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Show A Trutt Solution. B The manufacture of binding twine M by the Inmates ot thn Kansas pen I ,M tcntlary It Is aald has been a success ;H In Kansas, ns In other states, the jH trades uulons wero oppoeetl to the etn- issislB Iploymcnt ot tha convicts In Inbor that G,slB would come Into competition with that JlvtlsH outside ol tho. prison walla Yet it SImmmm was realised that tre Ufa of Idleness jB led by the unemployed prisoners was ol rlsV advantage neither to the state nor lo imm the men themselves, and In fact work- Ml od serious harm to both Tho Ides j7 was bit upon ot employing them In tbt Kjl manufacture of binding twine that In - jaj dustry being In tho grasp of a trust raj that charged the f jrmtrs of Kansas ei JljP orbltant price's for the necessary aril Ufa clo. : At tbe beginning tbe twine was put fjm on the market at tbrco cents a pound JnB below tho trust price, and then bots . xk! sides cut their prices until tho Kansas fi't farmers saved flvo cents a pound ' ) |
