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and that within practical limits elementary education 
should be furnished him; that such industrial efficiency 
should be cherished in him as might enable him to make 
a fair struggle for industrial success when released; that 
in general the great object should be not to make him 
suffer especially, not to break down his respect for him- 
self, not to disgrace him ineffably or to stain him beyond 
obliteration, but rather to send him out, if possible, bet- 
ter prepared for the struggle of life than when he went 
in, with a fair respect for the government which incar- 
cerated him; and above all things that he should not be 
so placed that he could hardly avoid going out of prison 
a worse man physically, mentally, and morally, than 
when he was committed.” 
NOTE: My principal source of information, from 
which I have quoted freely, has been The Reformatory 
System in the United States, prepared by Rev. S. J. Bar- 
rows, for the International Prison Commission in 1900. 
*#Read at the State Conference of Charities and Corrections, 
November 12, 1903, and also before the Sioux City Academy of Science 
and Letters, February 2, 1904. 
