San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-22

best. And yet II is not n clrcum
stance to the revealments of the
press as to the extent to which
life is daily sacrificed by those
whose brains are normal instead
of normal. Law penalties do not
cover these cases, prevention
there is none unless that proven,
ton extend to the prevention of
such people on the earth. 1t will
be a question for the legislator
of the future to determine wheth,
er these people should be permit
I'd to live and endanger the lives
of the innocent, on the broad.
principle that the few are to be
sacrificed to the good of the
many. What valid grounds for
continuing to be and bringing
their breed into existence have
the d k i W | family. anyway.
But there is an old scripture
that saith. Fear not those who
kill the body and after that have
no more that they can do, but
rather fear those who are able to
east both soul and body into
hell" Bad as are the didn't
know it was loaded family, who
destroy the body. they are as an
gels of mercy to those of the
breed who destroy the inner
peace of the souls of their kind.
If the first are to be stunned and
prescribed, these latter are to be
eXecrated. He'll itself has low
er depth that is only reached by
those who make it their business
to destroy the regulations of
others, fire their shafts of calum-
ny, regardless, shoot out their
lip at the breast of innocence,
blow their fOulness over the spir-
its of cleanness, and then. excuse
themselves with the pitiful plea
for their soul murder didn't
know it was loaded"
There never was a dynamite
bomb on earth, or in the lowest
level of the pit of perdition, so
deadly in it's destructiveness as
the careless words shot out from
the lips of those who would not
knowingly do injury to one of the
least of created things, but whose
tongues hiss with unconscious
venom. retailed in the daily Cos
sip of the home, and the tea-rOOm
and the salon, and the club room
and the church social. Not the
awful unexpectedness of the
didn't-knOw-it -was-lOaded gun,
approaches the awful, the appal-
ling suddenness with which the
explosion of some didn't-knOw-it-
was-lOaded tongue bursts forth
with it's charge of death dealing
destructiveness. Only the unfOr-
tunate victims, utterly unprepar.
ed for this damnable deed at the
hands of a friend. only these can
know the terrible consequences
thereof.
AS there is no law that reaches
the case of those who fire the
didn't know it was loaded gun in
the face of their dearest friend,
so there is no law, human or di-
vine that can reach the case of
those who thrust out their load
ed tongues and fire their hellish
wads of scandal, false and unsift
ed, into the bOsoms of those
whom an hour before they had
saluted with a kiss of peace.
Were this cold blOOded treachery,
it would be bad enough, but it is
worse, it is only carelessness.
carelessness that recks not of rep
utatiOn, or the sacredness of
home, or love of cleanness, or re-
gard of truth, or the sanctity of
confidence; regardless of the cru
ell wrong it perpetrates, of the
outraged souls it leaves to blister
under the scOrn of those to
whom the scandal comes. 1t is
a death that nevrr dies and which
has no human antidote.
Didn't know it was loaded, O.,
Mother. into whose heart the
iron has entered deeply, as the
torn and bleeding form of your
little one has been carried into
your presence, done to death by
the careless handling of some
didn't know it was loaded engine
of mortal destruction, as you re-
call the agony of that hour, pause
on the threshold of firing your
didn't know it was loaded gun of
scandal into the breast of some
tender heart on earth, a heart in
all human probability no more