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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

5. The spectacle of the gallows
awaiting him is not lost upon any per-
son in his senses. The result is the
minimum Of homicides Any mitiga-
ton OF the penalty would be reflected
in an increase OF their number.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

?. The possibility Of human error
is such that so precious a thing as hui
man life should not be placed at the
disposal of Judge or jury. 1t is al
ways possible-and has occurred
that innocent persons suffer death
through a miscarriage Of Justice, And
as to the degree Of guilt, whether alb
solute or partial, mistakes are even
more likely to occur.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

6. Hanging a person by order OF
the state is a revolving spectacle, abb
horent to those who do it or witness
it and demoralizing TO all who read or
know OF it. The state is lowered in
its morals every time an execution oc-
cnrs
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
1. Three elements enter into the in
Fiction OF any penalty.
a. Society must be safeguarded in
the most effective way from a
repetition OF the offence by the
offender.
b. Punishment should be Of an ex-
emplary form, calculated to de-
ter others from committing the
crime.
c. The penalty ought to be such as
will allow reasonable opportu-
nifty for the culprit to repentand
reform.
Ofthese three, the first is amply
provided for by life imprisonment the
second may be open to doubt; the
third is better answered by life i'm
than by hanging
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

3. Probably true yet it lends, So
lemnity to a murder trial that nothing
else approaches, and makes 1t certain
that the verdict, If finally one Of guilt,
is well sustained, according to the
evidence
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
THE DEATH PENALTY.

l. Life Imprisonment involves a
prospect of future pardon, not pleas
ing to the sentiment of the state.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

The states attorney OF Washington
county is after some of the so-calfed
stock brokers. doing business in Barre,
the prosecution being based on the
alleged violation OF the bucket shop
law. The line between legitimate
and Legitimate brokerage, as con-
Quoted by such concerns, is not well
defined, but if steps can be taken to
put out OF business these branches
Of outside stock specializing firms
that draw thousands and thou
sands of hard-earned dollars from
our people and finally 60 to the wall
on some flimsy pretext or other, beat
ing hundreds OF creditors, a thankful
public will applaud the result
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

!" Society has right to protect it.
self from those who ikill by wiping
them out, and from those who would
Kill by making the most forcible ex-
ample of the tate in store for them.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

D. No offence can be so serious q.
e, e warrant blood-spilling by the state.
IL Is no slight punishment to he inn
prisoned for life. -'-'
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
Hoods JdrS0DdriL[d

No other medicine acts ike il
no other medicine has done 80
much real, substantial good. no
other medicine has restored health
and strength at so little cost
j vas troubled With scrofula ard came
near losing my eyesirht For four months I
could not see 20 DO anything. AFTER taking
two bottles Of Hoods SarsaparfIla ] could see
. yak. and when bad taken eight bottles
could see Is well a. ever SUsIn A. HAMS
roN Withers. n. c.
hoods SarsaparIIIa promises 70
cure and keeps the promise,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

The custom Of granting Christmas
pardons TO convicts is receiving
attention. Gov. Bell granted two OF
this kind, which is moderate, COM
pared to the record Of some governors.
For instance, the governor of Texas
granted q. 1t is questionable
practice, this habit of extending So
called clemency in consideration Of
the spirit of Yuletide. The power TO
pardon is an official prerogative, not
a personal privilege. 1t is to be exer-
eised with the utmost regard, first,
for the rights and safety OF the public
and the carriage of Justice, and
secondly, for the welfare of the
prisoner himself. However tender
and forgiving the nature of the man
whom the people have temporarily
placed at the head OF the state. he
should be governed by the dictates
OF duty only when it comes to the
subject of pardons. Sentiment never
should enter. There is no more reason
why pardons should issue at Christ
mas tide than at any other time Of
year. II deserved, they should be
granted, regardless Of the moment
if undeserved, no mistaken sense oil
generosity should prompt them then.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

Either Lawson's "Frenzied Finance
is the greatest expose the country has
ever known and will result in a great
benefit to the nation and its people or
else it is the biggest falsehood the peo-
pie have ever read and is an unpar.
donable shame Barton Monitor.
The public would be very ready to
accept the latter conclusion were IL
not for the seeming reluctance OF the
prominent men so bitterly assailed to
take any steps toward redress of
their wrongs. Because Of this, the
opinion grows that whatever Lawson's
character or motives, he is combining
himself near to the truth.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

that capital ~oa, the weight of the argument seems 70 b.
hah NE Imprisonment but IFS merit - ~ commission of
70 = a. an unsafe uncized un 1ri on does not
name We are not favor capital p prplg ao any
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

