The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-08-27


and take up life as rational and nor
NAL human beings" The Osborne
method" according to Mr. Hubbard,
is "one Of the greatest assets any pen
al institution can have; and we are
informed by an Albany correspond
ent of the New York World that Gov
ernor Whitman is anxious to see the
experiment at Sing Sing carried out
until 1t is proved absolutely sue
cess or failure" Many defenders of
Mr.. Osborne hold that the weakness
of any case against his management of
Sing Sing lies in the character of his
opponents, who are described as "the
old ring" in prison circles and accus-
ed of conspiring to force the warden
out. Thus we read in the Boston
Transcript that
There was deep plot on the part
of employees of the State Prisons De-
partment, hand in hand with the old
prison smugglers and supplies graf
ters, to discredit the warden's admin
istration by taking disorderly scenes,
inducing false affidavits, employing
immoral women to appear at the pris-
on, planting spies within the walls
who could manufacture evidence, es-
pecially photographs (Which the war
censors have found out are easily
counterfeited) even going to the extent
of inducing the most abandoned in
mates to swear out lies about the war
den's methods and character"
Venal politics is the root of the trou-
BILE at Sing Sing, observes the New Ha-
ven Journal-Courant, and adds that
men have gone into prison-work in
New York, mot because it was to
their liking, but because it was good
thing politically to do"
From the Washington Times we
learn that Mr.. Osborne's "experienc IS"
as warden have been watched with
scarce less interest in Washington
than New York State" Yet while it
defends Mr.. Osborne as ian agitator
of prison REFORM" this journal feels
bound to say also:
But an agitator does not always
make a good executive. That was the
whole trouble with Osborne 8 =. He
worked too fast, and did not gather up
the loose ends as he worked. His
theories are still regarded as sound,
and they could be worked out by
more capable administrator"
The strongest Endorsement" of Mr..
Osborne's work in Sing Sing, in the
new OF the New York World. is "the
lature of the campaign that has been
made against him." Since he took
charge the World goes on to ssy
neither the little nor the big pollti-
'ians have had free swing at Sing
Sing and "the traffic in drugs has
)een checked and the profits of crook
ID employees shut off" He has estah-
ished new order of things "where
uotlGt anu uuilldHe treatment are the |
lrst rules in the maintenance of dis
'ipline,' and this journal adds that
I his experiment proves successful
there will be a revolution in prison
administration throughout the United
States. The New York Evening Post
the fact that leading pris-
IN reformers who shave been in clos
Est touch with what has been going
IN" are wholly on Osborne : side
0or his services in the cause of prison
'eform Mr.. Osborne should receive
uil credit, but The Evening Sun sug-
rests "maudlin sentimentalism in the
of prison reform may
20 far toward defeating it; and the
of honor privileges to pris
'ners so essentially lacking in ALI |
of honor as traffickers in |
women must be has certainly given |
he new era black eye"
From a statement in defense ~ Tho