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Show f jMiiiiormLiif mum mwrnmi . 1 1 llhe Fruit of Our Prisons 6ripPin2 Thought-stirring Sentences the Au- Wor E)eciares Tat s Wot the Men Made Over fljnto Righteousness, But Creatures Hardened in Wghe Ways of Crime, and Augmenting Fearfully 7.Bhe Criminal Stream. Iveathcring Tape Parolo, 1 ay course for Uio .Port of Time. Men .-whose prison Is are clear are liberated two-thirds of their orig-5. orig-5. Tiiis new posture of itorl a review of the ox-lgh ox-lgh which T had boon f tho conditions with become conversant, and inco in connection -with : penal 'imprisonment in ill introduco somo of tho this place, just said, men whoso i are clear are liberated two-thirds of their orig-Biit orig-Biit part or all of this ny bo lost by imperfect man, at least, -within my as punished by tho dark lonths beforo the cxpira-icinal cxpira-icinal sentence, and was til that sentence had ex-out ex-out of that filthy dun-hrust dun-hrust abruptly forth into t and (he crowded world, .'le if he survived. What ivicts to livo for? Per-10 Per-10 have most to live for to survive their anxiety er hand, sevcritj- itself a convict. His human comprehend despair. Tn-biin Tn-biin to hope. So -weeks, go by, and hope seems tisiead of less justifiable, rhaps he dies with tho il-onp il-onp in Iii in. Real despair id possibly rare. Other-itinics Other-itinics and killings would itenl. Tho argument of inco T must die here any-3 any-3 two or three of theso ic! " But few men be-dic be-dic in jail, therefore, the official escapes. ;ont of men in jail would killing as unjustifiable. ;ht in school that, resist-ts resist-ts is obedienco to God, o had disobeyed God in nuld gladly obey him in not merely of "ignorant onviots, hut of educated L men like 3'ou and mo. ive conscieuco may con-ng con-ng of a tyrant who is ely destroying you, body ;r sanction of lavr. But nicts v.'ho fight for re-rty, re-rty, and protect; tho of-int of-int and torture them info icons and almost unbe-;ion! unbe-;ion! Historians wonder is of Cortcz's tune, with itively high civilization, an sacrifices. But their ccs were merciful com-jp. com-jp. What is cuttiug out on an altar to propitiate uindiug him to death lhlo years in a prison to pite of an accuser, the ourt, or the gmdgc of a irfl ? Ifishness. the fruit of It? For pure, ling, remorseless wleked-i wleked-i human annals surpasses ilnals blackmailers, bomb-mon bomb-mon now Infesting our nk no more of killing a man beings, men, women oiiq of them was quoted other day, "than of crush-, belles." How came auch ixiet? Why, we bred him, ivlth the poisonous condl-crate condl-crate such beings and can ng clfie. J-le had intelll-to intelll-to understand that the ler made earning an hon-d hon-d work; saw thousands rlthout labor apparently, Is robbing under cover of lilies, n legal profceslon Islng alatutos to punish scouting the criminals tlnip often living bettor yet by wis to opusipe the penalties w Imposed. He saw rc-vhlch rc-vhlch Instructed such chiliad chil-iad been to become such prisons and penltenllnrles cd eucli as he In the latest me-ami he made up hie ihiesn was at bottom hum-a hum-a fool would be honest or thnff 'in W,,en . moncy cou,rt 1)0 'V inert arid murder. ninn2 1l'ice'1 ',0soous snakes and scor-fifc scor-fifc ir.iyo..thcni no chance to lbe anv-VrL anv-VrL mUl,rthul' n"d thou wonder they ui 0,1 dovos d butterflies. Things rn1 I,,8K?nns3tsr nrc internal spirits, lr-thS lr-thS m,able:,J,,,t1wc &al nothing lv extirpating ex-tirpating tho Individuals; tht blacfc h" , w c,urlos cm must be WhRS J n.s sourcc- Of the conditions 4n?, lhe,r keepers. But wo arc not yet at tho root of the mnttor the kecp-wirei kecp-wirei not,PrimQrUy to blame. It Is the pr nclplo which prisons Illustrate which attracts and molds keepers till they become be-come oitcn as bad as the men they have charge of, and often much worse. Prisons mean social selfishness, the disowning dis-owning of our own flesh and blood. Thev segregate visible consequences of socln'l disease; but the disease Is Invisibly present pres-ent In all parts of the hody corporate, and can no mor0 be healed by cutting off the visible part than we can heal smallpox by cutting out the pustules. Prisons are not the right remedy; thoy innamo and disseminate the poison we would be rid of and prevent any chance of cure. Tho soul ot all crime Is self-seeking self-seeking Ln place of neighborly good will, wo send men to prison to get them out of our way, and that Is criminal self-socklng self-socklng and Ill-will to the neighbor delegating to hirelings our own proper business. In attempting thus selfishly to extirpate crlmo, we commit the crime least of all forgivable the denial oj' human brotherhood brother-hood and responsibility. For that crime no law sends us to prison; yet It Is no sentimental notion, but the truth, that 11 is a crlmo worse than tho!