Show JUSTICE GONE TO SLEEP lion the Law Rcsnrilingr Newspapers is Administered in Germany The case of the editor of the Rhein ische Zeitung the organ of the social Democratic party at Cologne has already al-ready been alluded to in the Mail and Express cable dispatches This German editor made grave charges of cruelty and brutality against the governor of the provincial pro-vincial house of correction and on legal investigation the charges were in fact sustained it was proved that in this re formatory barbarities and tortures wor thy of the middle ages were practiced daily Nevertheless the ri Vitonne nrifi in telligent judge condemned the editor to three months imprisonment on the ground that the publication was not made in defense of public interests Speaking of the condition of this reformatory reform-atory the Berlin Neueste Nachnchten says That people should be subjected to mediaeval tortures like the gag with accompaniments of atrocious cruelty that they should be put into straight waistcoats waist-coats mercilessly beaten until they stream with blood and then left tj their fate till death releases them from ther misery that they should be confined for weeks together in a black hole on meager rations of dry bread and condemned to woar night and day the same garment which fetters their every movement that scourging with an Indian rubber whip or with the tow end of a rope dipped in water should admittedly be a common practice may well explain the fact that according to medical testimony a large number of deaths should have been due to tuberculosis though consumptive persons per-sons are on principle not admitted But how can such a system conduce to the correction of the unfortunate beings for whom the state maintains this sort of establishment |