Show a FREED PRISONERS 5 S President Eugene Smith of the prison association association association tion of New York pleads that more efficient aid be extended to prisoners after their release from prison He declares that these men are often more moral than those who never fell They have developed a peculiar immunity They need only an ordinary opportunity to resume their place in inthe inthe inthe the ranks of honest and useful citizens We believe that is true that some some sone men who i have been punished for their crimes are like men menI I who have suffered and survived an operation for appendicitis they appendicitis they are are thenceforth immune But what can be done One young man served a term in the Utah penitentiary for embezzlement He Ke came out and tried to establish himself in the thereal thereal thereal real estate business He tried for two or three I years to wear off the stain upon his name His His friends tried to help him After awhile he had just about concluded a sale to a lady In another real estate office she mentioned the fact and the theman theman man whom she was talking to expressed his surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise that she should be doing business with an ex The unfortunate man heard of it and went out and shot himself S Then his was vas an exceptional case Most l of them come out more hardened and more determined determined determined deter deter- mined to get even with society than ever The best of pf them are li like e women who have fallen Their sin may have been to obtain food for I a hunI hungry hun hun- g gry y child but blIt it does not matter 1 their sister I r women will not forgive them I The whole system is wrong It is all wrong to shut criminals up and make honest men work to supply them with food and clothing There is an anold anold anold old saying that the British aristocracy are the deo descendants descendants descendants de de- de- de of thieves that landed on the o English coast from Normandy If that is true truc or ora ora ora a hundredth part true it supplies us all with an object lesson They found land to work ivok upon and they had to work to live When they accumulated something they wanted to own it they obtained now ideas about the rights of honest honest honest hon hon- est ownership They became true men or at least their children did S We W e believe in penal colonies for hardened criminals Give them an island in the sea and help them to lo start then make them earn their living 01 or starve and give them the profits of their toil The knowledge that such a place existed would woul make ma many y a man pause on the threshold of a crime The existence of such a place would cause canse i ia a second form terni in our penitentiaries to cease to be bea a high school in which young Joung off offenders would come cone ou out graduated criminals S The fund for released prisoners can do o good only in one wa way It could pay the passage of the prisoner ex to South America or Africa and give him a little start there At home there arc yet yettO tO too many mean men and and women to give an ex- ex convict a chance to reform no matter mattor how worthy I his lis intentions intentions' may be i I S PRESS PARAGRAPHS The newspapers seem to think the general results of the election will be for br good S St. St Paul Pioneer Press Now that the tho verdict at the polls has been rendered rendered rendered ren ren- dered there should be a prompt and marked resumption of normal activities ih commerce and Industries All talk of panic and business disturbance belongs in the political rubbish heap The people generally are unusually prosperous prosperous prosperous pros pros- and no reason exists for an any further further further fur fur- ther halt in trade It is time for everybody everybody every every- body to get busy Florida Union Times-Union The Times- Times Union hopes the whole country will make It plain that it appreciates adequately the conduct of President Taft during a campaign In which it might fairly be claimed that his fortunes were so deeply Involved as to Justify strenuous action on his part Through these trying months the president has not made himself himself himself him him- self a leader of one party and the opponent opponent opponent nent of another another he he has preserved preserved- his dignity and ho he has justified the good opinion entertained of him by all peo peo- pie Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Willie lIe tho the country has its share of malcontents malcontents mal mal- contents who are always ready for anything anything anything any any- thing in the form of ot a change from existing existing existing exist exist- ing conditions yet the American people as a body are not radicals but believe in conserving those principles policies ana and Institutions which have stood the tests o of more more moi than a century of experience Milwaukee 1 Sentinel Mr Roosevelt has made a Democratic victory In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and contributed materially to Democratic victories elsewhere One general lesson of this election Is that the star of his overgrown popularity t is setting setting setting set set- ting and that Lincoln's saying about fooling all of the people all of the time holds good even in the case of so masterly masterly mastery mas mas- terly tery a demagogue as Theodore Roose Roose- velt New Haven Register It is the beHot belief be be- Hot lief of a good many astute Republicans that two years of a Democratic congress will be the best thing which could happen happen happen hap hap- pen to the country It will sober the Republicans It may cleanse the party ol 01 m and and stand and unite all progressives under the old Republican banner ganner with a new meaning 5 S u. u S S SS S 1 aa Fv IN Chicago Record Herald ld It Is no post election platitude that the country needs an able efficient opposition quite as much as it does a clean capable patriotic patriotic patri patri- otic otle governing party Complete democratic democratic democratic demo demo- cratic rehabilitation has been desired by byall byall byall all earnest and fair minded men and re rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation re- re habilitation is not a matter of words but a matter mattel of deeds Detroit it Free Press That Roosevelt- Roosevelt Ism and all an It stands for have thus been sent to overwhelming disaster need not grieve g any loyal Republican Had the Issue been postponed until 1912 It would have meant a Democratic president In that year no ma matter whether the Republican Republican Re Re- publican candidate were Roosevelt or Taft TaCt or anybody else elso whom Roosevelt Roosevell might support S Boston Post Theodore Roosevelt has done great service to his country In the past He may do more for it In the future But he cannot do it along the lines that have just brought him so much humiliation S Indianapolis News For this disaster Theodore Roosevelt is ver very largely re re- re S The people believed that he was waa seeking not the welfare of the tho country or of the party but merel merely i personal power with an eye to 1912 The pity of it H Is that the insurgents had to suffer |