The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-20


The extent of the harm that has been done by the
present system can never be known. Enough bias.
however come to light to show that it is downright
crime on the mart of the officials who have authority
in the to longer defer remedying the evils.
Some awful stories have come TO the ears OF the
investigated because If proved entirely true, they
could not be given to public print, unless at the
sacrifice of modesty and dccency And all the result
of this terrible system OF co-confnement of pris-
oners.
visors was directly at variance with popular SEN
timent, it took shape and expressed in various
methods that Bishop Huntington has promulgated
county, in which he sets forth. in no commonplace
manner or in no ordinary phraseology. the facts in
the case The document Is trenchant arraign-
ment of the Board OF Supervisors. Nowhere does
the respected prelate mince his words ,He strikes
boldly and accurately at the evils as ne sees them.
and knows full well that they exist. His pen is
dipped in the milk of human kindness rather than in
gall He charges the Supervisors with Sinking
great duty. He says in searching for the OF
their extraordinary action, so much as a show of
any be found. Everything is left to Ia
boring imagination He can imagine no other excuse
for defeating the enlargement scheme than u desire
to curtail the drawbacks consequent upon ''convct
labor" While the Bishop does not take occasion to
victs, he says: Were there is no such thing as
science of prison management aud reform; had not
the ablcst minds OF Jurists ana civilians for
it; and were it not IN axiom in that science that
the employment of able-bodicd persons in PRISON is
to be universally insisted on, such discussion
might be worth while. When an enlghted commu-
nifty can be persuaded that is best for it's criminals
to sit through months years with folded hands.
their minds left free to all the havoc of idle
thoughts or vicious revengeful fancies, or else
to sink slowly into supor that industry is remedial
and reformatory; that the mechanical products
of the laber Of convicts cannot be regulated
and disposed OF by the same authority which pro-
vidcs the labor, and fairly regulated that goods
shall not be- undersold. or special contractors
favored any injustice done free workmen outside.
then it may be that prison workshops viii be shut
site direction. We all under everlasting laws
whichever side OF prison walls We may be. 1t is use
has has fixed IAN and riSetea If Convict labor is
abused correct the abuse, but do not rob prisoners
day laborers taxpayers ana your children together
vitality consumption for health, death for life II,
the Bishop holds, the Supervisors make the convict
labor question excuse he accuses them Of cod
ding and cajolng. The manhood OF the working
rest a safer foothod than the enforced idle
ness of few miserable convicts, fed behind prison
bolts Coming ut length to the real subject at hand
the Bishop says that the mode OF separation or the
sexes as provided by the Board OF Supervisors in
building wall dividing the north wing would be
purely imaginary.
CLERICAL BRoADsIDE.
The address goes on to say
together within sound of each others voices exposed to
each Others serng and hootiag and corruption and often
been and unavoidable in the existing eonditions
the county s need say You lnsran.
Bic ana Ss Of as First Of n: S
wait before Go with their petition for IN
accounts Of rbadry and hasphemy insult and obscentv
them by those Of their own sex who have declared
nights q week in the pcpitentary than they had ever
msy desay 'fs
these hy contacts and COMMUNICATIONS must be to all
snememi is the ward state The moment the
law tsss ct his Sisy
work him from aS him Is BY the %.
ton to restore him to society none the worse for his
wise tho itself becomes criminal abnegaes its
dian na ua S In
eating its when discharged to back into its
ing its and burglars night walkers forgors and
mderors and segraya.inx all the costs of criminal aa
ee Of AS primitive purely or as
The necessity for separation Of male and female
year after series reports and appeals earnest
s. S pa. hs
in oas nSy think to
sss@sn as and Ssss Il with text. somsS"s
opinion a be The done to gfsp''s sovs Sssr"f ss
a% Gh After than @ rally and
manifesto dropped back into tho pit, WHAT pre-
certain but Y they mean that the SEXES shall
@ ALL sses "na Ss a" &
words not worth straw TO any such end Observe
s sns saaths sosHsry end That female
be sn sa S the osa s
open CRATES Of the mems cells week days and sundays
M s Of s ss IN .. e h s
the wasoo e both sexes and must be 50 III
laundry SUCH that both females and males required
so il must DO until you increase your room;
shops and females to some extent employed
shop apart sufficient for ali tho These
should them than that you should be
In tho name Of Heaven women who have
gone II one way or another and are suffering for
av mem in situations Of public trust put there by our
sss,G who dare say that they sSs rS. % Then
not "separaton but it leaves mixture STILL Consider
tina. a. mott %sr sts at are many crimes that
leave the chastity Of the heart female thief
hood perish all At once but gradually Some Of these
or twice that be much for the TO pay do
think thinking men or wor.nS%sn d 70, "a, 'horo@s
ton Of the pnrgaon be worth all of all the cost! il
.a Ba, the money is not sought Tor happens 70
already in the treasury ready TO be used or due there
made provision for SO much as the end
Ing now ' fhs proportion eonsics Is
unequal and always ss A. 's 'ssrs
there would be unoceupied That would be no matter IL
easily Hs may certain ha, these nnoss"pisa cells viii
males win be ga. into them or you mus, enlarge Anai
6i"nder Of the wall and the expense
ssrrs: Why not enlarge on principle and in way
Surprising the moral evils all avcred you pre-.
and misery would await them In this
fortunes In the fierce assaults OF sin and wing
barr. ers between class and class, of
whether one kindred he dragged
Think of living In big box of which three sides shut
dismal alfdarkened window, than fourteen feet
away from and perhaps above you with southern
sunshine even-in cell not much larger than old fash
toned with only grated opening, two feet by
within box, aud wooden baustr.ies TO deepen the
IN fogs. In the heats of summer. with
sweterng human forms all around and ventilation i'm
possibe Why IL would mako the bloud OF the toughest
supervisor boil. aud be would go mad If We must hays
written accordingly in honest English Let tho Judges
when they pronounce sentsnce criminals ut
the bar make the distinction candidly, chvaously
sentencing men to the fcnentiary and women
to the Pcniteutiar with aggrnvaton, tho
to the outside of tho sghtnch wall, and the
women the vault behind IT, Call u what you pcase-a
dungeon OF despair Black Hole Of Onon
dnro-call IL what Will be- My phrases the
facts figures aud dimensions before YOU
The Importance OF u right adju stmcnt Of such
aueson Is less but greater than u Thngs
bound together and the tales Of body greater than
the gov, rnnci of island, shire, local institu-
ton, tell Tor good or, i'll on larger interests In
the conflict betw cen tho ideas Of bygone and
a age We must take our place with the
that grew in prosperity and as rapidly as the
weeds I'M the uko by It's side citizens
are The pcoplc rs would