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Show 4 THK BEK ed is of an age where he can be held accountable for his actions, and where his reasoning powers are such that he. can be held morally responsible for the enormity of the act. It seems this young man Majors has arrived at an age where he knew how to engage in scrapes of this sort; that he admits he has been involved in other difficulties; that he is a youth with a bad reputation and all that sort of thing. He was tried hastily it is true, but up to this time people have declaimed against the tedious delays which permitted criminals to escape, because of witnesses dying, forgetting facts and for numerous other causes, From the best lights which can be obtained on the matter it would appear that those who desire tis young mans sentence commuted believe he would be better off by being imprised for life. That it would be meet and proper to condemn him to a cell for the balance of his days where he mightsitand ruminate over the evil he has done. There are more ways than one of looking at this matter. In the first place which is the safest plan for society, for the protection of which laws are made? If this young man isincarcerat-e- d for life he has two.way.of escaping the full measure of his. term. He can behave so admirably and meekly that, after a term of years,- whcnVthe main facts shall have been, forgetten by all except the widow, and the children . of the honest and law, abiding officer who went down to his death, another lot of women another, lot of. ministers can go before a board of ' pardons and have him released, Will that be ample punishment. On the other hand he may knock a prison guard on the head, kill him and makegood his escape. This latter course has been adopted by many lifers in prisons all over the land. So after all, will not. the carrying out of the death penalty be the best plan? It may. sound cruel to urge the execution of a fellow being, but what protection has society unless it's decrees are enforced? A great deal is being said about reforming criminals, but the cases are the exception and not' the vast and mighty rule. Besides, there are divers physical reasons, known to every prison warden in the world why life imprisonment, under the ordinary course pursued, is not successful. Of these reasons those who urge the reclamation of a murderer.by life imprisonment, know nothing. .They are subrosa,so to .speak. The motives of. the. good people who are urging thiscourse.ought not be questioned,. because they are. no., doubt sincere, but.the, result is a. proper, topic - i v . . for discussion and should be debated, and debated in the interests of the people for whose benefits statutes are en- acted. In this connection we clip the following from the Provo Enquirer of June 15 . , Another effprt is being made to se- cure the pardon of Tom Williams, a murderer stmt up from Provo some fourteen or fifteen years ago. for life. The general verdict at the time of the trial for that life imprisonment was too mild a sentence, and now to turn the convict loose would appear to be rank injustice History always repeats itself in these cases. President flcKInley TllOSC wllO liaVC beCIl u. Politico, watching the movements of President McKinely for the past few months and comparing them with his tactics during the compaign of 1896 can not fail to observe the great difference between the mothods then employed to gain an election and the ones now resorted to in his plainly appearent desire to secure a Somehow, while a truely American citizen hates to think of him in that light, the word used by Senor De Lome in that famous letters to. Editor Canelajas of the Madrid Eraldo, politicastro, will come up. in the mind at times. This word means a low politician. During the campaign of 1896 Mr. McKinley,, acting entirely under the orders of Chairman Mark Hanna of the Republican National committee, scrupulously avoided going away from home.. Excursion after excursion was arranged for and thousands of working-mentoalleged workingmen) were compelled by. masters who had it in their power to keep the bread out of the. mouths, of their employes to throng the front yard of William McKinley at his. Canton, O. home, and shout, applaud and hurrah whenever the candire-electi- to-wi- on. t: r, date of the Eastern aristocrats appeared at, his open door and indulged in a meaningless phrases. Now we find the President a, much braver man. First he makes a tour of the south to receive the plaudits of a people who, rightly enough, give him all the credit due him for the successful prosecution obthe war with Spain. Next we. see him attending the Omaha exposition and being yelled into the seventh heaven by a people more fond of bread and a circus than a policy of equity. Since then there have been frequent trips to various. sections and the. president has had his;ears tickled with the vivas of a people, whose brains, it has been thought by some modern Carlyles, are in inverse ratio to their avordupois. few. , Why all these little junketing trips unin less it be with a view to a 1900? Yet, all this while there is a war going on with the Filipinos which the people would like to see soon ended. It is not any honor to us that, after wiping out two Spanish fleets, capturing Manila And Santiago and bringing Spain to sue for peace in a astonishingly short peroid of time, our valiant soldiers should be compelled to remain in the. Philippines for so long a time to settle matters with a few negritos. Something is wrong. Does Mr. McKinley and the Hanna adminUtra-tio- n want to indefinitely prolong the Philippine affair for the purpose of influencing the coming presidential campaign? The unnecessary prolongation of a struggle which ought to be pushed through in a manly way and settled to the honor of our country and the benefit of the world, combined with the excursions presidential speech-makin- g to various sections, would lead an impartial observer to the conclusion that there is a great deal of a politican in re-electi- , Mr. McKinleys make-up- . on A man who big enough to be the president of the United States- should be a statesman, and that is the direct antithesis of a politician. So long as Rome had state.-me-n for, her. emperors she ws great and the world was bettered for her ex; istence even though sHedid rule with a rod of iron, but when the cheap politicians came to the top and the Mistress of the World fell into their hands then began her decadence. For the glory of our country, Mr. McKinley should not descend from the position of statesmanship, into which the people have elevated him, to adopt the craft and guile of. the cheap politician! is - Ve have a spread of in this city this summer. a yellow fever epidemic- scarlet-feve- r There will be next year. Watch for the yellow badges on paid political pedestrians in 1900. - - - The Beaver County Blade has is- sued a 30 page supplement in book form, descriptive of the resources of the country contiguous. It is a very complete work. When Merchant T. W. Nauman assaulted Dr. E. P. Miller and then rushed over to Police Judge Timmoriy to pay a fine without awaiting the formality of an arrest he was quite too businesslike. You must learn 'to look at things from a professional point'of view. .Mr. Nauman. Courts are not run like shops. Patience is as much a characteristic of the courts as patients are of the doctors. . |