| Show I 1 I 1 I 1 BIB or OF tha the horl work of or hie the W C F U among the inmates of our jails EDITOR THE tire STAN STANDARD DAnD in your last sunday issue appeared ao an excellently written article from X 11 which I 1 L aroused much sympathy amonn among your I 1 1 readers for a certain young woman eaid said to be incarcerated at the time in I a filthy prison cell in oar our city jail the facts as perhaps already made public are there the young woman was confined only forty eight hours in n the jill j til and did not eee see the inside a pf af the common prisoners aril buteas but wae riven given a good bed in the officers room entirely butof out of bearin hearing of any lant indecent decent iu or otherwise of other prisoners she wae was released on bail by her ber christian father mry sli y auth tour four days before the publication 0 of eid article arti lele christian women started at once I 1 to t 0 take her by the band as soon ae as 1 t the lie item announcing her bar ment merit was read in the wednesday m morning paper a they have already taken by the hand 1500 fined during the past year in in oar our city jail ail the spirit spi of sympathy and humanity it manifested by X is not only 00 commendable 7 but it is encouraging I 1 as showing that our cithens cit zena zens are cognizant of the action of our courts and tha they ther recognize the need of philanthropic measures mea sarea in the dealing of our city with its criminals the tact fact that our V ity has women among ie is charges while it bai hai no provision either tor for their proper exams nation or confinement ie Is one ond I 1 that has already bien com comi i dented upon by our mayor and cannot be too soon recognized and remedied by the public there M is need of ofaf as a aw wo omans womans department jn JA our city tail jail to which can be referred women and boung young bob boys with a matron in charge uhe T he need should ba eup sup plind at once but bat the evident lack of knowledge manifested by the writer of the cle in question as to the great w ork that has been done by christian women during the past year for the all alleviation evia tion and reformation of prisoners and wards of the city in our I 1 jails and hospitals seems in view of I 1 lue criticisms to ba almost culp culpable abl 1 IN not ot a woman has been tor for two days in I 1 our jails without be tak taken n by the he I 1 i hand by some sister and I 1 1 I 1 pointed to a pitying christ and as well I 1 as to a tg a d not a mail man of all i i the tb a hundreds burill e de who wh have swept through our ou courts but he baa has been ten t en at least i pointed po anted to the error of hia his N aftab as 0 an and d to the greater beauty of a pore and upright life liquor brought I 1 them there nine tenths ys ninety nine of them and thay J I 1 were urged by these loving mothers in israel to start anew in in the kalhe of I 1 temperance and sobriety that their 11 might never again tend so near I 1 the gates of hell bell let all those who care to know I 1 what has been done in the past year both men and women young and old attend the temperance t meeting next monday afternoon and J hear bear abe th report from the department of jail and hospital spital dorkof work of notice is given elsewhere elee where I 1 the lack of knowledge shown by ajl bill as deeply interested aa as 11 X in the 11 motives which prompted our work of i all that oar our inspired and faithful women have accomplished in in this department part ment has further indebted ol us t eastment Eart hie is article by showing the sty ity of making public our annual repart the duty not only of punishing crime but of leae criminals is a part of the great assumed by city government and ana the philanthropists who fulfill the latter requirement are as truly officers of alie government and servants of the people as those who fulfill the I 1 former orm ler 1 and are as justly required to to ren render der 1 an account to the sovereign people W I 1 |
