The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-22
A Characteristic Letter from
his Graphic and Pow
erful Pen.
Comments on His Free Pass to
See Fox bungalow Men
Strangle Themselves.
Whisky, Tobacco and P ofanity-
Tende Tribute to Poor
MugfOrd

/ w hdA tOCn lnC DaLOO VIC aAS
ma de Of that We should gloat over the
death struggle OF fell W mortal and feast
on the dying agonies of a murderer? Ii is
not that We do not believe in the death
penalty for cold bloOded and deliberate
murder. To Us ii Is a simple proposition,
that d man who deliberately takes the life
of a fellow man thereby forfeits his own,
aud il becomes the duty OF the state 10 exc
cuie the penalty. Nothing else properly
expresses the crime. and so protects the
| lives of the people. so many murders are
now being committed in Michigan, where
THE DEATH PENALTY Is ABOLISHED,
that the sentiment OF the people DOW calls
| loudly for the re-eDsctment of the law.
We have now so many murderers confined
| in our prisons that those who were instru-
mental In their conviction have a continual
fear of their escape. This sentimental gush
for murderers is entirely misplaced and is
cruelty 10 the living. No! We have no
objection 10 some men being hung. but We
have no disposition to travel a Thousand
miles on free pass for the sake of pulling
the rope, and If the BAZoo he'd sent us a
paper We weuld, rs Christ directed, Keep
the good and throw the bad away" But
now We send letter TO that paper once in
a while for
"AULD LANG SYNE,"
and we never see the paper, but have a
free pass sent us to see Fox hung Bravo
When are you going to have another man
hung, Mr.. BAzoo? But why should |
come so far 10 see man strung up? i see
men every day
KILLING THEMSELVES BY Run,
and also see the rum-sellers as execution
ers, appointed and licensed by the state,
and those who rent buildings for the traffic
erecting the gallows, and spectafors by the
thousands looking coldly on! All this |
see every day of nv life, Sundays not ex-
cepted. What need have then TO travel a
thousand miles TO see a sheriff stretch a
mans neck? And besides | see almost as
many other men shortening their days,
committing slow suicide by the use of to-
bacco, and even doctors" showing them
how to do it. To be sure they
DO not GO staggering home under Its
baleful influence. They do not shoot.
kBOck.dcwn and drag-out. They do not
whip their WIVES aed starve their children,
but they just as truly tamper with
THE laws OF LIFE
anu nc3itn, dDu sdIlOuS UlScdScS
and shorten their DAYS, and go unbid6en in-
to the presence of their maker. No! |
need not 60 to Nevada, on free pass, 10
see man hoisted up or let suddenly down
| witness it wherever 60 Try me on
pass from Chicago to Sedalia and return
and see If do not make use of IL, and ii
would not be bad thing for the Sedalisns
to help you in that, Tor nv coming might
result In having some more persons hung,
and in saving some other from the halter.
Try me on if you dare, and not send me
pass just to call me out
And besides rum and tobacco there are
MANY other WAYS in which men are hang
ing themselves All excuses of body and
mind tend 10 shorten our days. Anger,
envy, hatred, oyerwork, and underworld,
late meals, and want Of sleep, every wrong
act,
EVERY OATH UTTERED,
leaves It's mark behind. "He that would
love life and see good days, let him refrain
his lips from evil and his tongue from
speaking guile, let him seek peace and pur-
sue it," How much longer we should all
live and how much happier be if We
would perfectly conform TO physical and
moral law.
There is great deal OF strangu-
lation going on In this world
outside of Nevada aud Won need
charter no excursion trains to witness ihemi
How many OF those who went to Nevada
are husilv
TWISTING CORDS Fur THEIR OWN NECKS?
Did trey ali return sober? Were they
moral, civil, exemplary crowd? Some of
them see by the papers, were women.
Were they models of the softer sex? Say
ives" to all these questions, and then when
You have hanging in Sedalia send me
free pass and then ii NAV be | will come
and reap the moral benefit. Till then IL
pray thee have me excused"
My simple ailu,ion TO Mugford In nv
letter to the BAzoo, has brought me a
letter FROM Mrs. Mugiord Mugford
was man of gentle spirit and had he been
master of his will would have adorned his
facile pen. He had
WARM PLACE IN Ny HEART
and the tears always start when / think OF
him. Oh, be kind TO his family for his
sake. He has afforded many pleasant hours !
Of reading TO the people of Sedalia. Let no |
one ever attempt to lead fstherless child
of his astray.
'DO all the good you can
While the days are going by
Ii will pay the best in the end to stand !
up and face the music. Mine eyes are
growing dim in the service of my fellow |
men, and the creeping ON OF old age is not
now unpleasant to me. There are scenes |
Oh the other side that are inviting. We
must say farewell, but We hope also TO say
good morning. j. NJ. V. w.
Lowell, Mich. Jan. 10th, 1884 |
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