Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — TO PUNISH WIFE DESESTERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO PUNISH WIFE DESESTERS.

Chicago Bureau of Charities Discuss the Whipping Post. In a report issued recently the Chicago Bureau of Charities urges au amendment to the Illinois law on wife desertion which shall compel offenders to support their families by hard work in prisons. The whipping post method, as adopted in Delaware, is discussed and the European

system of hard labor is advocated as th< more feasible and humane plan. Attention is called to the fad that las! year the local Bureau of Charities wui called upon to deal with <KIS families left destitute by the desertiou of the husband The Cook County agent gave relief ic ],tHmt such families and the Chicago Re lief and Aid Society assisted ISO. Iu view of these statistics the bureau consider, the situation alarming and calls for a more effective law.

A DELA WARE WHIPPING POST.