THAT FLOGGING.

Evening Star, Issue 7248, 27 June 1887, Page 3

THAT FLOGGING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Allow me one (and, so far as I am concerned, final) word, I pity the man who requires to be flogged, and shudder at the idea of the lash ; but if his offence is a criminal assault upon a youug defenceless female I pity his victim more, and shudder at the thought of tho wrong done her and the polluting effect upon her mind. Heinous crimes require rtrong repressive measures, and that in proportion to their frequency. Yesterday's papers state that another young man in the North has been convicted of a dastardly assault upon a girl of tender years and sentenced to be whipped, and every few days similar announcements are mule. True philanthropy aims to preserve our girls in their purity, not in wailing over and exaggerating the punishment of the man who, by brute force, destroys that puity. There are some natures that can feel only through tho skin, Soveral )ears ago garrotting became prevalent in London. The lash was applied, and the cowardly assailants took fright and were deterred. Looking at the heinouiness of rape upon young children and the brutality that accompanies the crime, mawkish sentimentality and misdirected philanthiopy can only have a pernicious influence, and are to be deplored.—l am, eto , WARNING. Dunedin, June 27. [This correspondence must now cease.—En. E.S.J