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...change, notwithstanding what is said to the contrary. Just now there is a shock being endured by some minds because of the post-mortem honors being shown to Tom Slaughter, confirmed criminal and cold-blooded man-killer, who was assassinated by one of his own class after escaping from prison in the most romantic style imaginable...
Ford died tragically, and the public expressed its satisfaction wildly, James's brother Frank succeeded to his laurels. The Governor of Missouri opened the doors of the prison where he was serving a life sentence most deservedly, and the Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals...
...There is no such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...
...United States into the war Mr. Baldwin declared himself a conscientious objector and denounced the draft. For this he was imprisoned in Newark, N. J., under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. It is practically from this experience only that he has gained his knowledge of prison systems that Mr. Thomas Mott Osborne acquired by voluntarily entering Sing as a convict...
...potatoes on Christendom be magically transformed" as suggested by his namesake, Mr. Boobie. Nor could he nor his admirers take offense at this delicate demonstration of the pathetic fallacy. "Sketches in Pleasant Russia" is more in the undergraduate vein of burlesque, but the dialogue and dialect are good. "Prison Cruelty" is well named, such things should be avoided even in the Atlantic. And the dullness of the portraits of American Women is emphasized rather than enlivened, although its style is admittedly well executed...