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Show l-ROKKSSlONAI. STUDY. The convicts in Now York penitentiaries penitenti-aries live in idleness. Hitherto their contract labor brought them in conflict with the mechanical trades. Labor unions and other organized bodies at last raised such an outcry that manual labor, in connection with the learning of trades and consequent competition of convict labor with that of honest mechanics, me-chanics, was abolished. The result of thiB enforced idlonoss on the part of an army of state convicts is telling injuriously upon the character char-acter ami health of the prisoners oa well as upon the revenues of the stale. A select committee from tho Btate legislature recently gave audience audi-ence to representatives of artisans and meohanics. They suggested, thot as the law-making bodios were largely composed com-posed of professional gentlemen who wore very willing to affix tho stigma of convict labor upon the trades and upon manual labor genernlh , that turn-about was fair play. Therefore thoy should educato the convicts in professional profes-sional pursuits. Establish law, medical and theological schools within the walls of tho throo state prisons, and lot their graduates have a chance to obtain ob-tain a living, upon thoir liberation, in various professional pursuits. In connection con-nection with those professional accomplishments, accom-plishments, esoeeially in tho logal line, toward which most of tho prisoners it wbb thought would gravitato, tho old doctrino, "Sot a roguo to catch a rogue,'' would have froo scope. This is a novel, not to say original suggestion, sug-gestion, and might bo appliod to our Utah ponitentinry, whero the majority ma-jority of past and present occupants would naturally mako up a largo theological theo-logical clnss. |