Show A Womans Woman's Viewpoint on Capital Punishment Continued from last week Mr Nr Morton Al Alexander er has handled this tills question in in your paper ao so o ably and clearly that it seems like a assumption on oil im impart my lily part t to take up even a thread of f the controversy ersy B But u t if thinking people who ar are e lovers loers of justice justic and fair play would publicly ar argue ue this question giving their o 0 w n honest opinion for or or against what a n help it would be to the thc whole world I jO join 1 hands hand's with Mr Nr Morton lorton Alexander JI He has I expressed my life lie long views vies on oil this subject so o much letter better than I ii could But I Isay Amen to every ever ery e word he has written wI ritten I However cr I J dont don't want Mr l I V. W. J. J Jackson JJackson J to think Iain mn op 01 opposed posed to punishment for such 01 or any crimes crimes Again ain I turn l to the good good old Book and it substantiates my opinion that strenuous punishment is ah ab- ab necessary Ve We read there that as a n man Ulan that shall he also reap Thou by no menuS means come coine out thence thence- till thou them the uttermost fr farthing I heard an old convict tell something of his hia experience when he lIe was COn condemned d to fo solitary conf solitary for one week for for some offence c ing I his lis imprisonment H Hp that thatto to be utterly p m with his thoughts thoughts' ts for justi one little w gk not allowed to speak to toi i the IC man who gave gaTe him his meals once a aday day dav and not heating hearing hearing hear heat ing a a human voice or or an any sound sound whatever was torture any description J Just think of it H Who Vho of us t li who have hae lave not committed an awful crime would willingly gly stay alone with just our conscience could endure the trial All the small smaIl evils f we have hae committed would ir grow w. w to an arm army of accusing accusing- angels s and reason Everone Everone Ever er one would vastly prefer death I 1 agree with Mr Alexander that there is no rio one ne so bad baci without some little good in him him lim or so good without some bad in him hinl so where shall we dr draw w the time line If we would rid the wo ld of criminals we must live better and cleaner deaner liY lives s and set better hetter examples It is awfully awfully- hard Ilard to be good hence lence we must be n more ore charitable chant chant- able with those who i find nd it awfully easy casy to be bad To 30 eliminate crime we we must go to o can cau causes ses not to effect and as Mr Nr Alexander says the tile cam causes s sare are ire many He es nee atice poverty erty and I add envy jealousy hate ambi- ambi ion tion When these evils Hs are hewn down and cast h into to the t fire then crime will grow le less s sand and nd less until it vanishes from Ii human luman U a n coil c it u S 11 CS S Fm Franz n z Junius unius in the sixteenth century ry said in an oration The Tue lives ives of the tile best hest of us are spent n between two evils Ve are none of us sure that our ur individual opinion is the tile thea a ely correct one and as ns asit ast it t is with us us' us usa a choice of evils if we choose the tile least the tile o one le that hat causes Mie he least ny fly y every time our our progress out out tit of of imperfection will be ue rapid But how many of us live ive UI up to our ur hi highest hest concept of f right Hatred I is hell It causes canses t to sink their sink their better natures into wicked and irreparable deeds In a l moment of passion men kill their i- i fellow men low How are we to adjust the question question question ques ques- tion H Have c we we tint yet grown above alOVe the lite life for a life doctrine O a the pity of it Buddha taught a better doctrine more than five hundred years jears before i Chri Christ t. t I-I I He I-fe s said id Hatred does not Ilot cease cease bv t hatred hatrel hatred ce ceases ses 1 by hy love Joe this tI is the thc eternal rule And he also said All A l that we are is the tile result of what what we ha have hae e thought it is founded on our thou thoughts it is made macic up of our thoughts If a man speaks or acts nets with ai nil an anevil evil thought pi pin pain in fellows him himas as the wheel l follows the foot o of him who draws the carriage Pythagoras more than five C hundred 1 years before Christ said None can be free who is a slave to and ruled ruled by his Lucius A Se Seneca eca who lived liVel during during- the lif life of Christ t said in an nn oration on Anger Anger er i is not only a Vice bu bua but buta n a Vice point blank a t Nature for it divides instead of joining and in some sonie measure measure measure meas meas- ure frustrates the E End n d of ol PIC Providence e in In human Society One Man Nan was born to help another aIr aIr- an ni- other An Anger cr ll makes us u- ud d destroy destro stroy one another r the one unites unite the other separates the tile one is beneficial to us the tile other de destroys destroys de- de Ie-I Ie even eyel the most intimate in friends The one ventures al alto all to save sae another the other ruins himself to undo another Nature Nat Nut ure nrc is bountiful but An Anger er eris is is' pernicious For it is not Fear 1 but mu that binds bi up up Mankind S So I might go on nn tely te- te 1 ly 13 CJ quoting from orators s anc and writers to st strengthen my point Murder is not destroyed by b murder a life for a n life does coes not destroy the act of if crime True that man cannot kill another another an nn- other because another d by c civil law kills him so in that case one evil destroyed another another another an an- other ei evil Every Even man woman and child chile who commits an offence against the time moral law must suffer the I consequences As individuals p pwe we ve ve learn from from th the things w we suffer stiffer a and d if we are wise we will ill not lot repeat repeal the tile offence But there are many who do donot not Ilot profit by experience experienc but bur I go on from froni mistake to crime cnn ic null anti thereby learn that flInt