| Summary: | In the letter Fort states that members of the committee "are not sentimentalist," nor are they "influenced by union labor." Rather, their sole interest is the "welfare of our State" and the belief that "convicts should be treated sensibly and humanely." They oppose extending the date for ending the lease system until March 31, 1927, as the result will be "endless buck-passing." They "conceive this convict leasing system as a moral issue" that cannot be measured in economic terms, and they urge the passage of the bill introduced in the Senate that only "carries out the already expressed will of the voters of the state."
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