The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-04-10
WORK FOR. Ex CONNECTS.
HRS. Balhngton Booths Efforts
to Reclaim Men.
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In the rooms Of the board Of trade
and trAnsporta hon. in New York. d
meeting In the interest Of prison work
was addressed by Mrs. Ballington
Booth and Mrs. E. A. McAlptn, says
the New York Times. W.jJ. Schie6e-
lin introduced Mrs. Booth, who said:
There is great responsibility to be
faced BY tho state or the Christian
church in the fact that there are 81
900 prisoners In our state prisons. /
believe, after seven years work, that
the enormous expense to the state
could be lessened largely and that the
problem Of the prisons can be solved
by closely looking into the lives Of the
prisoners and particularly their strug-
giles when they get out again into the
world. 1t is my JOY that there are hun
dreds who have been hopeless who are
now beyond the reach Of temptation,
good citizens who are splendid exam
pies to the others who feel that, having
been prisoners, they are beyond hope.
II have seen them shadowed, drawn
back and railroaded to Jail simply be-
cause they were ex-conyicts.4 We don't
20 to governors for pardons and solicit
names begging for pardons. We be-
lieye that those sentenced must suffer
for their crimes. We do believe, how
ever, that the man punished need not
necessarily be punished again after he
is free. NJ. =.
I'm tho state prison at Trenton there
was q prisoner who was man Of edu--
cation. He was a noted forser, and
one DAY he believed in Jesus Christ
and from tho worst he became the
humblest and the BEST OF the prtsoners.
The warden. who was not q Chrfstian,
erswatchins the man for year. tUid
me that all work would be sufficiently
recompenssd II, I really changed the
man. He was sure that the man would
be back soon after serving hts seA.
tence. Wa tpok him to one ot eur
homes cf hope, and he 10 today an hon.
sofed ana trusted man. He h4s q rec.
ora OF ave years faithful services. and
I think that enough TO prove hs roal
reformation. Is
There was a man IN Sing Sing pris
on, and when asked to see him the
warden said that he was the worst
man there, treneherous even TO hts tel
lows. He had tried twice to burn the
prison and was guilty OF two assaults
with a knife. When l saw him. tried
to get under the mass Of damaging tes-
timony against the man and at him
self. He glared and told me his rec
ord. He said that he was sick Of him.
self. Some time later he told me that
he was going to try. He tried and he
triumphed. He has been reunited to
his family and 80 changed for the bet
ter that he proudly boasted to me not
long ago he had talked to the detective
who arrested him twice and that the
detective did not recognize him.
II know that the strongest man, with
the best purpose on leaving prison.
even If at once given position, is al
most sure to break down in few days.
He doesn't get over the prison nights
and days, the agony Of conscience and
weary brain until lie has been cheered
and reassured. OF the 5000 men who
have been out Of prison for some time
and whom we interested and pledged to
better lives don't believe that 5 per
cent have gone back to the old ways"
4. Mrs McAlpin told of the need Of help
for the work and how Mrs. Booth was
hampered in her work because she
could not give her time exclusively to
the prisons, but had to travel, lecturing
throughout the country, to gather
funds for the support Of her work.
Mrs. McAlpin, who devotes the great
er part Of her time to prison work, told
the story Of three boys who had in
childhood been sent to "a protectory
where they had met bad companions.
Afterward they started on careers Of
crime. 3. .s5.sg q 5;.s. .Ss5 5sl 5s
s'They had wonderful affection and
loyalty to one anoth 4 said Mrs. Nc
Alpin. One was lazy, hopelessly lazy;
the second was. delicate and apparently
dying. When one was in prison, the
others would aid him, using Of their i'll
gotten means. lit came about that the
lazy man and the delicate man saw the
light. and the lazy man went to work
and the delicate one regained his
for the Lord OF miracles is
not gone. The third man said that it
was too late to turn back, and he sis
now iii Sing Sing prison waiting for
the day Of his electrocu ution. !"
Mrs. Booth. the Little Mother ,ns' made
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