The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-04
DIVINE SUGGESTS
WHIPPING POST
Dr.. F. B. Short Advocates Stern
Remedy to Cure Carnival
of Crime.
WANTS MORE POLICEMEN
HE DECLARES JURIES ARE Of
TEN TOO LENfENT.
WANTS MORE P0LICEMEI

"Our Carnival OF Crime" was the sub
ject of the sermon of DR.. Francis Bur-
gette Short in the First Methodist
church last night. In the course of his
sermon he said, quoting from Exodus
q ~: He that smitheth a man so that
he die shall be surely put to DEATH
1.-THE Bible is the most marvellous
among books because it springs from
the heart Of righteousness. The faith
erhood of God evidences that God has a
fatherly concern for his every child
Therefore the ten commandments and
all the just principles of government
have sprung therefrOm.
1.-The same principles that were good
in the days of Moses are good for to-
day. Life is sacred and God has hedged
it about with the greatest possible
care, but there are those that disregard
every law that makes for the protection
of life.
This community has been stirred to
it's very depths time and time again.
indeed, there seems to be no end to the
carnival of crime that is being carried
on in this community. This city is the
stop-of place for every bad man that
crosses the continent. He stops here
to replenish his purse at whatever cost.
"The crimes that are committed here
are not by residents of the state. Two
judges informed me yesterday that of
the las persons committed to the peni-
tertiary only tWenty-six were citizens
of Utah, and on this Warden Pratt
agrees. This business of leniency with
these travelling criminals should be dis
continued, and I suggest a method for
eliminating very much of the theft, bur-
crla q nd Nxrffo
are committed in this state.
Suggests Whipping Post.
Back in old Delaware, from where
came, we have there a lady we call
Black Susan, who stands in each
county, and to her all cases of petty
larceny, theft and burglary are re-
ferred, the culprit being obliged to pay
for his crime by putting his arms
around the old lady and receiving a
specified number of lashes from a whip
welded by a strong man. Such
has reduced the above crimes in Della
ware, and it would do 1t here. But
am sure that in suggesting this you call
me heartless and cruel. However, ii
would not only reduce the number of
crimes committed, but would also save
the taxpayer from paying the board of
large number of criminals in our
state institutions.
Just think Of our jails and peniten-
tiaries being filed with boarders for
whom the taxpayers must put up their
cash, rather than have these undesira-
bles at large In the community. What
care they for term in prison, and the
so called punishment that is meted out
to them? Are they not released and
Swallowed, to be again apprehended for
like or worse crime?
Law brea keFs must be punished and
that punishment must be commensurate
with the infraction of the law. Society
must be protected against the ravages of
this worthless, voorhees,. shiftless, migra-
tory, high-handed band of thugs and rob
bers and murderers. The law, therefore.
must lay its cald iron grip upon them and
coerce them to obedience.
1.-THE good warden OF our penitentiary
informs me that theSa are eleven MUIR
derers serving life sentence; eleven inno-
cent lives have been struck down by mer
whose only contribution to society has
been crime; but worse than that, it means
that eleven men have lost sight of the
sanctity of life and again It means thai
the very heart Of the law of Utah and the
righteousness Of Cod, have been stabbed
to the very heart. Is there no remedy fol