New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-07-21
Ideas of Others.

The Chicago Tribune refers to Ii
prompts action of this government, i
protecting its citizens in Morocco, in I:
/ rather sarcastic manner. It says edlto
rally:
! '.But why should the courage and re
solution of the administration be con
fined to this picayunish offender2 Righ
across the Straits Of Gibraltar is pow
er which has offended for years, whicl
has robbed Americans, Imprisoned Amer
leans, burned ard otherwise destroyed
their property, and ruined America
trade and commerce. Is it because SPAR
is more powerful than Morocco that NJ
American vessel has appeared in the por
of Havana and that no message has beer
sent to Madrid notifying Spain if these
outrages do not cease, and if instant re.
paration and apology are not made. Ha.
vana will be bombarded9 Still it II
something to have bristled up to Moroc.
co, though it is not much Of power,
with its 100000 unbreeched Berbers and
no navy. There would be no element
of danger if the Raleigh and San Fran
cisco should stay there forever. It shows
there Is a vestige of Americanism left.
Perhaps some day we shall not be afraid
at least to say boo to Spain, whose out
RACES upon Americans have been ten
thousand times worse than those in Tan
gier." -.
A member of the state board of par
don gives the following as the grounds
on which the Youngers were refused
their liberty:
''The petitioners in law and in fact
were muderers. This proposition was
established by plea of guilty and the
final judgement of court of competent
Jurisdiction. It is the exclusive prov
ince of the legislature to prescribe pun
ishment for murder-either death or i'm
prisonment. The board of pardons has
no moral right to interfere with this
punishment unless there are extenuating
circumstances. The character of this
crime renders it one absolutely without
any extenuating circumstances. Even
the advocates of pardon did not VEN
ture to suggest chat the sentence was
not just. The only reason urged tor par
don, meriting serious consideration, was
the fact of their early environment, and
their present reformation. As to their
environments, eleven long years passed
after the close of the war, and instead
of following the example of the men at
Appomatox, who accepted in good faith
the magnanimous terms offered by Grant
and returned to their homes and the
peaceful pursuits of civil life, they be-
came part of notorious band of out
laws. The plea. therefore, that they
should be pardoned on the ground of
their early environment seemed to the
board to be- wholly insufficient. The
claim that they had reformed, coDceding
it to be fact, if made the basis of their
pardon, would require that every life
convict who serves twenty-one years
should be pardoned. In short, if these
petitioners were pardoned, as matter
of fairness IN the case of every person
convicted of murder, the capital sentence
should be commuted to life imprison-
ment with the understanding that if the
prisoner conducted himself properly and
reformed he should be set at liberty at
the end of twenty-one years. For the
board to adopt such policy would be
an arbitrary usurpation of irresponsible
power which would prove menace to
LAC eAN PAOS0ACy oAA~A oSoA0S ~ eAAS ooesOS'
The highest public interests of the state
imperatively required that the applica-
ton be denied"
Discussing the action of the board, the
St. Paul Pioneer Press says:
"The adverse decision of the board Of
pardons upon the application of the
Younger brothers for pardon, and espec.
tally the grounds upon which the deci.
sion is based, closes the doors of theis
living tomb forever upon them and shuts
out every ray of hope from the endless
night Of despair to which they are con.
demned. For them there is no issue
from the prison but the grave. They
are murderers in law and fact" say the
board. Their sentence was just, and
therefore they must pay with the last
drop of their blood and the last minute