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Show in Mm TRU IT Mi tit Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou the preseuco of the Eternal Judge slialt put away the guilt of innocent with all his imperfections on his head? the (Being personal opinions of the blood that it may go well with thee." If theo.ogy is strictly true, and these for which no one else is in t will be noted that this was nbt the people quote quite extensively, except writer, and any manner responsible). law of Moses," but the command of a man repent and become as pure as no Infinity Himself, given to the greatest a little child in heart, he can in of heaven. case enter the kingdom The punishment advo- awgiyer of ail, for dissemination we see, then, a lot of people adHere advocan the Nor His cate is again abroad in the land, the among people. the permitting of murderers recent execution of Peter Mortensen cates of the abolition of the death pen- vocating toe Kingdom, while hades shall be alty obtain any. satisfaction from the in him another having given opportunity teachings of the Nazarene. It is true the aoiding place of tae victims, for It of exploiting his peculiar ideas. The hat pe said If a man smite thee on follows that the unshriven soul is lost columns of some of the daily papers ;he one cheek, turn the other also, and aud the forgiven one saved. Ergo, be-if the victim died in his sins he goes teem with communications from his f a man compel thee to go a mile low whiie the murderer saved by grace leshim and with him go with twain," class, and many and varied are the ar- sons of such character, but that was picks out a harp. guments he presents. From some of for the purpose of teaching humility Jt J the letters, signed by nom de plume, to the individual. Nowhere do we not It is the execution of a man of abolition the Him find advocating the writer clips the appended gems: the death that is to be deplored; it is the manpenalty to a murderer, but, Capital punishment is in its very on the contrary, he urged all to do the ner in which it is done. A friend ot premises wrong. It is held by this latter- will of His Father. Who was His mine suggests a plan that commends civilization to have been found- Father, if not the Infinite One who in itself. It is this: When the murderer -day of Moab declared that the mured on the law of Moses: Whoso shed-det- h plains is convicted and the time arrives for derer should be put to death. "Think mans blood, by man shall his not," said the Christ, that I am come passing sentence, the court shall say blood be shed." The same writer, to destroy the law, or the prophets; 1 to him that, having been convicted of after deprecating this form of punish- am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." this crime of murder, the sentence be fulto was He there declared Son The ment, indulges in the folowing ex- fill the immutable law of a never that you, the said convicted, be taken tremely remarkable and disjointed changing Father. So much for that irom the court room to the state prisstatement: portion of the argument.. It is not, on and there confined until the date as has been stated, a relic of thfe dark named in the death warrant, and upon Is capital punishment ever a deterrent to the commission of crime? 1 ages," to kill a man for murder, on that date the sentence of death be wot not. oDes it ever lessen the an- the contrary, it is the execution of a out. My friend declares that nals of crime one whit? Moreover, Divine command, given when Moses carried who can deny that the custom now in stood face to face and talked with he would have no one know the date the except the sheriff and the on judge anc vogue is not demoralizing to those God. So much is the theory that of word the testament old inspired upon whom the duty of performing that the disclosure of the same by executions falls? ... Furthermore, cap- God. either should be an offense subject to ital punishment is not a punishment punishment. On( the day of the exeThe argument quoted above de- cution in the real sense of the term. To exehe would liave the sheriff go to cute a criminal is but to set the soul clared that capital punishment does the state and at an early hour free from this prison house of clay, to not lessen crime. It does. It removes in the prison morning execute the congo on its course of evolution, or invohim repeat- demned. One week later he would lution, as the case may be. It is to the criminal and prevents tile the death warrant, with its rehurl the soul of the criminal into Gods ing his offense: How about the "mer- turn in the office of the clerk of the boundless eternity wholly unprepared ciful substitute proposed; life impriswith no comment, and would to meet its maker, and who can say onment.. Does the knowledge that couit, forbid the giving out of any further his crime does not fall with an equal information. The witnesses would be life worse than imprisonment, guilt upon his slayers, and is really nothing chances to es- confined to two, who should be phya release in the body to a punishment with its never-endinwho would certify to the death he deserves? The real punishment cape or be pardoned, deter a man from sicians of condemned. The time for the the comes to those who suffer by ties of committing murder? Look at the leave-taking between the