The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-03-03
WHITE PINE NE WIS
IA THE WORLD GROWING BET
TER1
4 Comparison Of the Past With the
Present.

Present.
Is the world growing betterl Is q
question We often hear asked. Those
who are so fond Of referring TO "our
vrandfathers' days" have only to look
back with their eyes open to see the
truth, and they will readily see that
we are growing better.
Take, for instance, the question OF
1NTEMPETANcE.
Are We not far ahead of the days OF
our fathers even, let alone generation
farther back2 What congregation
would dare to offer its pastor part pay
ment OF salary in rum2 What person
10 there who when the pastor called
would bring out the bottlel Is 1t
necessary now in order to raise a
building 10 do it with the help OF the
jug1 Why, it makes US laugh now
Look at the quantities drunk on all
occassionsl Look at the numerous
tayerns with q public bar that were
found 10 every villagel Then man
was expected to drink; now be can
decline and neither lose caste or be
called a fanatic.
We are not so Puritanical now as
then, perhaps, but | often think OF
our early settlers, who came here to
get away from the Englls Church
and its prosecutions, to worship God
a. they pleased, according to the die
tates of their conscience, and the first
thing they did was to deny that lib
erty to any others who believed differ
entity from themselves, and denied 1t
with persecution even more severe
than that which they had suffered
across the sea. suppose these old
fellows were honest, | cant believe
otherwise, but we are better in these
days. and have grown better ever since
the Puritsns landed in New England.
presume we must acknow ledge that
they acted up to their ideas of Right,
but don't we feel like thanking God
that our ways, if not perfect, are bet
ter ways9 What food of piety filed
them when they hung the innocent
victims of the Salem wltchcraft trials
Speaking of
HANGING,
was looking through the records
published by the city and came across
D few items of interest. The recent
official murder" as some people
chose TO call il, I don't-had brought
up the question, and curiously read |
that at the time John Hancock WAS
Rachel Whall was hung for |
highway robbery. And what think
lou was the extent of her crime9 1t
consisted in twitch;ng a bonnet from
he hand OF another female aud run
ling off with it! That bonnet, the
ecord says, was worth seventy-fve
:ents, and they hanged Rachel for it! !
surely human life was held at low
igure when ii was taken in exchange
or = seventy-fve cent bonnet! The
nest urgent appeals were made for
Ter pardon, but without avail. Ham
ock would not change the decision.
suppose he considered that be was
Ioing his duty, but he was an obsti.
ate old fellow and stood upon his
lightly, and no doubt that was one
cason why Rachel was hungl Are
ot we better now2
A lad eighteen years old was hang
q in Salem for arson less than sixty |
ears ago, in "our grandfathers' days"
About that same period man in
hat city, says the records, saw a girl |
t II years hung in London for petty !,
heft, a silver cream pitcher being the |
alue of her life.
Edward Vale Brown was hung in |
'oston for burglary.
In the London records, between IT'S |
nd 1925, there is an account of one |
idge who caused to be hung in one
ay eight boys and girls between the
ges of ten and sixteen for petty thefis.
re not we betterl
During the reign of Henry the
Eighth seventy thousand people were
ung. but this was nearly equalled in
he reign of King George tie Third.
Compare the good old days" with
he new-our days-and are we not
etter, more humane, yes, and practi-
ally better ChristiaDsl think 30.