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His first and only offence.
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A man who showed his true character
by rising from less than nothing...
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to become a prominent
and honored citizen.
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...and in conclusion,
I need not remind you...
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that James Allen has kept
his part of the bargain.
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He has returned voluntarily to this state...
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and has paid
all the expenses demanded of him.
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I cannot believe,
in the light of all this evidence...
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and in the name of justice...
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that you will bring yourselves
even to consider any other alternative.
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First, I feel it is my duty...
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to answer the malicious and unwarranted
attack upon the chain-gang system...
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which we have heard here this afternoon.
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Crime must be punished.
1:16:15
The men who commit crime
are hard men...
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and their punishments must be hard.
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But the brutality of which we hear
is a gross exaggeration...
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born of the fancy of the misinformed.
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The life of a convict in a chain gang
is one of hard labor.
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The discipline is strict...
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but there is no brutality.
1:16:42
The purpose of prison
is not only to punish crime...
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but to discourage it.
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And there is less crime in this state...
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in proportion to her population...
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than in 40 other states in this Union.
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Finally, as evidence
of the chain gang's value...