Judge Frank P. Sadler

              1914

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Judge Frank P. Sadler

The Criminal in the Making
The Criminal in the Saving
Twentieth Century Unrest—Its Portent
The Value of an Ideal in Practical Life

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HONORABLE FRANK P. SADLER, Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, has consented to give Lyceum and Chautauqua audiences the benefit of his experience on the Bench, in dealing with the criminal class.  He has presided in the Harrison Street and Desplaines Street criminal branches of the Municipal Court, the two branches dealing with the most vicious criminal classes of the great city of Chicago.  He has met the boys and girls taking their first lessons in crime.  He has dealt with the young men ripening into criminal life.  He has come in contact with the hardened criminals, committing the most desperate crimes.  He has met face to face in the courtroom the robber, the burglar, and the murderer.

The Harrison Street and Desplaines Street branches of the Municipal Court of Chicago are two of the largest criminal courts in the world.  A Judge's duties here give him great opportunities to study crime in its various stages of development.  The Municipal Court the past year disposed of 71,911 criminal and quasi criminal cases.

Into these courts come the people of every race and from every clime.  Tragedies deeper than the heart can fathom are here shown to mankind.  Humor, likewise, lights up the grim walls.  There is no better place in all the world to study criminals in the making and criminals in the saving.

For his original handling of criminal problems, Judge Sadler has received the commendation of the pulpit, press, sociologists and criminologists.  It was at the solicitation of many of these that he decided to give Lyceum and Chautauqua audiences the benefit of his experience among the criminal classes.  These lectures are of special value to mothers and fathers, in pointing out to them the pitfalls that start the young on the downward road and how to save them from such a life.  They get, not the theories of others, but first-hand information from the great school of life and experience.

Judge Sadler has long been a deep student of civic problems and political questions.  He has been much in demand on occasions where public questions were discussed, especially so at political meetings.  The National, State, and County Committees of his party have many times sought his services for political addresses.  He has taken an active part in many battles for good government in Chicago.  He has fought the vicious elements regardless of political consequences.  No one doubts his courage or honesty.  His training and experience have especially qualified him to speak on the signs of the time and their meaning.

He won his spurs as an orator during his college days at Ann Arbor, taking the highest honors in the West in college oratory.  He is well known throughout the West for his power on the platform.

His lectures deal with vital questions of the hour.  They are results of experience in the great school of life.  His success in the Chautauqua and Lyceum fields has been pronounced and emphatic.  He is an orator with a great message.




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The Criminal in the Making
This lecture deals with the strangely fascinating story of the crime and criminal life of a great city.  Judge Sadler's portrayal of the strange life of those who constitute the criminal class has entranced his audiences.  His description of the life that finds its logical end in a prison cell always arouses a deep interest and never fails to make a profound impression on his hearers.  Every audience feels itself instructed as well as entertained.

Experience has convinced Judge Sadler that the disorderly saloon is the clearing house of crime; the public dance hall often the starting point of a girl's ruin; vice and idleness go hand in hand; every boy and man in the city who has nothing to do but kill time has his face turned toward the penitentiary; intoxicating liquors, cocaine, opium, and other drugs and stimulants, are responsible for a large per cent of crime.  Sensational journalism is one of the chief. if not the principal, cause of crime among the young in a great city Evil environment and lack of moral training often cause the downfall of the young.  A Christian home and home influence is the best police force in the city.  Poverty drives to crime.  The slum, the home of poverty, is the breeding ground of crime.

You cannot afford to lose this opportunity to hear, from one who knows, the cause and conditions that bring men and women, and more particularly the young, to the jails and penitentiaries.




The Criminal in the Saving
Am I my brother's keeper?  was asked and answered long ago.  The criminal, he, who disobeys the law, and steals, and robs and kills, is at once an object of interest, of danger, of pity.  What to do with him, how to reclaim him, how to save those who would follow in his footsteps, is one of the most important and perplexing questions of the age.  The world is seeking a crime cure.  Crime is on the increase.  Homicides in the United States since 1885 have increased 2 1/2 times as fast as the population.  The moral and economic waste of crime commands today, as never before, the serious attention of leaders in every walk of life.  Judge Sadler has given these questions much thought and study.  His experience on the bench gives weight to his words: Save the boys and girls, he says, and you cut off the source of recruits to the criminal army.  The lecture deals with home surroundings and home training in child saving; wholesome amusements and recreation provided for the young to deprive vice of its allurements; of guiding the child from the play world to the work world; of building up the spiritual until it conquers the animal nature,—the work of education; of character building as the bulwark against crime; of Juvenile Courts, their value and results; of prison reform; of parole laws, their use and abuse; of what the State should do for the convict and ex-convict; of the responsibility of every man and woman for poverty and the dive, the slum, and the tenement.

