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stern aspect. The most expert crimi-
nOlogistS strongly favor this method
as the most enlightened. progressive
and helpful in the solution OF the
great and ever present problem. The
adoption of these two measures would
make the following all the more i'm
pOrtant. With the demand for refor-
matOry instead OF retributatiye meth
!Ods in penal institutions has come the
necessity for better prison officers
than eve~ before II the lives and des-
TIMES Of men are to be influenced or
controlled, study 81 human nature
must De required on the part OF ey-
cry 2uard-keeper or instructor who
handles them and not only must fit
Ness Tor command be requisite but
character also. All people ar imi-
ra.o.s by natural impulse ana The
criminal especially. therefore. not
only in .he superintendent bur in his
~ubor5inajez also should good quail
-i"> prevail.
Atheism ir'"mpcrancc moral ZOOS
n,ss and dishonesty should be aban
l0noa a. certainly as brutality and
cruelty: the lives ana actions OF Of
Icor~ -tould De models Of an that We
wod,J ask the criminal to attain. The
new and higher objects now striven
for IL penal work are slowly bringing
jhiS 10 pass in the selection and
training Of The official staff Of these
institutions The essentials If 4
.prison system a. decided upon 10y the
congress were these:
lsj. Constant employment Of con
.,ic;y. teaching them a trade OF some
kind. avoiding competition with free
labor
md Educate and awaken the men
.tality OF the convict 10 degree that
makes him affective in labor and de-
.yclop his powers of reason to point
where he j. able to distinguish right
.Jrola wron~.
3rd. Religious training tha, keeps
before The mind the hope Of Christ
ianity
4th. An Intermediate sentence.
18th. Parole system.
9Th. \ system OF Identification that
reveals fhc convict's history.
IN. State authority over all penal
institutions.
In speaking of the employment OF
conyicts Sc have first 10 consider the
right OF prisoners 10 labor. The right
of free Workmen with which his la
Dor completes. We are unit as ia
necessity. without il there can be no
proper discipline. progress or reforma-
iiion or Intelligent prison aGmini5tra-
zion. We do not believe that prison
labor has any appreCiable effect on
free labor How can il have when
the product of convict labor in the
HlA'N statues do Npli lhlNh WYNN ~
labor in the same industries is less
than per cent. and the total produce
IS convict labor as compared with
THE total product OF free labor is only
I54-l6o of one per cent.
Volumes could be written on The
, proceedings Of the congress, howe"
, Ier. this paper is already too long
. Again the most important features OF
the congress have been referred &c
| reclamation, reformation and proven
,lion: these three. but the greatest OF
: these is prevention. The Surgeons and
, PHYSICIANS Association Of the NatiOna
= Prison Congress elected me president
; of this organization and as such
p delivered the annual address. select
| ing for my subject The Negro Grim
. iiual" 4 copy of this address | en
. close and hope you will he deeply in
, ltrreStcd in its reading and be onlight
: cucd by the Observation-Disclosures
r congress requested that | address:
, them upon the system and method o
= Cooperating prisons and prisoners an'
E their management As conducted in on
p sjat" My explanation of the system
7 and the emphasis laid upon our Ope,
= AIR life elected from Prof Charles II
{ Henderson. of Chicago University
4 the following remark: DR.. the system
b. Is explained by Hou appears 10 me L
I ho ideal. tn" best in the world"
Fine Brood Mares.