Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — KEEP THE CHILDREN AT MOME. [ARTICLE]

KEEP THE CHILDREN AT MOME.

The Attorney General, replying to an inquiry from the town board of Bourbon as to the validity of tliier curfew ordinace, said: “The right of towns and cities to regulate the running about of children after certain hours has been upheld by the courts of all the States. It is within the police power of tbe cities aud towns, and a reasonable ordinance is a most excellent rule of conduct. I would not presume to advise upon tbe projiosition as to when children should be called in. It may be said hh a general proposition that children that run tbe streets are those who make the criminals, and after a very extensive experience in criminal prosecutions, I am convinced that fully eighty per cent of all the criminals can be traced to unrestrained liberty of children up to manhood in running about the streets, theaters and saloons.