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Show uu OPPOSED TO THE HONOR SYSTEM Justice of Utah's Supreme Court Does Not Believe in Convict Reform. Oakland, Cal., Oct. 12. That the honor system among the convicts was a failure and wasc a crime against society so-ciety was a declaration made today by Justice J. E. Ftlck of the state supreme su-preme court of Utah, in an address before be-fore the American Prison association. "Theorists think that it is only necessary," he said, "to call a convict a man of honor to make him one. This Is a pernicious error and lets loose upon the community many a dangerous man. The attempt to make honorable citizens out of confirmed rogues is trying to do what the Almighty Al-mighty has failed to accomplish." W. E. Whitaker, superintendent of reformatories at Washington, D. C, said ho was opposed to road-building by convicts; that their time could be taken up to better advantage by a system of education. Resolutions wore prepared by the association to be presented to congress con-gress at its next session, providing for tho establishment of a central bureau of Identification at Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. At the close of the morning session the members of the association visited visit-ed tho state penitentiary at San Quentln. |