The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-01-16
Governor suchtel's Message

Governor Buchters Message Con-
densed.
JOINS in the recommendation of
the State Board of Charities and Cor
rection for the establishment of an
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
ridicuously 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 reform school but an
industrial school, and that more than
ninety per cent of the boys who are
sent to it become useful citizens. The
real necessities of this school should
be provided without haggling.
The Colorado State Reformatory has
had the best discipline in its 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
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 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 10y 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-
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 satisfac-
tory in the highest degree. The guard
at night is a life termer, the only life
termer ever made a trusty, who guards
the camp without a 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
1.-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 were 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. I am glad
to have had the opportunity to grant
each one to them. l would not recall
one of them if l 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
fov Io
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
chat will not be needed now if 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 1 1,163
graduates of the State University has
been 1,249; the net cost of each of
the 479 graduates of the School OF
Mines has been $1,361.
1.-THE University of Denver alone,
with it's 1862 graduates, has saved the
state precisely what the State Univer-
sity and the State School of Mines
have cost together, namely, $3,305. 1913.
When you add what has been done by
Colorado College and by the College
of the Sacred Heart, with 462 gradu-
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