Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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th hardened crimi-nals; and often the slight offender hasthrough this cruel and unjust processbecome a confirmed law-breaker, a men-ace to society, a constant expense to thestate, and a curse to his family and tohimself. All this, so far as Denver is concerned,is past, and the results that have followedhave more than justified the most san-guine expectations of Judge Lindsey andhis co-workers. Hundreds upon hun-dreds of children have been saved to thestate without the humiliation and degra-dation attending the old methods. Hun-dreds of children are to-day among thebrightest and most promising of Denversyoung citizens who under the old systemwould have been in reform-schools orprisons, or Ishmaelites of civilization,embittered by the deep conviction thatthe state was their enemy and with thefeeling that they had little or no chanceof a fair show in life. The course pursued by Judge Lindseyhas demanded work, patient, tireless,loving service such as only an apostle of Digitized by Google
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HON. BEN. B. LINDSEY The Arena Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Judge Lindsey: A Typical Builder of a Nobler State. 858 humanity would devote to the experi-mental effort for the redemption of theunfortunates of society and the ennoble-ment of manhood. Judge Lindsey hashad to convince the young that he wastheir friend, entitled to their confidence;that the state was their loving protectorand not their enemy. He has shownthem that the state must protect all thepeople; that it cannot permit wrong tobe done and take no notice of the offense;but that it wishes to be just and to lift,help, support and sustain the child whohas gone astray; that its purpose is two-fold: to protect society and to help theunfortunate and the erring to be strong,fine helpers of civilization and the state. And it is wonderful to see how whole-heartedly the young have responded tothis call to the divine in their souls—tothis call of the human to the human,pitched in the key of love. The work inaugurated a

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