Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-03
Citizen MAGILL
Writes a Book, Thirty Days in the
in the District Jail"
HOW THE GLOBE WAS WORKED

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A1sgraCe 10 Humanity Review Of The BOOK
By a Prison Veteran Of Eight Years OF Sad
Experience
Mr.. Charles j. Magill has written
hook entitled Thirty Days in District
of Columbia Jail" The brochure con-
tains forty.seven pages and is red
hot document from preface to finish II
Mr.. Nagil had put in the eight years
or over served by this reviewer OF ms
hook we have not the slightest doubt
but that his facile pen would create
revolution in the management Of penal
! institutions.
In his preface" Mr.. Magill says,
among the motives which induced him
to write the book this one is para
mount:
Second. that there is a wellknown,
systematic method being pursued to
alarm the citizens, worry the dealers,
and get a Milk Trust in Washington,
at small expense, as was done for the
/ Beef Trust
Mr.. Magill was arrested and fined for
selling milk below the standard, He
established the fact before Judge Kim
| ball that he purchased his milk from
firm in the District owning their
own COWS. and If the aforesaid COWS
gave milk below the standard he was
! not responsible as a dealer or retailer
! The Judge hoewver, inflicted a fine OF
! $3.50 in two separate charges, making
| S15 i'm all. or thirty days in Jail. Mr.
| Magiu rather than pay the fine and
acknowledge guilt closed his place Of
business and served out the thirty
DAYS i'm Jail. Passing for the present
| his experiences in Jail Inc Globe is in
terested particularly in Mr.. Magills
revelation touching a Milk Trust
1t appears that every newspaper in
| the capital city started a bombardment
on impure milk last summer. We did
not notice the coincidence, being too
busy trying to finance The Globe and
| write thirty or forty columns of stun
every week. Hence, when a gentle
/ man named Hines-Dr. Hines, we be-
| ieye. who has an extensive acquaint-
auce around the District Building
kindly volunteered to help us out with
an article we gladly accepted the same
| We had. of course, no suspicious that
the article was inspired by or paid for
by any Trust, nor did we know the
subject it treated of until handed in.
We then discovered that it was Of un-
usual length and was an elaborate
treatise on Milk. The article appeared
in these columns on September 1st, as
Mr. Magill says in his book, but Mr.
! Magill is mistaken in this insinuation:
Fresh milk, just from COWS, not
good. ETC.. etc. Did Col. Elliott hunt up
b nh NJ hrYtfU
contribution? Was the pub paid for,
or are they afraid Col. Elliott will
catch on" The +. S. NJ. II. A, are
cunning. So are the 3.5 per cent
drought manipulators.
If the article was paid for there was
no return of the cash to this office, nor
had we the remotest idea thc, the arti-
Gle was furnished by a Trust or syndi-
cate. We were simply worked as a
soft thing" if Mr.. Magills deductory
premises are true.
Mr.. Magill makes an elaborate and,
we believe, an honest expose Of this
/ Milk Trust and he has The Globes
sympathy, and can command its as
sistance i'm smashing it. There is not
a particle OF doubt as to his unjust
conviction and illegal punishment by
Judge Kimball. IL was a gross and in
decent outrage to send a respectable
business man to the Jail Of the District
to herd with felons for sell.
ing milk furnished him from
a dairy or firm owning COWS in
this District Mr. Magill, however, is
less Inundated by such an outrage
than the administration Of law itself
is degraded by its application at the
instigation of a Trust or on the igno.
rant iniative Of a judge, In either
case public safety has been imperiled
and the citizens liberty endangered.
Passing from this phase Of the sub,
ject or book to Mr. Magill's experience
In jail The Globe, while regretting the
conditions of that inst. tuition as de.
3cribed by Mr.. Magill, will only observe
lat the prisons and the discipline Of
prisons in the United States are semi.
barbaric and the slow development Of
humane and Christian treatment and
confinement of the unfortunate is the
saddest chapter of a century we are
accustomed to eulogize as the most
progressive in the history Of the hu.
man race, To be cut off from ones
home and family. from all that makes
life worth the living would appear to
be sufficiently drastic and serving the
ends of society without in6icting phys.
,cal and mental tortures which dis.
count the untut ed or rather natural
leviltHes of savages. The advance
ments made in the condition Of the
, human race, the improved and elevated
condition of the masses to what they
we're one hundred or even fifty years
ago, with the corresponding luXuries
/ which makes liberty 50 desirable alsC
makes imprisonment now more un
learable and torturous to mind anC
, body than any kind of immurement
. could possibly be when even a King Oi
, england did not know the luxury anC
5elfrespecting feeling Of a boiled
, shirt. And this luxury is little lesi
han one hundred years old. Improve
nent in prison life is more than
. century behind the now improved con
lition Of the poorest citizen enjoyinl
, personal liberty, and hence, to a mal
iXty years of age like Mr.. Magill,
merchant and the head or respectable
! family. even thirty days in Jail is