Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-09
The "Globe" Commended.
Little Falls Transcript.1


Little Falls Transcript.
The st. Paul GLOBE is worthy of COM
mendation for giving publicity to the COM
plants that have been made about the man.
agement of the Minnesota State prison at
Saltwater, and the asylum for insane at st.
Peter. The man who becomes convict in
the State prison usually loses his friend 8,
and IS at once stamped as an outcast. No
confidence is placed in his word, no appeal
of his can reach sympathetic heart, and
the abuses and cruelties which may be
heaped upon him must be endured. with no
friendly hand to administer consolation or
give relief. And when his term of service
expires and he is again free man, even
then he finds it impossible to get hearing,
for he is only estate prison
Bird and nobody believes him.
The newspapers reject his statement
because they would lose money by mourning
the enmity of the persons exposed. This is
one of the difficulties that the poor and OBJ
scure will always find in their way when thev
seek redress for the wrongs perpetrated by
rings and corporations. Money controls
everything; and the poor wretch who seeks
to expose an influential ring is dismissed at
once. His right to a hearing is measured by
his capacity to pay for it. Last winter, when
several persons who had been employed in
the asylum for insane at St. Peter formally
alleged that abuses existed, the testimony of
these persons was discredited. It was
said that they were only seeking revenge for
having been discharged from employment at
the asylum. But the GLOBE insisted on
having thorough investigation, notwith-
the threats made by some of the
interested parties to begin libel suit against
that paper.
Senate committee was appointed, =
careful investigation was had, and last week
the committee made their report to Gov.
Pillsbury. 1t appears from their report
that every one of the alleged abuses did
actually exist. * = AS stated above,
we desire to commend the GLOBE for espous-
ing the cause of the unfortunate men and
women in the asylum and the State prison.
'Kind-Aea,ted," Generous"
Mankato Review
The st. Paul GLOBE publishes letters from
an ex-guard and another ex- convict intended
to sustain the charges of cruelty against War
den Reed and his assistant. Here where
Capt. Reed is best known, no credence is
given these charges. He is kind hearted
man, and it is hardly possible that
be could be guilty of what is charged. This
thing is certain, that the penitentiary has
never before been so we'll managed-so or
derby, systematically and economically
less cause of complaint has been heard during
his control of the prison than ever before. In
an institution comprising three or four hun
bred criminals-possibly the worst class of
persons in the State-the most rigid disci-
pine is required, and to this extent we inn
agine the authority Of the warden has been
exercised. That there has been deliberate
and intentional cruelty even the evidence SO
far produced-the unsworn statements of
confessed criminals-do not sustain, though
that is the impression sought to be conveyed.
In justice to the warden as we'll as the par
ties making the charges, full and impartial
inquiry should be made, and until this is
reached hitherto honorable and worthy
man, as Capt Reed always has proved him
self to be, should not be condemned.