The Worthington advance., 1882-02-09
GUITEAU

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1882.
GUITEA
On Saturday last Judge Cox sentenc
ed Guitean to be hanged on the 3Oth O.
June next. The matter will come De-
f.,re the court in banc Tor the full
lench) Judge Cox having refused tt
grant a new trial. The President car
commute the sentence to Imprisonment
for life. Ben Butler has raised the
uoint that if Guiteau is hanged he must
be hanged in chains under the old ia"
which is still in force.
Guiteau may yet escape hanging, but
we suppose that unless the sentence is
carried out the mob will kill him.
The New York Herald recently pub
lished q long account Of Il prophecy
from a Cleveland man that Garfield
would be assassinated. This man Wis
tied Garfield at Mentor before the
Inauguration and warned him. lie
also conferred with Schurz and others
Mt Washington and claimed that for
eIpn influences were 1T work and that
the assassination was planned before
the election even. They expected that
Garfield would be elected but Getermin-
Ell that he should be put out Of the way.
The Stalwart. Grant element were sup
posed to represent i strong government,
more in sympathy with old world ideas.
BE this as it may, the prediction Of the
Cleveland man was fulfilled to the let
ter.
The other theory of the assassination
is that Guiteau is DANTE and that
Garfield's declarations against Nor
monism doomed him. The lot fell on
Guiteau to do the killing. This is
plausible at least, as all Gniteau's talk
about inspiration and doing the Lords
will, and being Gods man. is exactly
in keeping with the IDEAS Of tie fanat-
ical Danitcs.
Our theory is that Guiteau is a semi
insane man who under an impulse which
the good old English law used to cali
the ''instieation Of the Devil" "commit-
ed the act on his own responsibility.
lie may have had counselors, Of course,
but 80 far net i scrap of evidence has
come to light, beyond the statements
above given, to sustain this view Of the
case.
If we had our way III the matter,
Guiteau should he imprisoned for life
at hard labor.
In view of the frequency of assassin
alton. Congress should, and the States
should also, pass laws providing for
such cases by some special sanctions
We begin, however, to he firmly settled
in the opinion that the Presidency
should be abolished, as means of pre-
venting these assassinations and get
ting as far as possible from the One
Man idea in our Government.
THE LAND OUTLOOK
Mr.. French, of the Iowa Land and
Colonization Company, of Storm Lake,
Iowa, was in town Oh Friday last.
Messrs. Sampson & French are ut the
head of an Immigration company which
is bringing English settlers into Iowa
and Minnesota. They have had re-
markable success about Storm Lake in
introducing Il good class OF settlers
and improving the native methods OF
farming. Their creamery is one of the
largest and most successful in the
West and they are doing much to build
up this industry throughout the North
west.
They are at present turning their at
teRtiOn to the location of All English
c"lony in Plpestone county, about
Woodstock, and one in the southern
part of Jackson county.
The outlook for an immigration as
well as Il railroad boom next summer
is uncommonly promising. About all
the railroad lands in the counties OF
Dickinson, OScrola and Lyon. in Iowa,
and Jackson, Mobiles, Rock, Pipestone
and Murray, in Minnesota, are under
some contract to parties who have
abundant capital and :tho are at work
securing settlers. The Close Bros
south of us and to operate III this coun'
ty when the season opens; the Iowa
Land and Colonization Company will
headquarters ut Storm Lake, Iowa, and
to operate in Jackson and Pipestone
counties; G.. W. >layton and corps OF
agents on their way to Europe or al
ready there; are all preparing for a for
ward movement all along the line dur
in the coming summer to settle and
develop the railroad lands in this
vicinity. Mobiles county is geographic
ally and otherwise the hub and centre
of this belt Of land and has more acres
than any other one county. Every
thing IS now shaping to make Worth
ington the railroad hub also of these
counties.
We know the ADVANCE is charged
with publishing numerous accounts o.
grand land schemes which have fa!lel
through. What of it? The business O.
the ADVANCE is to publish the fact!
and comment upon the outlook ant
prospect. The Close Bros. are Il sue
cess in developing counties il Iowa
The Iowa Land and Colonizatlo,
Company is Il success in locating col
.ony at Storm Lake; the Adrian colon.
in t,is county has been a success in de
velopiHg many farms and building VI
~ brisk town 1T Adrian. Thes
schemes can be and will be multiplied
and from tl,js time on, the develop
ment will be much more rapid tina,
during the decade of grasshorpers, Fl
nancial crisis, resumption, etc. Th
hne