Telegram-herald., 1891-04-20
HANG THE MURDERER
Rev. Frye Unreseryedly Advocates
Capital Punishment.
SUSTAINED BY HIS CONGREGATION
The Preacher Goes Back TO Aneisnt HIS
tory and shows That He who ts~s
she sword oaght 10 Perish By
the same.


tory and shows That He who Cses
she sword oaght 10 Perish By
the same
The subject of the discourse by Rev.
Mr.. Frye. AT the Plsinheld avenue Nj.
4. Church, last evening, Was "Cap.tal
Punishment" 81 believe IN capital
punishment. said Mr.. Frye. because
10 right. and is the only punishment
which 10 adequate TO the crime OF muir
der, because II furnishes protection to
society and TO the laws of God. don't
expect every man here will agree with
me in the position l take concerning
this question. but believe 1t is morally
right and can refer you to passages OF
scripture to prove that it Is right. re-
fer you to Genesis, ninth chapter and
Nxth verse: Whose sheddeth mans
blood, by man shall his blood be she'd
This refers to the time OF Noah and the
law has never been revoked. If We
take any of the laws as good, We must
not relegate any of them. II the law
was good in Moses days, tits good now.
Job 2, 4: All that a man hath will he
give for his life.' that 10, the worst pen
atty that can be inflicted is death. The
State prison ls not as bad rs death.
Again, Revelations Is, 10: He that
killeth with the sword must die with
the sword Here We read the death
m
anywhere else in the Bible.
Punishments Of tho World.
There are nineteen countries that
have adopted the sword as the penalty
for murder. There are five methods
i'll use for inflicting the death penalty.
Ten countries use the guillo tine; nine
teen the sword, three The gallows, two
the gun, and one the axe. A majority
of the countries have adopted the pen
atty according to the laws of the bible.
The state and society demand the death
penalty. lt,is claimed by the oppon-
ents OF the death penalty that no man
has the inherent right to take life. What
Is the worlds positlon on the Question?
1t IS conceded that q man mas the
right to save his own life at the sacri-
fee of another's, or he may forfeit the
right to his own life to save another. 1t
Is argued that capital punishment is
contrary to civilization and belongs to
the dark ages. ask you if murder
can be committed any easier now than in
the dark ages? Murder is the ame:.today
as when Cain slew his brother, and
capital punishment is still the only pun
ishment adequate to the crime OF mur-
der. There is never a criminal without
crime, and there will be no crimelf
the criminal is abolished. The Ameri-
can people are infatuated over des-
perate criminal. Let Newspaper come
out with headlines of Foul Murder,
Stabbed to DEATH Murdered etc.,
and people are all excited; they will
drop their work to read with interest
the details of the crime. The house
wife will not turn another cake until
she has read the full particulars. The
newspapers devote too much space to
the narrative of horrible murder, but
| can't blame them, for the people de-
mand that kind of reading and news
paper IS published for money.
Murder aud Morbid Curiosity.
A crowd is attracted to the scene of
the crime and seems to grow fat at the
sight of drop of blood. The house IN
which the Cronin murder was perpe-
trated IN Chicago was placed on exhi-
bitiOn, aud the crowds that we're at
tracted there and the amount which
the owner reaped from the exhibition
show the Unsuitable thirst of the people
for the scenes Of murder. So much at
tention Is paid to q murderer that he
deems it an honor to stand on the gal.
lows. Right here in our own city at Il
recent murder trial could be seen a
crowd of interested people daily. whose
eyes were rivIted on the criminal, and
their sympathies were moved by every
emotion exhibited during the trial. The
W. L. L. L. have bad practice of CIV
ing bouquets to criminals, and when
flower mission day comes we shall
see them sending cards containing
passages Of scripture and flowers to
them. don't believe in It; far better
place the bouquets on their husbands
and children. We must reform our at
tItute toward the murderer. One ar
gument against the death penalty is
that an innocent man is liable TO be nut
to death. Because the innocent suffer
shall We let the guilty go free? There
are 100 guilty men executed to one that
is innocent. This argument is too
fallacious. There are undoubtly in
nocent men In our prisons, shall we
liberate them all and do away with
penal servitude7
How To Fix the Penalty.
A premeditated murderer knows the
penalty. He feels better after killing a
man in Michigan than in Indiana where
the punishment is death. Let us com.
pare states of different penalties. Capi.
tai punishment was abolished in this
State in 1876 and since that time mur.
der has increased twenty fold over the
rate of increase of population. Michi.
gan has more crime today than
any state in the Union. We
must protect ourselves and to
do this the state has the righ,
to take life to save it's own. When one
man - killed the life of the state il
taken to the extent of one man. II the
death penalty reduces the rate of muir
der then adopt il in premeditated mur.
der. III we have have capital punish
ment | would have II come under a
Federal law. the accused to be tried by
4 jury of seven men selected from tins
| highest positions in life, they TO unani.
nousiy decide upon verdict" After
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