Show annihilation for home murderers as well as for the bodocs editor of the star staf the public a 1 were much surprised to read the editorial in a morning paper yesterday on the murders committed by the modoc indians in which utter annihilation was wa 9 recommended only a few weeks have elapsed since the same journal was engaged in strenuously opposing capital punishment with a variety of sickly sentimental reason reasons and it was supposed that it would fight it out on that line it boasted too that it had malo made made mado a convert of another morning paper but presto chan chahye ae yesterday hot ilot only the convert backslid backslide back slid but the first named paper promulgated only such doctrines as the most ardent advocate of capital punishment would have used well the public rejoiced to find it and its convert talking sound sense and hope that hey they will remain in this true path believing that indiscriminate efm eff morts lorts at evangelization will only result in the perpetration of murder this community is of the opinion that the tile murders committed here were as brutal as tho those ze of the mo docs does and that the tiie perpetrators should he be annihilated and that they should not escape the penalty through any slip of the law or by influence of relations or becu secured e by money allow us to add that the good eff omm effects acts of such punishment are much neutralized by indiscriminate efforts at evangelization by which murder is made to app appear ar as the stepping stone to heavenly joy sickly sentimental persons calling i themselves ministers and ond mem berm here of the Y M 0 A enter the jail and sing and pray phay with the murderer until he is iso mesmerized enough to believe that he is going to glory and instead of expressing his contrition for his of rense he assumes in turn the part of a Y 11 C A and invites the lookers on to meet him in heaven beaven 11 now now kow people are getting gotting tired of such stuff and desire to see it stopped believing that it results in the perpetration pet ration of murder such persons are receiving the proper denunciation of a very largo large portion of this community and in some other localities a stronger hint than this would long since have beon boon given to such persons to stop such detestable antics we ve know of only one way now for the bodocs to escape annihilation i i e if they have any money saved from the persons of their victims and will send an agent here wini wint it perhaps lawyers and others maybe may be found who will oppose if it and recommend that quakers be sent to catch them and then try them by jury let all go free I 1 upon whom murder cann cannot at bo fruy proven then a writ of error then an appeal existing some months or years and finally incarcerate the murderers murderers for life ilfe libei i i e until the storm blows over and their childlike simplicity in the penitentiary fits IRs them for executive clemency the U S authorities hae have asked that San tanta and big Tre enow in the texas state prison for like onnen so beil seii be pardoned out but the hardhearted barte people of that state say t that at t the e governor shant do it but wait until their tribe sells some somo land that dont donl belong to them to the government and S and 13 T may find friends influential enough to secure pardon and th they ey may yet delight themselves in taking a few more scalps JUSTITIA washington star |