The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-21
''The Peoples Pay Us a Visit.

By the invitation of the governor and the prison
management about 100 of the delegates to the
Peoples Party convention visited this institution
last Friday for the purpose Of Inspecting the
states binding Irvine factory. Free transportation
was furnished by the state. The party arrived
from st. Paul about l 0 A. M. and under the guild
ance of Managers Hall. Temple Norrsh and Dunn
and Warden Wolfer, they went at once to the
twine factory where they viewed the whole pro
cess Of twine making. from the time the hemp
fiber leaves the bales until it is finished Irvine,
tagged. baled and ready for shipment. After the
inspection of the twine plant the visitors were
assembled in front of THE MIRROR tower where
the Warden requested those wishing to return to
st. Paul on the noon train to separate themselves
from those desiring to remain until P. NJ. This
was done that an early dinner might be served to
those intending to 60 back at noon, and that they
might be given more hurried view Of the other
Parts of the prison. About half of the party step
ped to one side and we're taken through the prison
and then to the dining rOons. where they
partook of an excellent dinner The other party
took their time and visited every nook and corner
of the prison. The library, printing Office and
cellroom were the first places inspected. After
wandering trough the celroom for some time
they went to the solitary. When they had seen
all within that gruesome place they congregated
about the entrance where the Warden gave them
talk on the Bertillon system of identification
The various instrume nts exhibited and their
uses explained. Leaving here they visited the
photograph gallery, bath house, laundry and
storeroom. After seeing all the departments the
visitors assembled on the lawn in the shade of
the cellbulding where they rested, chatted and
read THE PRISON MIRROR until about / 80, when
they were invited to the dining room for dinner
After dinner the visitors passed out of the iron
doors, and number OF them met the Managers
and the Warden in the wardens Office, where
they talked about twine The visitors expressed
their satisfaction with what they had seen, and
rendered a vote of thanks to the management for
the courtesies received. Nearly all the visitors
carried away with them sample balls of Irvine.
Nearly all expressed their intention of patronz.
ing the prison Irvine factory, and some proved
their earnestness by leaving orders for their sea.
sons supply. The visit will prove a good thing
for the visitors and the states Irvine industry.
If corruption seems rolling over US like a
flood, mark, it is not the corruption of the
humber classes. 1t is the millionaire who
steals banks. mills and railways; it is de-
faulters who live IN palaces and make away
with millions; it is money kings who buy
up Congress; it is demagOgues and editors,
IN purple and fine linen. who give fifty thou.
sand dollars for the presidency itself: it is
greedy wealth which invests its thousand
millions in rum, to coin money out of the
weakness of its neighbor. These are the
spots where corruption nestles and gan
grenes the State. If humble men are cor
rupted, these furnish the overwhelming
temptation. 1t is not the common PEG
pie in the streets, but the money changers,
who have intruded into the temple. that we
most sorely need some one to scourge.-
Wendell PhilllpS