The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-03
COOLING TIE JuskEssEs.

The eg.eEE1eG s7c-T Az11AoI DsLo-
c-at rs Il tzsz to14d gosce On the
subject # Warden Sanders pollcy u
ioo6allng tae nurdsrers AID b1rglzEz
and otns7 h2-z1 brgtes L his charge
II he pe1tteatia-g u that place.
Hitherto, zs tsT Il hzs been notice. i
lzs oo1teated Itself with rssTirttzg
so-ne u the tasags sid pro z1d COZ
+ BY nsTEpa2e-z elsewhere. without ex-
: pressing its owa views 4 i Lad ang
Or Toicing loczl sentiment, which has
5eea healthy md sane from the first
B-t ;hs Ott1una incident HIS reused
TIRE Democrat u vehement u.-erance
Il xaica Warden Sander mistaken
poiscg Il denounced as Il deserves.
Tie democrat n late Issue sHpposes
Z czse. a. foIlows:
Let ug suppose that Junksn, the
murderer and .aYfShe- 81 GtsS Rozen
- CttaDga. ~ sentenced tc prison
tor lie for his horrible crime, com
.Ing 81 course 10 Fort Madison Then
imagine aim a. dinner Win orchestral
music. al prison Sunday school dress
I'd ID. Tith white shirt and collar,
fancy nscktie and freshly ghinet
shoes. possibly singing In the choir If
be f. possessed Of 4 fair voice, Nit;l
yonaa teaching the clagE In which ne
Is placed. JUST think 81 il and keep
calm If you can
In another connection in ths sa.ne
Issue the Democrat relates the cir
cumstances Of Junken's crime and ig
moved thereby to say:
'Junken has ser-eI several terms in
prison, was released from the Fort
Madison institution onJanuary 10, less
than three weeks before the comrnis-
sion Of his henious crime. which. ac-
cording 10 the statement OF his cell
mate al the prison. a Missouri negro,
was planned while he was still an in
mate here When one considers that
while In prison this beast was given
music at meals, musical entertain
ments, better clothes for Sunday to
Increase his self-respect,' was better
fed in prison than when out. was Civ.
en- tailor-measured made-to-order
suit TO 20 out Of prison in, 1t empha-
sizes the idea that many citi-
zens now have that the board of con-
troll would exercise much better judg-
ment In returning to the former order
OF things than they did in instituting
the reforms that are now being
tried out In the Fort Madison institu-
ton. The sooner that body drops
from its sentimental plane to the
realization that probably a full half Of
the inmates of the prison here are of
a "a gqy1 ri T,,,,
and thieves are all murderers at heart
tine better 1t will be for all con.
cerned"
Having thus pronounced against the
pink-tea treatment of murderers and
burglars and assaulters of women the
Democrat must expect TO be accused
Of abusing" Warden Sanders for an
Interior political purpose. 1t has, how.
ever, aligned itself with some of the
best and sanest newspapers In the
state ard in common with them can
afford to treat with silent contempt all
attempts to impeach its motives
The Ottumwa Courier, published at
the home of the murdered girl has a
word in season as to the practical
results of Warden Sanders so.ca1Ied
reform" methods. 1t says, and sen
sible people everywhere will agree
with it:
when the penitentiary turns ont
such products as John Junken-t,,rne
: them out one year and several months
before their terms have expired-it Is
, time to quit wasting sympathy on tbe
convicts Fewer social features and I'm
lift society In the penitentiaries and
more hard work with bread and water
anG an occasional ball and chain
thrown in is more fitting treatrent
FOR the depraved brutes, whose crimes
rob them of their freedom non.
namper the convicts. Make their nm.
1snment only degree lighter Than W.
gallows and their foar Of the nen.tan.
to-" VIII aid them TO keep outqtaa ~