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J Jackson Quotes Scripture I re regret ret exceedingly exceeding that my ury recent mild comment on the ther subject of capital pu punishment r should have so excited our friend Colonel as s to threaten him with nervous pros pros- I admonish him to be becalm calm the the alm-the the worst is yet to come It is a shocking thing thing- to take human life To my mind wind the saddest st on civilization civilization civili civili- is that t after 2000 years of Christian teaching we are still willing to shed our brothers brothers' brothers brothers' brothers brothers' broth broth- ers' ers blood Certainly Certainty it is bad enough when a n man in hi the heat of passion with reason dethroned dethroned de- de thron d and self control overcome overcome over overcome come by hy savage instinct strikes down his fellow But what can we say in defense of the state stat which deliberately with calmness and unconcern le leads ds its victim to the gallows allows r rind Dud commits the crime it seeks to punish F u say that the state leP leal legal le- le P gal al its action I remind you that you u cannot legalize by law lawan t an act which Jo io is morally wrong The state cannot canot C n lot legalize burg- burg tor or gambling ambling horse horse steal steal steal- iu fir m murder Th The e moral In law lawis w i is foundation of d dt d hd the basis upon which ich nil all d over g-over government ment must rest Whenever a n state at- at to le legalize ai ze the taking of JuT an life it overturns the theU foundation U of Christian philosOphy philos philosophy ophy and steps back into the dark lark and aud bloody cave cae of barbar barbar- ism The colonel says We Ve cannot cannot cannot can can- not stop the murderers the therapists therapists therapists rapists the time low bred etc etc except ex ex- except x- x by kiI killing ing them off Stop the breed he says and thereby thereby there there- b by improve and grade rade up the race I. I Very well let us us' examine theory of killing off the fife breed 11 If it is right t to kill off one defective breed then it is isri ri right ht to kill all defective thye breeds Let us then kill all thieves liars liars libertines etc These do dov v Sa vastly y more harm to society in I proportion to their numbers cumbers than then do the murderers Then here ere is a n vast army of individuals teals afflicted with incurable t- t and an and d d. d diseases the diseases the the ther r consumptive the insane Insane th the decrepit and deformed IH here rc are I the the l halt and the blind the lazy r rand and nd the ignorant ignorant all all all defective defective breeds Shall we not kill these off ff also Since we are to use the pruning knife on the race ee ree let us make a clean job of oft t Let us weed out every y hum hur hu- hu r m man deformity of mind and pris- pris prisons body t set the torch to our prist pris- pris fons ons asylums and reformatories ies send forth the scavengers o cut off and destroy destro all who fall short of the flag standard of er f echon True rue this may seem a n cruel mid and bloody undertaking this undertaking this S killing off the bre breed but but d but contemplate what a clean orderly race you will wil have e a after havin having killed off all aU defective e breeds and burned up ell human underbrush and rub Tub bi hl Perhaps there wouldn't t e many of earths earth's inhabitants t remaining but but but certainly it is is' to p be hoped oiled that Col Shanks nd a chosen few might be sayd say sav d d who could start U the race racer r I ok over o main again k Crime is is' is an ugly thing tinder under un tin- der every ery condition But I have luwe never ne known a man so bad that he lie did n not t have some some good in him And tend I never have known i n man so good that he did not have lave some bad in him The almost universal CAUSE of crime is Ignorance Ig Poverty and Greed The sure way to cure cr crime crimes ll is s to Cure the Cause of Crime Murder l never murder The motives and methods of are many I In a fire which destroyed a n New York I shirtwaist factory factor recently girls were vere burned to death The factory owners O refused to provide tire lire escapes Fire Eire escapes escapes escapes es es- es- es capes cost money They had locked the doors also so that their workers might not leave until the last minute of their I working working- day had elapsed When the fire broke out the girls piled in in heaps against the bolted doors and suffocated and burned burned burn burn- ed d to death They were murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered by the GREED of their emp employers Yet these factory owners were neither fined tined imprisoned nor executed The court ourt exonerated ed d them fro from l all nH blame But on the next next day day if a hungry and rind homeless tramp in inthe inthe inthe the act of stealing a loaf of ofA A bread read had beery been assailed and had lad killed his assailant he would have been hurried without without without with with- out ceremony to the time electric chair and nd executed Arent Aren't we a q a little mixed in our ideas about justice T In 11 a number of states capital punish has long ago be been abolished and the criminal statistics in these states show conclusively that the death penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty had no deterrent effect upon upon up up- pon p- p on crime Men about to commit comit commit com com- mit it murder do not stop to contemplate contemplate con- con template the penalty of their act i What hat would would I do with criminals criminals criminals crim- crim crim crim- I I would imprison them for forthe forthe forthe the the safety of society and their own welfare I would surround theta them not with an atmosphere of hate revenge e and brutality as at present present but but with kindness kindness kindness kind kind- ness consideration and good will I would u recognize ize that men who commit a u crime are arc often mentally diseased and usually the victims of circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances beyond their control I would treat their diseases mental physical and spiritual I would set them at work wort and let them reimburse the state by their labor for its care of them If they earned more than their keep tI the e balance should go to those they had wronged ed edby by their crime Finally 1 should strive not notto notto notto to forget that the only way to abolish crime is to destroy destro the social and economic conditions inns which produce a and amid d foster it Maybe as the colonel says all this is anarchistic nr doc doc- trine layt Maybo u it would destroy destroy destroy de stroy the Republic I leave this question with the intelligent intelligent intelligent intelli intelli- gent reader to decide MORTON NORTON ALEXA ALEXANDER DI l. l |