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Show HARRY ORCHARD STEVE ADAMS. "Viewing the matter from an absolute';.. l;r. prejudiced standpoint, I cannot see how riv r . ;Vl be the slightest doubt of the guilt. Srrv, Adams." General Bulkely Wells, in S. L Frd-unr, Nov. 15. There is something frightful about the-,-Orchard and Adams, and their confession-. do not enrage because they freeze you. A . t :-7 n.-lesser n.-lesser crime would excite detestation and 1 rrr. The calm relation of the most terrible ' erim known to human communities, told by the-.- r,,f,, turns you rigid and renders one almo-f Li.-.tpnh of feeling. It overlaps sensation, the urei. tion, the emotions. It almost fails to stir you after the fir- el; of it. We have felt more active aversion fur a man murderer than for these cold. i-eru..r.-i' self-controlled fiends who have taken hurr.;in lit by wholesale. We do not feel for them the l:,,r indignation in-dignation and hatred that at times fills the bra?; because of some horrible murder. Our (ii.-cr i-t i a loathing like what we have for a snake or a r d. Were these men merely vain and cmpty-headc! braggarts, or after the commission of their :(rr,-ciou3 :(rr,-ciou3 deeds manifested some repentance, we rnigh: try to excuse the human race for having beirif'e:i them, or permit a spark of human feeling to I i crimen crim-en in our hearts. But these monsters have normal brains, and calmly, coolly and with good niemorir-recite niemorir-recite the most chilling stories of murder, robber--, bigamy, adultery that, in all likelihood since rh world began was ever told by human beings. The? relate the incidents, the circumstances, the action.-, the expression of the faces of the murdered men, as calmly as if their unhappy victims were d.-?.. , And tho last gross and hideous offense of the man I Orchard was an outrage against every decent feel- ing when he pilloried his innocent family and living liv-ing relatives on the high mountain of his awful and shameful crimes. One wonders if. in the last twenty years, these men ever darkened a church door: if they ever said a prayer; who and what sort of people were their fathers and mothers; did they believe in God, in a hereafter, in a judgment to come? Were they men who scoffed at religion and damned the preacher?, who squandered money in brothels and cursed tho church? Had they any reverence at all for tli; name of God or are they fiends incarnated in human hu-man btd'os who war on human life, on the chastity chas-tity of married women, on the innocence and purity pur-ity of young girls, on the sanctity of the home. In the word of our Divine Lord, addressed to the man possessed of evil spirits, we may ask, "How many of you are there?" How many of these Orchards Or-chards and Adams are there in our country? |