Show PROTECT HONEST LABOR A scheme to colonize the convicts of Alaska which has been earnestly and ably advocated by the New York Herald should meet with hearty endorsement The purpose is not to establish a Russian Siberia but to place the convicts con-victs in this territory and make them minister to the development of a rich section Climatic objections are overruled over-ruled by convincing argument and the benefits to accrue to the convicts are enumerated at length It is proposed that the National Government take the matter in hand sending all Federal convicts con-victs thither and making drafts on the States for quotas of lawbreakers The laboring la-boring people look upon the scheme as liberation lib-eration from competition with convict labor la-bor nd roundly applaud While objections can be raised to the movement they are hardly equal to the good to be accomplished accom-plished It is wrong palpably wrong to bring the free labor of the country indirect in-direct conflict with convict labor If convicts can be colonized in Alaska without detriment to their health and the honest labor of our country freed from the effect of competing with this this prison labor then theDEEocnAT h heartily in accord with the movement |