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as well, need protection, not to keep
or prevent us from falling. but a
protection that will tend to help us
arise to real man and womanhood
estate once more, and grapple with
the problems of life to enable us to
keep under subsection our whole
mental and physical body and strive
to leave behind us all the appetizing
tendencies that make for evil when
INDUCED in. This kind of reforma-
ton will fit us for an honorable up
right life beyond the walls; but there
is no power on earth that will reform
a person where God and Divine Love
is not one of the concomitants. and
reached through the agency Of man.
And for this very purpose our law
makers acting under the voice of
the people. the voice of God, were
very careful to look into the cause;
the main cause that brought the ma
jority. of us here. and then provided
a prevention from that evil while
here. and make possible for us to
fall no more at the tempter's feet
by giving us Constitutional Prohi-
bition," pure and simple in the sew
erai localities. to-wit: upon all prop
erty owned by Minnesota's State In
situations whatsoever.
We quote the law, from former
Warden Wolfer's Biennial Report,
for 1913-1914.
''Section $40. Intoxicating Liquors.
No spirituous or fermented liquors shall be
brought into or upon the grounds of the
prison, under any pretense whatever, except
by the direction of the prison physician.
ga, S. $780,
Thus Minnesota's wards are for
their own good placed under Con
stitutional Prohibition and to make
this prohibition effective our legis.
lators wisely went farther, by pass
ing law to govern the keepers; and
from the same report we quote.
''Section $3.50. Habitual Drinkers. NO
person shall be appointed as an officer or
employee of any State Prison or Reformato-
ry, who is in the habit of using intoxicating
liquors, and single act of intoxication shall
justify removal or discharge. COS c. 154,
S. Is 81
And. again we read from the same
report.
''Nor shall any officer, keeper, or guard
use profane, abusive, or indecorous language
to inmates. or in their presence, but shall
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gentlemanly manner, regardless of all SEEM
ing provocation.
From this every person in du.
rance vile may learn lesson, for
gentlemanly courtesy is the first step
toward redemption. George Wash
ington the Father of his Country,
once said to La Fayette: Il allow
no man, though he be my slave to be
any potter to me, than am to him. :"
Therefore, let us be so polite, so
courteous, so gentlemanly both to
those over us, and to our fellows
that our lives will be an index that
points to justice and right, and from
which those in authority will say he
has undoubtedly been in communion
with Jesus, the man of courtesy"
Again, we learn that every one on
parole in Minnesota are under very
strict Constitutional Prohibition re-
CARELESS of where the paroled one is
located. They are prohibited from
touching intoxicating liquors, and
upon such violation can be re-
turned to durance vile and required
to serve out their full time.
The foregoing is merely a few Of
the chips from the tree which points
a moral--that moral is the fact that
men and women in every walk of
life are beginning to seek for the
things that tend 70 better the condi-
tons of humanity.
To seek out the good in man, to
find out the evil tendencies of the
times that leads to vice, crime, mis-
cry and want-and then to apply
the remedy in concise and logical
way, to cure the evil with an anti
dote of legal prevention.
True there are many inroads by
and through which evil can enter
into our homes. cur communities.
our citizenship, our lives, and if any
one of the many evils lurking near
by with reckoning hand of tempta-
ton to the weak, to our boys and
girls, the future citizens of our great
country. should such evils be given
or allowed free hand, then many
thousands would be debased and
brought to ruin. Shall we through
neglect of duty jeopardize the hopes
and happiness of those who are to
take the helm in the future?
In this article we cannot take up
the many various temptations that