Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-07

pehed TO turn corner at an oppoI-
tune time. This matter is not expefl-
mental as the problem has been work.
! ed out in several states. The human
side OF the question appeals to me as
| know that the prisoners would rath-
! err work en- a farm or on the road than
! in shop connected with a jail. The
state or county should assist the man
in his efforts for reformation. It ism
throwing any bouquets to a prisoner
to cay 70 him: You are our brother
and we, your fellows, are going TO help
! YOU. It is not toe soon for the state
To begin this work now
T.. Y. Turner of Auburn spoke IN
favor of the measure and had tho
members OF the committee and tho
spectators in laughter ut his witty
sayings.
Give me the prisoners Of andre
seoeein, Pcnobseot and kennebec
j counties" said Mr.. Turner, and |
Will in four years build a boulevard
from Kittery to this State House"
| MIR Turner laid stress on the fact
that the pure air was the best thing
in the world for the prisoners. In An
Groacoegin county the prisoner in the
I
! cents per day.
| when you take these men to the
farm or the road" said Mr. Turner.
+ yen are neEding broken men. built
tho water works up at Hebron and had
mon who had just got cut OF Auburn
Jail do the greater part of the work.
These men were in Jail for intoXication,
at least, the greater number of them
We're. | gave them 81 a day and sev-
eral of them did not so near 4 tangle
! foot emporium for several months.
Ninety per cent. of the inmates of Au-
burn Jail are there as the products of
the notification of the prohibitory Ii
quor law and efforts should he made
/ To reform these men,
Miss Mabel Davies of Portland said that
prisoners were better off out of doors in
the sunshine than penned up in a TAIL
Most of the men in the ials are incarcer-
ated there for INVESTIGATION and the ma
jorty of these would not commit any
crime if they were in their sober senses.
She did not believe that there is ply
stefan in the State of Maine who would
recommend a Jail as cure for intoXca-
ton. Some years ago she visited iails in
England, Switzerland, France and Eng
land, and found conditions better there
than in this country She did not see why
Maine should be far behind foreign coun-
tries and the State of Massachusetts in
the handling of prisoners, in fact. the
jails in Maine are nothing more than in
ebriate asyIums The proposed Iegisla-
ton was in the line of prison reform.
Ex-senator Albert r. Dongan OF Bing-
ham appeared in favor of his hobby. the
act to have the State maintain all the
bridges in the state over 10 feet in length.
lie said that towns are Obliged to take
care of bridges which cannot afford to do
it. Toll bridges. which hardly exist in
any other state in the Union outside of
Maine, should he abolished. Two years
ago he believed that the measure would
have passed had il not been for The COLI
dition of the states finances. He thought
| that il would be a good idea, that if the
| committee did not feel like making ia
| vorable report on the bill. Ia have the
| people vote on the question At the next
| election. lie had talked with the late
| Hon. Herbert NJ. Heath ana that gentle
man had Informed him that It was per-
| feetly legal for refetendHm on the mat
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