The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14

| driven out of the market all of the
factories employing free labor.
In addition TO the articles already
mentioned, convicts mako baskets in
Maryland, papor boze8 in Tennessee,
6rnss goods md ennneled ware in West
SyIfiginia. brend in Missouri, buttons in
MSlichiRan, sonp In Iowa, carpets and
fisnlng'nets IN Pennsylvania. charcoal
m Texns, gloves and nlittens in In
| dinnn, ice in California. stoves III Ore
| Ron, umbrellas in Massachusetts. and
tomato sauce in Virginia. In New York
stnto twenty-four OF them attend TO
tho business OF bur--iag pau oers-aa
industry which. fortunately, thei- com.
petition can hardly be said to injure
anybody.
Experience han shown that. on al
average. three frcc labcre-s arc equal
TO five conviets, lnduaerinlly npcakinc
In cthsr words, a iailbird IS iu5t about
gnYoe.flfths as efficient aS citizen
/ lsboser. On tho other hacI. D. erri-
ous paradox. tho ccsvict eia aaloyod in
lumboiina. IN phcnohnts mining. o. in
| onllani;aG tDTrc.;tier Gnl ro5;n, IN the
3onth, is q Hi0rc efficient 7vcris::lan tnrn
| tho frso laborer. IKE rornon wn,- ia
sitapiy ti,us tio =caTo dccn mac y~o...
whoa driven than whom no Is his o5ya
mastaT.
Making Good aoada.
=
uso for making roads arc employed in
! turnln~ ont vast nunhc-s oi 50. o.called
"yitrlfiod bricks. Ttese are made not
og clay. bat Of cTnahoG sha!c .oc,*. whicn
Is groord to powder, nodded intn shape,
| md buruod. Roads OF such material
are. now being built on an extensive
scalc, by free labor, IN Illinois and
Ohio-espccially in the ncighoorhood of
Cleveland. where million dollars a
| year Is bsing spent or 5hcm. They arr
economical, and ext: cnely durable
In some of the southern states. road
building lailbirds arc chained together
IN gangs, while exceptionally desnerat>
characters are provided with bali and
chair. &c keep them good. IN South
Carolina they are Transported in cages
on wheels. much as Il they were wild
snimals-one such cage atfrrding slec--
ing accommodations TO- thirty men.
| This primitive arrangement has been
replaced in North Carolina and Louisi-
ana By transportable and co'lansible
iails as thew might be caIled-thnE is
TO say, small kaockdovn' horses IN
wheels. with barred windows. in which
the conyicts are confined vt night.
It might be asked. what USE is made
! of the wo-,en under tie ro1d binding
disnonsationa The answer is Jhat fa
males are always Il relatively small
percentage Of the whole rurahe- Of con.
and make clothing for the mer employ
ed or thc roads As for Che mea. they
are efficient enough in this form OF in
dustry. Tor the rule governs that. Il n
man refuses 10 work, he does not cat.
Was Dificvls Problem.
It has. taken long time TO work out
this convict problem. Experience has
shown that enforced idleness demorsl-
ICES prisoners. The non productive
labor OF the old-fashiored treaGmill-
now happily. obsolete-was equally OBJ
jectionablc. As Cor the modern practice
OF leasing maleiactors 20 contractors
az SO much q head per day. it is sys.
TEN that gives rise to many abuses.
AT best, IL is modified slavery, the con
victs being sold 10 the highest bidder.
The true ISOLATION Of the problem
seems to be found under the system
known as "public account" by which
the labor OF the convict is employed
exclusively for the benefit of the state
or its civil subdivisions The movement
TO carry this idea into effect is rapidly
spreading. and before very long IL is
certain to be adopted. in one shane o.
another, by every state Of the union