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Show give them the means through which they could earn a living, and reform if they cared to" It would prevent thousand! of crime annually; it would prevent thousands of men criminally in' eljied from becoming criminals. It world" be the beat for all concerned." r . TO JDEAL WITH CONVICTS. ' The governor of the respective states hava annual convnntimts, in which they compare notos - and discus iiettionr of Interstate importance. We hupjrcKt that ot th'eir next meeting they take up the tucKtitn of how to deal with ex-convict. Much haa been said and written on the subject f prison reform, but the truth remains that aa a rule prisons do not reform men. On general principle the mno vi ho commits a felony in thia land of outa ban not the order of mind which a term in the penitentiary is liable to change. We mean, of . tonre, those naturally depraved, not men who commit crime through aoma sudden anger or io following eomn overmastering passion, but those who plan burglaries or murders or the dynamiting of ht'uesthoeC who reveal a perverted and criminal miud. In every day's papers we read of the arrent for some great crime of this or that niari and the ucxt sentence informt, us! that the p.-itonpr is an ax-convict, released from auch a . penitentiary on such recent date, and often this in followed by another atatomeut that the man is wanted in another state for a supposed offense. The amounl expended in , arresting, trying, convicting aid puniahing these men would keep them in fine style at the Waldorf-Astoria or the llctel t'tah. But the money ia tha least part of it . The most of them, while in prison and after their rekanc, are professor busily engaged in preparing prepar-ing tenser criminals for graduation aud degrees in crhne.' When a man is clearly convicted of any nfeniie which when planned included murder if ncteiary, then he has forfeited hL rights to ever .V in live among innocent people. Then the time bus arrived whcL the chief concernment should ft f-.r the public. The public, should not only be t-e- t from them,' but from the far.of them. We hava iu the southwestern Pacific nonip ri'.-b 1 iu s. Why not fit one uf these inlands for the i ''I thexe uien, send them there, ayuard them. |