--e for which wo Imprison men. Prisons are brimful of men less guilty before God than. Is the society that condemned them. You and ; r an; not excused becauso we are not society wo are society. Society Is not numbers, but an Idea a mutual relation, we cannot shift our tolame to people in the next street. "Am I my brother's keeper?" was an argument used long ago, and its reception was not encouraging. encour-aging. Beneficial Discipline. Thoughts like these pass through a convict's mind when he discovers that he is on the last leg of his disastrous voyage. voy-age. Ho then begins to see tho whole matter in its general relations; what use was served? Who Is the better for it? "Prisons make c good man had and a bad man worse." is the way I often heard the men at Atlanta put it. The situation, entire and in detail, is preposterous prepos-terous and futile. Grown men, from all ranks of life, or all degrees of Intelligence Intelli-gence and education, are horded promls- J cuously, and treated now like wild beasts, now like children. Discipline, In any condition of life, is a good thing, and no people need discipline more than wo do. but ln prison, discipline means punishment, punish-ment, and there Is no discipline In the right sense of the word. A man Is "disciplined" "dis-ciplined" when he is starved, or clubbed, or put in the hole, or deprived of his good time. Military discipline might be beneficial; It implies respect for rightful- authority, and orderly conduct of one's own life. Officials in a penitentiary wear uniforms, prisoners wear prison clothes: but. ln warm weather, otllclals go about, Indoors and out. In their shirts and with tho bearing of loafers; they .have no official salutes, and the men are not allowed to saluto them to do so would expose them to "discipline." There is no drill In the prison, no soldierly bearing, no physical control of movement. The men are "lined up" to go to work, but It is a line of flouchors and derelicts; no spirit ln it, no respect for themselves or one another, an-other, no decent example set by the guards. And yet armies in all ages and ln all parts of the world have proved the value of discipline its necessity, Indeedin In-deedin all proper and intelligent handling hand-ling and control of bodies of men; aiid It "is as important for convicts an for soldiers. It would promote cheerfulness, smartness, efficiency; half an hour's llve-Iv llve-Iv drill of all the men In prison every morning and evening would do them good improvo relations botweon guards and prisoners and lossen the danger of revolts. Why refuso it. then? Is it because be-cause it would imply something human still lingering in convicts? Or becauso it Is feared that convicts taught to act In unison by military drill would combine com-bine more readily for mutiny? But order or-der dos not naturally lead to disorder, but away from it. and mutinies arp mostly- impromptu affairs, contemplating ro-vengc ro-vengc rather than escape. As for tho other argument, a He Is not a sound basis ba-sis to -build on. and It Is a He that convicts con-victs are not human. Jo admit this would facilitate their management. Need of Exercise. Physical exercise twice a day In the onr-n air would diminish tho sick line, produce bettor work, and help to put a soul ln any prison. Desultory exerciso say two or three hours of baseball on Saturdavs does not meet the nood It emnha sizes It ralher. But. at present the well-nigh universal aim seema to bo to ronder the gray monotony of prison slavery as monotonous and as gray as possible. Any relief from It Is opposed or made difficult. It is true that at AJJanlst and elsewhere We have music (that Is what It Is called, and I havo no wish to criticise tho hard-working and zealous voting fellow who produces It In and out of season; and some 61 tho men may liko It for aught I know): and that a vaudeville vaude-ville company performs for U3 occaslon-a occaslon-a v. But I must look these gift horses in the mouth, and say that often wo have them less for our own advantage than as an advertisement to the public of the liberality of prison authorities. And there, to bo sure, at my prison, is Uncle Billv, who makes riddles out or shingles, with nails, and plays on them, all with one hand. But he Is I hope I mav now eay, ho was. for ho was to have been paroled the other day; he was a. lifer, and a picturesque and waolly Innocuous In-nocuous figure he was, thon. permitted o pursue this industry, and visitors used to come and watch him do It; but he, too. was most useful to the prison press agent, 1 , "REFORMED?" j and owed the Indulpenco to that functionary. func-tionary. On