Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-07

prison sys,cms OF every other STATE.
the Bureau OF Information and stai'sucs
~ Washington relating to crime ana
prisons would be OF sufficient value 70 tne
country rs part OF the Department. OF
Justice. DR. Wines, wisely recognizing
the new conditions In our country by rea.
son OF alterations OF the organic lag ana
Improvement Of infer-commuBlcitton
fonn led and organized q national prison
association. II has held successful and IN
structiye meetings In Cincinnati. BALI.
more, Saratoga, 81. Louis, and Detroit, ana
special meetings IN New York, ChIcigo.
and other cities. Present aud taking part
In all the proceedings OF its meetings have
been The most distinguished, practical *
perts, who have the control and management
Of the leading penal andreformaiorv institu-
lions OF our country. II you name the
famous prisons and reformatories OF the
United states and the eminent specialists.
You will find you have named prominent
aud influential members OF this Society.
In like manner eminent students aud
wriicrs-those who have investigated ar
home and abroad the whole subject Of
prisons and pri-cn discipline are active
Participants In the work OF this Associi-
ton. Practice and theory, experiment
and speculation, observation aud expe.
ritnce. men OF books and men oil
works, are here found side by side.
No one familiar with the discussions aud
papers 81 the Society can fail to have no.
ticcd the increasing harmony in the prin.
ciple. purpose, and methods OF all elements
brought together in ils meetings. Its faith
is that the people OF the United States are
forever hereafter to be more closely united
than ever before. We believe that by our
institutions and by the nature Of things w
bave, and are compelled to have. the same
interests, the same history, and the same
destiny. Our Union, in the language OF
the supreme Court, Is can III
destruetible Union OF indestructlbe
States" We go one step farther.
We believe society Is so compacted to-
gether-that Providence hath so ordained
and doth so govern things-tbat whether we
would have 1t so or not we must be and are
our brothers keepers. No mans family Is
safely intrenched against the vice and crime
and shame and Indebtedness to which they
lead. Let the outcast and criminal be for
gotten or disregarded, and our whole So
ciety will suffer from the talnt OF human
degradation. Like blood-poison, 1t will
spread through and through the social
system until 1t reaches the hart. This seri-
Gus and mighty truth imposes duty which
no society can AFFORD to neglect. Civilized
society cannot neglect II ana live. No we'll
Informed Christian society ever Will ne.
glect II.
Mr. Hayes, in referring to the growth OF
fTaterDal feeling in the country. and the
statements which had been made by eN.
Governor Bullock and Mayor ITlllyer that
be had been instrumental in bringing il
about, said that II he had done anything to
couduce to this grand result he reioiced in
that fact. As Mr.. Hayes was speaking
General Gordon, Goyeinor.elect. appeared
on the platform and was chcercd.
Mr.. Hayes. soon after the conclusion OF
his address, rose and shook hands with
General Gordor. and the crowd cheered
enthusiastically while the band played a
medley OF Yankee Doodle" aud "Diyie."
Addresses were made by Henry w. Grady,
Of the Atlanta Constitution; Judge Emory
SpCer, and General Gordon. Tomorrow
the annual sermon will be preached before
the Association by Rev. A. q. Haygo0d, d.
D., OF oxford, Ga. Delegates are arriving
on every train, and the meeting promises
to be one OF the largest and most interest
ing ever held by the Prison. Reform AssO-
citation.