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Show 1 . uo I WOMEN AND LITTLE ONES SUFFER. There Is S njan in the utatn penl-t&tlnrf penl-t&tlnrf v, hr hae a wifo and two little c hildren in Ogden. The woman, aa in j.ea.rly everj' cane of the kind, wa left without means when her husband was conveyed to prison. Poverty laced the. I rainily in Ogden, Disgrace and re straint was upon the transgressor who I had obtained money In an irregular Tvay. Tho mother, as mothers evury-Nijiere evury-Nijiere do, placed her protecting urms I uhout the little ones and commenced Hi ifyo Hlruggle for existence. She ob- tttned employment, with tsufficient re- numeration to keep the wolf from the HUI floor, Luxuries were unthouchl of, I I To make ends meet, email Quarters jhad to be found Ab a further economy, econ-omy, tho children had to be left on ithelr own resourc-en bofor and after school, uulll the hour for the mother'n return from work. A fclnd nolghbor dropped in occasionally to guide the Chllreh, and now and iheu adust a ribbon rib-bon In iho hair or wipe away a tear. The mother la not Crashed. Bho fels the ntraln Hnd senses Dip shame, but Bhe Is fighting fur and shielding her bablP Down In tho state prison is a big, brawny man, forced to do nothing and unable to contribute anything to hia family. Ho Is being trained In idleness idle-ness and softness and when he cornea out he will be slow to get underway Ln doing the things he should do to change his walk of life He will hi less capablo as a useful worker than when he was torn from his home. He will bo placed on the perilous stream of procrastination, with breakers Jus ahead, and told to ?ave himself. Upstream Up-stream is the point of safety. Will he breast the current, or go with the flow of tho turbulent waters0 In meantime what will happen to the wife and children? What Is hap prning every day to hundreds who are victims of iho sins of others" Not long a lecturer was in Ogden. pointing out the wrongs infllctod on wives aud children of convicts. He advocated .1 plan whereby the men in our prisons could be made wag'- earners and their earnings turned over to their families. Something should be done to help the women and children chil-dren who are belnc beaten down through the offending of others. |