Show capital punishment ARTHUR F 1111 MILTON TON if men and women understood more of the science of life there would be no capital punishment to punish by death for t murder 11 is unscientific equal to acting on the effect instead of the cause of a disease murder is committed under three impulses vi 1 to hide aliide another crime aj 2 selfishness Belfi ahnes or arrogance 0 and 3 aner an anger 11 er or hatred the majority of murders are probably committed under the first named mined ex examples am pies being too i numerous to mention the next is for the purpose ot of robbery and the last itself evident I 1 in spirit however the first is the greatest encroachment upon natural law because largely an effect of reason a perversion or misuse of the highest qualification n H the second is pa partly artly due to society K laws if wealth were evenly distributed tri buted or all were provided with environments or of labor suited to their tastes and abilities which would make life pleasant robberies would woud become rare exceptions thus part of the responsibility of nf the act iu in withdrawn and the suffering of the culprit is less severe than in in the first case though punishable as all geln line aness s is in that it is in direct opposition to the law of love a qualification justification of nature which manifests through mar man as willpower will power or that which which gives ives him locomotion intelligence guiding will obeying obey inc to prevent a misuse this attribute is to the spirit like clip clipping pine the wings of a bird his power to act is weakened in comparison to the selfishness or exercised ome earthbound earth bound that they are held to one spit for years or localities for centuries the third motie mothe is animalism running riot the man who can not control his temper is detill on the animal plane aud and as it a spirit will ivill fiod find himself naturally attracted to his kind especially disagreeable a to those who have already developed e r taste for better things and exceedingly so to those who have some refinement or education to boast of such punishment is s to forcing a man just jual dresie dressed d for a party into a a filthy sewer thus it is not the murder per ae w which is punished but the motive which induced it the true punishment which our laws should inflict is therefore something in harmony with the motive not the crime unless the argument is that death is la imposed in order to turn the culprit over to nature but this we know is riot not the reason the real motive for capital pun ismeit is revenge fagely denominated justice proven bythe by the energy and influence exercised in havin having a murderer killed revenge is animalism for it comes under the category of anger and hatred the antithesis or of love or that hat which is ia in opposition to natures law those who aid in briDgi bringing Dg a murderer to the gallows or electric chair are therefore murderers at heart and come under the first class herein named named in in that it is murder committed in the light ligh t of reason cold calculating 1 selfishness and hatred haired combined I 1 love is forgiving 0 giving L and reason could find other mo modes des of punishment the combination would obtain the light needed to invent methods method ana and furthermore would thereby solve the science of life and instead of acting on the ellece would look after the cause or in instead of punishing tho the ac act would put the penalty on the motive and prevent faither such crimes by the suggestion love and reason being bein g greater incentives to reform than le ie iz S cut from th the light of truth and sent to 10 tin till JOURNAL JOURN 41 by a sub gub briber in providence |