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KIM . TILE SALT LAKB TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNIxXG, JANUARY 25, 1914. M
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fij- s iGERS love their cubs, hens their
. ?. I chickcnE, dogs lovo their masters,
Jr, ! I and all those will tight and dio in
I'. JL defense of what they love. Hit-
man mothers generally lovo thoir off-
spring. Love in the common sense is
M , common or instinctive, and involves no
h)A moral quality. It is love of ones own,
p: and contains a better form of self
ft ( love.
If . But. mercy ifl of higher birth. Ani-
fj; I mals know nothing of it; savages and
at ' the lower types of man ignore it, Wo
fl;1 nscrihe a divine source to it when we
K pray God to have mercy on us; we do
' not ask Him to lovo us. All higher re-
L ligions enjoin it. Mercy is love puri-
$ fiod from self, or wholly altruistic. It
;jjtf is a man loving anothor not because
Ml of blood relationship or because of ex-
jjj;.; pected benefits or even bocauso ti'
fl.V benefits bestowed, but on the simplo
Bt,i ground that? he is his human brothor,
K j , uhild of the samo Divino Father. -It
Ml is purer than the racial feeling, and
fl.lV it includes the a'uimal creation outside
(fli: humanity in its scope as the Bible
puts t. -'the merciful man is merciful
(fli' to his beast."
Mb It is the Golden Rule in manifesta
lIMj - lion: wo see in the one to whom wo are
jEli; , merciful ourself iu anothor formrunder
Hj)1 different conditions, and we do to him
as wc would have him do to us. It
seems to require a certain maturity of
mjm acquired or inherited; children
Olljl below puberty seldom have it. It is
easily forfeited, and indifference to tho
M j suffering of others is readily ostnb
Hij lished; Tt is to be guarded and de
li! ! voloiieil as a sacred possession of man
M ji at his highest, aud constantly nourished
ll bv thought and deed. And no man is
M A sti high and strong but he may and does
tf'1 I v need the mercy of somo beiae lof tior
Si! and more powerful than himself. ; which
,5f : )l0 cannot ciaim if ho havo not himsell
lil I done mercifully to those below him.
Iff ' J. have remarked heretofore that o
M ficials of prisons should be men of the
PS highest character in the state at least
M as high as what we would oyisn to.as
U JI criiJC to our judges of the criminal
! f ; , bench Judges seii.d men to prison, but
i fi ! prison guards and wardenB have charge
, ff !. of them during their imprisonment, with
j ft H powers practically unlimited. Unlimited
7, P power is a trust too arduous for any
'.! , mortal, for it should presuppose perfect
Si' knowlodge, all-penotraling intcirigence,
Ii-'v boundless experience, and the morcy
f' which is born to these for thcro is a
j bastard brother of mercy which is of
I the parentage of ignorance and cow-
ardiee. which shrinks from the sight of
suffering from mere pusillanimity of
, tho nerves, and does not recognize that
Utl suffering may be mercifully inflicted
Si or permitted and bonoficently en-
p durcd.
I it But the community does not select its
'W,i prison officials on the basis abovo
li indicated; it is satisfied if they be com-
Hi petent to "handle men," have a saga-
'! j cious familiarity with human depravity.
I ft I will tolerate no nonsense, can indite
l' I! plausible reports for tho department,
Jj and show a good balance at the cud of
f the fiscal year, or, as guards and under-
u Btrappers, keep the men submissive aud
orderly and allow no outbreaks. As for
m knowledge, a public school education is
W ample, with sucli intelligence as may bo
If supposed to go with it; and the experi-
l' once of a ward heeler or a thug will
w ordinarily suffice to pass a candidate.
Mi As a matter of fact, tho community
nj never knows anj-lhing about its 'prison
i officials until some special scandal tran-
i-pires under their administration, or un-
I less some heaven-sent plionix of a war-
l den unaccountably manifests humane
1 and enlightened tendencies. Their ap-
I pointmcnt is left to the political ma-
a chine, which hands it out on the prin-
IJ ciple of what is or was he worth to
)! us? As for justice and mercy my good
j! sir, you seem to forect wo aro talking
I of convicted "criiniuals!
