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Excerpt from Penal Servitude The material contained in the following pages is but a brief summary of the findings of the National Committee on Prison Labor, on which the members of the Committee have based the following resolution, November 24th, 1911: "After one year of study the National Committee on Prison Labor found the preponderance of evidence to be in favor of the state use system; after a second year of study and further investigation, the Committee is in a position to declare as prejudicial to the welfare of the prisoner, the prisoner's family and the public, the contract system of prison labor. The Committee therefore declares itself opposed to the contract system of prison labor and to every other system which exploits his labor to the detriment of the prisoner." To the members of the Committee: - Thomas R. Sheer (Chairman), R. Montgomery Schell (Treasurer). Percy A. Atherton, Mrs. Samuel J. Barrows, Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Alexander Johnson, B. A. Larger, Samuel McCune Lindsay, John Mitchell, Raymond Robbins, Henry Solomon, Leslie Willis Sprague (Executive Committee). John R. Alpine, Carol Aronovici, William S. Bennet, Mrs. Elmer Blair, Mrs. Ballington Booth, Mrs. Clarence Burns, John R. Commons, Edgar T. Davies, Miles M. Dawson, William H. DeLacy, John P. Frey, Hamilton Holt, Richard Lloyd Jones, Ben Lindsey, Alfred E. Lunt, Julian Mack, John B. Mayo, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Charles P. Neill, Thomas M. Osborne, James Bronson Reynolds, Charles Edward Russell, Louis Livingston Seaman, Clarence J. Shearn, John J. Sonsteby, Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, Mrs. Perry Starkweather, Warren S. Stone, Mrs. William Cumming Story, Charles H. Strong, Mrs. Eva McDonald Valesh, Edwin P. Wentworth, John Williams, Miss Mary Wood and others (General Committee). the author makes due acknowledgment, and trusts that the work, which has but just begun, will be continued in the same broad spirit until it can be said with truth that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, not even as punishment for crime, exists within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.