The "Criminal" Class
DID THIS VIEW OF IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU?
Much interest just now in CRIMINALS.
Much horror aroused by depravity.
Many plans more or less appropriate for making the air pure.
Many good men, politicians, women and bishops, who spent the Summer at the seaside willing now to spend a few days wiping "CRIME" off the earth. ----
What is CRIME? Who are the criminals? Who makes the criminals?
Do criminals viciously and voluntarily arise among us, eager to lead hunted lives, eager to be jailed at intervals, eager to crawl in the dark, dodge policemen, work in stripes and die in shame? Hardly.
Will you kindly and patiently follow the lives, quickly sketched, of a boy and a girl?
THE GIRL
Born poor, born in hard luck, her father, or mother, or both, victims of long hours, poor fare, bad air and little leisure.
As a baby she struggles against fate and manages to live while three or four little brothers and sisters die and go back to kind earth.
She c

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