I T affirm, however, that justice
which is intelligent mercj- is required
i nowhere so urgently as with convicts:
that aii3' punishment which aims at
f more than restraining convicts from
i practices calculated to injure their own
;j best iuterests, iy a crime.; and that
i: r-nielty to persons imprisoned and help-
less, bo the plea in extenuation of it
I what it may, is damnable and uupar-
donablo wickedness. Meanwhile, there
f is not and has never been in the
? United Slates a jail in which revenge-
! ful, malicious and unjustifiablo punish-
ments have not been inflicted, and iu
I. ; which cruelty does not stain the record
jl of each year and day.
li There have appeared lately in the
il newt-papers stories of enormities perpe-
H tratcd in Russian prisons. Terrible bnr-
1 baiians, those Russians! Vet, barring
i one feature of. them only, they cfm be
j! paralleled by what is currently done iu
; l! jj prisons here. This one feature is, the
III j absence in the .Russian infernos of all
! q ' h5"pocritical protcstntions to tho public
i . of hmnano treatment, and of aversion
sij1 from severities. Tho Russian cannot do
more than beat, torture and kill his
( prisoners; but wp do tho same, ft is
' lono at Blackwell's Island, at 3ing
h. Sing, at Auburn, at Jcfforson City, at
Leavenworth (until the other dny. at
i least,) in San Quentin, and countless
I: others, iucludinc my own Atlanta: only,
: there, the policy of suppression of news
:j and promulgation of falsehood is per
il haps carried to a more nearly perfect
jj extreme than in most other prisons,
ij A few years ago, but under the prcs
f ent regimo at Atlanta, the -workers iu
jjj thc stone shod there wero pursuing
f! their ocenpation in the torrid heat of a
41 summer day, when one of them, a
! young man named Ed Richmond, asked
iJ the guard on duty for leavo to rotirc
for a few moments. Such requests
j must of course often be mado. But
k t Richmond was a man -who had not been
'' lucky enough to win tho favor of the
:', higher officials in the prisou, and this
I was known to the guards, who felt
f'f v that the might with impunity treat
;l f, him harshly. Richmond bad been a
it; e good deal abusod, and his mind had bo
U; 1, come somewhat unbalanced; ho would
b $ sometimes talk incoherently and act
ii f oddly. It had been noticed, that- the
stone shed guard "had it in for Ed,,r
i ; hb the prisoners say; but nothing very
F n 1 serious "was looked for.
S Be that as it may, something serions
fcj -rf, was about to occur. Five or six years
after this day, I was walking, under
$ j-; ; convoy of tho deputy warden, in the
prison grounds thnt lie outside the
is : walls, when we stumbled upon the pris-
A on graveyard. It lay at' tho crest of
i t some rising ground, partly overshad-
' owed by second-growth timber, and was
1 merely an lininelosed clearing iu the
rough undergrowth, with rows of head
stones standing one behind another,
each with a name and date on it. But
under all of them lay all that remained
011 curth of prison tragedies; for oven
if a prisoucr dio a natural death in
prison, ho dies with a broken heart
and poisoned mind, abandoned, in gray
despair, friendless, shut out from sky
and freedom, hearing with dullod ears
the clanging of steel gates, seeing the
blank walls, deprived of the sympa
thetic words aud glances of friends a
miserable, unknown death. Silence and
obliteration close over him; and hero
ho lies. r .
On one of the headstones I road tho
namo of Ed Richmond, and tho date of
his end. IIo liad not died a natural
death, but there was nothing on his
tombstone to show it. I already knew
his story, having heard it from several
eyowitnesses.
On the day abovo mentioned, the
guard had granted his request; but aft
er the man had boon absent a few min
utos, ho called to him to come out.
Richmond did not at once respond. Tho
guard called to him again, more per
emptorily, and advancod toward the
place wnoro he was, butsido the stono
shod building. Richmond, as tho guard
camo nearer, mumbled something; the
guard seemed angered, and stepped up
to himt raising his club to Btrike. Rich
mond instinctively put up an arm to
ward tho blow, and as it descended ho
caught tho end of the club in his hand.
This was the head and front of his of
fending, and for this he was to die.
