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Show Political tarties are in the habit of putting a plank in their platforms fur tbe purpose ot pacifying tbe working people. This declares against convict labor. But it seems somewhat singular that no party has yet been able to depart from the old set staging, and suggest a substitute for the alleged evil plank. Convict labor may be bad, but it ia infinitely better than convict idleness. Kearney and bis crew are particularly severe on the system that compels criminals tU work, chargiug that it rotw poor men j of labor and bread. Would it be: easier for the wcrkiug man to uj p..rt the convict than fur ll.e UlUr iu I i r his own eipeme;? The only retui-Jy for tbe evil sterna to be to kill toe: convicts, making Ktsrney'd ft Mews! tho oxecutiouers; iheu bang ti latter aud wo shll bear no n:o.e about the convict labor nonsense, Which iik&:i3 nothing if it does not mean to support in idleness t very thief, murderer and teouudrt-I in the land. |