THE JUKES 11 



The Jukes rarely married foreign-born men or 

 women, so that it may be styled a distinctively 

 American family. The almost universal traits of 

 the family were idleness, ignorance, and vulgarity. 

 They would not work, they could not be made to 

 study, and they loved vulgarity. These character- 

 istics led to disease and disgrace, to pauperism and 

 crime. They were a disgustingly diseased family 

 as a whole. There were many imbeciles and many 

 insane. Those of "the Jukes" who tended to pau- 

 perism were rarely criminal, and those who were 

 criminal were rarely paupers. The sick, the weak, 

 and goody-goody ones were almost all paupers; 

 the healthy, strong ones were criminals. 



It is a well-known fact in sociology that crimi- 

 nals are of three classes : First, those who direct 

 crime, the capitalists in crime, who ai'e rarely 

 arrested, who seldom commit any crime, but inspire 

 men to crime in various ways. These are intelli- 

 gent and have to be educated to some extent. 

 They profit by crime and take slight risks. 



Second, those who commit heroic crimes and find 

 some satisfaction in the skill and daring required. 

 Safe- breaking, train robbery, and some types of 

 burglary require men of ability and pluck, and 

 those who do these things have a species of pride 

 in it. 



Third, those who commit weak and imbecile 

 crimes, which mark the doer as a sneak and a 

 coward. These men rob hen roosts, waylay help- 

 less women and old men, steal clothing in hallways. 



