Leo T. reviewed Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery And Its Victims on + 1775 more book reviews
[My review is from my copy Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1890.]
This is the third edition of Altgeld's critique of and proposals for reform of the criminal justice system. The earlier part of this volume collects his essays and letters on controversial subjects such as the eight hour day, protection for overworked 'slavegirls' (factory workers) of Chicago, pensions for deserving soldiers, and his proposal for compulsory arbitration of strikes. Regarding immigrants, few of whom settled in the South, Altgeld notes their service in the Union Army and asserts the large number of men of German descent in northern Kentucky and in Missouri kept those states in the Union. He analyzes Lincoln's vote in 1860, finding a strong immigrant/first generation vote for him in key states.
This is the third edition of Altgeld's critique of and proposals for reform of the criminal justice system. The earlier part of this volume collects his essays and letters on controversial subjects such as the eight hour day, protection for overworked 'slavegirls' (factory workers) of Chicago, pensions for deserving soldiers, and his proposal for compulsory arbitration of strikes. Regarding immigrants, few of whom settled in the South, Altgeld notes their service in the Union Army and asserts the large number of men of German descent in northern Kentucky and in Missouri kept those states in the Union. He analyzes Lincoln's vote in 1860, finding a strong immigrant/first generation vote for him in key states.
