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Show L A CRIMINALS IN UTAH AND ELSE7JHERE. TMByMt "Many newspapers are advocating the in.T!lin,r: of severe pen-Hlfif pen-Hlfif ilfcsi4lties on convicted criminals, arguing that tli? friluro of our .juries I judges and our prison boards to apply the lash to the guilty been a source of crime encouragement. We are utterly opposed to any backward step in the treatment mr criminals. There are many crimes committed in this couu-and couu-and the murders are a national disgrace in number and atro-sness. atro-sness. but would the infjieting of the death penalty or the eminent em-inent of the rack lessen the- wave of crime? If crime is to be gauged hy the severity of punishment, then ria, with its penal colonies and the horrors of its prison mines, lid be the most orderly country in the world. Crime in the United States is in great part to be attributed to unsettled condition of the great body of the people. We, as a )le, are almost nomads, in our restless, roaming nature. There d anchorage, no binding ties,' no social restraints for 11 big per-age per-age of the inhabitants of any city. There is a rapid shifting of K V , 'population from one point to another, and scarcely any restric-W restric-W vVtions as to the possession of firearms. Our instability and our car-Kj car-Kj J ' f rying of deadly weapons are two great factors in crime production. H " Were every murderer in prison to be tortured to death, the Bfy " i, screams of the dying would not be heard beyond the prison walls, U' aSd even if they were the agonies would not stay tlm hand of one Ki ' murderer in all this country, for the man about to take a fellow E' v man's life does not stop to debate in his mind the form of punish- L ment which may be meted out to him. Hf Crime prevention must start in the homes of the children of this H nation. Properly direct the little ones who are to be our future R' 'men and -women and yon can tear down your prison walls." K, . There are public teachers who advocate harsh measures in the H 'disciplining and punishing of convicts. They maintain that to Hk 'labor with a convict to make the fellow a better man or to extend B 'leniency in any form as an incentive to good is a mistake which H tends to promote crime. H' Iere jn xjtali, the Governor is working with the men in prison, B-' granting to those who give promise of reform, an opportunity to H-lahor on the state highways and enjoy the outdoor life of a "camp." tlPSl" ItThis is outrageous, say his critics. They demand that the crim-t crim-t ffl Fals be manacled 'and made to expiate for their crimes by long fears of weary waiting for death, as though the secret anguish of H'(r M'' Vaged human would serve to make other men of vicious propen-Hl! propen-Hl! llfi ' ities good. We are heartily in accord with Governor Spry '3 policy H 11 111 , 1 extending to every convict a helping hand and offering to all of Hlt ll!Jrm hope afc eventuaUy' by good conduct lhey may regain their |