Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-22
1T INCITES TO MURDER.
THE COMMON PRACTICE OF
CARRYING REVOLvERS.
Deprive . Vicious Person Of His Pistol aud
He Will Not Be Nearly SO Quick a.
Calling Another Man q Liar
or Thief.


:. Brooks offered this resolutions
.'Thatthe. sergeant-at-arms shall cause
to be erected suitable rack in the
rotunda. where members who are add
tlicted to carrying concealed weapons ,
shall DO required to place them for the |
inspection OF the curious so long rs
the owners are engaged in legisla-
ton" Since then the carrying OF fire
arms has not abated. At fashion,
able wedding on Indiana avenue. says
the Chicago Herald. guest caught a
glimpse of u revolver in the pocket OF
the groom. 1.-The bride does not look
Dangerously thought the guest. At
prayer meeting in this city, as the
preacher Isneeled to pray, there pro-
truded from his hip pocket murder
ous.looking English bulldog revolver.
Afraid some one may take his re-
ligion from him." whispered Il parish
Toner.
A Clark street pawnbrokcr Of Chi
cago, speaks Of customer that once
I. month has Il drunken debauch.
Money gone he begins TO pawn articles,
always in the following order: Watch,
rings. set Of false teeth, pistol The
revolver is the last to go. AS pistol
may be bought for $3.50. no man need
be unarmed. 1t is estimated that in
cities every other man on the street at
night has revolvee on his person. a
few angry words, a flash. report. and
morning papers describe the gaping
wound, the death agonics. A Madison
street dealer in firearms says that,
despite tho law against selling to
minors. most buyers of revolvcrs are
youths under nineteen. These and the
vicious thus receive discretionary
power to kill. Human life is becom-
ing the cheapest thing on the globe.
In Montana there is Il cattlemans pro-
tective association. Little is thought
of the murder OF n man. The buzz
yards feast is uninterrupted. But let
Il calf be killed and the whole compli-
lated machinery of the powerful
organization is at once set in motion
to bring the offender to justice. In an
eastern city so many railway laborers
had been killed in coupling cars tina,
the wives of such work men petitioned
the company to use new patent
coupling which insured nearly abso
lute safety The patents are cxpen.
.sive," replied the company, "but mer
may DO had for $50 month" In
railway accidents to kill horse il
sometimes more expensive to the com
pany than to kill a man.
Shall human life become as cheaI
here as in India, where people would
rather be bitten by vepomous snake
than kill il9 Tho life of snake
is more sacred than that Of man
The Zend Avesta tells us that the lif,
of a hedgehog was protected by penal
human life. In the Fiji islands few
years ago human life was of SO littl
value, and murder on the slightes
provOcation was so common, that TO
MISREPRESENTATION every man on tn
street carried q huge club. Shall tn
ready revolver be allowed to make Lii
thus insecure in American citieso Shall
we accept the opinion OF Napoleon
who said OF tho slaughter Of thousand
of his bravo men: ''You can't make a
omelet without breaking a few eggs.
In this country the civil war lessene
the popular value of human life. Wit
horror we read of Colonel Ellsworth
death. Soon. however. it caused littl
ono battle. When angry, tho ma
with a revolver kills on the impulse {
tho moment. Had the weapon bee
inaccessible in ten minutes passio
would have subsidized and there woul
have been no murder Needlessly I
put q pistol in ones pocket is ste
toward the gallows. For many yea,
after the war Memphis was notorio,
for its murders and duols with irearm
An ordinance was passed and rigidl
enforced Furnishing by sixty days
Jail Ithc carrying OF weapons. Men
ocrs of the best families suffered tn
penalty Soon life became rs secur
in Memphis as in any other city.
Having q revolver ono is prepare
to fight. Those equipped for quarr
are tho most likely to quarrel. II
nation prepared for war is the quicl
est 70 find cosns bcM in the least a.
of another power. A pistol in one
pocket is y constant incentive to Ugh
Farmers have found that dehorning
steer takes away his viciousnes
Deprived OF weapons. the animal
adverse to assaulting man or beas
Similar is thug without his revolve
For one Of the criminal class to car,
revolver should be a penitentia,
ofiense. In charge to tile graz
Jury as to the evil of carruinn co