?. Lille imprisonment is expensive
to the state.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

The St. Johnsbury Caledonian at
tempts in the editorial reprinted else
where in this issue to belittle the work
OF the special committee appointed to
investigate our state institutions by
insinuating that it was all the result of
the cry OF graft started by Mr.. Glenn
ent and charging that the examination
made was meager, superficial and I'M
fair. Il may be that the circumstances
under which the committee was enos-
en- oy the legislature and the time linn
u put upon its work were not favor
able tor the best results; but no one
can read the report and recommended
tons and not desire TO see an investi-
cation that will 90 to the bottom of
things. There is something rotten in
Denmark, and il should be brought to
light Rutland Herald.
It is perhaps natural for those con-
demned by the committees report and
their friend, 10 seek to discredit il, but
the whole truth will yet come out.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

o. should the state, therefore. an
ue'pate the mob by doing the MONS
work. AiOO ;
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

8. 1t is solely because of its terror
inspiring nature that it acquires its
merit as a penalty for murderers.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Who are these gratters p st.
Johnsbury Caledonian.
Who cares who they are. Did they
graft? No matter about their pedi-
gree.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

l. Other figures show the contrary
some states without the death penalty
appear satisfied.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

The administration is pushing it.
movement for a law requiring that
corporations doing an interstate bust
ness shall be required to take out q
federal charter, TO be granted by Con
gress. As this applies to the great
railroad, telegraph, telephone, mining,
manufacturing and industrial enter
prises, some Of which come under the
head OF trusts, the magnitude of the
proposition is apparent. 1t meets
with the hostility OF the great moneyed
interests Of the country that want to be
let alone. 10 means a federal super
vision OF the great monopolies, which
they naturally oppose. However, il Is
a subject bound to appeal to the minds
OF the people, who do not feel at ease
in the presence of the practically un-
restrained aggregations OF wealth that
have so great a part in the public life
OF America today. Corporations
chartered by some one state Tor self
ish or pecuniary purposes roam the
country almost at will, unaccountable
TO any authority, save as to acts
clearly criminal, The welfare of the
general public, as affected by them,
comes in for little attention. IL does
seem as though some one central au-
thority should look after the subject
and grant the charters and regulate
the big concerns that do an interstate
business. We know there will be
hue and cry raised about the invasion
OF state rights, but it has reached the
point where the peoples rights are OIL
more Importance than the fancied and |
ianclful dignity OF the mere fabric.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

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o. Granted. The possibility.
though is small. Doubtless a penaltv
oil more rigid or severe prison discip-
line could be made impressive in sucb
cases.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

A matter worthy Of note was thar
verdict given in Windsor county
court last week in a suit brought to
recover for malicious prosecution.
1t developed that the plaintiff had
been the defendant in previous cases
instituted, as the evidence tended to
show, for the purpose, particularly.
Of embarrassing and annoying the
then defendant if not to absolutely
ruin him. When the facts came to be
siited, il was found there was no
ground whatever Tor action. and that
il either party were entitled TO recover
Il was the party sued. Then the
latter turned and brought suit tor
the loss Of time and money and the
trouble inflicted by the causeless
litigation. lie had paid $1,000 in
attorneys fees. tor one item. The
Jury returned a verdict for the fun
amount Of damages ciaimed-S5O00.
The moral Is that the law should not
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downfall OF another, or 20 vent spite.
or 20 DO anything except 10 insure
absolute justice. In short, the law
is intended as o shield. not a sword.
n..,,s. tRt.......,8, fstta -t.s..,.,-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
LIFE IMPRISONMENT

l. Inc governor of Vermont can
not extend pardon to the convicted
murderer. 1t is doubtful if there i
any power that can.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

II Mrs. Cassie Chadwick had only
had herself incorporated she would
have the Standard Oil company and
the steel trust beaten to standstill.
- Montpelier Argus.
She was something OF a steal trust.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

