Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-14

The Virginia Chronicle advocates the |
establishment Of the whipping-posi. |
II Us q relic OF barbarian. There is
only one State in the Union (Delaware) |
where men are whipped. aud the reason
they do ii there is because they don't
wuutto feed prisoners, and also, because
they have no jail to keep them ln,--
[ Phoebe RECORD.
The RECORD should be sufficiently Just
not TO misrepTesent COutemp0rY by
partial quotation as il has done in this
easa. The Chronicle advocates tho whip
ping-post rs q punishment for certain
class Of offenders only-for wife-beaters
especially. Does the editor OF the RECORD
think the fopging OF snch men would be
return 70 "barbarismg" Isit not far
from barbarous 10 impose a fine. the
money to ray which is often obtained at
the expense Of food aud clothing for the
maltrtated wife? The imprisonment Of
the of nGer works similar hardship
upon the innocent family. 1t is simply
bosh to talk. in such cases, about the
whippug.pUst being "a relic Of barba-
rism - Nirg, Chronicle, July p.
A drunken brute named William Lun-
| ger outraged his motherless daughter
not yet fourteen years Did, nt Ninton'
Iowa, recently. He fed TO the forests,
but was starved out, and is now IN jail
awaiting punishment Exchange
Do those tenGor-hoarted contsmpora-
ries OF ours think twenty good strokes
with the CATO nine-tails laid upon the
back a this monster would be "reyiylng
a barbarism ?"-f Virg. Chronicle, Aug. D.
There ia an old saying (and a true one)
7 N relation to giving certain individual
! rope enough and awaiting the result.
The editor Of our hard-hearted contem-
porary started out With the proposition
that the whipping post should be giver
place in our public reformatorles, and
when We took exception, be charged US
with incorporating him. lie IS nov
enlarging the sphere OF usefulness
of this oharming mode Of punish
ment, aud it wouldn't surprise III
at all il the enterprising (O edito
Of the Chronicle came ont some morning
with a sanguinary article on the human
izing influence Of the thumb-screw ant
the useful qualities Of the pineers an,
; boot as agents Of punishment and relrI
: button. We mako this assertion--aH'
believe any ono with three grains o
4 sense will agroo with us-that tho publ
g whipping OF criminal Mt tho pos
T would, while possibly having temper
d ally beueicient restraint, have tenden
s cy to still further brutalize and degrade
y the human monster guilty Of such crime
1 and would but extinguish all sparks o
b. manliness that might exist IN his breast.
. That whatever benefit might accrue in {
preventive view would be more thai
counteraeted 10y the ideas and intent i'm
: planted in the sufferers breast by sue
. barbarity OF punishment. Every on
r knows the higher morale OF the sale
: since the cat has been abolished and ca
!, realize why it is SO. We can hardl
. realize that man. laying claim to int
u ligence and editing newspaper in thi
; great aud free country, can advocate sue
II measure of barbarity, such a relic {
> the dark ages; and we can only mild
y remark that such sentiment on his pa
h does much toward reconciling US to
i temporary use OF that instruments were
II clause inserted prescribing few dozt
u for editorial imbeeility and general fol
re of carpishness, Had We such prov
10 ionary statute in this State we great
10 fear the Chronicle man would so,
Is cease like others, to have good OPT
10 ion of the law.