congrès pénitentiaire international

— 21 —Professor Henderson, greeted as président by acclamation,delivered the following address:Ladies and Gentlemen:Even before I thank you for the honor and trust you haveshown me would 1 lay a shower of praise on the grave ofmy honored and regretted predecessor, Dr. Barrows. AtBudapest, we hailed his name with acclamation and cheeredhim to a position which he graced by his talents and madesacred by his dévotion.For your gracious suffrage and the marks of your confidenceand sympathy since his mantle of office fell upon myshoulders, accept my sincère thanks.In the capital city of our nation, which bears the nameof our first great statesman, Washington, we bid you ail athousand welcomes.Messengers of justice and wise pity from Orient andOccident, we greet you in the land of our young Republicwhose eastern shore is lapped by the Atlantic waves andfrom whose golden gâte we look on the shores of the Pacifictoward the homes of the most ancient culture. From thecountries of teeming millions, members of might/y empires youcorne, from Asia, bearers of memories of wondrous civilizationand mil of hope for a renaissance.From Africa you corne, pioneers of modem progress inthat vast continent whose future development is beyond thepowers of imagination to depict.From Europe, the home of progress during récent centuries,you corne, bearing the torch of science which Hebrew, Greekand Roman long ago lighted and handed on to our Teutonicforefathers in the North.One mighty and commanding purpose has called us togetherand will inspire ail our counsels. This purpose is, indeed, for thewilful and stubborn foe of social order, a stern and austèredétermination to make the way of the transgressor hard andthorny so that dread fear shall hold the wicked in check andunbending force constrain the lawless. Yet beyond this welook to the evangel of re-education, of reformation, of raising