Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-28
APPROVES HUMANE COURSE ADOPTED
 BY TIE GOVERNOR
Arizona Sets Example to Other States in
 Penology
BEGINS BETTER ERA
Communicated
 Warren. Arizona. February 26. 1912. Editor Bisbee Daily Review.
 Bisbee Arizona

Editor Bisbee Daily Review.
 Bisbee Arizona
 Dear Sir
 II ID The Review Of February 2i | there appeared an article headed, \ ~Governor Puts Man on Honor" This | item goes on 10 relate how one Rob Y ert Anderson. a prisoner at Florence. | serving a sentence of six and one half
 years for the murder ol George
 Shanley of Dila county, left the pris-
 on February 22. in citizens clothes
 and came unaccompanied to the office
 of Governor Hunt in Phoenix and was i given a tickt, to Prescott, twelve ! dollars in money and instructions to go to Camp Verde to bring back to | Florence a team of mules belonging | to the state of Arizona, to be used by
 tLe state in construction work
 ! Robert Anderson having been at
 Florence but seven months. it will be ! seen that he has before him a long term yet To Serve. On his journey to
 and from Camp Verde. he will be en- tirely alone and not under the surveil- lance Of any. therefore the question
 is asked. what has he to prevent him
 from planning and effeCting his es- cape instead Of coming bacI, to Flor ence to finish his prison term five
 years and eleven months of which re
 mains?
 Governor Hunt believes that his
 own conscience. that the good in him
 which always predominates over the
 bad in human nature and his pride
 in the faith placed in him. will cause
 him to perform faithfully the service
 expected of him.
 This most unusual proceeding, we
 are told. is the result Of executive
 orders sent forward to the superin.
 tendent Of the prison at Florence from
 Governor Hunt under a new system
 Of humanity. to be inaugurated in the
 state prison
 New indeed, and most wonderful is
 this system of our new governors and
 it will be readily perceived that it
 places him high above the ranks of his fellows. Yet l feel safe in saying
 that the governor would have none Of
 this, as he has made it evident from his course of action all along that he leels at one with all mankind. as to ! even the lowly and culpable he ex- ! tends the hand of brotherhood And | who. reading of Robert Anderson s most novel journey, doubts for one instant but that he will return to | Florence, his service well done, a big ger ana better man than he ever has ! been, having in Himself a new belief,
 a new confidence and respect. But ! will Robert Anderson comprehend the l significance of his act2 Not only does ] he T fa. ! prisoners al Florence. his mission ac- 1 complished will be world wide in it's effect toward better conditions and ] relations between mankind.
 Curious. tO look back to the far | limits Of history and observe that this
 simple brotherly system which our new governor purposes to put into op- . eration, has not been employed be ! fore. Many nave advanced it. But ! who in authority has tested it's effici- ] ency? We have all admired it as pie ! tured by Victor Hugo. as between the ] bishop and Jean Vatican.
 1 Indeed. when we take a careful sur. ! vey around us summing up the effects which past systems of government ] have had upon mankind, when we are forced to acknowledge that each man ! has been mostly for himself. raising | his hand against his brother and | when at last society is seen to be. | the world over, an organization by | which the rich fatten upon the yitaIs ] or the poor when we are forced to | admit that mankind is by his own ! hand almost entirely divorced from | his God, cut of from his divine | source, with the nayei-cord of con | tact with nature almost severed. | through the delusion that each man ' can exist alone for himself-then, when We turn again and contemplate | this sublime ideal of Governor Hunt. | We are forced to admire the man and ' We can reinstate within our hungry ] human society are already discern i ity taught us ac our mothers knee. i The present competitive society Of | greed. mistrust and hatred is rapidly becoming a iifeless formula and husk l within which dim outlines of a new ! human siociety are already discern. ] able. And is 1t not a fact of which ] the 4Sth state of the union-our be ! loved Arizona-may be proud, that her l Ilrsi governor. elected by her people [ IS the first to clearly discern and to | bring into practical play the soothing 1 measures of this new human democ- | racy?
 ! Here in Arizona as in no other | country the solar rays illumine our outer land, giving it unity and entire | ", so in the inner soul of each indi- | Vidual there is another sun which H. ! Eliminates and gives unity to the man ! We see our governor as one still con- | nected with his divine source. he is [ able to cast sunbeams Of brotherly ! love from his inner sun. He is DOS l essed of that self-knowledge which ] enables him to see each and every man as like unto himself.
 If all those who are like honored | by the people as Governor Hunt has | been honored, could feel and see this
 sublime unity among mankind and would as forcefulry bring it into ac- | ton in every relation of life. what a | casting aside there would be of the unnatural war of the classes. of the ' plebian and the patrician, what i'm munity from the present furrows of
 unrest and unhappiness, what a dE
 minishing Of crime. of want and of