| Show SENTIMENT AND everyone from the hangman to the editors of the electric journals is protesting against the use of electricity as a means of ing prisoners condemned to death the former objects to it because it I 1 takes the bread out of his mouth the latter because he considers it the debasement of science speaking on the subject the inventive age says taking facts as we find them in europe as weir as in this country the executioner is a synonym for all eliat is hori ble so repulsive is the taking of life to loathed is the man who takes it under the obligations of official duty that alie hangman in this country is always concealed so that it may not be known by whose hand a felon dies it is proposed now to load all this odium all this horror all this popular execration on electric science to make the electrician the hangman against this we protest and we do so with the firm conviction eliat our protest is in the interest of civilization of the advancement van cement of society in all that contributes to our material moral intellectual and social well being this seems to be straining the point several volts too much it is no time for science to call a halt for the cause of sentiment science has brought electricity into the world and devoted it to the use of maa ifa incomplete its addan j tag Tare his as are alshits I 1 its virtues and its faults if it is used to revive and bring bt cac the dying why should it not also be need to take away life |
