Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1902 — Keep the Children at Home. [ARTICLE]

Keep the Children at Home.

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