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I
read
hastily
back
through
the
many
lives
of
many
times
and
many
places
.
I
have
never
known
cruelty
more
terrible
,
nor
so
terrible
,
as
the
cruelty
of
our
prison
system
of
to-day
.
I
have
told
you
what
I
have
endured
in
the
jacket
and
in
solitary
in
the
first
decade
of
this
twentieth
century
after
Christ
.
In
the
old
days
we
punished
drastically
and
killed
quickly
.
We
did
it
because
we
so
desired
,
because
of
whim
,
if
you
so
please
.
But
we
were
not
hypocrites
.
We
did
not
call
upon
press
,
and
pulpit
,
and
university
to
sanction
us
in
our
wilfulness
of
savagery
.
What
we
wanted
to
do
we
went
and
did
,
on
our
legs
upstanding
,
and
we
faced
all
reproof
and
censure
on
our
legs
upstanding
,
and
did
not
hide
behind
the
skirts
of
classical
economists
and
bourgeois
philosophers
,
nor
behind
the
skirts
of
subsidized
preachers
,
professors
,
and
editors
.
Why
,
goodness
me
,
a
hundred
years
ago
,
fifty
years
ago
,
five
years
ago
,
in
these
United
States
,
assault
and
battery
was
not
a
civil
capital
crime
.
But
this
year
,
the
year
of
Our
Lord
1913
,
in
the
State
of
California
,
they
hanged
Jake
Oppenheimer
for
such
an
offence
,
and
to-morrow
,
for
the
civil
capital
crime
of
punching
a
man
on
the
nose
,
they
are
going
to
take
me
out
and
hang
me
.
Query
:
Does
n't
it
require
a
long
time
for
the
ape
and
the
tiger
to
die
when
such
statutes
are
spread
on
the
statute
book
of
California
in
the
nineteen-hundred-and-thirteenth
year
after
Christ
?
Lord
,
Lord
,
they
only
crucified
Christ
.
They
have
done
far
worse
to
Jake
Oppenheimer
and
me
...
.
*
*
*
*
*
As
Ed
Morrell
once
rapped
to
me
with
his
knuckles
:
"
The
worst
possible
use
you
can
put
a
man
to
is
to
hang
him
.
"
No
,
I
have
little
respect
for
capital
punishment
.
Not
only
is
it
a
dirty
game
,
degrading
to
the
hang-dogs
who
personally
perpetrate
it
for
a
wage
,
but
it
is
degrading
to
the
commonwealth
that
tolerates
it
,
votes
for
it
,
and
pays
the
taxes
for
its
maintenance
.
Capital
punishment
is
so
silly
,
so
stupid
,
so
horribly
unscientific
.
"
To
be
hanged
by
the
neck
until
dead
"
is
society
's
quaint
phraseology
...
*
*
*
*
*
Morning
is
come
--
my
last
morning
.
I
slept
like
a
babe
throughout
the
night
.
I
slept
so
peacefully
that
once
the
death-watch
got
a
fright
.
He
thought
I
had
suffocated
myself
in
my
blankets
.
The
poor
man
's
alarm
was
pitiful
.
His
bread
and
butter
was
at
stake
.
Had
it
truly
been
so
,
it
would
have
meant
a
black
mark
against
him
,
perhaps
discharge
and
the
outlook
for
an
unemployed
man
is
bitter
just
at
present
.
They
tell
me
that
Europe
began
liquidating
two
years
ago
,
and
that
now
the
United
States
has
begun
.
That
means
either
a
business
crisis
or
a
quiet
panic
and
that
the
armies
of
the
unemployed
will
be
large
next
winter
,
the
bread-lines
long
...
.
I
have
had
my
breakfast
.
It
seemed
a
silly
thing
to
do
,
but
I
ate
it
heartily
.
The
Warden
came
with
a
quart
of
whiskey
.
I
presented
it
to
Murderers
Row
with
my
compliments
.
The
Warden
,
poor
man
,
is
afraid
,
if
I
be
not
drunk
,
that
I
shall
make
a
mess
of
the
function
and
cast
reflection
on
his
management
...
They
have
put
on
me
the
shirt
without
a
collar
...
