St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-18

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Graham Taylor. of Chicago. The two
laSt-named gentlemen We're the speak
ers of the evening:
DR.. 1ngersoll made tho opening
prayer, and. after a hymn, Bishop
Whipple was introduced He spoke
about twenty-five minutes in his most
eloquent strain. The theme of the
evening was, of course. relative to prs
on and refOrmatory management. The
bishop said among other things:
l. II must pay a tribute to my old
friend, the late President Hayes. He
was the first president of the National
Prison association. and held the Office
until his death AS indicative Of The
love in which he was held both North
and South the following not generally
known incident will illustrate. After
his election to the presidency of the
United States there occurred a vacancy
III the board of trustees of the Peabody
Auiu. IlSC iuGBl,
members OF the board, united in asking
that Rutherford b. Hayes tie appointed
to the vacancy, which was done. His
sterling integrity and Christ-like quail
ties won the admiration of the whole
South. He had learned the true rela-
lions OF man to man and of man to God
He was a ChaiStian gentleman. the
highest title in the world. His wife aud
family partook of his noble character.
Mrs. Hayes was most lOvable Christian
woman.
"You men and women who are de-
voting your energies to the noDle work
of prison reform have tile great Chris
tian heart of the country behind you.
Our prayers ascend daily for you and
our sympathies are yours. Well do |
know the power of these. When l
stood alone among the sayages during
the Sioux outbreak the Thoughts of the
prayers going up for ffe and my own
petitions to the Father Of All carried
me through. How l can scarce even
now tell. t,.-
1.-The last time 1 was abroad l met
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army.
Like Cannon Farrar. could before
then say, i don't approve of their meth
! DDS, but the Almighty evidently dees.'
| But l never knew all they were doing
! ei'A L iDCt tbV SCHSIAI. L dShCu lttI IL tLty
were really doing good. He showed me
little book, and OH one page he had
/ ten names. Bishop said be, every
one OF these ten is now a sober. indus
| trious citizen, and, believe, truly con-
verted. They have served total OF 400
| years i'll English prisons. Do you want
more prooi?' l was satisfied. Ii they
| can save men when they come, out of
prison l say, aid them.
keep OIL in the good work. Let not
your heart be discouraged, and may
! God bless YOU" 81,
After another hymn, Rev. DIR. Taylor
was presented to speak OH the topic:
"a Plea for Dealing With Whole Man
hood i'll Prisons" DIR. Taylor is CON-
paratively young man, but occupies the
chair of sociology i'll the theological de-
| partment of the great Chicago univers-
! ity-the only chair of the kind in
America. He is wonderful speaker,
! and brought his audience to tears and
laughter at will. The following are
| extracts from his discourse:
"O!ver Wendell Holmes said once
+ The whole boy comes to school, He
recognized fact which few teachers
are able to. You cannot separate the
boys mental from his physical being.
Ii is the whole boy you deaf with, body.
| mind and soul. The finest definition of
! complete education ever uttered is this:
The symmetrical development of man's
whole nature, as his reasonable offer
ing to his Maker 1t is the
thought of one Of the grandest
educators of the age. You cannot
deal with man as without a soul. And
we can save no m ore OF mans soul
than we do of his BODY or his mind.
i Cain was the first great anarchist He
| separated himself and remembers no
ones interests but his own. Such ex-
IRENE self-consciousness is the cause of
crime. A noted physician in Chicago
said once III my hearing that there was
/ no more freedom of Will than
| there was color to smell. This is un-
! true. Yet the surroundings of men and
women lead them OH to Crime. Heredit-
AIRY impulse pushes, them on. Our hope
| or saving men i'll our prisons from a
continuation in crime lies in the hope of
leading them into better surroundings
| A man is man, although he be Grim
lnal. Deal with the whole man. not his
baser side. There is in every man a
dual nature-a DR.. Jekell and Mr.. Hyde
| existence. What awful conflicts in the
| darkness this man has had to keep from
| Shoh ing " a MI. 1lJ VIC hHOW IlUl.
The responsibility of prison officials
is immense. Vested with almost the
power of life and death, they stand as
the guardians of soul and body. ANY
man fit to be warden Of prison is
also tit to be a college president. The
| nel-grained a man is the better official
he makes. Ii they can only realize that
! it is a whole man who comes under
their care.
| ut is not only what man has been,
but what he IS and what he will be, that
we and the officials must look to. The
i warden must realize that he himself is
! a man as we'll as his prisoner. He must
have not only iron but blood in his
veins. The awful corruption of some
police management is now showing up
i'll New York city. No words can strongly
enough denounce such work nor the
lnhumanlty of other police and prison
officials.
''ln conclusion, let me tell an incident
of Miss Fannie Hayes life, inasmuch
as Bishop WhIpple has told one about
her father. Last year. during the con-
gress at Chicago, we visited the Joliet
penitentiary. Miss Hayes was in the
matrOn's room when little prison baby
trotted into the room: 1t had the mis-
shapen head of the criminal class. Its
father was serving life sentence, and
its mother was in for fourteen
| years. What will become of this Door
little thing?' asked Miss Hayes. Can't
| you get some family TO take it and rear