Did it ever occur to you that the
word neighbor does not have the
meaning it did once? Even in rural
communities, people are attempting
10 pattern after metropolitan ideas,
which, 10 say the least, are wholly
wrong. Happy are those people who
have good neighbors, il they have lit
tie else. Ifyon want good neighbors,
do the neighbofly act yourself. We
can all do better Waterbury Record.
A charming bit Of philosophy that
we can all take to heart.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05

9. In case OF an atrocious murder.
II the people did not know that the
perpetntor would suffer in kind. if
might serve to encourage mob law and
lynching.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
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The Jewish outlook. (Denver, Colo.) 1903-1913, 1905-09-01
Denver, Colorado, Friday, September /, 1905

where John Brown gave white mans lie
as the price of black mans liberty.
Have we given our quota to this record?
We feel it our special privilege to say
that from the hour when first the doctrine
was proclaimed we have ever stood ready to
bear our share of the burden OF defending It,
We knew that it country's glory
that freedom inspired it's great wars, and
that it's flag was free from tyrants wrongs
On the plains of Gettysburg under the will
lows of the Wilderness, in the valley of the
Shenandoah, in tropics beyond the seas, in
places unknown except to the angels, sleep
our brethren, side by side with their fellows
even as they fought. There was no religious
bigotry against them living; there is but
universal love and reverence for them dead
They aided in the strife for peace; they gave
their lives for it's blessings, for good will to
all the people of the earth; for the spirit OF
universal love.
So our country has taken it's place among
the nations of the earth, and, while holding
aloof from international complications, it is
unwilling that the despot should thrive even
elsewhere When Roumanian brutality and
Russian barbarity awoke the sympathy of
the world, it remained for the government at
Washington to cast around the inquities OF
these people the circle of it's indignant pro-
test and, with a voice as loud an1 as potent
as that with which the Almighty controls the
movement of the tiues, to declare: THUS far
shalt thou go, and no farther
To the greatness of the nation we bow
our heads in homage: for its continued
growth we pray Gods speed. May it's troth
to humanity, religious freedom and civic
virtue never be forgotten; it's flag never
traileI in defeat as it never will be lowered
in dishonor The United States of America,
the harbor of the oppressed, the protector of
the downtrodlen, the emancipator of the en-
slaved it's mission is not ended. Its mission
will not be ended until all humanity is con-
verted to the religion of brotherly love,
striving for the mental and moral elevation
of mankind, until the slumbering conscience
of all nations has been awakened to recog
niZe the godlness of man, until the spirit
of freedom and federation has been breathed
into every nations life, until peace and fra
ternity shall reign upon earth and strife
shall be no more-then, and then only, will
the mission of this nation be en!ed.
Our country, the United States of Amer
lea, sanctified in the blood of free men in
177G, consecrated to the principle of equal
The Jewish outlook. (Denver, Colo.) 1903-1913, 1905-09-01

other foundations or departed from their in
fiuence, must sorrow even in it's successes
and weep and mourn even as 1t sings its
song of triumph
Has the troth been kept? Does the doc
trine still live? Does it yet envelop the
stranger within our gates, as it did at its
dedication?
A hundred years and more have passed
away. We see the unequal struggle of the
Revolution, it's intrepid leaders, its brave SOL
ders making the war of sacrifice demanded
and when after eight years of war; led by
pillar of cloud during the day and pillar of
fire by night, with hands upifted even as
Moses uplifted his for the children of Israel
in the desert when attacked by Amalek, we
the first ray of light breaking into that
wonderful dawn of righteousness, liberty
and equality upon which the sun shall never
set. We see the dread winter of war break
into a happy Summer-land of peace The
gateway of the nation became at once the
objective point of all the downtrodden, and
teeming through its portals at New York.
they came to enjoy the fruits of that men,
orable conflict. Scarcely yet had rest and
peace spread their wings over the land, when
again the enemy is at the door, and in 1872
the last attempt to call back the light of the
new land to the darkness of the old is sue
cessfully resisted under the banner so
firmly planted upon this soil. Ours, said
these men and these women, is the duty of
free men and the service of the best aspira-
tions of man. God loves all His children.
they said in 1861. He draws no line between
faith and faith, nor yet between color and
color, and when the call came these men and
these women paid the dreadful price asked
by the Reaper to maintain the doctrine that
freedom and equality were born not for
death, but for Immortality.
These wars and these battles were fought
for the right and with the courage of the
color sergeant who said to his colonel. upon
the eve of battle: Il will bring back the
colors in honor, report to God the reason
why.
Bunker Hill and Yorktown, Lake Erie
and New Orleans, Vicksburg and Appomat
tOX, Manila and Santiago, will be sacred as
long men remember Sinai. All the places
where Caesar and Alexander conquered for
the sake of glory will have passed into the
forgotten and unknown when still the green
est memories will entwine the spots where
Warren fell where Washington rests and
The Jewish outlook. (Denver, Colo.) 1903-1913, 1905-09-01
"Our Country

