Show WOULD BE GOOD FOR UTAH ALSO nevada should take a lesson from the recent happenings over in california and among the first acts of the forthcoming session of the legislature should be the repeal of the indeterminate sentence law and the abolishment of the board of pardons says the westen weste n nevada miner judges should be at least accredited with brains enough to know what kind of a sentence to hand out to criminals when they have been convicted viche in their courts and not be confined merely to seme sentence from one year to twenty and so forth to later see the criminal no matter what his crime freed on parole or pardoned pardon ed by some tenderhearted tender hearted board of pardons after some lawyer with the sob sister stuff has worked upon them make the sentence a definite one and then let it be served to the limit take the case of the san francisco gangsters gan several of theme them were paroled or pardoned convicts had they been serving their just sentences three brave officers of the law would not today be sleeping in untimely graves and the people would not have been driven to desperation of taking the enforcement of the law into their own hands there is entirely too much maudlin sympathy and political pull mixed up with our criminal courts and prisons it takes the fear out of the hearts of thugs when they have every reason to believe and especially if they or their friends have a political pull that a sentence means only one year and then a pardon or parole then back to their criminal haunts and gangs 0 the idea of an indeterminate sentence is ridiculous to say the least to say nothing of tying the judges hands if we cant trust the wisdom and evenhanded even handed justice of our judges in handling crim nials after hearing the evidence then why in the name of common sense elect t them hem if the people cannot trust their judges to this extent then they are not fit to be elected to these positions |