The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27
STILLWATER, MINNESOTA, JUNE p, 1885

force here. In that country, to call
man an eX-convict, or to proclaim to |
his fellow workman that he has served .
a term in provincial prison, or III any |
manner injure him IN his trade or bus
mess, renders the person so doing liza
BILE to an action for libel. The courts
in Ontario having held that when a
man serves a sentence, and is discharg
ed from prison, he has paid the penal
ty which the law imposes and he is
forever free from molestation in any
way, on account of the crime for which
he was convicted. The courts of Can
ada have furthers held, that in one
case, and one case only can the fact
that man who has served sentence in
prison and been properly discharged
therefrom, be ever brought up against
him, and that case, is when he again
relapses into crime and is convicted
thereof, then only can his former con-
vction be urged against him legally.
Let society pass such a law as this,
and it will have done more to protect
the man who desires to retrace his
steps and lead an honest life, than any
other means in its power.
would also urge upon society, the
need of reading and recreation rooms,
in various sections of our great cities,
and one in each smaller town through
out the state. These could be estab
lished on a paying basis, as have al
ready described in. THE MIRROR.
They are a necessity, not only for the
discharged prisoners, who Homeless
amid thousand homes" needs a place
where he may cultivate his mind and
spend his spare hours, but, they are
also needed for every stranger. every
young man, for the youths growing up
to manhood, aye, and also for our girls,
where good influences may be brought
to bear, innocent amusement, physical
and mental culture would tend to lift
up and elevate, instead of the mlsera'
BILE, low dive saloon, with its cards, OF
: the equally miserable concert saloon
with it's vice and debauchery which de-
grades, brutalizes, ruins and destroys
t every human soul who enters therein
} Such are some of the duties which so
. ciety owes toward the discharged pris
t oner. duties the more incumbent OF
: them inasmuch that seven-tenths O.
f the occupants of our prison cells never
e probably, would have fallen had it no
t been for the causes l have stated
e Causes which society, for their OWL
a ends, permit to exist or tolerate, AM
r which they have in their power to re
e move.
l will now speak of duty from
9 higher point of view. In this sense w
all stand on the same footing-we al
g acknowledge the Fatherhood of Goo
y He is over all. Then-Unlversa
= FatherhoOd causes universal brother
p. hood, and the one is as truly unalters
q BILE as the other. That we do not Sc
o. it to be so is surely our own fault. A
% a rule, though, it is only those who b'
ls leve that God gives up souls, Wh
r. treat men as outcasts; they are quit
Il logical in doing SO. But once belieV
20 that lost means, not found yet; thu
the Good Shepherd seeks the lost shee
to until He finds it, that the FatherhoC
,S is forever and ever-and then the fa
o. that your brother has fallen, that
ID has been mistaken in his past, that
I'd has done very wrong against soclet
X and is now striving to regain chara
re ter, to build anew, and, so far as in hill
IT, redeem the past, will only make you
60 love him the more and try to sho
ne your love for him the more Many
,ic the colored race have long believ
re that the Christ was only for the whi
hv people and they called Him the VIII
.or Christ. Do not, by your actions, ma
,ar this brother believe that Christ is on
nc the church members Christ and u
rx for all the human race.
,ed I will close this series of papers wi
he quotation from man whom all w
loves his fellowman, must love, Jud
see Albert Tourgee of North Carolina:
icy "Will the rich, the strong and
in brave who profess the name of Chr