The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-01-16
THIRD Dry SESSION
on FARMERS NIX
BRINGS BIG LRON/D

], The doing away with The "roa
boss"
4. A county highway engineer {
have charge of all roads and bridge
j, Eof the county.
. 5. State aid.
o. A non-partisan, non-salarie,
state highway commission.
, .. Special taxation OF real pro
perty specially benefited by the con
struction of high ost roads.
s. City, county and state prisol
labor on highways.
8. Federal aid for the buiIdin.
and maintenance of great nationa
roads.
10. Licensing s~elf-propelled We
hicies according to power to provid,
a fund for highway improvement.
Continuing, MIR. Parmley, said:
Treatment of Criminals.
Getting away from the old idea
OF punishment for crime and turning
to the 1p-lift of the criminal, what
can we do for him? We can give him
books TO read, educate him to IA cer-
tain extent so that he can see him
self as otaerS see him. We can give
him Wholesome food, clothe him and
house his body comfortably. We can
give aim hard work, and all OF these
Will tend to make him "a stronger
man physically, morally and let MS
hope spiritually. These things are
easy for us to provide but what kind
of work is The question. Work he
must have or he will be a constant
menace, and viii when he is turned
out in the world be worse than when
he entered the door over the portals
of which he. reads. leave hope be
hind, all We who enter here Shall
we lease him at T%hirty-nine cents a
day to manufacture understandable
goods in competition with men paid
living wages? Shall We take away
from honest mon and women work
that they can and of necessity must
do for a livelihood and make him
do it? Shall we for the sake of fur
nishing jobs 10 party bench men,
whose talents do not equip them with
ability enough to run a blacksmith
shop, employ convict labor to COM
pete with honest men. and tax our
selves to run unSuccessfully Il state
factory in competition with private
capital and honest labor, and thus
put a burden on the shoulders Of
both? We have already committed
one crime-that of not properly
bringing up II man; and we have in-I
generated him for his and our crime.
Shall We commit another and make
the innocent suffer for our criminal
ity? We shirked our duty to the
young and to this are we going to
add two more crimes first by harm
ing labor with unjust competitions,
and capital by taxation that is worse
squandered. charge it as moth
ing less than Il crime to sell convict
labor at q less price per human-abil-
lily kilowatt than is paid family-sup-I
porting, society supporting labor.
Examples Quoted.
Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Geo
gia, Washington and Virginia are
using convict labor in building high
ways. | have failed to learn OF a sim
gle state that has tried this that has
it. Some have made a
greater success than others-but all
a success. The states that have adopt
ed the honor system of control have
the most signal progress and
are loudest in it's praise. Time will
" P'i INIT CulCll MS illLo deldllS as 10 !
the great work being done in building
roads, and making men, in some of
the states, especially wesern states;
but will speak of a few that have
under my personal observation
and notice.
Colorado is working under the
honor system and the report Of the
warden of the penitentiary gives
startling figures. AT a cost of
.S56,70O.00 to the state fifty miles
Of road Were built which free labor
would have cost not less than $212.-
10000. Twenty miles of his were
blasted out OF solid rock and in some
places the cost with free labor would
been W. $4,000 per mile.
they built a hospital for SIG, O59.45
with free contract labor would
cost $4,000. 90. They earned
or the state $3S,125.0O in sale of
roducts from ranch work and quar- {
les. To summarize, these and other t
make a total net earning Of
3~lT,221.oO to the state in cold cash. ]
ne saving in men can not be COM
uted IN f1gureS-not in this world.
A letter from the warden, Janu-
9TH, says: The time allowed for |
ood onduc in our state is ten DAYS
Or each thirty days, that and hav-
lg no armed guards is the distinctive :
sature of the working of our con
lets on the public roads
rms morning was devoted to corn
lasmg at the city hall and swine {
ldging at the pavilion. This after
Don the stock breeedrs were oc-
lpied with a sale of fine hogs ut
lie pavilion. The PROGRAM for to-
~ is as follows:
Stock Breeders. !,
Wednesday Evening. 7:3O. h
Our Present Stallion Law. its Re- !,
Effect on the Horse Breeding In :
astry, by I. n. Babcock, Water 4
a :.
Discussion, Lead by p. f. Wickham. y
:,
Corn Growers. y
1:.3O p. M--.hddross-''The Coun- i
y School and the Country Child" -
ate Superintendent C. G. Lawrence. ;.