Gilpin observer., 1909-01-14
Governor Buchtei's Message
densed

institution for the care of the feeble
minded and helpless children
Commends the State Home for De-
pendent and Neglected Children and
says the management should have
every dollar asked for.
Praises the State Industrial School
for Girls and says its expenditures are
ridiculously small when one considers
what is saved the state by making
good women out Of natural material
for crime.
Says the State Industrial School for
Boys Is not a reform school but an
industrial school, and that more than
ninety per cent. of the boys who are
sent to 1t become useful citizens. The
real necessities of this school should
be provided without haggling.
The Colorado State Reformatory has
had the best discipline in it's history
during the past two years. The cost
for food and clothes has been so low
as to excite admiration for the man
agement of Warden butcher. The
Legislature should provide for the pur-
chase of additional land. The down
fall of young men is traced to mar
cotics and whisky. 1t is the business
of the Legislature to do what it can to
narcotics and whisky eliminated, crime
would be reduced fifty to seventy-five
per cent.
There may be state prisons that are
as well managed and that bring in
as good results as our prison at Canon
City, but there are no prisons which
are better managed or bring better
results.
When boys are sent to the peniten-
tiary for their first offense, the war
den, with the approval of the gov
ernor, ought to have authority to send
that boy to Buena Vista, where he
ought to have been sent by the court.
Then when some expert criminal who
has been in penitentiary several times
is sent to the reformatory at Buena
Vista, the warden ought to have au-
thority under the approval of the gov
ernor, to send that expert criminal to
the penitentiary at Canon City.
The results of the experiment in set
ting convicts at work on the state
road near Trinidad have been setisfac-
tory in the highest degree. The guard
at night is a life termer, the only life
termer ever made trusty, who guards
the camp without gun and gets bet
ter results than were at first secured
by guard with gun. In the whole
history of prison discipline nothing
has ever occurred which is more heart
ening than these extraordinary results
which have been secured under War
den Cleghorn's direction in that big
camp of prisoners working on the
Trinidad road.
The warden reports thirty pardons
for the biennial period: One of them
was granted by Governor Mcdonald
five We're granted by Governor Har
per and twenty-four were granted by
me. OF course you understand that
have been solicited to pardon every.
body i'll the penitentiary, in the reform
atory, in the industrial schools, and in
all the Colorado jails. Tomorrow
morning. on recommendation of the
Board of Pardons, | shall pardon a col
ored man. So my total list of pardons
for two years from the State Peniten-
tiary will aggregate thirty. l am glad
to have had the opportunity TO grant
each one to them. l would not recall
one of them if / could
Important recommendations of the
State Board of Charities and Correc
tions as to reduction of time for trus.
ties, clothing for discharged prisoners
a scientific method for identification
condemnation proceedings for land for
state institutions, the reception OF
crippled children in the State Home
for Dependent Children, and the ap
pointment of state agents for the gen
eral supervision of the boys and girls
paroled from the industrial schools
are approved.
The management of the State Insane
Asylum at Pueblo by DR.. Busey is
htsrh
some day create another insane asy
lum in the vicinity of Denver and yet
another one on the western slope. But
that will not be needed now il the Leg
islature will do everything which Is
necessary to be done for the asylum
at Pueblo.
The School for the Deaf and Blind
should be classed definitely with the
educational institutions OF the state
The appropriation for this schoo
should be every dollar that Is asked
| for.
Public schools of higher education
are contrasted with private schools like
the University of Denver. Colorado
College and the College of the Sacred
Heart at Denver. to the disparage
ment of the public schools The ne,
cost to the state of each of the / 16a
graduates of the State University has
been s1,249; the net cost of each OF
the 479 graduates of the School OF
Mines has been sl.361.
"The University of Denver alone
with its 1852 graduates, has saved the
state precisely what the State Univer
sity and the State School of Mines
have cost together. namely. s3,305, 1888
When you add what has been done by
Colorado College and by the College
of the Sacred Heart. with 462 gradu
ates, together. you have saved again ap
proximately the total cost of the
School of Mines. That is to say, these
three Independent institutions have
saved the state of Colorado trifle
less than s5,000.000."
| tad