e e er cry ery f fIn In mistake ever every offence every crime brings its us own s suffering and aud I the tile la last t state of that man I shall be worse than the first 1 1 am urn a t firm nn beli believe vc in law lawand and anti order But Hut to me time it seems i ius us though some of O our tr civil laws are arc in iii in this tills age of pr pro progress gress ress a hindrance rather ather than thana a h help lp At this time when Peace Pence is the tile keynote for harmony harmo harmo- ny and prosperity is is' s' s not Ilot this law of or a life for fol- fola a u life a t travesty on our good government gC I feel eel lik like shouting from the J t house housetops tops with N Mr l r. r Alexander 5 Whenever n a state tate attempts to legalize ze the taking taking- of human lif life it overturns o th the foundation of cf If Christian istian philosophy and steps back into the dark and bloody cave of barbarism 1 Capital p punishment u ish does not f deter crime If our law makers makers mikers mak mik- ers would make just laws for meting Ot out omit punishment for Jor crimes mes and aud then see Bee that such laws are put into operation we would soon have sufficient t evidence evi evi- f deuce dence that the country will vill not be d demoralized and stronger sti I evidence that Right Hight is greater I than Wrong and that nothing r I hut but Lo Love Loe e can cnn de destroy troy hate liate J But in Ill or order 1 r to to do his this the I must 1St be oh be-oh oh I think I we ve had hett better hette e. e eliminate him hut entIre entirely I y ane and 1 consign hint him t to J the the lark dark ages ng We Vc want I men much of sound principle men who Wild are not afraid to stand for I Right ight anti and antiL L know so o so man many such men If we want to start right and Have pluck and patience enough h to work on steadily from from our principal of of- Right in inthe inthe inthe the midst of seething seething- Wrong Continued on next page i CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Continued from Page Four we will quickly find that our God who wh is if Love Lo will supply the needed st strength en th for t this b 1 battle a t t tic 1 c between Right and rong and we will Vill find finel too that victory does not not depend on numbers for God and one are a majority and with that majority ty the victory lies What is the remedy Do I parents realize their responsibility in this matter Volumes could be written on this subject I 1 cannot goo go out on our s street reet without hearing some obscene or profane language e from little children Some time a ago o some someone someone someone one here gave ga liquor to to several children two girls a among m In o 0 n g them fro from four t to about ten years of age These babes were so drunk they could not walk But oh the sadness of it the parents thought nothing nothing- of it and the authorities did nothing about it That Thatis is the way criminals are made But the criminals are punished the parents are pitied the officers of laws law are honored for their morality That is where the law of cause and effect is re re- re versed I In Scotland a club has been organized called the Mothers lothers' lothers Club I had hall ithe the pleasure re of meeting meeting- its National Pres President and organizer of the Club Mrs l C u n 11 n 11 Craig ingham in the West Vest Indies Indias I 1 was deeply interested interested interested in in- in her account of the thew w work rk and in her story stor- story of its conception and or org organization to tomake tomake tomake make better men and women of coming generations beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning the reforming reforming- work in their Such work will lift women far above the present cra craze e of Womans lomans loman's n Why oh why do women want t to dip their white I hands into the political slime For that God help the coming coining generations Too roo much cannot be said on this as it isa is isa a serious one but it is a pretty big bubble to prick Another glorious movement mo started in in England Sir Baden ad n Powell God bless him hini in ill the thc organizing g. g of the Boy Scouts A similar work was started a ri few v years ago in the city of Toledo Ohio by John Gunkle a former employee of the thc Lake Shore railroad among the newsboys and bootblacks If all parents could Kno know of the good these two men are doing for boys hos and ang the women of Scotland for forr girls surely if their hearts are in the right place they would join hands with them to destroy the thc seeds of crime then in the thc good time timeto to come as a result of such work there would be he no occasion occasion occasion oc oc- casion for the people to argue arue o over er the he ri right ht or wrong of capital punishment Human nature is the same some the world over Shakespeare knew human human hu hu- hu- hu man own nature else he would not have said in iti his King John How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make ii ill deeds done Is 8 if it not true that we ire e as individuals in in- dh spend pend m more re time in searching earch ng for the mote in our neighbors neighbor's eye than we do in iii plucking out the beam in our own Shakespeare said in his O 0 that you could turn your et er eyes s toward the napes napes nap nap- es of your our r necks ck and make hut but butan an nn interior survey of your goo good sel selves Yes If charity begins at nt home the thc work of putting down clown crime rime begins hegins in individual conscious- conscious nes ties neso Charity which is love and compassion is the attribute Ill bute hute tC of true justice low How aptly Shakespeare portrays this in hi hit his Measure Neasure for Measure Why all the souls soula that were forfeit once And He that that might the vanta vantage e best beat have took Found out the remedy How would you yoube yoube be be If He which v is the top of judgment should But judge you as you are 0 O think on that And mercy then will breathe within your lips bps I I Like man mall new made MRS Mus RS M. 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