Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-08

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giving II Up. WA Pesn, Mr.. hrigAe
says. uh~n be established the coioay q
Pennsylvania, retained capital pasi.A-
ment for murder in defercnce 60 public
opinion, not from his o~a conviction. IL
il vas -. the people Of Pennsylvznia
must now think Penn wrng aud the
public right, for at the last date there
we're twenty-five executions for murder
to come of, and there was not the least
doubt among the ylvanian public
that these were necessary. Indeed, never
was there case so typical and so deci-
sive as to the whole question. In the
State of Pennsylvania there are extensive
and fully organized unions that impose
the penalty Of death for the infraction of
their own laws. This is nothing less than
war against the laws of the land and the
order Of society. Constituted as human
nature is, if the "Molly Mcguire" Union
put to death those who broke
their laws, while the State shrank from
asserting its own code with equal vigor,
the result would be that the laws of the
molly Mcguire" Union would be obeyed
from mere instinct Of self-preservation.
But this really is the case with all muir
der. The murderer-and it is admitted
there are many who are murdercrs 10 ma
ture, in heart, and design, even without
being murderers in act apd deed-sets
himself against society. He has his own
law, his own interest, his own honor, and
he will defend and assert it at any price.
come what will. 1t is very old saying
that man can do anything if he only
stakes bis life against the whole world.
That is just what the murderer docs.
Have We right to take the life that seeks
our life, or that has, indeed, actually
taken the life of one of usi We conceive
the great majority Of people will not hes
itate to say that we have. This is not
Nor is it prevention. II ia
Q declaration and an act of war which We
meet, as we have always met invasion
and attack, BY hurting on the head of the
assailant what was meant for ourselves.
London Times.