Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-01-26

will vie with other counties Of our
great commonwealth in making
the lives of our poor charges at
least bearable and tolerable.
Addenda; Within forty.eight
hours after our visit to the County
Farm, Mr.. Rutter, the superin.
lendent, suddenly departed this
life. And we take pleasure in
saying that private interviews with
all inmates of the Farm capable
of giving ineligible expression
revealed the fact that Mr.. Rutter
was kind to them, aud gave them
as much and substantial food as
could have been expected or given
for the means at his command.
We also beg to say we visited
the County Jail and were shown
every courtesy and facility for its
inspection by the genial and com
petent sheriff, Mr.. Price johnson,
aud his cstimable wife. Here, too,
we found a bad and probably not
well.known condition of affairs ex-
listing. AS much as we dislike to
speak of so delicate a matter, it is
our duty to inform you that there
is no provision made for female
prisoners, other than that afforded
males, CRATE separating one sex
from the other, if separation it can
be called, there being no privacy
whatever existing therein, and
whites and blacks mingle with the
Outcast or previous condition Of
servitude." This is a crying, barn
ing shame, and can, at small cost,
be rcmedied. The dictates of hui
manity and common decency de-
mand it. 1t is highly rcprehensi-
BILE, and, as said, We doubt that
very many of our good citizens
know that for 10 these many years
it existed in this cultivated, cul-
tured and human loving midst.
YOu don't want such to exist in
in your county, we feel assured,
and need but to remind you of its
existence to have il eradicated. One
white and seven cOlOred fellows
are now in the county Jail, and all
appeared happy shiny and fat.
They are charged with crime,
ranging from highway robbery on
the part f"thc man and brother"
to chicken-lirting on the part Of
the lone pale face, destroying all
previous presidents made and
provided, on words TO that effect.
They are, of necessity, wholly idle,
playing craps and schooling each
other to commit other crimes when
they shall have been let loose upon
the public again. And your com
mittec would recommend, as Il di-
and to enable these law.
breakers to pass their time to more
advantage to themselves and profit
to the state, that they be put at
hard labor on the highways of the
county, and we are of the opinion
that many of these vagabondage
gentry will give our county little
of their presence, or else be law
as the statutes contem-
plate.
The sanitary condition of the
Jail is very bad, owing to the near
ness Of Il foul sink, want of clos
cts, etc. We wish to commend
the sheriff for the recent improve
ments made on the living apart
ments of the Jail, as well as the
outside additions of a pleasing and
needed character.
We would suggest that it be
considered rs to ACCESSIBILITY of
selling the present valuable Jail
site, aud bnilding an up-to.datc
county Jail in another part of
Mexico. 1t is proposed to erect
the new union depot near its loca-
ton, aud that, with other contem-
plated buildings in prospect in that
will cause its value TO
greatly enhance. This is matter
that might be proftably consid-
cred.
And of the court house, he who
runs may see, and he who smells
may beguile himself with the aro-
mas that abound in some parts of
same. As Michabar, the immor-
tai, would say, in short" closets
are needed for both sexes, in either
end of tbo Cont Uonse orJ otI,o,.