The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-07-25

that society becomes lenient in propor-
uon as lmpurity becomes afhuent or is
IN elevated circles, and finally society
IS silent or disposed to paIliate. Where
Is the judge. the jury, the police officer
that dare arraign the wealthy uber-
tine! He walks the streets he rides
the parks. he faunts his inieuity in
the eyes of the pure The bag of I'M
cieanneSs looks out of the tapestried
window Where is the law that dares
take the brazen wretches and put their
faces in an iron frame of a state pris-
on window?
sometimes 1t seems to me as if So
ciety We're going back to the state of
morals of Herculaneum when it sculpt-
ured its vilenesS on pillars and tenn1o
wall and nothing but the lava of a
burning mountain could hide the i'm
menslty Of crime At what time God
Will rise up and extirpate these evils
upon society I know not, nor whether.
he will do it by fire OF hurricane or.
earthquake; but a holy God L do not
think will stand it much longer T
believe the thunderbolts are kissing
not and that when God comes to chas-
Use the community for these sins
against which he has uttered himself
more bitterly than against any other.
the rate of Sodom and Gomorrah viii
De tolerab1e as compared with the fate
or our modern society which knew
better, but did worse
The Sacredness of Life
Ihen look at the destinations thrown
around assassination. There are in all
communities men who have taken the
hVes OF others uniawful1y not as exc
cut1oners of the law and they go scot
free You say they had their proyoca-
lions God gave life, and he alone has
a right to take it, and he may take it
by visitation of
executloner Of the law, who is his
messenger. But when a man assumes
tnat divine prerOgative he touches the
lowest depth of crime.
Society is alert for certain kinds of
murder If a citizen going along the
road at night is waylaid and slain by
a robber, we all want the villain ar
rested and executed. For all garroting
for all beating out of life by a club or
an ak or stun gshot the law has quick
spring and heavy stroke but you
know that when men get affuent and
high position and they avenge their
wrongs by taking the lives of others,
great sympathy is excited LAWYERS
plead, ladies weep, Judge halts, Jury is
bribed and the man goes free. If the
verdict happen to be against him a
new trial is called on through some
technica1ity and they adjourn for
witnesses that never come, and ad-
journ and adjourn until the commun-
1ty has forgotten all about it, and then
the prison door opens and the murder
er goes free.
Now, if capital punishment be right
I say let the life of the polished muir
derer go with the life of the vulgar as
sassIn- Let us have partia1ity of
ga1loWs, no aristocracy of electro
cut1on chair. Do not let us float back
to barbarism, when every man was
ind lore
and that man had the supremacy who
had the sharpest knife and the strong
est arm and the quickest step and the
stealthiest revenge He who wiIlf,1IIv
and in hatred takes the life of another
IS a murderer, I care not what the
prOVOcat1On or the circumstances He
may be cleared by an enthusiastic
courtroom, he may be sent by the gov
eminent of the United States as minis
ter to some foreign court or modern
literature may polish the crime until
it looks like heroism; but in the sight
Of God murder is murder and tbe
judgment day will SO reveal it.
Some Plain Questions,
There are hundreds of young men
who have good blood. Shall ask three
or four plain questions? Are your hab-
It's as good as when you left your ia
Tiers house? Have you a pool ticket
in your pocket? Have you a fraudulent
document? Have you been experiment.
ing to see how accurate an imitation
you could make of your employers sig
nature? Oh, you have good blood Re
member your fathers prayers Re
member your mothers example Turn
not in an evil way Have you been GO
ing astray? Come back. Have YOU ven
tured out too far?
As I stand in pu1pits looking over
audiences sometimes my heart fails
me- There are SO many tragedies pres
ent, SO many who have sacrificed their
integrity, so many far away from God
Why, my brother, there have been too
many prayers offered for you to have
you go overheard. And there are those
venturing down into sin, and my heart
aches to call them back
At Brighton Beach or Long Branch
you have seen men go down into the
surf to battle, and they waded out far
Their and farther, and you got anxious
about them You said ct wonder if
they can swim2' And you then stood
and shouted: Come backi Come back.
Y011 will he