Show GOOD ROADS AND CONVICTS W H D stokes a kow york millionaire lio Is urging upon the governor 0 that state the advantages to flow from the utilization of convicts in tho building and repairing 0 roadways with tho increasing demand and necessity f 01 better roads and tho apparent disinclination of state legislatures to appropriate money for tho purpose some forcible arguments are being brought to front in favor ot employing convicts 0 o make and repair state highways the topic Is one that has come up I 1 for discussion time and again but nothing definite hag ever been dono toward generally afi tho plan in some states it is being carried on but not to any large extent and now new york is being aged to solve the problem of how to get good roads by utilizing convict labor it is argued that such a plan would lessen taxation would improve the health of tho prisoners and would above all prevent convict labor from competing with organized labor as they do at present by making almost aery conceivable thing from brooms to furniture |