Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-19 | Page 11 | To Die like a Man

w i T To Die Like a Mant Man Man Man- J L V r fr t t mis f pS noble to die like a 13 man There can J 3 be climax to useful ul life 3 t f no more fitting a use life but ut to die dk like a man one must also live like nian ayrian One cannot defy the highest principles prin- prin p s of manhood through life and then in q moment 1 of courage claim to die like a 13 t man v ye We often hear it said that the felon con- con to death died like a a man Surely tup who is tied t to a chair chai with a target over heart for sins sms sm's against humanity and Crimes r ag against society cannot make this claim propriety I T Even the stoic in this Uis predicament predicament for a fe which had ad cost him the last vestige of r from society does not die like l a m man n. n Stoicism St ic is not redemption and no man wipes tt an ill spent life by a fearless death He Heh h would die as a man must must- first live according r o-r to the best principles of manhood Omer 1 R. R Woods died the lowest death l to man stoically for one of the J st fiendish fi crimes on record in Utah He d f ted of murdering his wife to get insurance O on 1 her life and attempting to burn lier body in in their h home me l here ere Th The stoicism 1 i. i displayed in in his l last st minutes on earth could not reclaim i thc manhood he might once nce c had tl He can c'an came to the worst end cud the vilest death death n can suffer Society condemned him f iff death because it considered that he had Det outraged the laws laws' of God and man Nasty till 1 business bushs 1 ss fo for society the soft hearted will say o 0 What Wh else IS to be done No human mind C approaches aches ches this problem without some sonic mis mis- g iii The executioners the courts and the officials who c condemn sand jand consign the I f to his death death in deference to their obligations g to the law they law they do not pass through ih c with ith easy minds It lt is ia a a nasty bu business ess which each and every one one of them w to escape but it is a r responsibility sp n i- i t that mu must t be met Ii I I 4 Murder must be discouraged and this demands de de- de- de mands tl it must b be e avenged avenge l. l The long h has s be been n tried and found wanting Murder is is a i. i despicable crime and demands the It ste sternest l punishment that can be given HowD How D 0 would who condemn capital punishment w m meet t th the problem of a growing list of murders murders mur mur- c. c ders which has already ady reacHed readied disgraceful ca ca' ca proportions V Would uld they forgive and thereby a Do Db they not Ow owe something to the victims hose whose time lime on earth eart was cut unduly 0 on As A it x exists tod today y the problem is merely one of choosing between en the undesirable task I of consigning a murderer to his Eis death and i c ing the act f which is repugnant to every I t 11 honest 0 and d' d citizenship Which is I the greater blot on society Tt There e e seems seems to be no other solution I