The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-04
PRISON REFORM.
The Annual Congress Opens in
Baltimore.
The address Delivered by Ex-PresIdent
Hayes-Many Interesting Papers VIII
Be Read and Discussed.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 3.-The annual con-
! gress of the National Prison association,
which convened here this evening, is the
most important session that body has held
since It's organization. Ex-president Hayes
is the presiding officer aud responded to
the address on behalf of the state Of Mary
land by Governor Frank Brown and to the
address by Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore.
The opening proceedings were held il the
academy of music and all subsequent ses-
sions will be held N Leverlng hall OF the
Johns Hopkins university.
Ex-President Hayes delivered very in
teresting address reviewing the work Of
the society and the growth of crime
through immigration. He said in part:
The prime object Of the true prison re-
former is the protection of society and in
dividuals by the prevention of crime. The
training of the young is q most indispensi-
BILE duty and the chief business of every
generation, but the plaintiff as it exists to-
day is g lion in the path of the progress of
the country. High authority places the
number of criminal and defective classes
in the United States at one in every one
hundred of the total population. Consider
the awful significance. This increase
Of our criminal population in a single
decade there are many Thousand by
emigration from Europe alone. Formerly
love of liberty and laudable desire 10 bet
Ter their condition were the leading
motives of emigration from Europe to
America. Now it is employers of large
bodies of men wanting cheaper labor,
agents of steamship companies, specula-
tors in land in the thinly settled states,
stimulated by greed for gain and worse
than all increasing efforts of European
communities to send TO America chronic
paupers, lunatics ana criminals has given
to this question a gravity that has not be-
fore belonged to it,
The annual sermon before the congress
tomorrow will be by Rev. w. U. Murk-
land, and in the afternoon Rev. George H.
Hickox of Jackson, Mich, will deliver the
annual address on prison Service" To-
morrow also paper will be read on re
formative Administration by Rev. w. j.
Bat of Massachusetts Tomorrow evening
at Ford's opera house Dr. H. L. Wayland
Of Philadelphia will speak on the 90
stacles to Prison Reform" He will be
followed by an address by Charles J. Bona
parte of Baltimore. On Monday the bust
ness sessions will begin, and among the
interesting papers to be read during the
remainder of the session are the following:
''Some Features OF Prison Disciplined
by Captain E. S. Wright, OF Allegheny :;
sThe Relation of Economic Conditions to
the Causes Of Crime" by Carroll D.
Wright, of Washington sPolice Force in
Cities" by Chief of Police R. W. Nc
Claughry, of Chicago, ''Brain Crime and
Capital Punishment DR.. a. jacob, of
New York; "Work Of the Prison Physic-
ian," DIR. j. B. Ransom and DR.. I'D. Way,
both of New York; Acknowledged Re
suits in the Census of $780," by Rev Fred
erick H. Wines, of Springfield, Ill ''The
Misdemeanant," by Warren A. SpaIding,
Of Boston.
The discussions of these subjects and the
debates on the reports OF standing COM
rhittees will probably prove the most inter-
esting feature of the congress, as almost
every large penal institution in the country
is represented by its warden, chaplain or
physician.
Among other meetings to be held here
this week are those of the Warden's asso-
citation and of the Chaplains' association.
The animal address OF the former will be
delivered by its president, Captain Joseph
Nicholson, OF Detroit. DR.. George H.
Hickox will deliver the annual address of
the Chaplains' association.