Tho guard droppod tho club, drew
his revolver, and shot Richmond four
times in tho bod. Ho also fired another
shott the bullet going through a wooden
partition into a part of tho shed where
some ' prisoners wero working, barely
missing one of them. Richmond slowly
dropped where he stood and- lay hud
dled on the ground; the guard stood
looking coolly at him. One of the pris
oners, a negro, ran up and took the dy
ing man's head on his knee; others
looked on. After a while an official
camo up and ordered the man taken to
tho hospital. But his hurts were mor
tal, and in a few minutes ho "was dead.
The men in tho stone shod continued
thoir work.
An investigation within tho walls
waa held, tho guard, was exonorated,
and "was still on duty when I was in
the prison. The officials who had dis
liked Richmond were relieved of the
annoyance of his prcsonco. There wore
no inconvenient newspaper reporters
about. If tho dead man had friends
outside, they never were able to do any
thing. It seoms unlikely that the guard
who Killed him would have dono it had
ho not felt confident that tho higher
officials would condone tho deed, Per
haps, had ho been arrested and in
dicted, he might havo uttered some
names; but he was exonerated, and he
has kept his mouth shut. This hap
pened bofore the date of Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham's visit to the prison,
and thercforo tho change in "Warden
Mover's ideas as to the expediency of
sovore moasurcs in the handling of con
victs. Were the thing to bo done again
today, it would probably not occur out
in the open air and sunshine, with per
sons looking on, but under circum
stances of decent seclusion. The outside
public is becoming a little squeamish
about prison killings.
But in Russia there is no public
opinion, or none that is audible, and
the prison guards there aro not ham
pered in their work by tho necessity of
doing it under cover. "as they aro fiore.
It is a question which method is prefer
able. 1 believe somo of our prisoners
would vote for tho open way of killing
aud torturing. It is exasperating to be
"done up" in secret, in the dark, sti
fled and gagged, with no chance to die
fighting. I havo no comparative statis
tics as bot-ween us and Russia, but it
would not be surprising if our record of
men beaten, starved, poisoned, hung up
in chains in dark cells and killed by
neglect and cruelties, were to size up
fairl' well agaiust what Russia has to
show. Considering the restrictions nut
upon them, our prison autocrats cer
tainly do 'well.
Some doubt has been created in the
public mind as to whether there really
are dark cells in tho Atlanta peniten
tiary, or, if there be, whether- their use
has not been long discontinued. J novor
heard any categorical statement in de
nial of it from any of tho officials,
though I havo read something to that
effect in local newspapers. Visitors
never see them, and T know of no pris
on inspectors who havo done so; they
are shown instead tho light cells on air
uppor floor, which are habitable enough,
with windows admitting daylight, and
a rot bed. But the dark cells arc an-1
other story altogether, and their exist
ence can no more bo denied successful
ly than that of the prison itself.
- A man named H. B. Rich was em
ployed in tho prison for niue venrs as
foreman of the blacksmith shop; he
says that he helped build two dark colls
111 the basement, and often rivotod
chains on convicts thore. "They wero
chained to tho door," he goes on,
"hanging by their hands, sometimes for
twenty-lour hours. Often they were
thus chained up during the day, but at
nighl tho chain attached to the frame
of tho door was loosened; the other
chain was attached to a vortical rod,
the ring eliding up and down, so that
tho man was able to lio on .'tho baro
cement floor. There wero no cots. The
food was generally one slice of bread
and a cup of water a day, sometimes
two or three. Men wero often kept
thus for weeks at a time, and would
come out so pallid and weak that thin
could scarcely walk, and blinded from
long confinement in darkness. A con
vict named S. was kept in the dark
hole two wcoks; I was often called to
chain him, as ho was a powerful man;
but when he would como out he was so
wcakcued-that he could scarcely movo."
I, may add here that I havo often
talked with the convict here mentioned,
and he told mo details of his experi
ences. I would print bis name and
story, but he is still in confinement
he has lived two and twenty continuous
years in prison and he might be mado
to suffer for his revelations. Among
other things, he said that ho had been
in the punishmeut cells, in the aggre
gate, eight years! If ho wero noi a
hon of strength and courage, ho would
have been dead long ago. The Atlanta
penitentiary claims to bo the mo3t hu
mane in tho world. But eight years in
chains nnd darkness seems a long time,
even taken in installments.
