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WWST I- SENATORS QUIT BARBAROUS WEST VIRGINIA - AFTER MILLIONAIRE INSULTS MARTINE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Batty Newspaper, r N. D. Cochran, ggggg , 500, South Peoria St. Editor and Publisher. TeL Monroe 353. VOL.2, NO. 222 Chicago, Wednesday, June 18, 1913 ONE CENT STARTLING INDICTMENT OF CHURCH AND SOCIETY BY FORMER JUDGE CLELAND Jtaist Tells Christian Endeavor Societies They Have Failed In Their Duty and That Present Jail System Breeds More Evil Than Saloon and Gambling House Combined. I In a startling indictment of our prison system, former Judge McKenzie Cleland last night called upon the churches of Chicago to open their eyes to the crime of our present-day jails. Oleland spoke before the West Side Christian Endeavor Societies in the Eighth Presbyterian Church at Washington boulevard and North Robey street "The church," he said, "has been the greatest builder of all time. It has built nen and women; it has built communities and nations. "But our jails of today are destroying more human lives and souls, more communities and nations, than the church ever can buDd up again. "Church services in prison are the greatest mockeries the good people of the church ever lent themselves to. "It is like striking a-man in the face to preach the Golden Rule to him while he is In jafl. "Our excuse to our consciences for building jails and imprisoning men and women in them is that -we want to reform the men and women and reduce crime. "But we now know that jails make criminals and increase crime. "If our criminal system were even efficient, one might at least be able to argue .for it on that groundif not on humane grounds. "But it isn't efficient In the last two hundred years murder has fn- creased two hundred tocr'cent Crime I of a first false step, and a Tiardened iTCoats the United, States $8,00Q,00O,- 000, which is more than it takes to run the government Yet there are now 100,000 murderers at liberty in the United States. "The church must do something to stop this. It cannot stop it while society continues to make profes sional criminals, and society now is doing that, by our jail system. "We imprison a young man, guilty criminal together. We say we jail iUSAt