tho other hand, there Is a convict, also a lifer, who cultivated a most remarkable skill In Inlaid woodwork, wood-work, producing really beautiful and artistic ar-tistic boxes and other articles, and found some consolation for his awful fato ln making them. But one day sWhlle I was thoro his cell was entered by tho jjuard. his boxes and plant tnkon away and broken, and he was forbidden to do that work any moro. Visitors did not know about him. This was malicious. But somo of tho things done by prison attthorltles aro apparently ap-parently duo to sheer stupidity and Ignorance. Ig-norance. For example, there wcro some cows belonging to Atlanta prison, and some of them calved. So there wore half a dozen calves, moro or loss, with prospects pros-pects of more to come. The authorities decided that the expense of rearing these Innocents was not Justifiable; there was nothlne In the rule book about it; besides, be-sides, the jail was not designed to harbor innocent creatures. The minutes of tho conference were not fjlven out. and we can Judge of what passed only by tho results. Tho order we'nt forth that tho calves bo killed; and the killing was actually porpotrated, and tho bodies wero burled somewhere In tho prison grounds. The story seems incredlblo, but It was corroborated by sovoral men cognizant of t'io facts. "Why not, al least, havo turned them Into veal? Crime of Herding. I was speaking just now of tho promiscuous promis-cuous hording together of prisoners In prisons generally. No effort Is mado to separata tho old from the young, tho educated edu-cated from tho Ignorant, the hardened sinners from the impressionable youths or newcomers, or fat Atlanta, except ln the cells) tho negroes from the whites. Association As-sociation of negroes with whites, on a footing of enforceI outward equality. In bad for both; not because a bad white man Is worse than a bad negro, but because be-cause the physical, mental and moral qualities of cither react unfavorably upon the other. Tho negro, being the moro ignorant as a rulo, falls moro readily Into degraded vices; tho white man, being be-ing ns a rulo the dominant clement ln tho situation, masters the will of tho negro, hut cannot or at least does not erect barriers against the hitter's nubtlo corruption. Vc must always bear ln mind the abnormal ab-normal conditions In a prison the misery of it, tho dearth of variety and relaxation relaxa-tion tho terrible yearning for some form, any form, of distraction and amusement. The male lo parted from thn female, and from fho resource of children; his norves aro on edge, his natural propensities starved, his thoughts wandorlng and embittered: em-bittered: he finds no good anywhere, "nor onv hope of It. He wH seize upon nny means of abating or dulling his cravings. Tho negro Is pliant, unmoral, froo from the restraints of white civilization. In the south especially his subordination to the whlto Is almost a second nature; but he involuntarily avenges himself (as. all lower races do upon the stronger) by that readiness to comply, which flatters the souse of powor and superiority In thf other and leads to evil. 1 wish to say, In passing, that my allusion to negroes In thin connncction in by no means to bo taken as reflecting upon them all' somo of tho men ln Atlanta for whom I had the highest respect woro negroes; and l am Inclined to think that the negro In his right place and func tion is a desirable clement ln civilization, civiliza-tion, and, If we would treat Cilm aright, would do us as much 'good as wc can do him. But tho negro in Jail is at his worst, Just as whlto men aro, and ho Is mado worse by white companionship. There aro moro than 200 of them In At-Innta At-Innta Jail, and somo of them arc the worst of their kind. Prisons Make Criminals. "What Is true of the association of negroes ne-groes with whites Is not less true of the association of what are called professional crlmlnuls with tho young and unpardoned. unpard-oned. Various prison authorities claim that thoy have mado some effort to pro-vent pro-vent this contamination, but tho only sign of it that I could ever discover at j Atlanta was that the old and tho young are not commonly assigned to the same colls. Obviously, however, a man young In years may be old In crime; there can be no security ln the age test taken by Itself, and no pretense of adopting any Mother test In a Jail is made. A young fellow, -without inherited or acquired criminal tendencies, Is sent to Jail for some Inadvertent and Insignificant Insignifi-cant Infraction of law. Ho had always meant to live straight: ho had no enmity against society; he had always thought of hmHelf ns well lntentloned and law abiding. But here he Is; and ho is shocked, shamed and appalled at the