The daily Alaska citizen., 1920-01-14
GRAY BROTHERS FIGHT ANARCHY
 INSIDE PRISON

"Hum#nirc" the prisons of the United States. according to a friend of Nr n.I..n. who served ton wears in Sine -tr~ has for ifs ~oaI object the
 .nf..act0g of anarchy for he said ".. rn 5ooooo conyict- men and
 uw.n who annually emerge from '"atcau n~tson+ fully % per cent .. t..a a-y not.nHa lsh"yi~ts"
 m.. wau. product of the New E.E ~'um. who not only radeomeH his own If" but saved two youngo~ f,sarear. from criminal careers. all .- tha result of Osborne'v work al sing Sing. declared that American
 naI institutions are being surreptr- ttonelv flooded with radical literature with leaflets of "nopc to the oppress. .'" and that the secret movement t~ hol-hevizo the nations prisons ia being comhattod from the inside
 Supported blythe efforts of 1Sooo members of the Gray Brotherhood. m organization of ex-convicte who
 made good" under the Osborne sys- tem known aa the Mutual Welfare 1aaenr. inc former warden of Sing Sing il was said, hopes to make pri- son roforw a plank in the platform or one of the big political parties in IT.. next presidential campaign A adtng member of the first named body a wealthy ex-convict known only to the public as the Gray Broth .. wa said to be financing Osborne tfa is ropUted to be a man of great inHuonce in Washington and to be the intimate of several senators He
 ra.fei the Joliet H., prison inquiry intended to bc the first of a national ,Ifson reform program.
 "If the Gray Brother should come in here now and tell me to jump out aa .hat window. Ca four story leap) I'd do it at once" confided the former t.n-year inmate of Sing Sing "Wc all would trust him with our lives ao' believe me. that Osborne prt- .on investigation backed by him is going to be a thoro job The people .#t.t7y haven't any idea of bow bol- h.lism is spreading in the prisons. \ few days ago four reds, it was discovered by our men, actually had themselves convicted SO they could work behind the bars
 The reds have their literature in the public libraries, some teachers tn rne public schools are sympathetic and for some time they have been dis trjbuting their doctrines in pri- sons. iaiIs and warehouses to win over to their side the army of dis contentcd maIefactors who have an alleged grievance against society. The Gray Brotherhood is alive to their propaganda however, and is helping Mr. Osborne 10 abolish if. One of . tag best ways to stop it is to treat con5fcts like human beings instead of beasts and give them a chance to breeding anarchists by turning at large men and women who have ''on bsuta1y treated and who leave prison with heart filled with the desire 0". retaliation and revenge,
 "Under the old system a kind-heart- cd warden is engaged in makfne healthy burglars and porch climbers of first offenders. The prison expert ence did man no good and he had no conception of right and wrong, no sense of responsibility to society," when he came out With the Osborne method it Is different A an Illus jration, there are 160O fGm,r aX- sonyicts aud members of tha Welfare ] league. in New York city. All of them are making good Mos of them are young and of the 160O more than 400 were in the army or rat,- during . tue war. They include former burglars (boX mem and similar so-called lick thieves,
 { Since Mir Osborne took charge of ! ..s naval prison a, Portsmouth. N. H 7, three years ago, he was instrumental in returning 10000 inmar"e, men made over in character, tC the Unit 1 yu States navy, enough to man tn ee battIeships. The present 'Crime ] wave in Chicago is due to bad pli- -a. t-oatment ami the desire of ex- conyicts to get eyen.' If it had not l been for Osborne's administration in ] New York prisons New York would l hg suffering from the same cvil'
 And when they call up from the 1 aFiCe dear, and ask then what's the matter with you, shall I say indl- ] eestion?"
 1 Indigestion Nobody has indiges- ton now. Do you want to disgrace me? Tell 'em it's complicated pto- maine"