Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1900-11-25 | Page 5 | The Porter Lynching

THE PORTER LYNCHING To the Editor of The Herald The discussion of John Porters fate i might continue indefinitely I am sorry to admit there are adherents to both sides of or this question But let not Salt Lakes parents stand under the mis misrepresentation misrepresentation representation in your our Saturdays issue made by b A Mother Let me with the kindliest of feelings correct that lady fr I believe she wits was w s snot not expressing her better self but wrote when wilen w en she was wan angry She said I that not only th the fathers but the mothers of this city regret that hey they were not present to add fuel to the flames She should have said sald that I Isome some fathers and mothers under heat I of passion assion have bave sucH regrets Thank God not all an of the childrens guard a n is isare isare are endowed with such Instincts 5 i iThe The lady was right when she John Porter to a beast But lie was I of pf human form and should have come under th tha just lar l s framed to meet lila his case Laws made by an honorable body I Io of o 01 cool calculating men laws representing I seating our present degree of C intelligence Intelli Intelligence gence and humanity I ILEt Let me rue me direct th tn lad la ly A ti I J also to the fact that Jt necessary ne essary to destroy dest oy beasts fathers anti aad 1 i mothers and all the guardians of Y should seek the most humane methods available and take no frenzied delight in being pr or to make more I brutish the scene of execution r rA A FATHER