The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-13

The Grand Jury just adjourned it's sessions did commendable thing in embodying in their report a con demnation of the Morningside h. sane Asylum That institution is disgrace to the United States government, a reproach to the adml- nistration and a standing menace to Alaska.
 The evidence on this head col lected by papers, by social bodies, by high officials, by the Governor and by the legislators is too un- animous to be other than convic- ing.
 Morningside Insane Asylum is hell hole and only deep political graft, of the most despicable anu and petty larceny kind could toler- ate it's being continued as the insl- tuition to which are consigned the unfortunates who become mentally unwell in Alaska.
 That the contract should be re- newed by the government in the face of the evidence as to the kind of place it Represented in ofhcial report by legislatures, by Governor Strong is so astounding a piece of robbery that it ought to strike shame if we could expect any such ,In serable politicians responsible for it.
 And we hope the day is here when every public body on every oc- casion will resolve and denounce and make public it's resolutions ana denunciations which have been un- availing.
 We need not add anything to th" statement made by the Grand Jury in it's report Emphatically it was 4 point well taken. and every Grant Jury until the horrible institution IS abandoned should take this matter mp and see that it receives attention from the Department.
 The particulars that have been collected concerning the treatment of Alaskan insane have been of a nature to shock and horrify-haye been of such a ghastly and disgrace ful nature as to suggest that those responsible for contract with such an institution ere bereft of every humane sentiment and every sparA of sympathy for the suffering.
 The attested declarations of those who have been cured and who had & grim experience of the chamber ot horrors that Morrirgsidc provides, are such that not even the delft poli- tician cloaking his graft can gloss over. The irresistible conclusion is that either the government is in different to the facts of the case or is in with Coo in the detestable farming of the AlaskGn insane.
 This must be insisted upon until some action is taken, and we have to say that no matter what plea he may put forwerd css to his work in Congress, Wickorsham will have much ado to live down his neglect of this infamous contract which has been condemned by Alaskans for al most a decade of years.
 1t is impossible to conceive thai did Wickersham really represent the people of Alcska-were he awake to tho intolercble insult the existence of Morninsidc as the off, cial asylum for tho care of the terri tory's insane unquestionably is were he concerned about this notor- iGus scandal he would long ago have taken action.
 lnstead we soc him utterly indiH- erent and we Soe the matter hope lessly neglected, 50 that the govern meat again renews the infamous contract, and re-establishes this dis graceful condition that Alaskans have so long and so certainly pro- tested against
 But when every public body in Alaska takes this matter up; when it Is removed from any prejudiced sphere and is taken up by all for the good of all, it is certain that ul- timately the damned and hateful thing must go.