THE STATE PRISON QUESTION
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Being one of these who have had reason TO feel
TIA. the CRY arains, State Prison Monopoes Is NOT


senseless CRY. and feeling ii to be my duty =tili
to cry ou, against them. rsust beg the favor Of
b enn allowed 10 add,es. few remarks in reply TO
the article signed L. Y. Y. in your paper of the
23d. If Il. y. X. IS not q parent, would have
him suppose himself to stand in that relation 10 a
son. for whose welfare he had felt that socitude


which is 50 natural to 4 pares, and admitting, a,
T.. Y. X asserts that He that will not ork, nei-
ther shall he eat Suppose he had pu, his son as
an apprcntice 10 trade which he believed % be
in prosperous condition that his son h2d passed
through the long and tedious process OF lc,rnins
trade; and relying on that trnde for his support
he had gathered around him, as most OF us are
wont TO do, a family, who we're also dependent o.
that trade, through his excrtions, for their support
Well: Some avaricious person, who has know
ledge of that trade, applies to the Agents Of the
Prisons for contracts. The business is commenced
grand scale, perhaps at both Piisoas-labor
being had for comparatively nothing at all. and
machinery furnished by the State To and in break
ing down that business. The market j. soon glu--
ted with an article below ths Gust Of the same
article to the employer OF your son. aud consc-
qucntly he is discharged. Your phanthropisis
whose sympathy extends only to State Prison con-
victs, tell him that " ii Is his misfortune and he
must turr his attention to something ese." New


wouli asks ii so easy matter for the
who has spent half life - :, in acquiring tho
rough knowledge of business, to lnrn BIS alien
ton To something else! How i. his faaIily to be
supported while he is lcaImrng new business and
receiving half wages And would ask, were yoa
tAe purcnt of the son whose situation ! have en-
deavorcd to doscribc-scarccly limiting ut the mis-
cry Of his .ituation-would Won not ru;hcr say, let
the State turn It's attention IT. something else or
let the Agents turn their attention to something
else which Will not blast the prospects and destroy
the ambition of honest mechanics, driving them
into that very dissipation and crime which State
Prisons were mainly instituted to prevent.


might follow Il. y. X. farther and ask mm,
if the character of mechanics is not iniure. by the
present system, why that of the lawyer would hc
by discharg;ug convics from the Prisons skilled in
t.oir profession! lie says it would enable them
to Sc gfcn;ey rogue. Ifso, doc, not the business
OF the luchsuih which is now carried in the
Prison, also enable them to become greater rogue>
No Jcrsoa has ever seriously thought of introdu-
cling tie leaned professions into the Prisons but
il has scen spoS-n Of to show how similar treat
ncnt to tlst dealt cul = mechanics would be re-
sentcd by other classc-.


have seen The evil consequences which have
described above carried the letter, and ] am
willing TO leave it to the intelligence of this
muni,y 10 decide whether such injustice shall con-
tnuc to be prac.ised. l.. q. =.