The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-31

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he has more money than be ever had,
trades off his old silver watch for gold
one with 5 flashing chain, sets his hat
8 little farth over on the side Of his
head than he ever did, smokes better
cigsrs and more Of them. He has bis
hand in! Now, if lie caa escape the
penitentiary for three or four years he
will get into political circles, ani ne
will get political jobs and viii! have
something to DO with has b'Es aud pave
ments and docks Now he has got SO
far slorg he is safe for perdition.
Il is quite long road sometimes for
3 man TO trsYel before he gets into the
romance Of crime. Those are caught
who sre only in the prossic stage Of it.
IF the sheriff and constsbles would only
lesve them alone little While, they
vculd steal IS well as an?bodg. They
might not be able to steal a whole rsil
road, hut they could MASTER load Of
pig iron.
Now, l always thank God when l
ind 81 estate ike that go to smash. l.
is plsgue struck, and it blasts the na-
ton. thank God when it goes Into
such a wreck it can never be gathered
up sgain. l want it to become so
losthsoms and such an iasufferabie
ster CD that honest young men will take
warning. If God should put into
money OF its representative the cspaci-
ty to 90 to its lawful owner, there would
not be bank or safety deposit in the
United States whose walls would not
be blown out and mortgages would rip
and rarebmeDts would read snd gold
vo1ld shoot and beggsrs 6ould get On
horsebsck aud stock gamblers would
go to the slmshouse.
So there has been great deal of fas
cipstion thrown around ibertinisu.
Society is very severe upon the inpuri-
ty that Turks around the alleys and low
hsunts of the town. The law pursues
it, sm;tes it, incaroerstes it, tries to de-
stroy it. You know IS we'll as l that
society becomes lenient in proportion
as impurity becomes afR lent Or is in
elevss 4 circles, and faslly society is
silent or disposed to palliate. Where
is the judge, the jury, the police othoeS
that dare arrsign The wealthy libertlne?
He walks the streets, he rides the
parks. he hsunts bis iniquity in the
eyes # the pure. The hag Of unlean-
ness looks out Of the tspestried window.
Where is the law that dares take the
brszeu wretches and put THAR faces in
an iron frame Of a state prison window?
Sometimes it seems to me as if sccle-
ty were going back to the state of
morals Of Herculanesm, when it seulp-
tured its vileness on pillars and temple
wall and nothing but the lava OF a
burning mountain could hide the i'm
mensity Of crime. At what time Col
will rise up and extirpste these evils
upon society l know not, nor whether
he will do it by fire or hurricane or
earthquake; but holy God l do not
think will stand it much longer. I be-
lieve the thu 1derbolts ara Kissing hct
and that when God comes to chsstise
the c3mmunity for these sius, against
which he has uttered himself more bit.
terly than against any other: the fate
Of Sodom and Gomorrsh will be toler-
able as compared with the fate Of our
modern society, which knew better, but
did worse.
We want about 10000 pulpits in
America to thunder, 'All adulterers
snd whoremongers shall have their
plsce IL the hell that hurneth with fire
and brimssooe, which is the second
desth." Il is hell on earth and hell
forever. We have got to underst>-
that iniquity on Colr~I=- 81 or
Fifth avenue O: Recc-.,l nil is ss damn
sble in the sight Of God as it is in the
slums. Whether it has canopied couch
of elder down or dEells amid the put
ridity of low tenement house. God is
after it in his vengesnce. Yet the
pulpit Of the Christian church has been
so ooWed down on this subjsct that it
hardly dares speak, and men are al
most spologetic when they read the
Ten Commandments.
Then look at the destinations thrown
around assassinstions. There are in all
communities men who have taken the
lives Of others unlswfully, not as exc
cut1oners Of the Law, and they 60 scot
free. You say they had their provoca,
tions. God gave life, aud be alone has
a right to take it, and he may take it
by visitation Of providence or BY sn ex-
ecutioner Of the Law, who is his mes
senger. But when q man assumes that
divine prsrogati7e he touches the low
est depth Of crime.
Society is alert for certain kinds OF
murder. It s citizen going sloug the
road ct night is wsylaid and slaio By a
robber, We all want the villain arrested
and executed. For sll garrotiDg, for all
beating out Of life By club or sn az or
a siung,shot, the Law has quick spring
and heavy stroke. but you kzow that
when men getsfa1ent and high position
and they svenge their wrongs By taking
the lives Of others, great sympathy is
excited, lswers plead, ladies weep,
Judge halts, jury is bribsd and the man
goes free. If the verdict happen to be
against him, a lew trial is called on
through some technicslity, and they
adjourn for witnesses that never come,
and adjourn snd adjourn until the COM
munity has forgotten all about it, and
then the prison door opens and the mur-
dsrer goes free.
Now, if capital punishment be righ:,
I say let the life Of the polished mur-
derer go with the life Of the vulgar as
sassin. Let US have no partislity Of
gallows, no aristocrscy Of electrocution
chair. Do not let US float back to par
barism, when every man WAS his OWL
judge, jury and executioner, and that
man hsd the supremacy who had the
strongest arm and the quickest step and
the stealthiest revenge. He who will
fully and in hatred takes the life Of
eoothar is q murderer T cara not " hat