sudden sud-den grip and horror of the Jail. Upon a mind thus astounded and distraught tho professional criminal seizes and works. Tho man of tho world of the criminal world befriends him, chats with him, heartens him. and soon begins to fascinate fasci-nate him with Ideas which had never till now occurred to him. lie preaches the injustice and hostility of all mankind, and the hopelessness of the convict once In Jail ever again ro-establlshlng himself In the world. He tells his pupil that he Is damned forovor by his fellow men outside, out-side, and that unless he bo prepared to lie down and starve, ho must light for life ln the only way open to him the way of crime. Then he proceeds to show him. progressively, tho profits and advantages ad-vantages of criminal practices. It is only too easy for tho trained crook to overcome over-come tho resistance of the unhnrdoncd-youth: unhnrdoncd-youth: his arguments seem unanswerable: and the wholly Justifiable feeling that prison Is wrong and an outrage aids tho eorruptor at every turn. A few months Is often enough to turn an innocent boy into a malefactor: a year or moro of such Instruction leaves him no chance of escape; es-cape; and many an Innocent boy finds himself in a cell for -what seems to him a lifetime. Will Prison Make a Demon? Last July, a justice of a state supreme court sentenced Thomas Baker, little more than a child, to fifteen years In Jail for what? If your mother was blind and helpless, and your stepfather came In and abused her and beat her, Jn your presence pres-ence a big brute with whom you could not hope to contend physically what, would bo your feelings, and what would you he prompted to do? Thomas Baker, trembling and sobbing with in go and anguish, an-guish, ran out. of tho house to a neighbor's, neigh-bor's, borrowed a shotgun, and ran back and emptied It Into tho brute's body, killing kill-ing him on the spot. Fifteen years In prison for that! Shall wo rejolcn and siy that Jnstlco, at last. In satlstled? But that Is a digression. Xo doubt, meanwhile, Thomas Bnkor's ono consolation in life Is the refection that he did succeed in killing his stepfather; step-father; and he will be vary ready to give ear to an older and moro experienced, man who tells him that tho only difference botweon good and bad in thn world is that those ore called good who havo power pow-er over those who are called bad; and that the only way for him lo got ovou for his wrongs Is to become a crook and not be a fool' Tho wardens and guards do not prevent pre-vent these companionships. Whether or not they try to prevent them cannot be affirmed, but to my mind it is plain that they could not prevent It, try as they might. It is an evil Inherent In prisons anl Ineradicable. As long as we have prisons wo shall see Judges like Thomas Baker's sending boys to Jail for such "crimes" as his, there to stay for fifteen years, moro or less, and there to be changed from Innocence into diabolism. dia-bolism. But Thomas was not innocent, inno-cent, you. cay, but guilty. "What Is guilt? I llnd him innocent of the guilt of standing inactive by and seeing that cruel list strike his blind mother's bo-lovcd bo-lovcd face. An Inhuman Pageant. Anything unnatural seems unreal. I remarked some llmo ago that when I was sitting In tho courtroom being tried, on chargos sworn to by certain poslof-flce poslof-flce officials, tho dull and sordid scenes would sometimes vanish before mo and I would eay to myself, "It Is an illusion what Is really taking place Is very different dif-ferent from this appearance." This thought, ofton recurred while I was In prison. At mealtimes the men would llle in and take their places at the tables; anon, tho meal over, they would rise and llle out men whom 1 know, creatures crea-tures llko myself, slaves of an arbitrary power acting ln accordance with principles princi-ples long since known to "be false and mischievous. And I would see men whom I knew, men llko myself, jeered, insulted, clubbed, dragged to the hole. I would see the dead bodies of men whom I know; men llko myself, rattled out of the gate to the dumping ground and dropped there and forgotten men with wives and children still living or dead ln poverty and shame, their pleas unheard and their wrongs unrlghted. I would contemplate the long rovs of steel cells, cages for me and men like myself, locking us In for months and years and lifetimes, for an example to others and for the protection of society against our menace. I would glance, as 1 passed, at tho aimless tollers In the workshops, standing or squatting ln the foul atmosphere atmos-phere undor tho eyo and rlflo of the guard. I would consider that this dismal and Inhuman pageant was going on age after age ns a euro for crime while crime, all