The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-01-15

osvseNss Ovehtsi's Mseaa0s csa-
teassd.
J0ias In the recommendatioa a
the State Board of Charities and Cor
recti0n for the establishment 0f ~
minded and helpless children.
C0mmends the State Home for De-
pendent and Neglected Childrea and
says the management should have
every dollar asked for.
Praises the State Industrial 6ehooa
Tor Girls and says its expenditures are
small when one coasidsrs
What is saved the state by Daktne
good women out Of natural material
for crime.
Gays the State Industrial Schooa fos
Boys is not . reform school but ~
Industrial school. and that more thaA
ninety per cent of the boys Who aFo
ssnt to 1t become useful citisens. The
real necessities Of this school should
b provided without haGgiing.
The Colorado State Rsformstory has
had the best discipline In It's history
during the past two years. The cost
for food and clothes has been % toW
- to excite admiration for the nan
agement Of Warden butcher. The
Legislature should provide for the pur-
chase of additional land. The down
fall Of young men 10 traced to mar
cotics and whisky. 1t is the business
Of the Legislature to do what 1t can to
restrict the sale Of these poisons. With
narcotics and whisky eliminated. crime
would be reduced fifty to seventy five
per cent
There may be state prisons that are
As we'll managed and that bring In
- good results ~ 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 Toy 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
10 sent to the reformatory 1t 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 4 life termer. the only life
termer ever made 4 trusty. who guards
the camp without q gun and gets bet
ter results than were at first secured
by . guard with 4 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 were granted by Governor Har-
per and twenty-four we're granted by
me. OF course you understand that !
have been solicited to pardon every
body in 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. am glad
to have had the opportunity to grant
each one to them. I would not recall
one of them II ! 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
highly commended The state will
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 II 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 school
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 net
cost to the state of each of the l,1G3
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 $1,361.
THE University of Denver alone,
with its 1 ,652 graduates, has saved the
state precisely what the State Univer-
sity and the State School of Mines
have cost together, namely. s3.305 .S5S.
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