A man lately released has this to Bay:
"The administration of tho peniten
tiary is a sham and. protence. 'Reform'
is a show, for tho benefit of govern
ment inspectors and visitors, with,
undorneath, a callous and brutal disre
gard for the welfare of tho convicts,
moral and physical. No tortures? I
was trussed up, face to wall, with arms
outstretched, for ten hours. Whon
loosed, I just dropped to tho floor from
Tho guard stood looking coolly at him. One of the prisoners, a- negro, ran up and took the dying man's head on his knee.
exhaustion, and did not rise till the
next morning. That was during tho
present administration. When visitors
and newspaper reporters go through the
prison, 'there isn't any holoj' but tho
prisoucr who thoughtlessly infracts a
rule knows that thero is oncl
"In tho isolation building there is a
number of three-cornered colls where
men are chained to the doors; they have
little cots; these cells are shown. But
down beneath thoro is tho real holo.
These underground cells havo no cots;
when u man drops, he drops on the
cement floor. If they wish severely to
discipline a man, they can mako these
cells practically air-tight, and then turn
on the steam tnrough the pipes."
Let us havo more testimony as to the
dark hole. "Tho hole,' writes another
inmate, "is not a holo in tho wall or in
tho ground, but it is a placo to Hum a
man's cheeks -white and to makn his
knees shake and his lips tremblo, whou,
for some infraction of very strict rules,
ho is ordered to tho holo. It is a row
of holes; far down iu the bottom of tho
big bastilo is a row of little cells, six
feet wide, nine foot long and perhaps
ten feet high. Solid concrete, with
iron grating in tho narrow door. Abso
lutely' dark. Furniture, one iion rod,
ono "blanket. Tho man is handcuffed
between tho rod and tho wall, hands
apart as far as ho can hold thorn; at
night tho wall fastening is loosed, and
ho can lio down, sliding the ring of his
hnndcuff down the rod. No mattress
or bed just floor. Food, three ouncos
of bread and a glass of water at noon.
Tho rules aro said to bo less sovoro
than formerly; but two half-breed In
dians, former frionds, recognizing each
other in Sunday school, ventured to
whisper a greeting; thoy wero put in
tho nolo two days and nights, and one
of them, a stout hardy boy, came out
trembling and shaking as with mortal
illness."
A man who served as guard in the
prison under tho present warden, but
left in 1007, affirms that barbarities
wore not tho exception at thnt time,
but the "horrible custom. The dark
holo is a reality; men wore kept thore
weeks at a timc, to my cortnin knowl
edge, within stifling walls, chained
standing for intolerable periods, with
great suffering. The public undorstands
solitary confinement' to mean a coll
by one''s self, but this cell is a dark
dungeon below earth level. Ono con
vict had to be brought out on a litter,
hinlegs swollen to a frightful size;
he could not Btand erect. I was repri
manded for entering his cell and'hclping
him to sit up. A man named L. who
had drawn back his hammer threaten
ingly when a guard advanced upon him
armed with a 'square,' but who ceased
to resist when the guard drew Iub re-'
volver, was sentenced to 1-15 days in
the dungeon, with three slices of bread
and water por day. Christian Endeav
orers," this witness adds, "never have
an opportunity to observe the real con
ditions. No outsider comes iu contact
with things as they are. No outsider
in Atlanta has ever seen the dungeons."
G. W,, formerly employed in the
prison, 6ays that "tho hole near the
plumbers' shop was built while Morse,
tho banker, was in tho prifrou, for 1.
helped build it, and the warden, with
another official, was down to seo it at
10 in tho morning." Speaking of tho
statement that the dark holo was no
longer in use, he adds, in his letter to
me; "You know of tlio hanging up in
tho dark coll of tho old Englishman, in
October" tho month t left tho poni
teniary. I do know of it; the fight 'of
this stubborn old fellow against the op
pression of tho prison authorities was
the talk of tho ranges just before my
departure; he had done nothing worse
than to use bad language; ho would
not give in, and I beTiovo that it was
found advisable at last to roloase him.
The caso of poor little B. had a loss
agreeable sequel. 11 0 was dying of dia
betes (hiring tho latter mouths of his
confinement; he was an incorrigible lil
tlo thief, a man of extraordinarily ucutc
mind, and a sort of saturnine humorist
withal. He. had been repeatedly cou
yictcd and imprisoned, but "T can't let
it alone,'' he would say. Ho was plump
and flabby, ghastly pale, with protrud
ing eyes, vey clear and penetrating.
