The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-21
FLoGGING WITH WATER.
How the Hose was Substituted for the
 Lash in Oregon.

How the Hose was Substituted for the
 Lash in Oregon.
 The cold-water cure has recently been
 adopted at the Oregon state penitentia-
 " with apparently satisfactory results.
 For all practical purposes fogging has been abandoned. No rule has been es- ltablished prohibiting fiogging, and if a
 case should be presented in which all other punishment failed the lash might be resorted to, but this is a contingency
 not deemed probable. The cold-water cure has been found effective in some lvery obstinate cases.
 The cold-water remedy consists of
 stripping the prisoner to the skin and turning upon him 8 stream of cold wa
 ter from an ordinary garden hose. The Einfiiction of the punishment is not as l brutal as fogging, it leaves no scars or
 permanent injuries. and the punish Ement ends the moment the water is turned off. A prisoner who has been subjected to the punishment once wants Inc more of it, though he may be smil- ling within a few moments after the or
 deal is over. Governor Chamberlain land the prison authorities are highly pleased over the result of the expert ments, for they have been desrous of
 abolishing the whip
 Only one prisoner has beer fiegged during this administration. That man 1 was 8 trusty and had run away, and
 upon being captured was given the pen lalty always imposed in such cases up to txx,3 a,4c. l have been punished with the cold-water lremedy One of them was q big, buriy
 negro. When he casne to the prison he
 was assigned to work in the shops but lfefused to obey orders. He asserted
 that he didn't have to work and
 wouldn't work. He vas taken to the
 bathroom, stripped ana stood in q cor lner. The first spurt of waSes from the hose brought out a shriak that was evil idence of the effectiveness of the raIne- dy. After trying for hals ! minute to
 dodge the stream of cold water, the lman gave up and began to beg and make promises. The punishment ended, he went to work and has given no fur l ther trouble
 l The other prisoner subjected to the
 water cure was white man. For sev- feral months he had been giving trouble, | and seemed to find enjoyment in diso- lbeying rules, even when he gained noth- ling by it. Small penalties did no good,
 and he was finally warned that another
 offense would bring severe consequen- ces. A few days later he deliberately violated an important regulation and | y1roc. ca1a4 4n
 to beg before the water struck him, and before paiIful of water had been used The was completely subdued. Before he had dressed again he was laughing over 1 the punishment, but his subsequent
 conduct has proved that he doesn't in- itend receiving a second dose of water cure.
 1 There are men in the Oregon peniten- tiary who bear fiogging scars that they will carry to their graves. It is but fair 1 to say that the scars were not received during this administration. Some of ] the men thus punished are still uncon- lquered and are perhaps more vicious land more desperate because of the Imethod of inflicting pain. Many a pris- 1 oner sas sworn that if he ever gets an opportunity he will take the life of the officer who laid the lash across his back. Flogging was degrading to both the prisoner and the man who imposed the punishment. The prisoner was fstripped and bound and logged until, in many instances, the blood flowed down their backs. Not so with the water cure. The prisoners are not bound nor cut and bruised. The cold-water cure leaves the offending prisoner with a cleaner body and apparently more peaceful mind.-Portland Oregonian.