Show MUD M gl I 1 TJ 11 1 1 ff 7 r i it 1 1 sy H astre TW FL kv 1 ike trian man berthar oer oller 15 rt 01 f landy polk the wah wc II known ahin 5 I 1 tourist why I 1 v under the impression th taca EAL the c dond colonel ws z a mal estate amt 1 alkali al kai i I 1 ke ousby CAPITAL punishment mr bull ballot nh ajak cakss a very AUs be fine fare te of the death penalty EDITOR JOURNAL there is something in your editorial on capital punishment isue ibue i sue of aug ann to which I 1 desire to reply but I 1 have some diffidence about bearding r the lion in his hia den however I 1 know you to 10 be an honorable gentleman and I 1 feel that you would not object to my mv doing so 80 in the first place I 1 would say that I 1 arn am sure you ree respect act tho the law aw and have no inspect fo for criminals the difference between betwee us is not here but in regard to the he mode of administering the law if you refer to me as a champion of the gallows I 1 think you do me an injustice its as what abat I 1 defend is ca capital cital punishment the law says gays that whosoever sh eddeth mail mana blood by man shall his blood be shed I 1 that this is the law and that it is right you find fault with my usiri esice the word brute in speak peaking ilig of a j murderer now I 1 can assure you that when I 1 read the deeds of such men as holmes Hern hermans ians durrant jackson and others I 1 feel more like apologizing to the brute creation ill the lavace savage tiger down to old dos dog tray in regard to 0 o persons being in incited to murder by mental injuries heart wounds and domestic troubles brought about by the victim I 1 think if you will examine the history of these crimes you will find that 45 43 out of every 50 were what we call cold blooded murder committed without any provocation at all then if A we e are to consider every criminals crimin alB birth temper disposition and moral training tia ining who would be convicted of crime no one for the lawyer would provo prove that lie he was not responsible at all but that it was his fathers or mothers fault the science of phrenology t the way its advocates teach it is in my iny opinion doing a great deal toward hindering the just administration or of the law for instance there are 3 33 35 special functions of the brain now if a finans organ of destruct should bo be mole moie prominent than any other and if lie he should commit murder he be is supposed not to 0 be responsible for the act and if the or organ oran an of comba combativeness e should be most prominent and he meet you on th estreet and kd knocks ock you down ac according cordin g to their 3 reasoning then be is not responsible and so you might go on through a all 11 the 35 33 organs and accord according I 1 n g to their reasoning there would not be I 1 a person on earth responsible for anything he does doe this measuring in of the brain is all very verv well if it could be ba done while they they I 1 are young so that every person could be placed where they could not do any harm instead of letting them be at largo large until they had committed some crime and then calling some scientist I 1 to see whether he was responsible or 01 not for his actions if I 1 understand moral aducat education ion ari aright ht it is for the subduing gub duing of these very pa and the difference between the good citizen and the bad citizen the law rep respecter ecter and the law breaker brea kera ti is that one has subdued his passions and the other has encouraged them there is another thing which is greatly advocated in all our our public schools that is to blame for a good deal of this murderous feeling which exists today it goes by the name of patriotism tile the way it is taught in our public schools incites the young with a desire to kill the child may enter the school aith a feeling of love for everybody but when n he leaves it h ho has a fe feeling elino ll 11 that no other person parson ought live except an american mr in regard to your criticism sin upon the laws of moses I 1 would r say y that I 1 ido do not think there is anything written in the english language more grand than the ten commandments volumes might inight be written upon their equity and justice if there was only half as much honor today as there was in in the days of the good old pil pilgrim grini fathers we would not have need of so EO many prisons as we have today isyou if you will please read the and chapters of exodus carefully and allow for wa customs and circumstances of th those ose days clays I 1 think that you will agree agree with me that if laws rigidly executed that life and property would be much more secure than it is ig today anil and then you must acknowledge that the laws n given iven there are the base of the laws that govern the best nations today and have stood the test for over three thousand years vears and in the nations today where this law is the most strictly enforced that murders are less frequent B but u t you say bay that the system that I 1 de defend fent 19 is responsible for the condition I 1 deplore this cannot be for the s system y stein I 1 defend is the just administration of the law so that others may take ake warning and not commit the offense lence of this if maintained tai Pd would give respect for fo r the law and lesen les cn the amount of crime but as the law is not put into force forea people are encouraged to commit the offense Tense of knowing that they will escape the punishment tile the proof of tile the goo good of a law is to apply the law in its full sense fane and then see eee the he deflect I 1 will take for example the administration of the law in england the criminal there is sure to get justice j ustice there are no lowers flowers b and lionizing murderers and what n ii the insult lees dime clime is committed I 1 there are less murders committed in any given length len th of time in london with her five million inhabitants than there are arc in our fair utah with her three hundred thousand is another thing in connection with this that ou ought bt to be borne in mind and that is is thit a nations greatness is judged by her ability to protect her C ci it liens izeris both at home and abroad now will vill we make a gre greiter ater fuss if the spanish in cuba should touch one of our citizens citizen when we allow 0 out u t of one hundred murders committed only ten to suffer for their crimes you say that the death penalty is not as severe as pol solitary itar confinement if not why does murderers attorney strife with all his skill to pet get oil off with imprisonment for lire because he would rather suffer anything than death you say that you yon are or of the opinion that the gallows are doomed thatis that it was the crown 0 of f a public hill once but now it is skulking from public view in some dark co corner in replying I 1 would say that as fast as the gallows go down aown the bill red handed murder will march triumphantly to the top a teri terror or to every honest person in in the land HENRY but bur i OCK provi providence |