IIo was ridiculously impudent, but be
ing so soon to die, as he himself well
know, nono of the prisoners bore him a
grudge. The authorities, however,
thought it well to disciplino him,
and he was so ropoatedly mal
treated by them, and put in 'the dark
bole, that his diseaso was greatly in
flamed and the end hastened. 1' said
somethiug designed to bo encouraging
to him shortly before I left; but ho
fixed me with those singular oyes, and
said, "I am doomed I"
TI10 last I heard of B. was in a lot
tor from a lady who has done much to
help and relieve the sufferings nnd
wrongs of prisoners in tho jaw. "13.
is in a dyiug condition," sho writes;
"ho was severely punished while sut
fering from his diseaso. W.," she goes
on, "died three days after a teu days'
punishmeut. He had to bo lifted from
the dark cell and carried to tho hospital
by attondants." Upon the whole, oue
has grounds for bolieving that the dark
holo is not; a fairy tale, and that it still
exists and is at work in Atlanta peni
tentiary, in spite of tho impression to
tho contrary of the huniano warden and
his officials. t
Tho geogrnphy of the places is, how
ore, obscure, and is known to the elect
only: it is said by inmates of old stand
ing that underground passages connect
the prison buildings and lead from ono
dungeon to another. This sounds ro
mantic, but would bo obviously uBeful
in practice. A map of tho premises, sur
face and subterranean, would be inter
esting, and may hereafter be nchiovod
by some inspection which really in
spects. I havo not spoken of somo fea
tures of tho dark colls, as described by
men who have oxpenenced them, be
cause they nrc so revolting that editors
of newspapers would docliuo to print
them. Human beings are compelled to
cuduro many things which tho fastidi
ousness of other human beings cannot
tolerate oven the hearing of.
A prisoner named Kcegan was killed
at Atlanta not long bcl'oro 1 was re
leased, not by a guard's bullet, but by
moans as sure, though slower and more
cruel. We wero all con versa lit with his
ease at the time, but 1 will quote the
man who knew him and his sufferings
most intimately. 1 lore is his crude nar
rative written to mo on prison paper:
"William Kcegan died in August of
this year (10.WS) at the pen. Ho was
first taken sick with pains in the legs,
hands and arms, and went to morning
sick call, but could never get anything
done, because ho was a little deaf and
could not hoar what tho doctor said,
and so could oxplain no further, and
he was in a very bad fix. They did
nothing for him. and he was afraid to
sco the doctor, because ho would have
been impatient, aud would have sont
him to the hole, and thou he would
loso time. But he did go up to see
him after the pains got mto his back
also, and he told him ho would like to
get out of tho stone shed: and tho doc
tor told him thero was nothing tho mat
ter with him. but ho was only faking
aud trying to get out of work which I
know and can swear to as not bcin"
true. " n
"Jf ever there was a sick man, Kee
gan was him. Ho told M., tho foreman,
about it one da3', who told liini to have
the doctor look him over, aud sent him
up one afternoon: tho doctor looked
lum over and told him he was only a
crank nothing at all tho matter with
him. Soon after lie was taken very sick,
and oue night I called tho prison nursjo
to his cell, and ho had him takeu to
the hospital, whero ho stayed some time,
but it did him no good, for ho camo
back to tho collhouse in just as bad a
fix as before. Then they put him to
work in the paint house, and aftor he
had been there about a week thoy said
ho was crazy, and put him in the hole.
Ifc was treated shamefully in tho hole,
for the prison nurse told me so. Then
ho was takeu again to tho hospitnl, and
he never camo out of it, for ho died
there, and the. prison nurse told mo he
suffered terribly before his death. Thin
I will swear is true bofore God
"Very near every man in the pen
had a bad Rtomach, and could got noth
ing for it, for if you went to the doctor
he would tell you you ato too much, and
give you a big dose of saltB, and if you.
