The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-18

work without guards for three weeks
at a stretch, and then return uncom-
| PEELED to the prison, what is the use
of making them return to the prison
at all, or OF having any prison for them
| to return to- Is not their conviction
prison enough for most OF them? And
Tor such as prove lncorrlglble, or arc
criminal degenerates, ought not patho-
logical care, instead of penal slavery,
physician to the Pope, SAID recently,
Eighty per cent Of youthful Grimm
ais are children of drunkards.' That
| is n serious Indictment of alcohol; but
it indicts no less the policy which pun
| ishes victims OF disease as If they were
deliberate and freely choosing male
factors
gument. / say that, in view of Mr.. Fen
ton S experiment, and others like it,,
conviction rs prison enough for most
persons who have slipped a cog IN their
moral machinery. Means could readily
be found TO make such persons recog
nIzable at need, and they would have
as great stimulus to render them
selves free from that stigma as they have
now, and far better opportunities for
doing it, They would have their fami-
hes with them, or within touch, and
they would no longer be slaves; and
if they had been slaves to their own
passions and propensities, the expedien-
ey OF breaking such chains would be-
come far more obvious than it ever
is always round the corner waiting TO
club or dungeon them for Infringement
of whimsical prison rule, 1t does
not help man to his manhood to see
his keepers acting constantly the part
OF tyrants and torturers.
This is perhaps novel doctrine, be-
cause, as the editorial writer in the
Saturday Evening Post remarked the
other day, "Tho truth is that, at least
two times out Of three, we send man
to jail because we do not know anv.
thing rational TO do with him, and win
not take the pains 10 find OUT We
lack IMAGINATION to devise moro effect,
i've treatment. and we are wonderfully
ignorant as TO what prison treatment
really means. And this indictment lies
not only AGAINST the public at large,
but against the department of Justice
and the congress, who pass their judg~
ments and inHict their penalties with,
out in the least understanding what
they are uoing to human bodies and
souls like their own,
,Iall is the conventional and time.
hoDored nostrunl, which is administered
with n glow of moral self esteem, and
no more thought about it. When
murderer is sent to Jail for life or n
bank burglar or white SLAYER or fnan.
cial crook for his specified term, do
we not sit back in our chairs and clear
our thronts with n self-satis6ed "heml"
and "There q one scoundrel has got his
deserts. anyway Had it been your
brother, father. son. or yourself, would
you employ such language? Would YOU
not rather say, HIf the whole truth
were known, this could not have hap.
naf Rrin
case 10 the victim. And which of ns
who has not been to prison has the
right TO declare that prison is the
desert OF any man. We do not
know what we are talking about
| was LOOKING out of the window Of
the Isolation building one day. with the
runner. Ned, beside me; ! did my writ,
ing there. and ho was assigned for duty
to the same building Ned, to whom
! nave already referred, was thought
full young man, and often said word
that went TO tho center Of the subject,