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Show out of their degradation comes further degradation,. we doubly conJ demn them, throw them in narrow cells and blank their lives. This is not reformation ; it is brutality and stupidity on our part. If there is any one among1 us, willing to accept the task of placing-cx-convicts in a better environment and atmosphere than that to which we have been consigning1 them, we welcome, the good Samaritan. Samar-itan. Nothing in our social organism is demanding, with greater insistence, in-sistence, the attention of broad, kind, generous souls, than ' this problem of restoring to useful occupations the men a great majority of them young men who walk out from our penitentiary walls in an endless army of slinking human beings. NEW MINISTER AND UTAH CONVICTS. Frank G. Brainerd, the new Congregational minister, is from Kansas City, Kansas, where for eight years he has been a propelling power in the Associated Charities and a diligent worker among ex-convicts. ex-convicts. Mr. Brainerd believes there is more of good in every man than the world acknowledges and he has that faith in man's inherent goodness that he believes in helping the prisoners from out our penal institutions in regaining a name of respectability. We are in sympathy with Mr. Brainerd in his labor of love for humanity, and we invite him to start his good work in Utah, where, no movement has ever been inaugurated for the uplift of the man released from our prisons. We turn our convicts out with the brand of shame and distrust upon them; we warn the people against them; we cause every man's hand to be raised in opposition to them. These outcasts of society are left no alternative but to return to their haunts. When, from |