Show THE TUE TOUGH ELEMENT S There are people who say sar It is too bad to to death death-a youth of 22 The answer is that it is worse than too bad for foi a 8 hoodlum of 20 to shoot to death and rob roba a peaceable citizen whose only crime was that he his labor was trying to make an honest living by and his brain And we believe police officers will generally agree that the criminal they most dread is is the country hoodlum The chief of police at t Chicago told a gentleman once that the police of or that city had but one fear and that was of a country conn- conn try hoodlum and he be added The only thing you youcan can qan an do with them is s to kill them t H We would vo ld not spend any t time me on t this is subject except that right light in this city and vicinity thero there j r are r a lot Af of young ol toughs ol who vho need constant watching g and who as the they have hayo proved are arc all ready to back an any p whim of theirs with murder if necessary counting on their youth to get away war T f A man mau was cx executed at the tho penitentiary recently re re-I re who after robbing a house ran amuck and killed an n innocent man on the street He was not l half alf as guilty as was this young man that was shot to d death ath yesterday One had committed a robbery and was trying to get away the other collm committed t ed murder to consummate a robbery And I while hiIe it is s terrible that in this enlightened ed age men have to be executed for their crim crimes s it itis is still more terrible to to have lave that kind kincl of wretches loose on a con community And this fact emphasizes another nother fact tact which we have often laid before the tho people of this city w which I cl is that after a man has been convicted once and map sent ent to the penitentiary convicted convicted of some t capital capiti l crime th that t man neY never never r ought to be be given J freedom W We ought ough to have lave a a penal island d to send nd th them rn to We Ve have hav the island we ought to have naye the Ule law Jaw to compel l sending them away especially especially es es- es- es after they have been twice convicted of w what t may be called a c capital pital er crime me Were such stich sucha a a raw law in force now it would el clear ar the country of or ofa ora a great many hundred desperate men men- who are not only orly a a. a m menace nace themselves but hut who teach younger O men mei with evil e instincts how howl to carr carry on their work The first law of nature is self preservation and that applies to communities a as well as individuals A crazed wretch killed a s' s yoman woman on Sunday night last because h he was infatuated with her and further claimed that she owed him 1300 Every few days das there come accounts o of fiendish murders in i all parts of the country Yesterday a triple hiple murder mur mut der was reported from om Kansas Wo We have the high binders in San Francisco we have the black hand handin in New York we have a lawless element north and south that fear nothing but physical pain and there ought to be some change in the punishment I of these creatures and if they knew of a certainty that if they committed a a. crime rime they would be convicted con con- con con- and then punished in such a a way wa- that they w would uld ce cease se to be any onY mor more a menace to society i j i 3 a good many of them would change their ideas and not vant want to be he published as heroes through s sonic some awful crime that they had committed To say y we weI I cannot cannot control the lawless classes is to say that I ours ours is an n impotent government state and national I Iland and land it is to invite the toughs of the whole earth to come come to us to pursue their sinister calling I I |