Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — CHLOROFORM FOR IDIOTS PROPOSE [ARTICLE]

CHLOROFORM FOR IDIOTS PROPOSE

Prisoo Congress Laughs Over Suggestion of Won INDIANA PLAN IS DISCUSSED Hoosier State’s System For Preventing the Increase of Criminals and Imbeciles In the Land la Basis of Debate Which Delegates Find Highly Educating—Motion to Throw Out Paper on Biblieef Grounds Is Lott. Seattle, Aug. 17. —The debate in the American Prison Association congress on the "Indiana plan” for preventing the propagation of criminals and idiots devoloped almost unanimous sentiment for the system. The discussion, according to President Gilmour of Toronto, Can., waa the most profitable -the association has held in years. In the absence of Dr. Sharp, his paner was read by Amos W. Butler of Indianapolis. •. After a discussion of the outdoor plan of treating convicts, in which every speaker told of the good results of banishing armed guards and putting the prisoners on honor, the debato on the Indiana plan was begun by a delegate movihg that Dr. Sharp’s paper be suppressed on the ground that it advocated ideas contrary to the Bible. This idea was voted down. Airs. L. R. Eastwood of South Dakota advocated chloroforming idiots. This made the delegates laugh. During the debate it was announced that Connecticut and California had followed Indiana, .*•;?* j _