Show in another column of this issue ve give a clipping from the dedret 3 nev ev a s which contains the startling information that there has been sixteen murders committed and not one execution thus far all tile murderers convicted have received the life sentence of the victims of these murders four were officers of the law engaged la ii doing their duty suh such a record is little short of mari elous clous arid and one begins to wonder if our laws are aie as perfect as they might be true it is better to let ten guilty men luen escape than offer up the life of if one innocent being but when the case has been conclusively proven and tile the guilt of the perpetrator fixed beyond a question why should not the law be permitted to talce take its course incarcerating dangerous men in ili the penitentiary for life does not help anem as evidenced by tile the attempted jail delivery at the state prison a few years ago when hen a guard was nearly beaten to death one prisoner was hilled and others wounded those men go through tile the years hoping and waiting for a time when they can all make a break for liberty and tavy would not stop at taking life in order to gain their freedom utterly dis regarding the rights of others to lifa lit and property they would continue in ili their course were they set at liberty only last week a former inmate of ni the state prison murdered murd pred a man up in idaho after having been pardoned from serving a life sentence for murder that made the second murder ho he had committed since receiving ills his pardon why should it be inhuman for the 11 law nv which craves that a man who seeds an others blood must give lits his blood in return to claim its own innocent men have to lay down their lives because of the wicked acts of the ruffian whose presence at large is a danger to society but when he is taken into custody and found guilty ills life ire is spared and by properly conducting himself for a few years while in ili prison lie ho stands a good chance ot of getting ills his liberty by being pardoned there seems to be a miscarriage of justice very often nowadays now a days arid and the remarks of president talt taft recently upon that subject were very whole hole so some ie evidencing that there is a possibility lity of a revision of our laws we do not cry tor for the blood of any man god forbid but justice is a thing most sacred and when the crime warrants there sh be no hesitancy in meting out the severest punishment those sixteen murderers in the penitentiary are like 16 bombs ready to explode any moment and the lives of the warden arid and guards as well as the other prisoners are constantly fridinger in fri danger |