The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-03-15
SADNESS OF mecA,L's DEATH.

John A Mccall. worried beyond en-.
durance perhaps by the insurance dis.
closures. has laid down iife's burdens
/ and Joined the silent majority OF him
much newspaper space Is being deyot.
| ed by way OF comment-sorne dis.
play Of wrath and others a position OF
pity.
Tho Muskogee Times Democrat
says:
The more one thinks of John a.
Mccall. the more one Is moved TO sor-
row. OF course. he ls beyond the reach
% an'mosity. vitupera;ion. criticism.
There must have been a great heart
In his bosom. else he would not have
dropped and died under the torment
Of public Indignation
And The fact that he d'd belleye
IN his own honesty Of intent glarlnely
shows what wall modern buslnos
has constructed between man and his
own conscience.
"Ycs, it is easy to be sorry for John
! Mccall.
ole ls gonc tulips and the now.
crs % spring blossom near his final
resting place"
Tho position taken by the Times
Democrat Is wrong. u looks pretty
and sounds pretty 10 say In effect tina,
tho living Mccall deserved consurc;
The dead pity IN his gravo ho will
now rest anmlndful OF other blame or
praise. but men dout wipe out their
bad deeds by dying Whether your &C.
tions during life are good or evil you
die Just tho same. You can not rob
cheat. lic or murder and spit on the
slate and wipo e out by dying That
theory wont WORK and it should not
work You may 1.-Two the life OF a saint
for nlnotynino years oad during tho
! last hour OF your lie. n you have iho
strength you can commit enough si1
90 damn vol hero and hereafter Scltl
-r man nor Cod win f9-rlyc y3l.
| though you died q thousand umee
| Judas Iscari0t WAS 81, most trusted
/ cf au jha apostles. Uo was tho man
aho carried an tho money To sold
| Christ for si5 and chen. conscience
stricken, hanged himself, hut you
don't hC1r anything about nantes
" charity boins hung out for his spe
c.nl boneat Benedict Arnold dIl
wrong and 60 now mead. Boss Tweed
ma wrong ana Is moderately dead
but you hear no.hing OF mantles. Mon
must otand or fall by thelr works
Man need not try 10 be better or more
'orrlylng than God. and ne punlshcg
men for quite awhile fer their mis-.
deeds oven after they are dead.
John A. Mccall did not do rlgnt wnen
fc deliberately squandcred the hard
earned money OF helpless widows and
orphans. He lived like n prince and
died Just like tho comonest paupor
because death pays no attention
whatever 10 IT'S victims station in life
| INV At'h AlAtAA Af NA'u hhNn NbA IAN
back the squandercd millions. and
never will, nor viii the fact that he
died wipe away the stain upon his
name. what n man sows such will he
reap. and while the public is always
moderately sympathetic and gener-
ous. II will never forget your evil
deeds or forgive them because just
1t tho proper time you die. "The OWL
that men do lives after them" and a.,
tho mantles OF charity on earth will
never be wide enough 20 completely
cover tho deliberate and ghas,ly
wrong pcrpctrated by Mccall upon
helplcs widows and orphans.
Tho Timcs-Democrat theory is bean.
tlful and expressed sincerely. but q,
g wrong and not sanctioned by al
vine or human ideas OF right anc
wrong
-OAO