The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-10

training than there is in any Of them
now. Our men who can neither read
nor write, can if they apply them
selves and many do get even late in
life bit of education.
Careful Choice of Libraries.
"Our library is more carefully
chosen than many on tho outside.
We wouldn't have Mary Johnson's
ITO Have and to Hold" on our shelves
and there are lot more that you
have, that we wouldn't stand for Dur
hospital is small, but it is modern
in it's equipment. We have a doctor.
a dentist, an eye, ear ana throat
specialist. For these things every
gfmlet newspaper in the country took
thrust at me. You can't DO much
reforming a man with the toothache
or with no teeth and so we have
dentist; it's a part of the general
plan and we have it. l dent care
what two by fours say about 1t.
I'VE have religious services, every
Sunday and the statutes Of Iowa say
that every prisoner shall attend at
least one service every Sunday
enforce the law. The combined armies
of Europe and the Mexicans thrown
in couldn't enforce that same law on
the outside. Maybe you don't think
it is the thing to have music in the
dining room, but do. wouldn't
have dog fight without music. We
have victrola at breakfast, an or
chestra at dinner and a brass band
at supper. We provide our own musi-
nfn hy,ry N,pps 1ctr {v1c fy1v
ments and furnish the wind our
selves, so what's it to you. And
want to tell you we haven't had a
bit of rough house in the dining room
since the plan was adopted. Doesn't
good deal of the scrapping at your
house begin right in the dining room
Try music. We eat thirty minutes
off the noon rest hour Ave days in
the week and then on Saturday we
play ball for hundred and fifty min.
utes. We yell and do everything you
do on the outside except assault the
umpire; here's one place where the
umpire is safe.
Against Circumstantlal Evidence.
Il wish to go on record as saying
that would never convict a man and
give him long prison sentence on
circumstantial evidence. l know that
lawyers think it's the most convinc-
ing evidence. A short time ago a
man completed thirty.one years Of a
sentence and it was found after those
thirty-one awful years that he was
innocent of the murder for which he
was committed. The trayesty of the
thing was that during those years he
drew a pension from the government
for service in the war. Drew a pen.
sion for wholesale killing during the
years in which he was in prison for
the supposed killing Of one man.
am Numerically opposed to capital
punishment. No institution Of law
has a right to take that which it can
not give. 1t takes years to obliterate
if it ever is obliterated from a com.
munity, the brutalizing effect of a
hanging. A man, wherever he Is,
needs kindness and friendliness. just
what would you do IL you were turned
out into the world with no friends
with the prison pallor on your face
and Just five dollars in your pocket?'
In justification of his honor system
, which system has been copied in al
most every penitentiary in the United
States, Warden Sanders said: eve
IUuSJ u uSt 1ACll IA kaSl CD won az IL
theory. Some of them break faith
of course they do. Christ close twelve
men and trusted them with his sys
tenn of religion designed to redeem
the world and one was traitor" Ir
closing he quoted that very appropri
ate poem, The Land of Beginning
Again"
Throughout his speech Warden San
ders told a good many funny store.
and quoted good deal Of poetry
Below his rather blunt exterior IL
the lines of poetry he quoted, on,
got glimpse Of the man and of h,
motive which prompts all his prison
reform, namely the love for his broth
er man.
The evening program was given b
the Apollo Concert company and wa
delightful in every number.
! This evening the chautauqua goer
are promised the best lecture of thu
course by DR.. Walwyn Evans, VIII,
(, will speak on What America Means
/ to Me-" He is Welshman, hume
list and philosopher and 70 man OF