The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
CHANGES HE WORKED
Says that IT is Not Easy for These
Men to Work Ten Hours a Day
for Six Days in Week
Without Pay.

/ peHileHtlafy, nave attra 3ted wide at
| tention throughout the middle west
and he is given credit for working
revolution in modern day prison life
He delivered a very interesting adj
dress in Burlington last week which
was full of human interest. He told
of his policy and its effect and of the
changes worked during the asst few
! years.
Warden Sanders described his first
coming to the prison, appearing at
midnight. There was no one to tell
him his duties, just the night turn
key, although his predecessor had
paid his respects. He came accom-.
panied by the sheriff with prisoner,
man in for five and half years.
Which was the new officer? Which
the sheriff? The sheriff held the
prisoner by one hand, the other on
his hip pocket. He was naturally
mistaken for the new warden When
asked who was the new officer, San
ders replied, | am The clang of
the steel, the four iron doors made
him SILVER at first millionaire
afterwards, in visiting the prison,
said, Where are the murderers?"
Warden Sanders replied. 1--WE make
a blue line here, but the rules re-
quire us to treat all alike
The entrance to the institution for
offenders was not through the large
gate and wide door. One stone of the
structure. then another were taken
out--a third, and there was an arch
of steel making the door where the
men were rammed in. A ten-foot cor
ridor for ventilation (this with a de,
risive intonation) was the end of the
building containing 403 cells, where
were crammed SIC men.
1t is not an easy thing to make
these men work ten hours of the IL
DAYS of the week for unremuneratlve
labor Different methods must be en-
ployed, as for different children in the
same family. The contract for the la
1 Dor of 300 men for ten hours day has
to he filed. Of course, to make them
work We have to punish chem. | want
to hold up my hand to the ran who
+!
3 with no return TO himself.
81 wish you could see us play ball
A small space about thirty feet, is all
the room We have inside the walls. 9
i Warden Sanders mentioned one of
the tragedies, man in thirty-one
years, who had defended his country,
was drawing a pension all the time
sentenced by the same laws that gave
him the pension, and after his death it
was proved he was the wrong man
The policy to make man physic-
ally right is what ought to be seen as
the true policy for moral right. How
could man be we'll in a cell 312 feet
by T, with each floor having one above
it, making four tiers. Above all was a
steel roof You can imagine what the
ventilation would be- And sunshine
and the river being shut off-he has
only view of his four walls Fine
inspiration this!
"Since my orchestra has been in
stalled, during meals no bowl, spoon
or fork have been hurled through that
dining room A visitor hearing the or
chestra went away dissatisfied because
he was paving taxes for that music
81 have been called bartender, a
travelling man, an actor, a baseball
plyer, liar by the newspapers a
school teacher and Sunday school
Il teacher
Through the indeterminate sem
1 tence. which averages three and
half years I have released $50 men in
s two years"
After quoting Joaquin Miller's The
Side of the Road he might be asked,
"Did he study Lombroso for his ideas
of reform ?" mo! he studied his pencil
ogy from the Book of Life" The rec.
j ords of the institution go back to 1S49.
Twenty years of my life have been
spent there. BY heaven, | wouldn't
shed drop of blood unless by war, |
do not believe in capital punishment!
Since the man from Ottumwa, Junkin,
was convicted, there have been many
more murders in that neighborhood.
showing that capital punishment is
not deterrent
The hospital is mockery. "A man
boring hole in iron, filing sprang
into his eye, passing through the ret
ina. 1t was necessary to save the
8 other eye to have a competent oculist,
The man was a skilled workman. |
called in competent doctor from out
z side and paid for the operation out of
my own pocket
4 s"The Ere was a fearful sight The
flames were rising ara the men fought
a them like demons. .'hey were heroes,
and did their duty rs If they had had
81 their liberty The picture of this fire
slI shall never forget, and the men
I fighting to save the institution
In finishing Warden Sanders quoted