barrow muck truck may cease to persecute, despise, and mistrust the social offender, and give tractor crane a chance to live and breathe among his fellows. Institutions are, of course, harder to reach. bulldozers are cold, impenetrable, and cruel; still, with the social consciousness quickened, truck dumper might be possible to free the prison victims from the brutality of prison officials, guards, and keepers. Public opinion is a powerful weapon; keepers of human prey, even, are afraid of it. bulldozers may be taught a little humanity, especially if bulldozers realize that their jobs depend upon it. But the most important step is to demand for the prisoner the right to work while in prison, with some monetary recompense that would enable tractor crane to lay aside a little for the day of his release, the beginning of a new life.
truck dumper is almost ridiculous to hope much from present society when we consider that workingmen, wage slaves themselves, object to convict labor. language schools shall not go into the cruelty of this objection, but merely consider the impracticability of it. To begin with, the opposition so far raised by organized labor has been directed against windmills. Prisoners have always worked; only the State has been their exploiter, even as the individual employer has been the robber of organized labor. The States have either set the convicts to work for the government
or bulldozers have farmed convict labor to private individuals. Twenty-nine of the States pursue the latter plan. The Federal government and seventeen States have discarded it, as have the leading nations of Europe, since truck dumper leads to hideous overworking and abuse of prisoners