The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-22

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laid my course for the Port of
Good Time. Men whose prison
4 records are clear are liberated
4 serving two-thirds OF their orig.
. sentenccs, This new posture Of
mind invited review of the ex-
rss through which I had been
M, and OF the conditions with
"a had become conversant, and
ngnificance in connection with
policy of penal Imprisonment in
.sI. I will introduce some of the
lions in this place.
Ii have Just said, men whose
q records are clear are liberated
serving two-thirds of their orig
Nntence. But part or all of this
|lement may be lost by imperfect
&rct. One man, at least, within my
rlsdge. was punished by the dark
Rrsral months before the expira.
. of his original sentence. and was
i ilre until that sentence had ex-
. Then, out of that filthy dun.
he was thrust abruptly forth into
daylight and the crowded world.
"a miracle if he survived. What
. most convicts TO live for7 Per
. hose who have most to live for
|.nhkeliest to survive-their anxiety
.later,
d The other hand. severity itself
. siimulate a convict. His human
cannot comprehend despair. In
8 forces him TO hope. So weeks.
|k, years 90 by, and hope seems
ID more instead Of less iustifiab BILE,
n last, perhaps he dies with the IL
d still strong in him. Real despair
rhuman and possibly rare. Other
prison mutinies and killings would
pore frequent, The argument Of
'sir is, "Since ] must die here any,
y III take two or three of these
d with me! But few men be
\ they will die in Jail, therefore, the
or other official escapes.
d 10 per cent of men ia jail would
"a such a killing as unjustifiable.
5ere taught in school that resist
10 tyrants is obedience TO God,
l nany who had disobeyed God in
ways would gladly obey him in
! speak not merely of Ignorant
hrutsl conyicts, but of educated
intelligent men like you and me.
. sensitive conscience may con-
!he killing Of tyrant who is
and surely destroying you, body
!oul, under sanction Of law, But
,1nish convicts who fight for re-
. OF liberty. and protect the Of
b who tauut and torture them into
rit.
zat hideous ard almost unbe'
De Situation Historians wonder
ihe Aztecs of Cortez s time, with
eomparatively high civilization,
Ped human sacrifices. But their
e sacrfices were merciful COM
With ours. What is cutting out
u's heart on an altar to propltiate
70 bounding him to death
p miserable years IN q prison to
ts the spite of an accuser, the
Of court. or the grudee Of q
lu or guard?
I of Selfishness.
Tnat Is the fruit OF II? For pure,
'fs. smiling. remorseess wicked
Eolhing In human annals surpasses
'7ns criminals-blac ckmailers. bomb
VS. gunmon-now infesting our
! think no more OF killing
OF human beings, men. women
alnrtn." one OF them was quoted
Ds the other day, than Of crush
mans beetles" How came such
yer 10 exist Why. we bred him:
MIN with the poisonous condi-
1t generate such beings and can
~ nothing else. jIe had intelli-
snoush ito understand that the
Nsd order made earning an hon
'ns hard work; saw thousands
"eh without labor apparently,
Noussnds robbine under cover OF
'ecnnicallties, legal profession
W dcvisIng statutes TO punish
hu prosecuting the criminals thus
'"Neo' often living better yet by
suininais TO escape the penalties
heT law imposed. ile saw re-
'Do's which instructed such chill
ne mad been to become such
" "as; prisons and penitentiaries
saoa'ed such as he in the latest
oF'ine-and he made up his
soodness was at bottom hum
- oHly fool would bc honest or