Deseret Evening News | 1900-02-07 | Page 4 | Denver Post

Denver Post There are many things In the Xen tucklan character which one cannot tall fall to admire and ond not a few tew which or are worthy of at emulation but time the shotgun theory which has hILJ pla played so no conspIcuous ous a part In lis it publio life lite cannot be too heartily condemned It Is n a theory which public sentiment has sustained mores morell time the pity It 11 Is the duel In n a changed but even more deadly form lorm Whether n a man Is right or wrong If under certain conditions he kills his enem enemy not Is II ho he not punished but his act Is and ht he Is lauded as n a hero The outgrowth of I such conditions and such pUblic sent senti I fluent ment Is that the Iho carrying of at firearms I Is encouraged for tor each citizen knows known that under certain conditions he be must protect himself 1 human uman life Is there tore fore cheapened ned and the liberty which the more responsIble enjo enjoy degenerates Into license among the Irresponsible the brutal and Funda mentally the both wrong and It breeds turmoil riot and anar anarchy hy It makes mi most t ImpossIble the peaceful settlement ot of contests Into which human enter