Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1898 — Convict Labor Law. [ARTICLE]

Convict Labor Law.

Governor Mount has about made up his mind to recommend in his message to the legislature the enactment of a prison labor law patterned after the law of New York. Under such a law the inmates of the state prison and reformatories will be employed in manufacturing articles for the use of the other institutions of the state and its political divisions. The problem of furnishing work for the inmates of the penal institutions will have to be solved at the coming session of the general assembly, and the governor believes the New York law may be advantageously applied. The law passed by the last general assembly was based on the New York law, but so many essentials were omitted that no effort to put into force, except as it provides that the men shall not be employed on contract work under new contracts, has ever been made. •• ' ~ Warren & Irwin are making fnrm loans at 5£ per cent interest. Term most liberal. Ne delay. No fees for examination of land or abstract. Bee them before borrowing or refunding present indebtedness. They will treat you right and save you money. Henry Watterson says “John Temple Graves is the most eloquent southerner of today.” President McKinley calls him “A brilliant and beautiful speaker.”