| Show a daring and dastardly effort was made the other night to wreck a Short Line pay train Fortunately the pot was discovered In time to prevent a tragedy and still more fortunately the would be wreckers were captured While they are young men the crime they undertook is so atrocious that no light I punishment will be commensurate There are crimes for which excuses I may be made of which one feels that society brings upon itself For instance in-stance when a man steals bread like I Jean Yaljean to feed the famished or i when he finds that no redress for actual ac-tual Injuries may be had through the I law and tries to avenge himself or I j I when he discovers that certain courts are the allies of corporations and tires I of seeking justice at their hands or j when he destroys the serpent that invades I vades his Eden he may always count upon a measure of human sympathy among his fellowbeings Even the robber with his mask and pistol excites a certain admiration for courage is always entitled to credit and I the highwayman risks his own life in J such undertakings But sneaks who I place obstructions upon railroad tracks to kill innocent people for the fiendish I pleasure that it affords and the chance to loot the dead and dying are worse I than average brutes I Not a feeling is bestowed upon them but loathing and contempt They take I no chances They never expose themselves them-selves Like Apaches they lie in ambush am-bush not for the foes of fheir people not for the purpose of carrying out I Ian I-an Inherited revenge but with hellish designs upon their own people Such creatures are the meanest most cowardly i cow-ardly brutes that breathe It is a misfortune I mis-fortune to the world that they were ever born into It j I They deserve the severest penalty i that can be meted out to them A long < term of imprisonment may not cure j their deformities character but it will < relieve society of their presence while j it lasts 0 |