did not tako thorn ho would put you in
tho hole, and thon you would lose good
time. But if a man had a pull he
would get along right enough, Thero
was A,, a bank wreckor: ho was clerk
in tho stone shed, and I have seen him
have eggs right in 'the kitchen, when
wo had only rice to eat with cold water
and bread, which was sour. If he
didn't want to work ho didn't have to
for when T worked as runner for the
plumber I have scon A. lying down and
smoking and rending or pretty near
anything ho wanted to do; but if other
men had done Joss thau half the things
ho did, they would have been put in
I ho hole and lost, good timo also. Things
should be looked into, lor it is sure run
shamefully.1'
Readers would perhaps like to know
more of tho doctor, wnoso professional
activities arc so engagingly described
in tho nbovc statement, lie is n medi
cal graduate of recent vintage, poor but
aristocratic, engaged to attend four
hours a day at tho peuileutiarv at a
salary of $1500 a year. "I need the
money," ho once admitted to a col
league in the prison. Kcegan, as wo
have seen, was under his penetrating
eye for mouths, aud ho died a low days
after tho young 'gentleman had assured
him that there was nothing the matter
with him. The doctor dresses well, and
has an air; he has (he use of an auto
mobile, and sometimes escorts good look
ing younir nurses, ;or other young ladies,
about t lio prison grounds, lie has a
knack at surgical operations, and urges
prisoners to bo operated upon: thoy
sometimes recover and sometimes do
not. His use of drugs in his practice
seoms to have been mainly restriftcd to
prescribing salts and the 'hole, both ef
fective in their way. but not always
happy in their application to tho cases
under consideration.
Ho was always civil to me, and put
me under the obligation of saviug nu
ll le. for hu ordered mo a milk diet
when I waa succumbing to tho influ
ences of prison hash aud "hot dog."
It wns part of his duty to visit the
dining room every day or was it ev
ery other day? and inspect the food
served to tho prisoners. During mv six
months' stay, ho appcarod twico in the
doorway whero he exchanged ameni
ties with tho guard; and once he trav
ersed tho aisle bol.wocii mv row of ta
bles and tho next, accompanied by somo
very nice looking girls. IIo had other
duties, which ho discharged with simi-
lar iV-t,m,ltv ;im fervor. And all
for 9lu00 a year.
There wns a hearty. fiilI-bloodo.d.
good naturod young follow, with red
hair, who worked in tho blacksmith's
shop, and worked well. His overseer
was a negro this ofton happens in tho
Atlanta penitentiary. The heat in the
forgo room during summer was intense,
aud tho red-haired bov used to get
rush of blood to tho head, and finally
asked a ugh official for leave to step
out in the open air occasionally and
cool off. It was granted. But on ono
of these outings his negro mastor or
dered him to go back and do a job of
work lor him: tho other quoted his of
ficial permission; there was a -wrangle,
onding in an appeal to a higher of
ticial still. The lattor. in the face of
tho lower official's personal testimonv
: na Jiuthorized tho recess-, sup
portcd tho negro, and tho young black
smith was sentenced to five days in tho
dark cell and thirty days' loss of good
time. Discipline must be prcservod.
Aro Biich conditions as J have de
scribed general? Tho newspapers dur
ing my stay at Atlanta doscribed a dis
suasion in local prison .fl
n-onrlcty or cxpcdioimv of 9
nale prisoners in tlnf gCqM
inson (not connected' wliuH
UM.itcnt.ary), ana confli'M
the dark hole. Tho vriWM
ion, a gentleman named
Ins gunrds, said that
mind confinement in tho
got no harm Troni U-MhftM
shown that after huintr . S
11 day or two, thoy wero S
stand and who ly m,fit JJ
guards declared that the LB
not be eftcctivc y discipHnJM
flogging and thrcatonlifl M
body if the practice wqmjH
Dr. MaclWld of the?,
that although tome
abuse the power of flngrtiB
lashed women on the bareB
of over covering of ooe'l
prescribed by tho rules, atliM
whipping for them; ho 'M
the "leather" was really n9
than the dungeon. ScctehH
of tho prison commission S
tho lash. ?S
4."tuc, other hana, State
trvo Blackburn said that itifl
gerous policy to give mich.B
about tho state. It iroulj.
