Show PAYING RANSOM H. I FOR FOn THE TIlE BOY nOY There Is only one ono sort of or crime that can cnn not be prevented by punishment pun pun- all all other methods tailing failing And that is anarchy Death has hns no terrors and there IB is ecstasy In pain for or the victim of ot that vagary agao When the disease o fastens upon him no fear Cear or of punishment can deter him because because be be- cause causo life holds nothing he ho wants excepting ex ex- tho the blood of the marked vic vie tim But tho the man who steals a n bo boy and demands a a. ransom Is IB quite another beast lie Ie loves life lIe He wants ease case and pleasure fatness and tho the gratification of ot desire And if It he ho finds tho the kidnaper goes to swift and certain ocr ocr- tam tain punishment and never nevel loses it while ho he lives lives lives-he he Is to let the venture alone All humanity unites in a n sense of ot horrified protest at tho act of ot steal stealIng l InS Ing ug a n. child No other crime so stirs the tho resentment of oC men Into each ench human heart comes something of ot sympathy for those whose whoso loved ono has 1105 been taken away And all an the wish of ot tho world Is that tho the man who steals a n. child shall receive such punishment as will forever fore deter from froma a a. repetition of at that that offense I Just Jus now th the daily dally preSs press la is Is' Is r full li of r the report of ot an abduction In fn Penn- Penn sylvaIn A little boy Is stolen from school and md demand for Cor ten tori dollars Is made mado The Tho father is willing willing will wUl- ing to pa pay the tho price Whether or not riot he Is able ablo is beyond the question One thinks of ot the tho rather lather love tho the mother love love and and the terror and grief grIet and pain of the tho bo boy Whatever cr is worth while In humankind is stirred to protest against that violation of or orthe the universal law Humanity wants the ho the bo boy restored and the villain pun- pun shed There i Is 18 no softness of purpose pur pur- pose no wavering In resolve Here humanity reverts to so much of or the thes s savage vago as is necessary to preserve humanity Itself If It Cudahy of ot Omaha had put ten thousand housand bullets In Pat instead In Instead Instead In- In stead of or giving him ten thousand dol- dol ol- ol there lars ars there would have been no stealIng stealIng stealing steal- steal Ing of ot this later bO boy l In Pennsylvania And when his life lite Is forfeit for that ono one crime crime the tho crime will cease |