Arizona republican., 1912-04-27
Convict is Given 30 Days in Which to Make a Trip to National
 Capital
OF COURSE HE
 GOES UNGUARDED
Oklahoma Reformer Gets Man Liberated and Then Raises Money
 for Journey
Governors Office, State House.
 Phoenix. April 26. 1912.

Phoenix, April 26, 1912. My dear Myers
 Thanks to the wonderful work of Miss Barnard, who charmed me mem bers of the legislature with the story of her work and aroused their latent interest in humanity. you have leave of absence for thirty days, beginning at the will of Mr. Sims, to go to Washington with nc guard but your honor, anu secure patents on your inventions.
 You know of my willingness to do this, but l could not have given you the leave of absense but for Miss Kate, who aroused the sympathy which makes it possible.
 l am sure that you will prove your wOrthiness. It is the best answer you can make to those who will criticize
 Miss Kate also raised the necessary funds.
 With the best of wishes for your success, I am
 Your friend,
 (signed) GEORGE w. P. HUNT
 Governor of Arizona. Mir. Roy J. Meyers,
 Florence, Arizona.
 The letter printed above is one re- suit of the address of Miss Kate Bar nard of Oklahoma before the legisla- ture yesterday, reference to which is made elsewhere in this issue This frail little woman, weighing less than a hundred pounds, moved the legisla- tive assembly and the audience in the galleries as they have not been moved by any former address. Her talk dealt with the uplift movement for prisoners.
 Miss Barnard is opposed to capital punishment. She thinks life impris- Onment the better plan. She does not believe in an over magnaaimous treatment of public offenders. She says she does not endorse all of Gov ernOr Hunts theories. though she does believe in many of them. She said if he is renominateI she will campaign for him. She believes that many are by heredity so perverted that their removal permanently from society is necessary, though she also believes there are many in both asy- lums and prisons who may be restored to useful lives.
 The men are not expected to sec these things" she said. Tt is up to the women. The women have been too busy reading novels and playing whist
 Miss Bernard spoke of orphan children. children of the poor. the child labor law, and the cotton mills of Alabama and Massachusetts where she said the little ones are made in valids or aged before their time. She also dealt with the Illinois glass fac tory where she said children art killed in three years by the inhalation of foreign substances.
 Respecting public institutions sht said. An institution can be no great CT than the viewpoint of him wht runs it She referred to Rochestel where the children are taught scien- tific agriculture, dairying, poultr. raising etc Teach the children how to feed the world, then no matter what crisis come. we can be fed She favored the cottage plan for in l dustrial schools and spoke favorabl! of the George Junior republic. The poor farm and the poor hous' she averred should be differentiated and she recommended a tubercula hospital for the Florence prison Miss Barnard then spoke of tn 1 barbarous treatment accorded orphan l children in some states and of the oil fashioned obsolete methods of teach I ing the blind the deaf and the mute | The insane, she said, are merely peo pie mentally sick. Referring to tn l high standing of the Manhattan asy l lum she said Superintendent May | burn had spent IS years qualifyin for his position and was then ap | pointed only after a competitive ex 1 animation.
 | She pleaded for orphan child guard l tianship and shorter working days fo men. but denied that she was a sen timentalist having had that all take l out of her in three years of wor along these lines. She has now bee l thus engaged for seven years. Lac 1 of employment, poverty. conditions t l birth are all great factors in the sai crime. The police court should be l life saving station rather than a pens 1 institution. Other tion were the indeterminate sentence, l court Of rehabilitation, higher wag es, and plans by which prisoners ma be made to support their families l Speaking of the death penalty sin | suggested that in the event 1t is i'm posed the Jurymen should cast lot as to which one of them shoul I