tho while, was Increasing by percentages so astounding that wo seek through Immigration Im-migration statistics and records of increase in-crease of population to account for it and in vain. And I would tell myself, once more, that tho thing must be an Illusion; Il-lusion; It was inconceivable that an Intelligent In-telligent nation should tolerate It. If you found (lint you were taking bichloride of mercurv by mistake for a sleeping draught, would you go on taking It, or would you clamor ror an antidote, "waylny doctors for help and disturb the discreet serenity of "hospitals for succor? But tho nation, made up of such ns you. continues its prison nostrum, which slays a million for bichloride of mercury's one. A tragic farce that Is wnat prisons are. Jnolosurcs of stone and steel are built, and a handful of armed men are glvon absolute control over several hundred hun-dred beings like themselves. Wc, as a community, havo erected a system of laws which places us, as a community, In the attitude of penalizing practices which wc, as Individuals, do not severely severe-ly condemn. Our morality, ns publicly confessed. Is in advance of our morals, as privately exercised. When our neighbor neigh-bor steals or murders we give him tho jail or the chair, but when you und I nrc charged with such deeds and see the prison or tho chair In our near foreground fore-ground wo discover ourselves to be less convinced than we had Imagined of the rectitude or our penal system. Of course, then, the faster we make laws to punish crime, and the more wo punish criminals, crim-inals, tho more criminals aro Ihcro to punish. Our hypocrisy gradually is revenged re-venged tipon us, one after nnothcr; one by one wo fall Into the pit so virtuously digged for others. And criminal law, meanwhile becomes constantly more searching and severe In Its provisions, seeking to prevent crime bv the singular device of employing tho best methods for multiplying It. The victims of Its activities arc miserable onough In Jail, and languish and die there, and, If they wore not very wicked before, arc furnished with every facility to become so: but they havo not the consolation con-solation of feeling that their being thus Immolated on the altar of an outraged but non-existent morality Is doing them " m or anybody els " nny good. A prominent ill business man was put ln a cell yesterday. n political boss arrives today; a collcpe Bjflj graduate, a Judge and a religious fanatic ,1 are expected next week. But buplnes?. nu politics, the Four Hundred, the law and I'll f religion nre no better than they wer Mill before. The procession becomes ever more )tl crowded. When is It to stop? Shall we f.Jiu build moic prlfons,. enact more laws' A JB' leading counsel said the other dav: "Com- jiH merolal crlmo Is an effect and not a 1 au8e. Tho existing system is respond- fffl Me. Wo should prevent conditions that lf lead to crime and rer-irt to criminal ;yif courts as little as possible." An ex-attorney ex-attorney general observed, nbout the same timer "I sometimes think that if we could repeal all the laws on our EjiJf statute book and then write two laws e3K 'Fear God' and 'Love your neighbor' hi we would get along bcttftr" but he Hill added. 'If we could iol the people to )M I live up to them!" Yes. that Is a pru- rnj t dnt stipulation: and if applies Just as . f wHI to the myriad "laws on our statute rail books" as to these two. mill I call prisons a trade farce, and am fikju sensible of an unreality In them: but fiJJJ they are fortunately unreal onlv in the aflE sense that they stand for nothing ra- (mjll tlonal or In line with tho proper and nat- jjalj ural procesBcs of human life. They are "ajjl fal?c. and the mind spontaneously reacta isTa against falsity and denies It. But here yjjf are half a million (or some Hay, a mil- fW lion) men every year who suffer actual t'J and real misery from this falsity, and a many of whom die of It: that Is the .Hifll tragedy of the farce. And the fact that win this falsity, prison, exists among us and Sitfl has lecal standing and warrant, tends to Witt demorallr.o everyone connected with It. 