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Show i Reign of Mercy Is Over a jr For Prisoners in San I Quentin t k San Quenlln, Cal., June 11. Tho J f reign of mercy at San Quentin ia l' over Hereafter jt -will be discipline ,? temperod by mercy and not mercy temporcd by discipline Grubb, tho guard who quelled tho I-ravage "grub strlko" yesterday with a repeaUug rifle. Is in chargo today i of the incorrigible cells. , Waidon Hoyle lias begun to build t a bridge across the interior of the f-jute mill and armed guards will patrol pa-trol during work home Balconies are to overhang the mess ) hall, but there will b0 no lattices to J 4 screen tho diners from the curlns. -j: tA man who would shoot straight must I I havo elbow room. r Discipline will bo a little stricter J all down the line, though it is not J tho wish of Warden Hoylo to add to I the buiden of those who took no part -; in Sunday's disorders. I f Below those disorders and the con-, con-, sequences they hn.ve brought lie' J.ho .motives of tho prisoners the psychology psy-chology of the riot, the causes that 'fed their unrest, and tho attitude Jbrought out in turn among those who I 'rule them. ! "Too much coddling spoils prisoners, pris-oners, Just as it .spoils children," said ' Charles Sontag, veteran member of the board of prison directors. "I be- llevo In strict discipline, which must y i always be humane although never 44 . relaxed." if "The rioting Sunday," said Dennis irr M. Duffy, president of thc board, "was it'-- an attack on the board of prison dl-jfe dl-jfe rectors because they do not feed out gs paroles fast enough to suit, tfc "Tho whole secret of tho motle Hi beneath the demonstration found unit un-it terance in tho cry of on man yes-Iterday: yes-Iterday: 'Cut out the food and feed us paroles.' "Tho food had nothing to do with 'J It, The protest is not against the 7 food but against being here. Tho demand de-mand of these men Is that they should : not bo punished for crime" ifi "Lynwood, who was killed yesler- day, was one of Governor West's pa-Uf pa-Uf roled men," put in the warden. "The 'Jf- feeling in prisons as a result of tho I ',' roforin agitation is general," Hoyle-a Hoyle-a -continued. "What subject conld in-j in-j terest a prisoner more than freedom' Prisoners learn more quickly and re-c re-c member longer every crumb of gos- sip about their condition than any- one olso. Ji1 "Nothing that touches on their lot !f escapes them. They feel and re's re-'s spond to outside agitation In their own " way. The men in this riot were In Jj and outers, at one extreme, and life's life-'s termers at tho others. I "I had ono of the first class come I j to mo with a request to fl'e his appll-f appll-f i cation for parole. Tve been in long 1 enough,' said ho, I'm ready to go lj back now.' " I Governor Denies Statement Hf Portland. Or., Juno 11 Governor w West denied today a statement by & Wnrden John E Hc-ylo of San Quentin . prison that agentu of tho Oregon prls-S prls-S t on wero buying rifles. T "Wo havo all the guns necessary," S-: said the governor, "and what is more 1 1 1 w know how to use them in case Iof need. We have met with groat success in conducting our prison by using brains instoad of rifles. Wo lTl are perfectly satisfied with the wa3' j our plan works and with what It has u accomplished." |