Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-09

that crude state of so ,iety Is ever
characterized by disregard of human
life. The lower you go in the scale oil
human existence, the more insecure Is
life. The savage, the cinnibal, the bar
barous and half civilized delight in
shedding human blood. IL Is the, un-
mistakable brand of their depravity.
Even among civilized nations we can
point cut the morally depraved
by their bloody wars and wanton rev.
elry In human gore.
Next TO this depraved state and sup
Elementary thereto Is the widespread
use of intoxicants. The murderer
asks no better company in his satanic
work than rum. 1t nerves the hand,
stifs up
THE HOT BLOOD,
beclouds the moral sky, deadens feel
ing and renders him for the time de-
mon incarnate. Responsibility lies at
the door of the man who commits a
crime while drunk. This is rs IL
should be: and the day Is not far dis
tant when the drunkard maker will
be held rs a particeps criminis
Prominent among the enemies of hui
man life IL the revolver-the compan-
ion of towards. Itshould be relegsted
to obscurity and extinction by a
strong law, backed by public opinion.
The. careless use OF firearms should be
prohibited by all governments. Peo-
pie should not tolerate, for moment,
guns and pistols IN the hands of chill
dren and young boys. 81 didn't know
II was loaded" Is poor consolation for
the loss of some precious life. We
welcome the day when law shall
be passed putting all such Grim
inally careless ones IN the penitentiary.
Make 1t a crime to point gun or re-
volver at any one. This trifling with
human life must be frowned down and
suppressed. How many homes are
now mourning the loss of a noble boy
shot down by infantile hunters and
hair-brained idiots who "didn't know
IL was loaded.n
Yet another fruitful cause of murder
Is The bad system of administering JUS
lice. IL is so In nearly all our states.
The laws are good, but the moral stam
ina that made such statute is painfully
lacking.
Want of moral power is the incubus
mat rests on our courts of justice to-
nay. But AS the stream is never higher
than It's source. neither can we expect
To see the courts above the people in
moral purity. The jury system is
sauly IN need Of reconstruction. In
tlligent opinion must not be II bar TO
service as d juror. There are too many
jurors to-day, who try cases, not by
law or evidence, but are influenced by
Rind of fellowfeeling, which makes
them wondrous kind. This put-your-
seif.in-his-place equity is mockery
Oh law and n foul travesty on justice.
Inc ignoIalt er.reads-the-news-
paper juryman must go. Intelligence
III the jury box, purity on the
bench and honor bright at the bar, Is
the great desideraium of our time.
The murderer must hang. There is
no greater safeguard of human life.
Recently states that had abolished
capital punishment had to resort to 1t
again. Notably among these is Iowa,
the banner educational state of the
Union. If she thought IL necessary to
90 back TO the hangman's rope, how
ought iJ be in less favored regions?
Nothing but Jersey Justice" which
administers the law without fear or
favor, will suffice to suppress murder
aud prevent the reign of Judge Lynch.
The hundred lives offered to the
juggernaut of mob law i'm Cincinnati
admonish the nation. Its voice reaches
the far Southwest. Shall we heed its
warning? or, shall we continue to feel
secure while the low mutterings of an
outraged sense of Justice dins in our
ears p. III. BoDKIN.