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the falsehood of the hour, and to read, read,
and learn for yourselves the truths Of history.
By the laws Of Ohio, as they stood in 1921,
all thieves who stole any property or money
below the value of $50, were punished by
fine and Imprisonment in the county jails.
Thousands Of these petty rogues, being i'm
prisoned for the non-payment of fines assess
ed as punishment for their crimes, lay in the
jals of the counties, fed and clothed at the
public expense, so that the law instead of in
flicting punishment, by fine as was intended,
really fed and clothed the thief as long as he
desired, and thus offered bounty for its vio-
lation. So full had the county jails become in
consequence that, they were not only public
nuisance, but great burden upon the State
Treasury. They had drawn SO largely upon
the public money that, an actual deficiency
occurred in consequence in the pententiary
fund of $4,000


these criminal "defaulters" to suffer really in
some way the judgment of the law, that it
was proposed TO hand them over to be work.
ed by any citizen who would pay the fine and
costs for the shortest term of labor to be per-
formed by the criminal For this General
Harrison gave his vote.
Was there any thing heinous in this On
the contrary, was it not, under the circ,lm-
stances, wise, humane and enlightened
vote ! Would it not have been better to do
the thing proposed than to shut the convcts
up in close cells, and make them slapcs IN
chains, working them with task master and
a whip at their backs, and afterwards bring
ing the fruits of their labor into competition
with those of the honest and industrious
mechanics Yet the latter policy was esta-
blished in New York and under the admi-
nstration Of Martin Van Buren and VIM. l..
Marcy his friend, the work Of the State prison
conylcts was brought into the market to com
pete with that of honest mechanics, and the


latter, justly indignant demonstrated, and
failing 10 be heard by the loco-foco admins
tration took the remedy into their own hands,
and turned the State prison products into the
street. Many of our readers will remember
that occurrences of this sort took place in
Chatham street, New York, during the Van
Buron administration Of Gov Marcy Who
has not heard of the cruelties practsed by the
loco ioco task masters in the State prison Of
New York Even now, the circumstance
of convict, who, having been driven to des
peration by these cruellies, hazarded and


lost his life in contest with his keeper, is
fresh in our minds How much more hui
name then was the policy voted for by Gen.
Harison-how much better for the reforma-
ton of the offenders, and how much more Just
to the honest mechanics of the country, than
! the policy practised under the auspices of
The friends of Martin Van Buren,


The vote Of Gen. Harrison was published,
by his opponents in 1896, oil over Ohio, and
the honest yeomanry Of that State, who knew
well all the facts concerning it, gave General


Harrison majority Of 10000 votes over Mar
tin Van Buren.


We do not wonder that the Globe, ell id omne
genus, should manifest indignation at the vote