The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-21
THE Tv,NE PLANT INVESTIGATION.

THE TwiNE PLANT INVESTIGATION.
The leader of the contingent in the Kan
sas house Bale waggener of Atchison
legislature the head OF John
Seaton OF the binding twne industry at the
penitentiary who conceded to be about the big
gest specimen of Democrat developed on Kansas
SOIL introduced resolution calling for an investsa
ton of workings of this his opponents pet measure
This step seems tickle the editor of the Lawrence
Journal who opposed the Irvine plant scheme IN
its conception entirety including the revolving
fund s150000 apart working capital for the
plant The Eagle had any feeling one way or
the other touching further than the conviction
that too much capital involved for the number OF
men employed being absolutely necessary to keep
prisoners busy at account Of discipline and
for their physical and moral health, such employment
should simplest and least expensive character
little competition with free labor as possible
OF binding Irvine machinery is expensive, as Is
the material But the other hand there IS
question but that the penenary plant has kept the
price of Irvine down in the interest of the Kansas wheat
grower That fact can be demonstrated
The esteemed Journal expresses lively satisfaction
the proposed investigation. We fear contem
porary is prejudiced While know the editor of the
Journal fair-minded and guaged and Of
leveheaded aaround able journalistic writer's
yet touching this pententiary Irvine plant
terprise inclined conclude that Bro. Finch
started off the wrong foot. His exuation the
fact that it left for Democrat for in
vesgaon pains The Irvine plant under the honest
and capable management Judge Jewett is the
hole thinks We do believe scandal possible
an he head
He the soul of honor and honesty heart, besides
carrying very clear head his shoulders The Eagle
does deny Journals assertion that the people who
pay the plant have right know what becomes of
their money But so far as E. T. Jewett warden the
state pententary is concerned, investigation will
find him crooked. The fact of his honesty. to-
gether with his recognized superior administrative ab
ity the conclusion that it will be found that he
has made the of the Irvine plant and that
has been wasted far he is concerned The working
profits Of the plant have inconsiderabe They
foot up thousands dollars We that the
nnistration Of institution been rotten
and leaking badly years the days of
Major Hopkins have they wisely economic
ally administered than by Warden Jewett Under the
two Pop administrations seaings to have been
the rnle. And Jewett found conditions existing which
he could exactly make but which he righted by
demanding designations.
The penitentiary being the dumping ground for every
overloaded politician in the state, whereby all sorts of
material is unloaded upon the warden will
not it difficult matter to keep all its leaks
stopped and all of its machinery running clearly Civil
service system cut any figure the select
ing of the hosts of employees that institution thou
sand convicted criminals must be restrained ruled and
employed, only. but a hundred employees watched and
governed Add this responsibility purchase hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars ssa which must
he procured from combine-dominated market and
product turned out at profit under the market prices
ruling and the administering of the affairs of u.s.
if of greater responsibility like play comparison