The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-07
DOESN'T REGARD THE GOLDEN RULE"
AS A "CENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT"

Golden Rule as ''gentlemen's agree
ment." He extends 1t to cover the re
lations between jailer and the tou
CHEST criminal behind the bars ant
flouts the old.fashioned theory tina
iron.clad discipline is indispensable,
in the treatment of even the most
hardened offenders. His own theory
is that the only way to make bad
man trustworthy is to prove to him
that he has your confidence. He be
lieves in abolishing all the old dehu
naming rules which have been ap
piled to convicts for centuries, and is
working wonders in the application of
his theories, so Samuel NJ. Evans
tells us in the Sunset Magazine. Mr..
Evans account of the treatment of n
single hardened convict will illus
trate:
"In a corner of the prison yard, a
convict sat on block of stone, gaz-
ing steadily at the wall above. Di-
rectly back of him and above him the
wall was guarded by wire fence that
surmounted it, each wire carrying
thousands of volts of deadly elect
ricity. On either side Of him and in
front, on a little path on the top of
the wall, the guards paced steadily.
Each guard carried rifle slung loose
ly across his arm, ready for instant
action; and his gaze never for min.
ute left the prison enclosure. The
convict reflected that there was little
opportunity for him to jump off the
roof of the prison now. as he had
done two years before, when he made
his mad, futile five-mile dash across
the sagebrush for liberty. He had told
them when he was brought to the
prison that he would escape II he ever
got a chance. And after that attempt
they believed it, He was never left
The warden came out of the pris.
on and walked across the yard. He
sat down on the stone beside the con-
Wet.
BILL" said Warden Baker, Il am
going to send you to the road camp
The convict looked at the armed
guards, and then at the warden.
You wouldn't trust me, would you,
Warden" replied he in surprise.
Yes, Bill" returned Warden Bak.
er, you are the very sort of man
/ would trust. You said that you
would escape whenever you got a
chance, and you meant IT, If you tell
me that you will not try to get away
from the road camp, | know that
you won't"
I'm not try to get away, Warden"
replied the convict. That was about
all that he could say. There was
big lump in his throat. 1t had been a
long time since any one had said to
him that he would trust him.
The next day he was sent to the
road camp.
The temptation to run away was al.
most irresistible, butthe prisoner re-
membered what the warden had said
TO him. 1t would not do for him to
betray the trust, so he stayed
Bill was what the prisoners call
a 'hardboil," and on February 1911
when Baker became warden, he and
thirteen others were confined in the
"bull-pen," that part of the prison set
apart for desperate criminals. The
first thing the new warden did
when he assumed charge OF the pen.
icntentiary was to go straight to the
"bull-pen," says Mr.. Evans, and make
this speech to the fourteen supposed
incorrigibles:
Boys, they tell that you are hard
boils Now ! don't know what your
past records are, and what's more |
don't care. They don't count with
me, There's going to be new deal
in this prison from this time on. See ?
I'm going to treat every prisoner here
square, and | expect him to treat me
square. don't want the long end
and ! won't give you the short end
And | wont take the short end either
so don't try to slip it to me. It's a
square deal on both sides, Youll get
an even break, and that's all | want
you to give me, Now get out of this
bull-pen and into the yard. Every mar
here is going to be treated as tho h
wants to do the square thing until
he shows me that he does not. II
any of you have any kick coming
come to me and wen see what car
be done about It,"
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