The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
Prest Willard Connely


Even his relatives. who have suffrI,d
so much through his failures, begin 90
have faith and to write him word- uf
announcement that are priceless. while
some of them who are in business 20
SO far as to give him commissions for
the preparation of advertising.
Some day you will come out" said
to Louis; 'you will get the chance
you are earning. Do you think there
is any danger that you will fall back
into the old ways?'
With folded arms he was leaning for
ward upon his desk. For a moment
his shoulders were bowed i'm deep
thought.
mo" he said at length, deliberately
and gravely, like a man who scnScd
the full pleasure of possible tcmptl-
lions. 1T backs down fundamentally
to the old question of money wants
| shall want money as badly as ,,,r
but l know better way to get money
than by forging lie and there is more
pleasure and eXhlfaration OF achieve
ment in the new way.
Besides. / have found there is more
in life than money. | have tapped new
sources Of satisfaction in life wh.,H
! titillate nerves l did not know had
No and his strange eyes lighted
with the look Of a man who sees
Vision-"no, after seeing what have
learned to see in life, | do-not-ch.uk
lever could"
That is Eytinges carefully consId-
cred judgment upon the state Of MS
own being. | believe it is entitled 10
consideration.
If Eytinge's judgment is corrc,, il
Is vastly more than individual me-
porant, for it is one more proof hat
America is finding a better way with
her criminals, Last year ther, were
100000 penal commitments In q. Sc
States of ours. Eytinge is f.lr
many of them. He was Amer ..d
and born and schooled; ne was ruined
by the Commonest America sine '\-
travagance. Yet the country CONCERNED
itself little enough about HIM rs. Doe
became socially unendurahlc Then r
sequestered him and concerned Itself
less. 1t entombed him, banned hum,
forgot him.
But a new spirit comes stealing info
our prison management and new az
titlde into the public mind, and hn'I
'verlook this sealed up soul In few
prisons outside Of America, and indeed
in but few here, and In those hu' rc-
Gently, could a life termer have QUE
, joyed the privileges which are redo.
ing Eytnge. And where but IN N..'..
lea would business and prof'ss |..
men have responded to uninvit'. ....
tiers from an unkonwn lifor Wi. '.
! ready sympathy and frank broth.
ness which have reacted So rcmAT
, upon the character Of the man
AS a matter Of fact, the whole '..
= ting of the drama is typca,N t
modernly American. Arizona, WI" ''
twin, is the newest of our States Tier
benignant Governor, thirty years d.
waiter in restaurant in a w".''
camp, a storekeeper almost TO the day
of his Inauguration, Is csscu'!a.. '
Y type of our times and country. I.'
: prisoner himself rolled in the ON 70
= Scared stung, but unbeaten, ma"nf
his prison bars rattle with dehan.. ''
= the fates, and sitting down fo W.''
u How far I'll climb is not for me- I'
: say-but-if aim and intent coun. for
anything-and confidence, g." ''"
4 I'll not limit myself" breathe '"'
dauntless American spirit
. Nor is he just one man alone, J. nov
y he is one OF a class, and with this class
. America begins to find better way.
(Copyri9ht, Pd0et Newspaper Scrr'.'