This is a companion lecture to The Criminal in the Making.  It deals with the same fascinating subject.  Its materials are taken from the life pages of boys and girls, and men and women.  It sums up in a positive way the progress made toward finding the crime cure.



Twentieth Century Unrest—Its Portent
The Renaissance—The World's conscience is aroused.

The signs of the times are fraught with meaning.

Judge Sadler in this lecture points out their significance,—The meaning of the struggle in England between Lords and Commons.  The meaning of the increased bitterness in Russia between Serfs and Nobles.  The meaning of the contest just waged in Turkey between Sultan and People.  The meaning in America of the unrest of our people.—Its causes.—Its results present and future.  Whither are we drifting?  Insurrections within party lines.  The rise of the big combinations.  The advent of the Billionaire.  State of the public mind toward swollen fortunes and the distribution of wealth.  Government and the burden bearer.  Justice and injustice of the present system.  The Government barometer, where does it stand?  State of the public mind toward Church and Religion.—Its meaning.  Its causes.  Its effects present and future.  Advance of Social Democracy.—Its present status.  Man's dream for the future.

Chicago is the most typical American city.  It is a melting pot in which foreign-born peoples are transformed into Americans.  It seethes with activity.  There is no better place in all our land to study the National life and feel the Nation's pulse.

Judge Sadler's close contact with Chicago people and public affairs, supplemented by extensive travels and study, well equips him to speak on this subject.



The Value of an Ideal in Practical Life
Why emphasize the Ideal?  Look about and see the aimless lives,—the drifting boats on life's great ocean.  Ideals of poets, artists, architects, musicians and statesmen—Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Corot, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Napoleon, Wilberforce, Farragut, John Brown.  Ideals reflected in National Heroes—Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, America.  Ideals in formation of our Institutions.  Ideals of Washington, Lincoln, and the Man of Galilee.  Ideals and Education.  True meaning of Education.  Our material civilization needs the leaven of higher thinking.  The truly educated men and women,—who are they?  Relation of educated men and women to the world,—sympathy with the masses.  Ideals must be realized in a material world.  Gazing at an ideal will not bring it nearer.  The light shed by the guiding star must reach and shine upon a world of reality or else the ideal will remain a pale reflection in the sky.  Ideals reached by those alone who are doers of deeds.  Ideals must always be in advance of existing conditions.  The Idealist, the pioneer of progress.  World made better by those who link ideal and real and strive to bring them nearer together.  In Ideals is the world's hope for better things.

This lecture has been given many times by Judge Sadler before High Schools and Colleges.  It is especially suitable for commencement occasions.



Personal and Press Comment
From Supt. of Chicago Schools.—The subjects of Judge Sadler's lectures are an indication of his trend of thought in trying to prevent the lowering of the standard of morals among young people.  Not only are his endeavors in the direction of prevention, but they also tend toward the development of ideals of nobler living.  The look of inspiration on the faces of the listeners at the close of one of his lectures gives assurance of his success in his endeavors.—Mrs. Ella Flagg Young.

From Opie Read, Author.—

No subject could be more vital than the one which Judge Sadler has chosen, and no man in America is better fitted to discuss it.  His utterances will be vigorous; but that is what we need.  His denunciations of abuses and neglects on the part of the public may be heavy, but this is what the question demands.  Clear, strong, sincere—a man of marked ability, he has one of the most convincing lectures on the platform, a lecture in which there is an eye-opening education.—
Opie Read.


From Supt. House of Correction, Chicago.—The Honorable Frank P. Sadler on New Year's day of this year talked to about 1600 of our prisoners.  As a result, many persons have said upon their release that they intended profiting by his advise and would always remember what he had said and desired me to express to him their appreciation of his coming here upon that occasion.

The study he has made of The Criminal in the Making has given him a fund of information which is of great value.  I take great pleasure in recommending him.—John L. Whitman.

From Chairman Commission on Vice named by the Mayor of Chicago, and Dean of Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul.—It has been my pleasure and privilege to co-operate with the Hon. Judge Sadler of the Municipal Court in several organizations and movements looking to the bettering of social conditions especially among the criminal classes.  I have always found him to be a friend of the unfortunate, a sympathizer with the oppressed and an aggressive protector when injustice has been done.  As Judge of the Desplaines Street and Harrison Street Courts—probably two of the largest criminal courts in the world—he has been in a position to know much about the tremendous temptations and vicious allurements which permeate the social systems of our city.  I heartily recommend him as an authority in the field of sociology and criminology,—a knowledge gained from every day experience.—Walter Taylor Sumner.




