life from the men, and yet driving them
to more work.

But we turn from examining this table more directly again to the Prison
Report of '72. It says,--"As complaint has been made that the prisoners
were not properly fed and clothed, or that the food was deficient in
quantity and quality, we say to you that we think no prisoners in this
country are so well fed and clothed as the convicts of the New Hampshire
State Prison." What shall we think concerning the judgment of those
writers? It seems that they have become conversant with the prison fare
in all the States of our country, and, after careful examination, have
deliberately formed the opinion that the fare in the N. H. State Prison,
at ten and one-half cents per day, is really better than that elsewhere
at eighteen cents.

Then again, ibid: "No article of food has been furnished by us that was
not good, sweet and wholesome; and as good in quality as will average
upon the tables of the tax-payers of the State. The remarkably healthy
look of the convicts is plain proof that they are well cared for, have a
plenty to eat, and that which is good." It seems that the authors of
this part of the Report have not only traveled far and wide over our
country and surveyed each prison, but have also called on every
tax-payer of our State, scrutinized their tables carefully, and found
that their average living costs not over ten and one-half cents per day
to each individual. When found they time for all this? Or are we to
understand that they are purposely using the whitewash their
predecessors left?

The chaplain is again, in this Report, brought forward thus, pp. 10 and
11,--"At the commencement of our labors as Prison Committee there was a
want of harmony between the former chaplain and the officers of the
prison, which seemed to us against the interests of the prison, and
ought, in some way, to be removed. We could see no way to obviate this
difficulty other than the removal of the warden or the chaplain. After
due consideration, with the best information we could get, we thought
best to recommend the removal of the chaplain and the appointment of Mr.
Smith to that office. By this change harmony was at once restored. Mr.
Smith has rendered faithful and effective labor, to the entire
satisfaction of the committee and officers of the prison. Mr. Smith's
prison experience, together with the deep interest he has for the
welfare of the prisoners, seems to indicate him to be the