Article December 23, 1905 Issue

Good and Bad in Us

The Atlanta (Ga.) Journal

In confirmation of the homely truth that there is much of good in the worst of men, comes the assertion of Judge Cowing of the New York Court of General Sessions, that in his twenty-seven years' experience on the bench, sitting at the edge of the never-ceasing stream of crime and vice and evil, he has "found in every man more to praise than to condemn." Not less than thirty-five thousand men and women have passed before Judge Cowing in the twenty-seven years, to plead, to stand trial, to receive sentence, and the crimes of which they have been accused include every act counted as a crime in the penal code.

Certainly the Judge has reason to be a pessimist, if any one has, and yet he has no patience with people who are all the time taling about the total depravity of certain classes. He declares it is not in accordance with the truth.

There is plenty of good in the worst men and woman that come before him.

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