National Republican., 1880-07-12

hope are tho Chlei controlling lJrccS OIL tNe
place. This prison is not quite selfsupport-
ing. 1t is diilicult undertaking (but not
hopeless) to mako prison self-supporting
because so much of tho labor is un,killod and
proportionately yunrcmuuerativc. The women
and young girls in this prison are by no
means bad looking, but have generally that
stamp of heavy Ignorance, which, under
temptation, includes, in tho nature OF things
the weakness of vice and crime. These women
are learning to do laundry work, aud TO clean
house and to cane chairs and some coarse
sewing, chiefly hand-sewing apparently, for
which naturally there will be no demand
whom they are out on the world again-poor
crsaiures-so in this prison, as in others, there
is not that adequate range and variety OF
enployments which will bo introduced in
wiser times. Many of the little children in
the reformatory department are attractive aud
intelligent, aud while looking at their lovely
but liSticss faces n great longing hllod us,
that the inspiration aud genius slumbering
in our grand but undevoloped women OF so
cicty should bo aroused to do u rccreating
work never yet accomplished by our relorma-
tories. II thoro is u place in tho world where
tho profoundost knowledge OF human nature
and the most generous culture of body and
spirit could find grand uso for its utmost apti-
| tudcs, IL is as teacher in prison school OF
| isolated girls For such u position none but
the goddesses of the new age are adequate,
and they, slumberng in art, ease and elegance,
do not know that they have come to the king.
| dom for such u time as this.
| As regretlully rs we then turned from this
comparatively well-conductod institution, so
we now turn from this fruitful subject, and,
| because of limited space pass ovor tho we'll
| arranged exposition and state fair buildings,
the magnificent courthouse and other city
edifces, which demand for description all tho
space allotted for this article. We go on uast
| halt inn On NIL nli
roads is received, leaving to this busy city
that unbroken home quiet which suggests that
business is hero faithful servant and not n
| domineering master. On past tho White
| rivers quiet flow, We come to that saddest of
sad sighls-an immense and filed insane
asylum-that horrible thing, that Standing
monument of self.abusc, bad heredity and of
the general blunlers of our darlsly-groping
civilization, from which better knowledge
and practice of clean, orderly life would free
us. 1t is TO the honor OF Illinois that her in
sane are 50 beautifully housed, aud more to
her honor that the womans department is
under tho at least partial supervision of
women, but greatly more to her honor will be
when her already advanced intelligence se-
cures such conditions of clean, hoathful liv-
ing, through the perfected euirauchiscment
of mothers, that she shall have no iusanc--a
thing in then future TO indianapolis civil
izatOn.
All! But in this city of homes tho living
aud the dead receive kindest care. The beau
tilul metropolis, by q fundamental principle
of its organization, can never bo perverted
to speculative abuses. Every lot.owner has
an interest equal with that of the ncorpora.
tion. A first glance at the eXquistoly cared
for and beloved Grown Hill" gives assurance
that this too, Is n home spot. indianapolis
soldiers are all at home here, in the hearts Of
their friends and in tho dust of home soil.
| Na had nf ha tg pf
tious generosity of one of tho wealthy ciu'
IONS, and found here Il substantial monument,
| which is probably among the least of the
beautiful memorials which adorn the name of
Fletcher. For "here," we arc told mo per-
soual importance is magnifiod by inappropriate
| symbols in place whore death has made all
equal" Yes, in indianapolis there is room
enough for thought aud for generosity. Home
and home love tho broadest, and 50 profound
est, is the jewolod casket of indianapolis life,
aud within the open iewolcd caskct glows
radiant tho woman spirit, almost freed from
tho dssolving mists Of conservatism.
Said some one few days since in THE RE
PUBLICAN: "Whcn General Hunton openly
declared that the people of Washington should
not be endowed with the right of suffrage SO
long rs he had power to prevent it, that was
an un(riendly indication. Suffrage Is the true
badge Of American citizenship, and he is no
friend to the people Of the District who would
uiYcst them OF thlS dearest llgnt' bltsstu
indianapolis has no ono man HuntOn 10 make
revised laws for its government indianapolis
Is no bcdizzened, lily developed creature,
whose prostituted and bonumbed intelligence
lies prone before the feet of ncgloctful mas
tor Suffrage, which is not only the symbol
but the power, per Sc OF seli.goycrnmont, Is
the dearest right Of tho intelligent being and
this the men of indianapolis well know
aud with that decent chivary, which seeks tc
develop strength rather than to cultivate
clinging weakness; that high poso ofchapctoi
which seeks in woman mtettered spirit not
physical suhiugaton; that proud humility
which, conscious always Of uugainod heights,
before possible humanity, strikes eagerly from
the path of motherhood all cause Of stumbling
that chivalry, that poise, that proud humility
are the marks of true knighthood which grace
gloriously the best men OF indianapolis
Truly, he who using his power to keep from
any individual the right Of sell.gOyernment
presumGs 10 mako laws for tho ensaved, may
Justly be suspected of unlriendly ii not ne
flrous designs toward those 50 subiugated
/ meant that oward the negroes 1t meani
that 10 the District of Columbia. 1t meau
that TO womaphood. Oh. enslayod district
look to your now laws! Oh, onthrallet
womuuhood, look TO your liberties