Personal and Press Comment—Continued
From Professor of Oratory, University of Michigan.—Judge Frank P. Sadler, of Chicago, gained distinction as a student in the University of Michigan, both in oratory and debating, and it is gratifying to know that he has not been disobedient to his calling since he left college and took up his work as a lawyer.  He is a man of high character and attainments, and this added to his skill as a speaker makes him doubly useful as a man of affairs and as a public lecturer.  Lyceum associations and Chautauquas would do well to secure him for their courses.—Thomas C. Trueblood.

From President of University of Michigan.—I take great pleasure in endorsing this deserved commendation of Judge Sadler.—James B. Angell.

From President Valparaiso University.—I have known Judge Frank P. Sadler for a number of years as a student, attorney and public speaker.  In all these capacities he has shown unusual ability.  He is thorough in whatever he undertakes.  He is a fine platform speaker and at once attracts attention and holds the attention by the forceful manner in which he presents his subject.  His addresses are always interesting and instructive and his audiences large and appreciative.  Any Chautauqua securing his services will not be disappointed.—H. B. Brown.

From the Pastor Pilgrim Congregational Church, Chicago, and Lecturer.—Mr. Sadler turned from a farm to the University of Michigan.  He was liked by every one in his class and graduated with honor.  Then he opened a law office in Chicago where there are always about a thousand lawyers looking for one client, but he attracted so many that in five years he was placed on the bench.  There is not a tougher place than Desplaines Street.  Here is the best field in the world to see the criminal in the making.  Judge Sadler saw it all.  But he had a heart as well as eyes, and his talks with boys and girls showed them how to stop.  But the Judge had done so well that he was ordered to go to Harrison Street,—Harrison Street, that cul-de-sac of the Western world.  No one can get lower than the wilful criminal who repeatedly sleeps on the pavement in the cellar of Harrison Street.  It took Judge Sadler just one day to show professional bondsmen and policemen that when his clerks said Hats off, the court meant it.  When one of the biggest papers frightened a woman arrested on suspicion and took her photograph in jail, Mr. Sadler promptly smashed the plate and arrested the photographer.  Well, this is the sort of man Judge Sadler is.  I would call him the Lindsey of Chicago.  If you have him, you will get a man with a splendid personality, a fine voice, an address that is not a string of vague sentences and pretty words, but full of his experience.  You will sit up and take notice.  You will know he means every word.  You will walk home over the dusty road in summer or the crunching snow in winter with an inspiration and a vision.  You will laugh some and cry some, perhaps, but you will think.  The lecture committee will have to make no apologies for the speech.—Frederick E. Hopkins.

From Member of Congress (Penn.)—The impression made upon my mind by Judge Sadler's speech at the Hamilton Club was that I would like to hear more of it.  In these days an audience likes quick thought and rapid fire, both of which the Judge possesses in a marked degree.—J. Hampton Moore.

From Hinshaw Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art, Chicago.—No one could hear Judge Frank P. Sadler's address on The Criminal in the Making, without being vastly benefited.  It is a great life lesson for men, women, boys and girls, and will show young men and women what roads not to follow and the results of simply drifting, or allowing themselves to be led through questionable, though alluring, paths.  No one should miss it.—William Wade Hinshaw.

From Ex-U. S. Senator (Ill.)—Judge Sadler is an orator of rare ability.  He possesses all the elements that will attract, amuse, and entertain an audience.—A. J. Hopkins.

From Member Chicago Board of Education and Pastor People's Liberal Church.—Judge Frank P. Sadler is a man of exceedingly clear thought and rare eloquence.  His experience at the bar and on the bench has given him great opportunities to observe and estimate human nature, its strength and its weaknesses.  His message is a strong and timely one.  To listen to him will prove both a pleasure and a profit.—Refus A. White, D. D.

From Postmaster, Chicago.—Hon. Frank P. Sadler is an orator of ability, a man of sterling character and of high standing in this community.—D. A. Campbell.

From Judge Circuit Court, Chicago.—I predict for Judge Sadler a pronounced success on the lecture platform.  He is qualified in every way for such work.  His experience in the criminal branch of the Municipal Courts at Desplaines and Harrison Streets, especially fits him to speak of The Criminal in the Making.—Merritt W. Pinckney.

From Dist. Supt. Methodist Church, Chicago.—Judge Frank P. Sadler is a man of large experience and observation, an orator with many born gifts, and withal a Christian gentleman.  He knows how to present facts of our modern city life with vividness, and yet with hope.  He hopes himself and makes his hearers do so.  Unless one has a grudge against himself he should take advantage of the opportunity to hear the Judge.—Rev. W. O. Shepard.

From United States Attorney, Chicago.—Judge Sadler's ability as an orator is unquestioned.  As a judge of the Municipal court he has had exceptional opportunity to observe and study criminal conditions in Chicago.  His lecture on The Criminal in the Making is entertaining and instructive.—Edwin W. Sims.

