Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-06-15
A HOME FOR FEL0NS.
A Noted Lawyer Advocates Sending
Criminals to the Philippines.
SAMUEL COMPERS TALKS OF LABOR.
The Marvellous Strides Labor Is Making
Wage Farmers Breaking Away from
Political Parties-A Gradual
Evolution OF Conditions.

Ann Arbor, Mich, June ia. r.
Sawyer, one of the most brilliant
lawyers of Michigan, and having 40
years experience in confronting Grim
inals, both in their defense and prose-
cution made an address at the Congre-
gational church--to which most of the
university professors belong upon the
subject: What Is the Proper Treat
ment of Criminals After They Have
Served Their Sentences" He ad-
vanced the novel theory that Danish
ment was the only solution and argued
for the utilization of the Philippine
islands for a penal colony. He took
the stand that the reformation Of a
criminal under our system is impossible
and made most of the argument of
hereditary traits of criminals. He said:
In my judgment the precedent set for US by
God Himself in banishing Adam after he had
committed the crime In the Garden Of Eden
should be followed, and all the criminals who
are found among us should be sent where they
can get all the barbarism they want To Aguin-
aldo, where the conditions OF sensual existences
are easy enough for the most indolent let us
send them. To the Philippines they would be
an invaluable help. They would become in
dustrial missionaries, better than Christian
missionaries, because of being more nearly
like the rogues among whom they would be
sent. They would better understand each
other than either of them now understand the
missionaries. | would like to see the treatment
which we apply to missionaries and criminals
exactly reversed by sending the criminals to the
heather and placing the missionaries under that
great forcing process, the penientiary, Of course
with such changes in the institution as would
adapt 1t TO Its new inmates but adhering to the
principle that righteousness, like crime, Is best
cultivated by gathering large quantities Of 1t
together in one spot We would intensity piety
at home as we now intensity crime, Our home
righteousness would be irresistible. As fire
drives out fire, so crime would destroy crime,
and under the doctrine OF the survival Of the
tittest" a better race Of men would spring up to
bless instead Of curse mankind
SAMUEL GoMPERs TALKS OF LABOR
Topeka, Kan, June 1S.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, held big meet
ing last night in representative hall.
He said;
The average mortal knows nothing Of the
growth Of the labor movement In the United
States. tits only we who are watching 1t day
by day who realize the marvellous strides 1t is
making. To-day we have nearly 100000 men
under the banner Of the American Federation
Of Labor, and by the opening Of the twentieth
century, only a year and half we will have
2,0U0O wage-earners on our rolls. Then or
ganized labor will be given Its Just dues, be-
cause the condition Of the country will depend
on It's doings. Laboring men are breaking away
from the domination d political parties, and they
no longer heed the crack Of the party bosses
whip. Those who predict terrible and final
struggle between capital and labor are wrong
The struggle between capital and labor is going
on every day, and gradually labor is forging
ahead toward equality and justice. There will
be no terrible final struggle. The outcome will
be when organised capital surrenders 10 organ