The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-12

west. she finds her labor made easier
by reason of the work done by her
children sent to US. The Old states
have sons and daughters among us
strong men and women-who still
love, and are capable of rendering them
a service. Missouri is one of the great
est of the central states, and the great
est of the Transmississippi states,
and it should be II mighty and iniluen-
tial force in the republic. If we care
to strengthen our hold upon other
states, or to increase our influence
upon outside public opinion. l am con-
fident no agency will be found more |
effective than the army of educated
men and women we are sending from
our schools to- take part in the develop
ment of other commemorative with
reference to the needs and financial
support of these institutions, and, for
that matter, of all the other institu-
tions, shall refer yonr honorable
bodies to the reports of the respective
boards and chief officers for their esti-
ma tes-"
The governor then recommcnds GER
tain appropriations for all the educa-
tiounl institutions. after which he
mentions the different charitable asy-
lums and says:
The eleemosynary institutions con-
sist of three insane asylums, located at
Fulton, st. Joseph and Nevada; a school
for the deaf and dumb, ut Fulton;
school for the blind, at st. Louis; the
reform school for boys. at Boonville,
and the industrial home for girls, at
Chillicothe. All OF these institutions
are well managed. and some are ex-
ceedingly well managed. They merit,
and, have no doubt. will receive, the
fostering care of the state.
A new cottage for the boys at the
state reform school is recommended at
n cost of 1000; also 5000 for store
room and cold storage, 81, 400 for the in
dustrial building and sums for other
needed improvements. sOne hundred
and seventy-twO boys are now confined
there, and ?25 boys have been dis
charged, most of whom are doing well.
The governor, enlarging upon this
matter, says:
I'm connection with this school, de-
sire to call the attention of the general
assembly to q matter which has al
ready become an abuse. 1t is contrary
to the statutes Of the state to sentence
boy under 10 years of age to the pen
itentiary. A boy under that age com
mitting felony, ordinarily punish
able by imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary, must be sent to the reform school,
or sentenced to the county Jail, in the
discretion of the trial judge. In the case
Of boys between the ages of is and IS
J IL rests in the discretion of the judge
whether they shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary, or sent to the reform
shool. OF one thing feel quite sure
}. namely, that it is u rare case when any
boy under Is, or even 20, years OF age
should be sent to the penitentiary i
: NAV be interesting in this connec
J ton to state that there are nov
J 3s3 boys in the penitentiary under II
wears. Unless the crime is unusual.
: heinous, or the criminal UNUSUAL.
, hardened, regard it as almost in
Q human, and disgrace to our civiliza
t ton, to sentence child 10 or II year
t of age to long service in the peniten
s tiary, where oil his surroundings viii
l tend to debase his nature and to con
firm him in criminal habits thinl
Y all our circuit judges will agree to thi
: statement; and yet many of them ar
8 constantly sentencing children of thi
: kind to the pcnitentiary.
1T needs no argument to prove tina
? the state should support all these boy
:, or none. 1t is manifestly unfair I
: those counties having circuit judge
3 who do their duty without seeking t
4 shift the burden of it. to allow prae
l. tice by which the legal and just liabi
70 tiles of other counties, blessed wit
- more provident judges, are added I
, their own. This reprehensible practic
b can be broken up by so amending ti
n Communication law as to provide that
u cases where the governor shall con
T. mute the sentence of boys from impri
% onment in the penitentiary to confin
ID ment in the reform school, they sha
., be sent there at the expense of u
N county from which they were Sc
V fenced or in which they reside. cor
y mend this subject to your thoughtf
n consideration.
Of The state Penitentiary.
o, After recommending appropriation
e for the industrial home for girls al
al stating what the institution was Q
Is complishing, the governor then revie'
ar the penitentiary as follows:
- '.The penitentiary is perhaps I
ed most difficult of all of the state
We stitutions to manage, and furnish
he more perplexing problems for sol
10. ton than any other. Ward
ds Pace has been Obliged to confro
Ite obstacles of the most harassing ,
Is scription, which have required
on greatest care and prudence and
ON most exacting attention to ov
In come. Under the circumstances
,es has every reason to congratuli
he himself upon what, in justice
lid him, l denominate the phenomeI
nd success of his administration. I
condition of the prison when
rec received it was such that
le, was compelled to expend some S!a,
In in making repairs the necess
,rk for which had existed for some ii
the and could not be longer delayed
,ols the first half of 1898, the receipts of
les, prison for labor employed under @
my tract made the institution even M
q = than self.sustaing. Then came
ldy panic, which has been SO prolonl
rict and disastrous. The men work
ust under contract were employed by CO
|, Of panies engaged in different lines
lem manufacture. Each company do
tier business at the prison is un
5 of contract to employ minimum nj
nen ber During the first six months
zeal Warden PAGES administration
end shops were run ut their full capac
Il Is The contracts then called for l.
any men, but nearly every contractor
vay q number of extra men at work.
.ent one time during that period the n
heir her OF men employed in the shops
ries I,eOa, which was IT, in excess of
our requirements of the contracts.
link but the prison manufacturers
in affected by the panic in the same
rom as those on the outside They foun
hen necessary to curtail the limits OF Il
for operations. II sn.h an extent did
the go that the NJ inb.r of m.n actu'
Cleaning Pots and Pans.
A woman naturally hates to cleai
ILL.,, q bread or cake bowl after the do