. Inglenook, The (1911) . in length is fastened to a club of instrument is not designed to breakthe skin, but at every lick the tissues be-neath the skin are broken to a jelly. Thesensation of pxin can only be compared toa million needle points penetrating thestricken parts at every blow. The pain isdoubled every time the leather falls. Im-agine the torture and suffering when ahelpless fellow receives fifty or sixty blowsfrom such a weapon. One can scarcely con-ceive of the heartlessness and degradationthat will permit a man to be a whippingboss in one of these convict camps. Theevil
. Inglenook, The (1911) . in length is fastened to a club of instrument is not designed to breakthe skin, but at every lick the tissues be-neath the skin are broken to a jelly. Thesensation of pxin can only be compared toa million needle points penetrating thestricken parts at every blow. The pain isdoubled every time the leather falls. Im-agine the torture and suffering when ahelpless fellow receives fifty or sixty blowsfrom such a weapon. One can scarcely con-ceive of the heartlessness and degradationthat will permit a man to be a whippingboss in one of these convict camps. Theevils of the worst kind of slavery are mag-nified by modern ingenuity. The torturesof Siberia are here in our midst and we arenot aware of the fact. Conditions will notbe improved until public opinion is of the State Legislatures are fre-quently interested financially in leasingconvict labor. The consequences of such apolitical combine are self-evident. Until recently Oklahoma sent her pris- 1170 The Inglenook. Z. R. Erockway. oners to the Kansas penitentiary at Lans-ing. About three years ago Kate Bernardmade an investigation of this prison andfound that the Oklahoma prisoners weretreated most cruelly. The famous watercure in a modified form was very popularin the penitentiary. It was this: A pris-oner was placed in a box resembling acoffin, his hands tied beneath him and thehose turned upon his face, in many in-stances filling his mouth, lungs, ears andnose with water. The water is played onhim till it reaches a point where he canbend his head no farther to keep it fromsubmerging his mouth and nose, and in thiscondition he is left until he becomes ex-hausted and falls back under the water. Mrs. Keeler uses several pages in de-scribing the convict camps of Texas. Thecommittee appointed by the State Legisla-ture to investigate the convict camps tellsof one place which seems to be a fair sam-ple of others. The Cunningham place isthe property of the Texas Sugarland Co
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