From Member City Council, Chicago, and Ex-Supt. of Aurora High School.—I consider Judge Sadler one of the best platform speakers in Illinois.  I have no hesitancy in saying that Mr. Sadler deserves and will have a national reputation in this line.—Wm. Jr. Pringle.

From Manager Central Illinois Assembly.—Judge Sadler has a strong lecture and a truly great message.  His delivery was with the dignity of a scholar, and yet simple and pleasing in style.  He was given a response equal to anything we had this year.—W. W. Henry.

From Judge Superior Court, Chicago.—Hon. Frank P. Sadler is forceful and fluent and the subject matter of his addresses shows thought and skill in preparation.  He will surely give satisfaction.—W. M. McEwen.


Milwaukee Sentinel (Wis.)
—Judge Frank P. Sadler of Chicago, speaking from observation, told 2000 teachers and their friends of The Criminal in the Making in the main hall auditorium last night.  Applause during the speech was hesitant only because of diffidence in interrupting the ringing voice of the speaker, as he plunged into his subject after a brief introduction by President John Kelley.


Lansing Journal (Mich.)
—A strong and exceptionally interesting lecture.  The Criminal in the Making proved of great benefit and value.


News Democrat, Paducah (Ky.)
—A superb address.  One of the finest lectures ever delivered in Paducah.


Blue Earth Post (Minn.)
—A masterly and powerful address.  Judge Sadler is a comparatively young man, but his words are those of a sage.  The Judge captivated his audience at the start and held them, children and all, for two hours at rapt attention point through the noise of the rain pouring on the roof of the tent.


Times Democrat, Lima (Ohio)
—After a preliminary entertainment Mr. Shappell announced Judge Frank P. Sadler of Chicago.  The Judge, though a young man, is one of the ablest jurists in the United States, and especially is he informed and interested in the criminal classes.  His message was for the young people, and happily many were there to hear him, though what he had to say would not go amiss should it fall on the ears of the old.


Falls City News (Neb.)
—For over two hours Judge Sadler held the undivided attention of the large crowd without losing one from the audience.  He is an eloquent speaker and probably there is not a man in this country better fitted than he to talk upon this subject, The Criminal in the Making.  He is a most realistic, forceful speaker, and in listening to him one almost feels in touch with the conditions as he depicts them, so vivid are his illustrations.


Illinois State Journal, Springfield.
—Frank P. Sadler's address was a superb piece of oratory and logic.


Detroit Free Press.
—In point of delivery, the oration by Frank P. Sadler was so easily the first of the day that there was no comparison.  Mr. Sadler is well known here and throughout the West for his power on the platform.  His topic today was The Ideal in Practical Life.


Chicago Times-Herald
—Theodore Roosevelt faced 20,000 Chicago people last night at two great meetings at the Coliseum and the First Regiment Armory, and every throat of the 20,000 shouted him a greeting.
The meetings of last night will rank among the greatest popular demonstrations Chicago has ever seen during political campaigns.
At the Coliseum President Fred Bangs, of the Hamilton Club, announced the beginning of the programme at 7:30 o'clock.
Frank P. Sadler was the first speaker.  He first mentioned Roosevelt's name and the high pitch of the evening's applause was reached almost at once.


Lyceumite and Talent-Report of I. L. A. Convention at Oshkosh, Wis.—Judge Frank P. Sadler of the Municipal Court described The Criminal in the Making.  The Judge is an expert on the subject of criminology, and has had large experience in dealing with the criminal classes in his court.  It is one of the significant contributions of the Chautauqua to the improvement of modern life that it brings a man like Judge Sadler to instruct the people in methods of crime prevention.  He has made no mistake in taking the platform.  He is now doing the greatest work of his life.  His magnificent lecture was a surprise, ever to his friends.


The Methodist, Evanston (Ill.)
—Judge Sadler's great reputation as an orator was more than justified by his brilliant address on Chicago Atmosphere.  Everybody says it was a truly great speech.  Judge Sadler captured every man.


Savannah Times (Ill.)
—In the words of the audience—Mr. Sadler is a whirlwind * * * and we hope he will come again.


Pilot Tribune, Storm Lake (Iowa)
—A fine address filled with good things and excellent suggestions for better citizenship.


Manitowoc Daily Herald (Wis.)
—The lecture throughout held the closest attention of the crowd.  It was made intensely interesting by the speaker whose delivery was at times dramatic and at all times pleasing.


Taylorville Breeze (Ill.)
—Judge Frank P. Sadler delivered a magnificent address.  His eloquence and logic were unbounded and he had the undivided attention of his auditors until he closed.



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