condemned blood or sympathy, with, the criminal, been cases his should be on the day have and where friends guards and follows them all through life. many was he sentenced, and never after Whereas, to punish the crime of mur- stricken down and criminals have re- that would they see him. Too much der in the first degree can have no gained liberty by walking over, their is given executions; that is hope of a commutation of sentence dead bodies. How much better it publicity under any pretext that would be pun- would have been to have exe- where the lowering of the moral tone comes in. But, surrounded with the ishment, indeed worse than death cuted than his and companion Tracy mystery and awfulness suggested, the can ever be. of to the them have opportunity effect could not help but be beneficial. given JV Jl roaming and killing in the manner they The method employed in New York is After indulging in this rhapsodical did. Graveyards are full of men who a good one, and its effects are subthis in bit of language he adds: manner, lives their lost have stantial, as shown by statistics. Murder is not to be condoned or through the efforts of these "life imcriminals getting away. excused in any one, but very often prisoned" man Let us not abolish the death penkills another in cold a When the deed is done in a moment of pas- blood, pity for him should cease and alty. We need it. We have had too sion, ofttimes from a lack of judgment he should be destroyed. But, say few executions right here in Utah. rather than from base principles, and these advocates of the abolition what greater punishment could one of the death penalty, he should Human life is cheapened by the deendure than to know he was doomed be for repentance. lays of the law and the sentences imtime to spend his life in the confines of a How given about the victim, sent into posed. There has been but one exe- state prison? CHATTER. anti-capit- please you more than to know that your cellar was full of Coal especially al g -- . . Jl Jl These clippings have been made because, weak as they are, they are the best of all the slush and gush that has been printed. Nbw let us look and see what they have to stand upon. First the quotation that is said to have been taken from the law of Moses." If this writer will turn to Numbers XXXVI he will see that "The Lord spake unto Moses in the plains o Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying: Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, bu he shall surely be put to death," And again, in Deuteronomy XIX, 11, 12 and The Lord spake unto'Moses, saying: If any man hate his neighbor and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him and smite him mortally that he dies, then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence and deliver him unto the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die. THAT GOOD COAL! BAMBERGER THE MAN ON MEIGHN STREET culion since Palsy Coughlin faced the lilies in Rich county in 1896, but sixteen murders have been committed. With the passing o Mortensen, and the coming execution ot Lynch, the slayer of i'rowsc, tho crime of murder will decrease. But spare ille and make the punishment imprisonment and the innocent biood ot many victims will cry from the ground for justice. o POLKS NEW BOOK. , The Utah State Gazatecr, published by 11. L. Polk & Co., with its 811 pages, is on tho market, and a valuable volume it is. It contains four separate and distinct departments. Pages 49 to 82 consist of a full and complete list of the Stale Officers, State Boards, Stale Judiciary, State institutions, National Guard of Utah, state Legislature, County Seats and Officers, the Utah Public School Directory (including a Hat of the City of and Superintendents County Schools, Boards of Education, School Districts and Trustees, and all of the in school teachers of the state). this department will also bo found s a lull and comp.cte list of the of the State (corrected to date); also a list of the railroads of Utah, with the names of the express post-office- companies operating over them. The second section of the work (pages 83 to 469) consists of a list of all the cities, villages, railroad stations and settlements in the state, with a descriptive sketch of each place, showing their location and topography, pdpu.ation and resources, with the names of all business and professional men following under the for each place. sketch or write-uThe third section of the work (pages 470 to G22) contains the names of all the farmers and land owners of the state, arranged by counties, giving the number of acres owned, assessed valuation of the same, and address. owners post-offic- e The fourth section of the work (pages 623 to 828) contains a general classified list of all the industries aud productions of the state, including all the trades, professions, manufactures and pursuits, as well as a list of all the Justices of the Peace, Constables, etc. Here each line of trade and profession is arranged in alphabetical order, with an alphabetical arrangement of the po8tofflces following, and thd names of all persons opposite. post-office- s, p One of our customers upon being asked what we could send him said: The last I had was good enough for ::::::::::: anybody, send me another gallon just : like it. 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