Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — The Harsh Judge. [ARTICLE]

The Harsh Judge.

A judge was recently at a private dinner defending a harsh sentence. “I believe,” he said, “that it is better for law and order that sentences should err on the side of harshness rather than on the side of lenity. “Look at nature, the great judge of us all. Was there ever a harsher, severer judge, than nature, who sentences each and every one of us to hard' labor for life?’’ I