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Show TWO CRIMES. The shooting of Senator Carmack on the streets of Xashville and the attempted murder of ProsecA-tor ProsecA-tor Francis J. Ileney at San Francisco recently are two crimes added to the already too long list of such things which have darkened the history of av enlightened people. But dark as was the crime i the southern city, that at San Francisco is much worse. It is worse in its intention, because the fictim was an officer of the law too active for the well-being of those who have violated the law in the city by the Golden Gate and made a story of graft that has startled the entire country. It was worse, too, because it was done in the courtroom where the victim was working on the prosecution of the grafters. The subsequent suicide of the would-be murderer relieves the state of a great burden, and leaves the officers charged with the enforcement en-forcement of the law in a better position to prosecute prose-cute the rogues who have robbed the people of San Francisco. Of course, the suspicion that was'raised as to how the suicide secured the revolver after he had been searched and imprisoned has been quieted, and th man is dead. These two crimes, coming so closely together, indicate the growing lack of respect for the lives of others and the growing tendency to take the law and the enforcement of the law into the hands of individuals. This tendency also marks a decadence deca-dence among the people of righteousness and vir-y tue, and is downward into the depths. It is a tendency ten-dency which should he combated by every moral force within the nation; should be fought by the church and newspapers. Although the chief object of the newspaper is to chronicle, yet the newspaper newspa-per holds a vital place among American institutions institu-tions which serve to mold public opinion. And public opinion should be molded against just such crimes as these two. There was never a truer saying say-ing than Jhat what wc sow we reap, and this is as true of nations as individuals. In such crimes as these at Xashville and San Francisco, the people ' are traveling a very dangerous road. For we cannot can-not go on in this murderous fashion without reaping reap-ing a harvest of anarchy. ' |