terrible abuses and- mistmfl
sovereign power of tho itB
not bo delegated to indivB
remotely accountable The dH
tern should be qarcfully gS
tho lino of punishment n9
othqrwise ovils will creenfl
rective measures that fffl
cruelty should he used "H
tivc Smith added that if
power to use tho whip oril
the hands of brutal and 'H
wardens, the same crucltietH
ties which have shocked til
world will be repeated. W&S
with power, abuse their pfl
are appointees of a sy&til
enccd and incompetent ia
chosen, not because of th'eilH
more likely to repay soaeB
vor. When a good waidesH
is moro or less an accideajH
mission to whip, and the. ;H
bo horrifiod at the rowl'H
should learn tho circunistaH
That is fine, but tho cod!
mean more than they eayiH
public to know? If you
or a sister or daughter iB
would you feel entirely ifl
the declamations in ihe.ljH
these kindly gentlemen!
occur to you thai, when tbiiH
had blown over, the warcH
guards might possibly, BniH
as might be. revert to wIijH
to be the only effective aM
ing order? It is easv. inM
gag a woman so that s'He cfl
and to lake her down toB
place and there to lay o&ifl
heartily, with qr without firfl
the inner garments. TVhfl
or to tell? We aro noijjfl
boast of these things opecljH
At the turpentine canpB
Ala., thirty-live convicts J
tract had been annulled UH
O'Neal, wero brought to HdH
10. 1013. and placed in thV
All but fourteen had bcenviH
heavy straps loaded tviih tM
fidavits were offered saomlH
of them had been' whipS
But Superintendent of Prttfl
Now York, iu a Icttor to H
tigan of Auburn prison, wraH
no't believe that anyone iiS
formed by physical torturcJH
not the view "taken, appaitfl
ferson City, Mo., prison,vB
few weeks' ago, a negro H
very hard task each aM
Post-Dispatch of St. LoumJH
ho could perform. At eveH
be taken out, strapped toH
beaten with a heavy MraplB
cuts aud sorc3 all over tifl
vored prisoners wore allovB
rules, while others were.sB
ished for the same thin?.
ten tin ry there is describwLB
hell entirch' surrounded brB
incompetent officials."
were brutally whipped iM
Wo have all heard aboifl
island, New York City, ljH
inns by officials, and moH
suited in tho death of a
teo Kurd found two moaiB
one stupefied, the othef OJH
sobbing. Thev had DeK;B
whispering, 'the dark
ordered discontinued on!H
fore. Warden Hayes, on oflH
the official why ho tadMB
to be used, replied: ""JM
I 've been so busy I Wfl
to get round to it!"
In Atlanta we do noUfJM
, ,we find tne club hanMM
guards aro SKillful w-8HM
the bodies of thoir potiealM
the external evidences are 9BJ
occasions internal troiiplJ
bo ascribed to "natural"
thero aro indications i0U9J
use the dark cell, descruwBJ
Donald, above, as mora
tho lash. Tf this expert fj
gives us a stnndard W"JB
liro how inhumane they. TH
I cannot go on, thougaBJ
only a fraction of Jny ntKjflfl
ovo'r, 1 am inclined to tpH
phvsical punishments J oBJ
nro not tho worst that are.JB
iu Atlanta and perhaps
ons. Great ingenuity BB
application of mental tonfll
have thoir outcome in JBB
which never can jie "J'JBB
commissions and "'sPec"!flBj
man is as safe as a ?JBB
tells tales, no one will PJJB
him. Tho cat-and-mouse
vorito with tho humane
dens. Ciivo your man ifl
hopo and despair, and
soon roward your
aro the insults, thn gJffB
the obscuro forms pt TjH
-rago, tho degradation EBB
thero aro a hundred ?nbUBB
stroying and corrupting H
man. To be compelled BB
same cell with rl&a(lAM
mils is a most successful H
inanity; and when,
one of tho two is
cent boy, the results an
sufficient number of 'gBB
planatiou given ana a'BB
1 east , thore are tho
houses, which nuehUjJJBB
yoars ago, had tho appBB
properly applied. . taflB
'Lofd, bo morciftl9B
nor!" wo pray m f'-U
He says "With wl"B
it shall be men sflJM
In nasi Sunday's .jB
sensational ,Pjso VJ,mU
life, Mr. Ilawihonc
conditions I hat "S-fJ
vict when he leave ijfflm
sooner or later, forfchiDM
prison aud make of w .BB
convict. B'