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...strangest of song recitals was given here the other day. The soloist was a recently released convict who was billed with no further name than his prison number -562. He sang half a dozen songs in a magnificent tenor. One of these, dedicated to his wife, was a' member of a group of 150 compositions that he wrote in prison...
These amazing figures which would convict the exchanges as being little better than huge gambling rings were punctured by the equally amazing revelation by the New York Evening Post that the Government's petition had been prepared so hastily that in every case the decimal point was placed two places too far to the left! The discrepancy between fact and figure in the matter of the world's supply of sugar was found to be even more significant. The petition stated that the Department of Commerce " estimates the 1922-23 world production of sugar...
FLORIDA: The investigation of the Florida peonage system whereby convict laborers are flogged by " whipping-bosses " has revealed incidents fully as brutal and gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish...
State Senator Wicker was the only man voting against the measure. Said he: " There are lots of things I don't know anything about, but there are two things I do know about. They are mules and Niggers. You want to abolish the flogging of convicts, but I tell you corporal punishment is the only way a convict Nigger can be controlled...
FLORIDA: The Grand Jury, which has investigated Florida peonage cases in which convict laborers have been whipped to death, is now examining Paul Revere White, a convict who worked in a turpentine camp in Bradford County, Florida. White testified that because he was unable to do as much work as the Negro convicts he was given five lashes with an eight pound strap, each lash knocking him on the ground and cutting deep gashes in his flesh. Hearings will be continued until the jury has amassed sufficient evidence upon which to base indictments...