made |for his reformation, and there was | nothing to prevent his being put out| ‘of the way. The primitive Calvinist looked upon such a one as a person who in the first place, and from all | time, had been predestined to deâ€" | struction, and who, even though once | numbered among the elect of the conâ€" | gregation had been wrongly classiâ€"| fied. In South Africa, even today, the ! primitive 17th century Old Testanient | Bocer thinks of himself as a member| of a chosen people which may go inâ€" \to the promised land and possess it,“ ‘and which may slaughter and disâ€"| | possess the natives as the Israclites slaughtered and dispossessed the Caâ€" ‘ | naanites. Israelites, Boers, and Calâ€"| vinists alike, have adhered to the doeâ€" 1 |trine of the superâ€"man. All others| | have encumbered the earth. But the | doctrine of the superâ€"man is not the { doctrine of America. It was not the ‘ {doctrine of Christ. It was the docâ€"} ‘trine of the old, and not of the newfi dispensation, and it is in this fact | that we find the origin of much ot[ our democracy, and much of our lenâ€" | iency toward the criminal. j L Undue Emphasis \ "An undue emphasis on the thief upon,the cross, the story of the womâ€" an taken in adultery, and the precept r‘Judge not, that ye be not judged‘ has promoted an undue leniency on the part of the prosecutor, the judge and the jury alike. The story" of Christ and the children in the market place, and the command ‘Whom~God hath cleansed, call thou not common‘ and the world‘s great Marseillaise of democracy, the universal prayer, of ‘Our Father‘ have not only destroyed the doctrine of the superâ€"man, but have created a universal sympathy which knows no race, or class, and which even includes the criminal and the fallen, [ [' "America, indeed, is a land of the New Testament and not of the Old. |It is a land where even the Scotchâ€" "Under the old Hebrew law, a fathâ€" er could take his disobedient son beâ€" fore the elders to be stoned. Under the Roman law, a father could himâ€" Government of the Ignorant ‘"Too often we have had a governâ€" ment of the ignorant and of the inâ€" capable. We have been anxious to give every man a chance, and we have elected ignorant boys as states‘ attorâ€" neys and as prosecuting officers beâ€" cause we have desired to give them employment. Our juries have failed to convict not because they have been corrupt, but because they have been overâ€"humane, and because the appeal which has been made to them by the sufferings of the prisoner and of the prisoner‘s family, who have been beâ€" fore them in the court room, has been more potent than the justice of venâ€" geance and even of the need of the protection of society itself. self take the life of his child. In Gerâ€"| survive. We are not willing to thrust many, in Scotland, and in England,| the unfit out of society or to destroy the rod was mercilessly used in the| them, and being unfit and being reâ€" home and in the school. ~Here, in tained in society they are constantly America the cries of a punished child| liable to err and must be constantly [bring the protests of the nlm‘ured for. There can be no question and perhaps even an arrest. Brave_‘ that a large number of our criminals [ indeed is the teacher who dares to use | though keen and alert in certain lines, ! the rod in the public schools. Christ, ‘ as is almost every insane person, arg indeed, abolished the superâ€"man, and ) seriously defective in others. Their traco andâ€"class and formalistic superâ€"| minds, their wills, their moral imâ€" iority of all kinds. He credited every | puises are weakened or distorted by +human being with a divine parentage | inherited or acquired disease and they Jnnd with an immortal soul. He| are unable, as it were, to put on the preached a solicitude for the weakest | brakes and to control their primitive \ among us. As long, therefore, as thej impulses. Nature would throw them lBible is read, and the Lord‘s Prayer| out; the old testament Hebrew would is spoken, juries and courts will symâ€"| declare them unclean and banish them ‘ pathize, and will condone. It is useâ€"| from society, but we retain them | less to u.nf them that they h;l:onld | among us. Left alone, as is the case | sympathize for society as a w! and | __; 5 ‘for the family of the vietim, That| With the beer runners of Chicago, family is not. before them and in the‘ they would destroy themselves, they [presen(’i' of the suffering eulprit and‘ would shoot each other or would die his family, society is merely an abâ€"| of disease, but we keep them from “ straction. murdering one another and we allow | 8 lfrol.naolfs ‘Soc‘inl Life them to propagate. We# Promotes Social Life ‘Christianity indeed promotes a soâ€" cial life and a social attitude of mind which is contrary to the inexorable laws of nature and being contrary brings with it its peculiar problems. The law of nature is the law of the survival of the fittest and under the principles of Christianity, or Chrisâ€" tianity as most of us understand it. we are constantly attempting to make it possible for the unfittest to THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS 4 For over thirtyâ€"two years we have been tailors to the best dressed men of America We aré rapidly adding to this prestige in our Fourth Floor City Sales by being tailors to the best dressed men of Chicago. Investigate this service before buying your new suit! s . & $35 YOUR CLOTHES There is no one style of landscaping which fits every sitâ€" uation. Only a gardener, who understands true harâ€" mony, and who has carefully studied your grounds can tell exactly how they should be laid out. Years of study and practice have given us the knowledge of how to make the most of every gardenâ€"small or large. Box 142, Highland Park â€" Tel. H. 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