The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-02-09
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1894.
Who Killed LO Warren.

His blood be upeaars and on our children
Matt. xvii, Is
Whoever has knowledge of any unlaw-
full proceedings likely to cause loss of
human life and, declines to interfere. is
guilty as accessory before the fact.
Jas. w. Wells hos been found guilty
of numbering 10 Warren. The evidence
showed that Jimmie Wells actually fired
the shot which killed Warren. But the
question arises whether or not his blood
is not also upon the hands of more of US
besides Mr.. Wells. If we as citizens of
Dodge City have in any manner encourage
ed the unlawful vacations which are ad-
mitted by all to be the influences which
caused Wells to do the deadly deed, then
we are guilty. Hew.many of us are par
ticipators in the responsibility for the
state of affairs which caused the death of
one citizen and may result in the i'm
prisOnment of another for life? lst Every
officer whose duty it is to enforce the
laws who fails and neglects to use his
best endeavors to; do so. End. Every
citizen who will exercise bis rights of
citizenship in such manner as not to
most effectually prevent all violation of
law, and in such manner as will result
disorder, violence and murder. Those
who favored an arrangement whereby
saloons and gambling houses might be
unlawfully conducted on the payment of
fifty dollars each per month did not know
it would be the cause of death and dis
aster in the community. Some may not
have even realized that it would tend in
that direction, but now they have learned
the lesson at the expense of one life lost
and two families left 'desolate. Even
the financial gain from the regularly COL
lected fine has been more than swept
away from the public treasury, and there
still remains the possibility of another
trial.
Those who have advocated this method
. OF collecting revenue without realizing
that the result might .ke blood-sbed
and death. are not SO guilty as were
the priests who knew that their demands,
if complied with, would result in the un
lawful taking of life. But if now. after
we'l.now by actual experience that muir
der-is the natural consequence of the
arrangement which has been made be-
tween our city authorities and the Joints
and gambling houses, condemnation will
be upon each one of us wbos does notuse
every legitimate effort against a further
continuance of the treaty above
mentioned. If it does continue more
murders will surely follow, aud then the
blood of the slain will --be npoR us and
on Our, Children
Between thirty seveu and forty wears
after the Jews of Jerusalem had de-
liberated accepted the responsibility of
this unlawful act, themselves and their
children.were shut up inside the walls of
their capitol city by the Romans under
Titus, and the very people who throng-
ed about the judgement seat of. plate,
in the same city clamoring for blood,
passed through ''great tribulatiop, such
as was not since the beginning of the
world TO this time, no nor ever shall be-"
Matt, "A, II Not themselves only. but
their children, also. according to the
words which they themselves had utter
ed.
Josephus, the great hebrew historian,
gives an account of this seigc of Ierusa-
dem which all scholars agrees was
time of the most terrible suffering ever
endured by a community of people,
either before that time or since, up to the
present day. and according to the words
OF our Saviour last above quoted there
never will be such.a time again on earth.
Though we have this assurance that
the unspeakable horrsrs of the siege of
Jerusalem will not be repeated in the |
world, yet we kaow murder will not 20 |
unpunished. and if the. people of this city |
do not want to bear the responsibility, as
accessory before the fact, to sanother
killing, they had better clear their skirts
by promptly taking steps to enforce the
law. and notify the gambling houses and
joints that fine of fifty dollars per month
will not he the price of immunity any
longer.
The commissioners Of CLARK county at
their last meeting raised the salaries of
county clerk and treasurer to 81 100 and