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Will It
Help
the Children?
Many may say now that they want to hang these boys; but I know that giving
the people blood is something like giving them their dinner. When they
get it they go to sleep. They may for the time being have an emotion, but
they will bitterly regret it. And I undertake to say that if these two
boys are sentenced to death, and are hanged, on that day there will be
a pall settle over the people of this land that will be dark and deep,
and at least cover every humane and intelligent person with its gloom.
I wonder if it will do good. I wonder if it will help the children--and
there is an infinite number like these. I marveled when I heard Mr. Savage
talk. I do not criticize him. He is young and enthusiastic. But has he
ever read anything? Has he ever thought? Was there ever any man who had
studied science, who has read anything of criminology or philosophy,--was
there ever any man who knew himself who could speak with the assurance
with which he speaks?