Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-29
Bbeelias 8&sistes
Brother Gardiner Presents to the
Club a Petition.
Signed By Thirb-FOur cOIored People Of
Niles. Mich, in Relation to Capt.
tai Punishment.
Dcir0R Free Pssss.


Guild people of Niles, Mich, said Brother
Gardiner, as the echoes Of the triangle died
away. 1T am q pettshun akin dis club to
favor de restorsshun OF capital punishment
in dis State. 1t am evident dat de signers
hadn't read up on our posishun. If dar
am one thing We favor above snOder it am
hangin' for murder.
IL has attended execushuns, an has sot
in church a heard clergymen utter eulogies
on murderers. When cum away from de
gallows felt dat de law had been fully vindi
Gated. l felt dat Law was a powerful thing,
an dat Justice had an arm strong huff to
defend de rights Of all. was swed and
humbled, an my reverence fur de Law war
neber so deep. On de Odder han, l cum
away from church feelin' dat 8 red-hsnded
murderer was sumthin of 3 hero. De
preacher furnished dozen excuses fur de
MURDERS dozen excuses fur sendiu de
murderer to prison to wait fur pardon or
escape-a dozen reasons why de tiend who
chops up hull Itam ly wild an ak should
have his precious body kept fat at de expense
OF de State an his presicIous soul kept fur
a PRISON chaplain to practice on. left de
church feehn' dat murder wasn't much of =
crime arterall, q had | met de man who
frew dead cat in my well bekase | wouldn't
lend him - | should hev broken his skull
wild club al depended on de preacher to
cry Ober me.
Our thieves get De same average SEN
tences-when dey happen to git sentenced
at alias our DRINKS an diSorderlies. Our
burglars git about what am due de thieves.
Oar murderers sometimes git de full sen.
tence of burglar, but when dey do de hull
people wonder ober it. Find me de dirtiest
iramp-de meanest ihief-de toughest bur
glar, or de mos' pitiless murderer, an | will
lind you q lawyer to take decass for S25 an
DO his lebel best to crsr de criminal | will
find you men an women to smile ober dat
criminals wrongs. will ind you clergy
men to stan up in de pulpit an inyeigh
Sym his punishment
When de pulpit backs de lawyer you
kin bet yer last dollar on q verdict of not
guilty
Il tell you dat in dis single Staff Of Michi-
gan human life has become so cheap dat de
record of murder am aPsllin. We hey mo
murders dan either England, France,
Germany, wild from twenty to thirty times
de pouulashup. Men tell you dat hsugin
doau less de number Of murders. Why2
Bekase de pulpit makes a martyr of ebery
murderer swung off, He am prayed wild an
sung Wild an made de reel pient of soft words
and costly bouquets. He am made to De
Eeve dat Heaben's gates yawn to receive
him. He am cautioned to die braYely. He
am paraded on de scafFold as 9 man who
am gwine to sacrifice his life fur some noble
Cause.
Gin Us lawyers who will plead de law
an de facks-juries who will decide sccor-
din 70 de evidence-excushuns properly
conducted, an arter three or four hsngin' 5
de S,ait of Michigan won't hey a case OF
murder once in FIVE years.
Didn't show Up.
The Secretary announced that she Ri
Hon. James Kinley, porter in the city by
that name in this State had expected to be
present and deliver an address, entitled
Does Wealth Increase HsppinessY he
had started in time to walk the distance by
easy stages in thirteen days, but had been
arrested while enroute as suspicious char
acter, and now languished in county Jail
Gl.eadam Jones moved that Gov. Alger
be petitioned for the gentleman pardon,
but Brother Gardner replied that the TT
Hon. could probably dig out before the par
don reach him, and the matter was laid on
the table.
Some time since Shindig Watkins pre-
sen,ed the following resolution:
Resolved, Dat de Committee on Finance
DC instructed to investigate an report on de
number of Guild pussOns in dis kentry who
am engaged in de bankin' bizness, Wid de
amount of capital invested in de same.
The President so instructed the commit
tee, and at the present meeting the Char
man announced his readiness to report. The
committee had paid out ninety, seven cents
for postage, consulted numerous authorizes,
and had failed to find one single colored
man in the business method. The commit
tee had not been asked to report why this
was thus but being in q liberal mood would
venture the information that the reason was
due more to lack of finance than. difficulty
about renting building and wearing plug
hat
Secretary Slowtrsck, under the official
seal Of the lodge he represented, forwarded
communication from the Natural and
Torped Chicken Discrimination, OF Charles
, ton, W. Va. asking to be Incorporated as q
branch Of the Limekiln Club.
The Rev. PenstOck at once objected IN
such a yigorus manner that no broke his
yest-strap twice in two Chicken! chicken |!
Why was the name of chicken always being
rung in on the colored population? Sup
pose that person could discriminate be,
tween an innocent pullet on her roost and
and torpedo chicken lurking IN ambush
to DESTROY human life? Did that constitute
statesmanship2 Was that to be eerth'
cate Of character Chicken! chicken!
The Presiden. replied that his own per
sonal attitude on the poultry question was
well known, and that the lodge could not
be made a branch under any such name as
sent in.
Not It's Organs.
i communication from Syracuse SsAeu
if The British Lion" published at Hsmll'
ton, Ont, and the American Eagle, pub
hshed in New York, both being edited 0y
cOlored men, were the national organs oil
the Lmekiln Club. The writer had been
given to understand that such was the case,
and that &C. A. Johnson, philanthroplst,
professional astronomical lecturer, literary
and educational writer, editor and publisher,
ard so forth" was an aspirant for Brother
Gardner's position.
The Secretary was instructed to answer
that the papers named were not even re-
Ceiyed at Paradise Hall, and that Mr., John
son, philsRthropist and soforth, was not
member OF the club.
shook I'm Up.
"Gem'len," said the President as the cash
box Was about to be passed, 81 want to re-
mark a few observashuns. SOMEBODY has