The criminal in the making

              1913

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The CRIMINAL in The Making
JUDGE FRANK P. SADLER


Honorable Frank P. Sadler



The CRIMINAL IN THE MAKING
By JUDGE FRANK P. SADLER

HONORABLE FRANK P. SADLER, Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, has consented to give Chautauqua audiences the benefit of his experience on the Bench, in dealing with the criminal class.  He has presided the past two years in the Harrison Street and Des Plaines 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.

Judge Sadler's lecture on The Criminal in the Making deals with this strangely fascinating story of the crime and criminal life of a great city.

His 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.  He delves into the very essence of the causes of crime.  Every audience feels itself instructed as well as entertained.

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 Chautauqua audiences the benefit of his experience among the criminal classes.  This lecture is of special value to mothers and fathers, in pointing out to them the pitfalls that start the young on a downward career.  They get, not the theories of others, but first-hand information from the great school of life and experience.

Judge Sadler is also one of the prime movers in the establishment of the Charles Sumner Social Settlement for the benefit of the poorer class of colored people of Chicago.

Judge Sadler is well known throughout the middle west for his ability as a platform speaker.  He is an orator with a great message.  You cannot afford to lose this opportunity to learn from one who knows the causes and conditions that bring men and women, and more particularly the young, to the jails and penitentiaries.

THE MUTUAL LYCEUM BUREAU
CHICAGO



LECTURES

The Criminal in the Making.
The Value of an Ideal in Practical Life.
New England's Contribution to America.
The Negro Problem—Its Lights and Shadows.




'AM I my Brother's Keeper?' was asked and answered long ago.  Today, we are living in the age of the new morality, the higher law, when the recognition of the duty of man to his fellowman is the light that points the way to progress.  The criminal, he who disobeys the law, and robs, and steals, and kills, is at once an object of interest, of danger, of pity.  The city is his field of operation.  All our great cities are the dens and nests of crime.  Homicides in the United States since 1885 have increased two and one-half times as fast as our population.

Neither is the criminal a foreign product; he is born and developed at our very doors.  Seventy-five per cent of the robberies and burglaries in Chicago are committed by young men under twenty-five years of age.  Fifty per cent of the robberies and burglaries are committed by boys under nineteen years of age.

The Harrison Street and Des Plaines 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 58,227 criminal and quasi criminal cases.

Into these courts come the people of every race and from every clime to be judged.  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 the Criminal in the Making, than in these courts.  Experience has convinced Judge Sadler that the disorderly saloon is the clearing house of crime; steady employment is the great crime cure; every man in the city who has nothing to do but kill time has his face turned toward the penitentiary; sensational journalism is one of the principal, if not the principal cause of crime among the young in a great city; cocaine and opium and other drugs and stimulants are responsible for a large per cent of crime; a Christian home and home influence is the best police force in the city; the man who has a good home rarely gets into crime; the man without a good home or home influence rarely keeps out of crime; many a criminal has made a beginning because of an unkind word or deed, and if a helping hand had been extended it might have saved a soul from destruction.



PERSONAL COMMENT
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.  Her 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.  Of course this made the criminals mad.  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 clerk 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.

REV. DR. FREDERICK E. HOPKINS,
Lecturer and Pastor Pilgrim Congregational Church, Chicago.

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 denunc ations 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 abiiity, he has one of the most convincing lectures on the platform, a lecture in which there is an eye-opening education.

OPIE READ,
Author and Lecturer.

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.

REV. DR. RUFUS A. WHITE, D. D.,
Member Chicago Board of Education.

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,
Dean and Supt. of City Missions, Chicago.

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,
Professor of Oratory, University of Michigan.

I take great pleasure in endorsing this deserved commendation of Judge Sadler.

JAMES B. ANGELL,
President, University of Michigan.

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,
President, Valparaiso University.




PERSONAL COMMENT—Continued
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,
Pastor Englewood First Methodist Church, Chicago.

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.

HON. J. HAMPTON MOORE,
Member of Congress, Penn.

Judge Sadler is an orator of rare ability.  He possesses all the elements that will attract, amuse and entertain an audience.

HON. A. J. HOPKINS,
United States Senator, Ill.

No one could hear Judge Frank P. Sadler's address on The Criminal In The Making, without being vastly benefitted.  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,
Hinshaw Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art, Chicago.

Hon. Frank P. Sadler, of Chicago, Judge of the Municipal Court, appeared at the Central Illinois Assembly with the rather unique subject, Chicago Atmosphere, during the season just past.  He has a strong lecture and a truly great message.  His delivery was with the dignity of the scholar, and yet simple and pleasing in style.  He was given a response equal to anything we had this year.

W. W. HENRY,
Manager, Central Illinois Assembly.

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. J. PRINGLE,
Ex.-Supt. Aurora, Ill., High School, and Member City Council, 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,
United States Attorney, Ill.

I predict for Judge Sadler a pronounced success on the lecture platform.  He is qualified in every way for such work.  His experience for months in the criminal branch of the Municipal Courts at Desplaines and Harrison Streets, specially fits him to speak of The Criminal In The Making.

MERRITT W. PINCKNEY,
Judge Circuit Court, 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,
Postmaster, Chicago.

Honorable Frank P. Sadler, when elected to the Bench, started out to help stop the making of criminals.  I think his course indicated that he had the true conception of the brotherhood of man.  I think he had the right conception that in crime, as in everything else, prevention is better than cure.

I am glad to know that he is going on the platform, for I believe that his lectures will not only be instructive, but will be a help to other judges and to all people to understand more about the criminal in the making.

HON. W. E. MASON,
Ex.-U. S. Senator, Ill.

I have the pleasure to state that Judge Frank P. Sadler is a man well qualified, not only to entertain but to instruct people on the lecture platform on questions of the day.  Although he has not yet reached what we are pleased to call middle life, he has proved himself in this community to be a most unusually well informed and very effective speaker before audiences of varied character.

SIDNEY C. EASTMAN,
Referee in Bankruptcy, 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,
Judge Superior Court, Chicago.



PRESS COMMENT

Judge Sadler's great reputation as an orator was more than justified by his brilliant address on Chicago Atmosphere.  The address was really a disclosure of the underworld as its characters appear before the Municipal Court.  Judge Sadler did not present an extended yellow page of the docket, but cited several cases as an illustration of the causes and effects of vice.  He devoted a section of his address to the cure or the reduction of vice.  Everybody says it was a truly great speech.  Judge Sadler captured every man.—
The Methodist, Evanston, 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.—
Taylorville (Ill.), Breeze.


Judge Frank P. Sadler delivered a powerful address last evening at Saint Martin's Church under the auspices of the Men's Club.  His subject was Chicago Atmosphere.  It was a most masterful presentation of the many handicaps and embarassments which the honest and earnest official is compelled to combat in the protection of life and property of the citizen in the discharge of his duties.—
Austin (Ill.), Vindicator.


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


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


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.

Chicago Times-Herald (Oct. 6, 1900)


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 to-day was The Ideal In Practical Life.
Detroit Free-Press (Mich.)