Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-10 | Page 4 | Press Comment

PRESS COJDIB The Evening Post supplies a little cold comfort to Democrats and a timely rebuke re-buke to uncandld Republican partisans in showing that the Fiftyfirst Confess was quite as bad if not as incompetent as the FiftjtlJlrd It recalls the fact that the 6nReedMcKinley regime squandered a surplus of 1G00000 increased in-creased the pensions 575000000 gave 310 000000 to augai growers reduced the ffolfl reserve to the danger point and had Bonds prepared for a government loan which however it managed to tide over and unload on the Cleveland administration administra-tion New York World It would seem that there has been a large Increase In crime In Michigan during the past year or two but there is no evidence that crime has been caused b > the fact that the death penalty Is not Imposed In this stateAnn Arbor Register There is before or at the time of commuting com-muting a crime a thought of the penalty which the law imposes upon that crime The thought of a severer penalty naturally natur-ally deters the criminal from the overt act or causes moderation when Intense passion is 4 aroused In premeditated murder the criminal counts first on escaping es-caping conviction hut failing in this his next thought is the penalty whether it be Imprisonment for life or swinging upon the gallows Before the perpetration perpetra-tion of crime tho deprivation of lifo Is the most dreaded of all penalties Naturally Natur-ally people cling to life as the dearest of all treasures Lapeer Clarion The Salem correspondent of the Portland Port-land Oregonian says It is currently reported here that an unsuccessful effort was made to got a statement from Mr McBride since elected to succeed Senator Dolgh In favor of the free coinage of silver and that his position Is that hIs h-is favorable to coinage of silver so far as It can be Coined without threatening the parity This 1 of course Is substantially substan-tially Ihe doctrine of the last Republican platform At least one of the members of the legislature who was Irrevocably opposed to anv trifling with fieesilver fallacies satisfied himself that Sir Me Bride was sound on the money question before he voted for him