ill. Nowhere can reformation become the rule
instead of the exception, where this choice of the same things by prison
keepers and prison inmates has not been attained."

They assert, too, that the officers should possess a hearty desire and
intention to accomplish the object of reform in the prison. Regarding
these officers they also say thus:

"In order to the reformation of imprisoned criminals, there must also be
in the minds of prison officers a serious conviction that they are
capable of being reformed, since no man can heartily pursue an object at
war with his inward beliefs; no man can earnestly strive to accomplish
what in his heart he despairs of accomplishing. Doubt is the prelude of
failure; confidence a guaranty of success. Nothing so weakens moral
forces as unbelief; nothing imparts to them such vigor as faith. 'Be it
unto thee according to thy faith,' is the statement of a fundamental
principle of success in all human enterprises, especially when our work
lies within the realm of mind and morals."

Finally, they assure us that "work, education and religion (including in
this latter moral instruction) are the three great forces to be employed
in the reformation of criminals."

CONCLUSION.

The two systems of prison management, previously alluded to, are now
before the reader so far as these pages have elucidated, the
_reformatory_ on the one hand, and the _punitive and money-making_ on
the other. And which do you prefer? Will your choice be for the honest
effort to raise up the fallen, to do our duty to the erring, to throw
what influences can be about these disturbers of society to lead them to
become upright citizens? Or, will it fall upon the crushing, cruel,
vindictive course, the process of making them more debased, sordid,
revengeful? Do you prefer manhood-producing with its benign effects, or
money-making attended with the blighting of the higher aspirations of
the soul? This subject has been taken up in the narrative form, that the
writer could the more easily, by incidents, and in the briefest way,
bring out the peculiarities of the two systems in their workings and the
animus impelling them. He has brought forward nothing in the line of
facts and incidents except what had come under his own observation, or
been so reported to him that he had no doubt of its truthfulness. Many
of the incidents in Part II. he would gladly have passed in silence,
regretting exceedingly the necessity of b