Show T J iO I f ELEGRAPHIC BEEfJHER I llllelpllssg Ihe Pro 8cutiO a > ad j yOeaU1 Hxa B Hew York 25 Beecher in his Thanksgiving sermon yesterday said Out of the trial which now appears laughter to be going on at Washington it there should come a better definition of a nature which is responsible for a wrong it would be some compensation for the difguat it now inspire Some outcome to sbow that meteorbred natures are not outside of moral laws is needed Such an outcome determining by found and legal authority the limitations of human nature will satisfy us for the prolongation pro-longation of a trial which looks now like a fight between an imbecile judge on one aide of the bench and a vagrant fool on the other applause It looks like an idiotic court trying to find the wicked insane A voice Ibatg so But we look on hoping hop-ing that out of tbia gestation a child of hope will he born that from a patience mistimed and patient brooding there will come thefbirth of better times when those sane enough to organize crimes and accomplish ac-complish them will be considered sane nough to be hanged applause I am not specially in favof of hanging but if there ever was a case for it there is one now I am not specially predjudiced against hanging if we only get the right man to hang but in our modern civilization civili-zation it is better to put a man in a hole where no one can see him than to haag him yet the better way may not on occasion be as good aa the worse way Hanging ought not to increase and if done at all should be in absolute seclusion seclu-sion with only one or two witnesses to see that the law is regularly accomplished accom-plished It would cause more terror to the brutal classes to see a man move in the dark and come forth only for trial and then pass away with no tidings or sound of him |