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Show Educatt the Crtm nalt, H Common sense and the law declare H that Imprisoned criminals living at H public expense shall not by their labor H compete with honest men working ,H outsldo prison walls. Jt would bo pre- H postorous, ot course, to allow the man H In prison, working for no wages, io H diminish tho incense ot-tbe honest H workman who pays taxes to maintain H the prisons, On the other band, to H condemn the prisoners to absolute M Idleness Involves extreme brutality, H punishment of a most atrocious kind, H Nervous diseases. III health and eves H Insanity follow enforced Idleness or H mind and body Many plans are sue- H geirted for overcoming this difficulty, H for keeping the convicts busy without H bringing them Into competition with H honest workmen. It seems to us thst H prison authorities might find a solu- H tlon of their question In the education M ot prisoners. If prison life could be H mad to diminish criminal tendencies, H aa well as to punish criminals, the H tax co of the people would certainly be M better spent tbsn at present Crlm IsiH In the majority ol cases la the result, igtS first, ot Ignorance, and, second, of a LH Isck ot mentsl discipline. If the prls- MK ons could educate and discipline tholr nrffi Inmate crime would stesdlly decrease HK and tho problem of occupying prison- US' era wisely would be solved, A man IsYtSL can be educated even at thirty or forty, VjmO and at that late age his mind can te NTf accustomed to discipline and regular- blM Ity. In many esses the distance which IBJ separates the criminal from the man IBL of ability is very small. Prison cdu- fisE cation might transform public null- gHI ancea into useful members of society. M We wish thst the prison authorities JM might see something In this sugges- JjM tlon worthy ot experiment H |