Show FOOL CLAUSE IN CONSTITUTION Some man who wanted to curry forwith favor or with union labor some years a ago o promoted pro pro- incited the theory that it was a wrong to o and degradation of f labor libor to permit con convicts to work in the penitentiaries in n competition against the laborers out out- side ide Every err demagogue o u who wanted to tomake tomake tomake make political 1 capital b by a assuming a profound reverence for labor and deep deer sympathy with laboring men at subscribed to the doctrine though very every working nina man who has bas a a. little liUla house and lot and pays pars taxes is forced forcel to o pay puy his pro rata to make mako up tho the thomm sum mm needed to feed and anft clothe and guard tho prisoners Aho to make up the tho ho fund necessary to give o an convict ex-convict his lis new suit of clothes and the few V dollars dol dol- lars lane ars given to each man when whon dismissed from rom tho the pen pon Again AJain the hc plan when enforced gives v the ho prisoners many more hours daily in n which to concoct plans for now new dev dev- when they gain aiu their fre freedom Jom This theory theol theolin in a little modified form was worked in mind nd became a part of our ur state constitution The result has as been to compel every working man who pays pas taxes in this state to ever since help make mako up the annual lar largo large o deficit which has been paid since to board and lothe those idle felons in the iary which has been and is an out out- rage age Some months a ago o a man came me here jere who was master of df an indu industry tr which r requires quires many laborers to carr carry it t on Thoro There is is nothing like Jike it in Utah This Tiis m man ll made the proposition that if f ho he could get et convict labor at af a a. small sum uni por per du day per man if we her ber cr aright he would spend a great man many thousand housand dollars on a plant explaining that hat at those rates ho could make but buta a a. very ery small profit It was refused because it was forbidden in the thO constitution con con- and anti the man went away Had l Hlis his is wish been een granted it would havo have injured in in- tired no man in Utah and moreover it would have hare made the penitentiary a self elf supporting in institution and would have havo lave left tho the state to use 1150 for other purposes the large sum mm now annually assessed sd 3 against the state tAte to pay the expenses expense of that institution Now that hat kind of work is not good common souse It is something which would be MJ called cancel imbecile were a business s man mano manto manto to o adopt the Fame same rule to fo carry carryon on his ig private business By what re son reason on ing ng can an any man make clear that what would be the acme of foolishness for fora forB a B business man to apply to his bi own af affairs affairs af- af f. f fairs becomes wisdom when performed b by y a 3 state |