The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-04-18
even the dole that it reluctantly casts

even the cole CndJ IL reluCCdnCly casts
to its deserving poor.
"The only ones who do not cast him
off and are willing, Notwithstanding
his backsliding to extend the helping
hand. are his former companions in
vice. They possess this solitary virtue,
even in their degradation. Is it to be
wondered at that good resolutions made
within these walls are so short lived?"
Another: "Although called the pari-
abs of the human race, we are trying
to teach the world that the prison holds
human hearts, and that those whom
men call vile and upon whom the
scourge of justice most heavily and
most justly falls, are open to the int1u-
ence of sympathy, and are as grateful
for the word of kindness, and as ready
to meet half way. every sincere effort
for their reform, and are as deserving
of friendly regard, as are many of
those who say God, thank thee am
not as other men are.
Another: "There is need Of reforms
outside as we'll as inside of prison walls.
"Prisoners, after all, are but bungling
copyists after the great masters OF the
fine art of roguery.
"This money getting, this worship of
Mammon, is the crying evil of the day;
and in the mad scramble for riches,
virtue and honesty are forgotten.
"Men who haye made their money
by sharp practices or filched it from
the public treasury are hobnobbed with
and honored, while honest poverty is
snubbed and Stunned.
"The robber of thousands walks the
street with head erect, and the vulgar
thief of few dollars is sent to prison
for long term of years to teach him
that honesty (?) is the best policy
THE thief who wrecks bank is
looked upon with more of admiration
than of scorn; but the thief of neces-
sity or the thief who has neither the
genius nor the boldness for thievery
on a gigantic scale, is despised and
looked upon with contempt by all men
Another: ''It was lack of mora
discipline that opened these gates te
every prisoner within Them
Another: "How do | feel? That is
a question which, just at present
touches tender spot in this self-con
ceited anatomy. have always prlde6
myself on being above the ordinary
petty larceny thief; but here comes thu
news of three successive prominen
officials of Wisconsin who have robbed
the treasury of that state to the tun'
, of S525,OOO. This and the great Pan
anna steal has taken large amount o
conceit out of my selfexaltations as
thief, and l feel very much as if | be
) longed to that class known as hel
roOst robbers.
"What perplexes me most is to dis
cover a reason why the law and tn
5 people spend so much time and none
t fishing for minnows like myself whe
: the waters are so plentifully stocke
with whales. The papers had no XII
Y glove names tor my CRIME. [ was
] thief, and had committed larceny i
}. the first degree.
= "When their honors, the three offic
It ais were discovered to have robbie
It the state treasury of Wisconsin
1925, 900, they were said to have mi
e appropriated public funds. The ro'
7, berry of the stockholders Of the Pal
If anna Canal Company is called scanda
vt Yes, feel small, terribly small. 1 W;
# a plain thief. | believe am not CT
IS out for a successful thief, and a
going to give up the business"
n Another: GAS society is constitute
l. the consequences of wrong doing a
n usually terrible and greatly to
is dreaded and all who have unhealthf
S. cravings for forbidden things should
made to realize that society very ns
II urally treats harshly those who pe
10 NIT their pleasures and passions to e
y danger it's existence.
ve "People who have toilsomely al
st. patiently erected their homes a.
1T, placed therein their treasures do n
st, tolerate with equanimity those W