'Mm and, more or less, the entire community. h4I If Its misery and evil were confined fflul within the circuit of its walls we might ftj'fg enduro It; but It spreads outward like a Jjm pestilence. It creates little Jails In our tfj.nf minds and hearts, though wc never be- ujiji hold the substantial walls nor beard the SuS gates clang together. We become jailers wlVj to one another, and to ourselves. fljjfl Tragedy of Jails. There was a woman, the wife of a sifllf Jailer, with a son 4 years old. At first 6m her husband hnd lived In a house out- jjys side the jail, but latterly he had been Wlm obliged to dwell within the Jail wall?. aHfJ Ills wife had seen and known too much myk of Jails to be happy In such a residence. iftft .She thought of her son, growing up In- glial side prison walls, and seeing the squalor RnM and dally misery of convicts, and wit- nefislng the cruelties of the guardc fllflr mere matters of routine, hut horrible Wmi nevertheless. Her husband had come up mm- from tho ranks ln prison life, and was mvt an efficient officer. He had no thought ijtm. of over changing his occupation. wills One day he left the Jail on business atfiffc.' nnd did not roturn till 1 o'clock tho next hi uV morning. Two keepors who had been left 'jfJR, hi charge heard four sounds like pistol fliflfi; shots about 10 o'clock that night, but aJUfi supposed them to be torpedoes exploding n on the railroad that passed the rear of al' tho Jail. There was an Interval of an aJKi hour or so. and then came two moro 1 shots. This time thqv made s search of 'ml the Jail, but it did not occur lo thenv to 111 examine the quarters of the warden. whore his wife and his little son were mil When the husband and father reached 4n ' home he went to his rooms, and there he mm i learned the oxtent of ihe misery and ml f loathing whit-h his profession and his HJ v dwelling had created In the heart or the Jg! woman who had lov1 him. She lav dead iSSj j with a bullet hole In her temple. Tho mt i little boy was also dead, shot through jjtt ' the heart by his mother's hand. On the SUlfei floor was the pistol, and four ompty Ml j shells were scattered about. Thoso four TJr bullets she must have aimed at her son. rfinr but the horror of the situation had shaken her hand, and she had missed Wilf- him. Then had come that interval, which Wffi the two keepers had noticed. What had wjft been In her mind nnd heart during those fljfjE Midlos?. brief minutes her terrors, her Mlfe memories, her desperate resolve, now fall- utHlr. ing. now again renewed? If you who iMllSf reail this aro a mother, j-ou may per- Wff'fc haps Imagine the unspeakable drama of 3$Hl that hour. At lasl. murder and suicld- iffftl were belter than the Jail, and she fired IU twice again, and this time did not miss. ijllju "Insane" was the verdict. But It Is i j perhaps reasonable to ascribe the in- tU IP sanity to the condition which found their Mjfi black fruition In the woman's act. rathn- Hilff than to the despairing creature herfclf lallfli She had all that most women would as!: H j., for happiness a good husband, a darling ;IJh little son, an assured support. But there Mffii was over hofore her eye's the ghastly, in- '(lla human spectacle and burden of tho jail. aiiffi she knew it through and through, an1 she could endure It- ho longer She pic- 'fllnT lured her Innocent boy growing up and Kill', following his father's trade. The Idea 'hnP tortured her beyond the limits of her inW strength, and she accepted the only al- tcrnatlve death. She was not a prison- Mt K' er she was only a looker-oh; but that Is aWi ' what prison did for her. And our press, iulL echoing our own will, and our court?, rlllfi voicing our own laws, keep on shoutlnc UfW "Put I he crooks In stripes; show thorn Kim no mercy!" WtiL'- Puzzling Question. bml; Shall we not pause a moment over the ralli bodies of this mother and her son, over fifing this frenziod murder and suicide? Thev SlBr constitute an arraignment of tho prison BUti principle not to be lightly passed over or muil''. commented on with rasping Irony by Silfr witty editorial writers. That tragedv is 'j fir means something. We cannot leace tho ollE' community's real estate to hell, for build- kJJP". Ing hell houses and carrying on hell W' business, supported by our taxes nnd ad- uSS- vocatcd by our courts and praised (or fiilji- reformed) by our penologists we cannot Swa. do that without meeting the conse- iW- quenccs. Wc see how the consequences tlfi", affected Mrs. Schleth In the Queens Mnli county. New York. Jail last summer. It Mmf- will affect other persons In other ways. iL But it will affect us all before we are 810 done with It. Hell on .earth Is a tenant ntn which no community can suffer with im- fcjjfj puntty. mm If prisons nre a good thing, Jt Is full m f , time they made good. If they are a bad thing. It Is full time thoy were abolished. JK The middle courses now being tried in U some places cannot succeed; no compro- SJK mlso with hell ever succeeds, however klndlv intcntiancd. But the devil re- jS'fcb jolces ln them, recognizing his subtlest TfidP work done to his hand. ifift t What shall happen If prisons nre done -IKh awav with? That question will doubtless jn puzzlo us for a long time to come, r i-jb have no infallible remedy; but I shall touch upon the subject ln my next and ! 'Mil last chapter. v fjlu (Copyright, 1914. by Julian Hawthorne.) |