Show 9 J f L Lumbering bering Justice J R we have proudly boasted FOR F many years i perhaps with justification th that t we as Americans are more progressive than the British who we have been prone to classify as s s a a. slow moving people but sometimes we vonder wonder in the light of the history of facts of the works of the courts and the board of pardons if figuratively speaking the b boot ot is not on the other foot It takes lakes a couple of years here to convict a murderer and place him before the firing squad We Ve know of no case on record where a murderer has paid with his life Ufe within six months after the commission commission com corn mission of The crime Recent examples are furnished in the cases of Howard De DeWeese Weese Nick Steve Maslich George Gardner and Omer Orner B. B R. R Woods Court ourt procedure here in involves tremendous us time Compared with with England we are tre hundreds hundreds hun hun- of years ears behind Even Chief Chief Justice Taft of the United States s supreme preme court admits this as a fact We Ve are supposed to to model I our our laws after those of England but bur it H is admitted by able jurists that more time is consumed consumed con cun- in list listening to legal technicalities than thanin in getting at the roots of the case to to determine deter deter- determine mine whether or r not the law av has been broken When a man is sentenced for a crime in England such sentence stands There have hav been only ony a t comparatively few cas casi- casi where the sentence of the court has been reduced There is no board of pardons to determine when a mans man's sentence should expire The court ourt on the m merits rits of the case passes judgment judgment judg judg- ment according to law v. Tile The home secretary is the official who may may review a case aft after r the of of appeals has passed upon same When a a. man is sentenced to death in England England En En- gland chances hant s are re he will di die on the gallows within hi s six weeks eks after such pronouncement i l IllS nis time for the tue appeal to the me court of app appeals als The case of the notorious Dr Crippen is is an example of swift British jus jus- jus- jus tice No No maudlin sympathy is 1 to intervene The only question is whether whether- a Q aman man is guilty or not guilty A man must die for murder in England I It t is is' s' s the law and f fhe e law is respected It will be a a. splendid day for America when hen she zhe follows England in such affairs There is little respect for for- forthe t the e law here ere As a result of this lack of respect for law we find that last year in Chicago with a a. population of I approximately souls t there ere were more murders committed than in the whole of the United Kingdom with ith a Q population Of 0 f or fifteen t times mes as great 1 l We Ve allow persons to go about with firearms fire fire- arms dangling in their pockets They are charged with carrying concealed weapons They rhey pay pay a a. fine Not so in England The possessor pbs essar must go to jail In addition to the charge cJ arge of possession the English Englis usually saddle saddie sad sad- dle die another charge with intent to commit murder er o or robbery which re results ull in a 1 long Jong ong term I J A man who carried a gun gun- gunin in England and held up a pedestrian would create a a. sensation sensa sensa- tion It I is a safe bet also that he w would r uld be li Jj banished to pris prison n for life Here we give t them e n a Q month month or or maybe a year or two in prison rison and consider that a thug of that type I has paid has paid his debt to society Yea we have 1 splendid conception of the sacredness of Human htman life compared to England have we wen we n not t When men are sentenced here for das crimes rimes there immediately crops up up a Q gallery of defenders who who- plead that there i is a humanitarian side to consider And this this's s 's same ne humanitarianism has cost cost thousands of innocent lives It is about time that we t of stock of ourselves It is enough to make us bow our heads in fn shame when we consider consider consider con con- sider how justice is exacted in England and how hos injustice works here The cases of George W. W Parry and S. S W. W Rose in which h both were granted leniency by bythe the board of pardons could never happen in England The men committed crimes for which they should have paid to 10 the full fulI extent of df the law A court decision apparently means little in an this commonwealth In England England England En En- gland it itis is all meaning There is no devia devIa- tion I Yes once in a while we ive can oan turn to England We can justly boast of our industrial industrial indus indus- trial and com commercial erd l supremacy but when it comes comes to the enforcement of the law and the respect of the law if w we are at all fair minded must bow to we the authorities across the Atlantic I |