ay--dare not tell a father or a mother, for fear that she
will be killed--I say, that in view of all this, it has always
seemed strange to me that so few husbands have been poisoned.

The probability is that society raises its own criminals. It plows
the land, sows the seed, and harvests the crop. I believe that
the shadow of the gibbet will not always fall upon the earth. I
believe the time will come when we shall know too much to raise
criminals--know too much to crowd those that labor into the dens
and dungeons that we call tenements, while the idle live in palaces.
The time will come when men will know that real progress means the
enfranchisement of the whole human race, and that our interests
are so united, so interwoven, that the few cannot be happy while
the many suffer; so that the many cannot be happy while the few
suffer; so that none can be happy while one suffers. In other
words, it will be found that the human race is interested in each
individual. When that time comes we will stop producing criminals;
we will stop producing failures; we will not leave the next generation
to chance; we will not regard the gutter as a proper nursery for
posterity.

People imagine that if the thieves are sent to the penitentiary,
that is the last of the thieves; that if those who kill others are
hanged, society is on a safe and enduring basis. But the trouble
is here: A man comes to your front door and you drive him away.
You have an idea that that man's case is settled. You are mistaken.
He goes to the back door. He is again driven away. But the case
is not settled. The next thing you know he enters at night. He
is a burglar. He is caught; he is convicted; he is sent to the
penitentiary, and you imagine that the case is settled. But it is
not. You must remember that you have to keep all the agencies
alive for the purpose of taking care of these people. You have to
build and maintain your penitentiaries, your courts of justice;
you have to pay your judges, your district attorneys, your juries,
you witnesses, your detectives, your police--all these people must
be paid. So that, after all, it is a very expensive way of settling
this question. You could have done it far more cheaply had you
found this burglar when he was a child; had you taken his father
and mother from the tenement house, or had you compelled the owners
to keep the tenement clean; or if you had widened the streets, if
you had planted a few