The General Public Knows Practically Nothing About

Your Honor, Years Ago I Recognized My Kinship With All Living Beings, And I Made Up My Mind That I Was Not One Bit Better Than The Meanest On Earth. I Said Then, And I Say Now, That While There Is A Lower Class, I Am In It, And While There Is A Criminal Element I Am Of It, And While There Is A Soul In Prison, I Am Not Free.

The General Public Knows Practically Nothing About The Prison And Appears To Be Little Concerned About How It Is Managed And How Prisoners Are Treated.

Why Should The Railroad Employees Be Parceled Out Among A Score Of Different Organizations? They Are All Employed In The Same Service. Their Interests Are Mutual. They Ought To Be Able To Act Together As One. But They Divide According To Craft And Calling, And If You Were To Propose Today To Unite Them That They Might Actually Do Something To Advance Their Collective And Individual Interests As Workers, You Would Be Opposed By Every Grand Officer Of These Organizations.

In The Very Progress Of Society, The Prison Has In The Very Nature Of Things Undergone Some Improvement, But There Are Vast Stretches Yet To Be Covered Before The Prison Becomes, If It Ever Does, An Institution For The Reclamation And Rehabilitation Of Erring And Unfortunate Men And Women.

In All The History Of Organized Labor, From The Earliest Times To The Present Day, No Body Of Union Workingmen Ever Served In A More Humiliating And Debasing Role Than That In Which The Railway Unions Appear At This Very Hour Before The American People And The World.