AooreSS OeIIvereo oy Otto irving Wise dt tne
Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco, August
1a, 1905, at the Golden Jubilee Of the
B'nai Birth.
The jubilee acclaim is still ringing in our
ears; the joyous tones of the hallelujah are
still ringing through the hall; the recital of
half century of glorious record and OF sue
cessful endeavor still thrills us; our prayers
to the God on high are still ascending for
benign protection for the future: we are yet
promising steadfastness for all time to come,
we are still proclaiming our faith in the des-
tiny of our mission, when we pause; pause
that we. through my feeble utterances, may
record our love and our loyalty, our devotion
and our faith, our impershabe constancy to
country. 1t is fitting, indeed, that we
should thus pause, and that. from this we'll
earned and well-deserved hour of jubilation,
we pluck these moments in order to deposit
tenderly and gratefully, at the shrine of our
country, a peoples tribute to nations
fatherhood.
We see before us the builders of a new
civiliZation-rugged man and women, driven
beyond the distant seas to the unknown land,
carving there and building there. stone upon
stone, for the posterity that now glorifies
them. We see dangers overcome in the new
and inhospitable refuge, backs bent with the
burden of fighting and battling for home and
for the dignity of manhood. We see them,
step by step and foot by foot, spreading
the halo of their blessed presence upon the
land and among the strange peoples VINO
awaited them here. We their vigorous
and sturdy children, who received their
heritage not only the courage and the
strength, the vigor and the bravery of their
pioneer fathers and mothers, but who also
received the new, the priceless, the Ameri-
can doctrine of faith that life, liberty and
religious freedom were Gods to give and
not mans to take away. That doctrine was
to be forever engraved upon the mountains
and on the plains and in the valleys of the
ac inda1jh1V G q
These builders believed that with the life
of the world came love; with man came lib
erty, and with love and liberty came their in
exorable law and power, and to this doctrine
they plighted their troth, proclaiming that
the nation that builded it's structures on
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-16
in-law, Mrs. David Land, during the

in-law, Mrs. David Land, during the
past week.
Mrs J. Bryan Ards has returned from
a business trip to New Orleans. While
in the Crescent City Mr. Arlis had the
pleasure of seeing Julia Marlowe and
Sothern in a great Shakespearean play
Mrs. L. S. Flournoy of Ruston and
her neice, Miss Helen Marbury, visited
Shreveport to hear Bishop Sessums
preach the opening sermon in the Dali
zell Memorial church. They were the
guests of Mrs T. B. Chase
Prof Davidson, principal of the Ber-
nice public school, was visitor to the
central high school on Friday. Prof
Davidson is an able and experienced
teacher, alive to the best in methods an
teaching, and his visit was greatly ap-
preciated by the faculty.
The monthly meeting of the Caddo
Parish Teachers Association was held
at the central high school Saturday.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-16
The Causes Of Failure.

what is the secret of most of the
failures in this world?' l asked the
successful business man.
Lack Of originality and lack Of init
ative"
And originality?'
"Well. our training is somewhat re-
spOnsible for that When we are small
we are more or less taught to be copy
CATS and suppose it is good for us to
certain point, but after that-and the
point is reached very early in life-it is
individuality, and the stronger the bet
ter, which counts. The man who feels
that the world is his apple and that he
is going to cut out pattern Of his own
In the peeling is the man who is going
to succeed, and no one will be able to
dc more than trip him temporarily. So
great is the power Of originality that
the knowledge alone that man pos
sesses It even In embryo form will
make others treat him with more con-
sideration. You can't treat a free brain
as If it were slave any more than you
can treat free man in the same way.
And what have said about men," he
added, lis equally true of women"