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and burn building*. They are always cowardly 

 about everything they do, and never have the pluck 

 to steal chickens even until they are half drunk. 

 They often commit murder, but oiily when they 

 are detected in some sneaking crime and shoot 

 because they are too cowardly to face their dis- 

 coverer. 



Now the Jukes were almost never of the first or 

 second class. They could not be criminals that 

 required capital, brains, education or nerve. Even 

 the kind of pauperism and crime in which they 

 indulged was particularly disgraceful. This is 

 inevitably true of all classes of people who com- 

 bine idleness, ignorance, and vulgarity. They are 

 not even respectable among criminals and paupers. 



There is an honorable pauperism. It is no dis- 

 grace to be poor or to be in a poorhouse if there 

 is a good reason for it. One may be manly in 

 poverty. But the Jukes were never manly or hon- 

 orable paupers, they were weaklings among paupers. 



They were a great expense to the state, costing 

 in crime and pauperism more than $1,250,000. 

 Taken as a whole, they not only did not contribute" 

 to the world's prosperity, but they cost more than 

 $1,000 a piece, including all men, women, and chil- 

 dren, for pauperism and crime. 



Those who worked did the lowest kind of ser- 

 vice and received the smallest wages. Only twenty 

 of the 1,200 learned a trade, and ten of those 

 learned it in the state prison. Even they were 

 not regularly employed. Men who work regularly 



