The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-05

provoked beyond expression at the
Warner Kelley machine are going 10
vote for Mr. Osborn as the only sure
way 10 defeat the machine. AS one
prominent Grand Rapids man said.
This is no time for complimentary
votes"
Nelson C. Rice OF st. Joseph. chair
man OF the ways and means committee
of the last legislature and a Republic
can candidate for lieutenant governor,
is not at all reticent about having IT
known whom he favors for governor.
says a Niles Mich, dispatch. Mr..
Rice was a member of the Osborn
party today throughout Berrien coun-
ty. At every step he told his friends
he believed Mr.. Osborn is the best
man for governor this fall and Berrlen
county voters know Mr.. Rice as
man whose judgement is sound In
every respect when he ventures an
expression. Generally accepted as an
administration county. practically
every we'll known Republican in the
county is ready to admit ii will be
found i'm the Osborn column when the
votes are counted five weeks from to-
night. Postmaster Carmi Smith, l.. T.
Wood of Niles. John r. owen and Mr..
Rice of Benton Harbor, a quartette
well known in Republican circles
throughout the state pick Osborn to
carry Berrien county.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
that it ranks with any of them in
prestige and perfection.
The prison at Marquette, Michigan,
the prison at Elmira, New York, the
prison at Milan, Italy, the prison at
IaPlata, Argentina, and the prison
at Milbank, England, are declared to
lead the world in conduct along the
lines of the science of modern crimi-
nology.
This is most happy compliment.
Captain Hines has long served as an
officer i'm the British army. He is a
world traveller who has made crimi-
nology the study of his life. He is well
versed i'm all phases of this subject
which he considers the fundamental
problem of society. His statements
regarding Michigan's work at Mar
quette therefore enjoy substantial
credentials. The state is to be con-
graduated upon its penal accomplish
ments at Marquette and the manage
ment of the prison-especially War
den Russell-deserves the commenda-
ton of the commonwealth.
Since Captain Hines believes that
criminology is a disease and should
be cured as well as punished-it is
probable that the chief feature of the
Marquette system which attracted
him was its humanitarian side.
I'm the ordinary type of prison."
declares the Englishman, where the
convicts are not considered as human
of those who are at heart good citi-
zens, when they enter the institution
go out of it habitual criminals. Strange
as IL may be, it is only recently that
students of penology have recognized
this fact and the reformatory prison
Is even now a very rare institution"
We recall that not so very long ago,
George Clapperton of this city who
is a member of the state board Of cor
rections and charities, after an ex-
haustlve investigation of conditions
at Jackson prison, declared that some
of the cell conditions there would riv-
al many of the medieval dungeons
of Europe.
1t Is evident that Jackson and Mar
quette are built and operated along
decidedly different lines.
Compliments such as embraced in
the remarks of Captain Hines are far
by the complaints of Mr.. Clapperton
and yet we are deeply indebted to
both gentlemen for the comparison
which they make possible
We have always believed that Mar
quette prison was a model Captain
Hines confirms our faith. Such be-
ing the case. IL ought not to be i'm
possible To lift Jackson prison from
the mire and set 1t on the high
ground.
Marquette and Jackson are oppo-
site extremes and with superior
model within it's own state-and the
Ionia reformatory is not far behind
Marquette-the Jackson prison board
should be able to put the Jackson PEN
itcntiary in more acceptable condi-
| ton. Prison construction, prison man
agement and prison methods down
there all require renovation.