Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-27
D. Nj. Camp.

1t is with sincere sorrow that we
learn of the death of David NJ. Camp,
Of Newport. Whtn the writer came
to Vermont thirty-three years ago,
Mr.. Camp was the editor of the New
port Express and Standard and a
friendship formed then has continued
ever since, although Mr.. Camps re-
tirement from the newspaper business
several years ago abrogated this init.
macy somewhat. We knew him as a
man of sound integrity and sterling
worth, a Christian who daily lived
what he professed. AS an editor he
published a payer that was clean,
speaking harshly of no one and re-
Trained from giving currency 70 any
thing that was not clean and uplift-
ing. He was one of the organizer s
of the Vermont Press association,
among the number being G. G. Bene-
dict, C. NJ. Stone, c. NJ. Chase, l.. O..
Greene. Hiram Atkins, Albert Clark,
A. A. Earle, A. H. futile and A.. N.
Swan, all except the last named now
dead.-Hyde Park News and Citizen.
"Does it Pay to Advertiser"
This old-time everyday question
came right home to the business in
terests of White River Junction in
the days preceding Merchants Week.
The anticipations of The Landmark,
as respects the extent to which local
merchants would go in the matter of
advertising were not realized, and so
acting on a sudden impulse, a half
page advertisement of it's own ap-
peared as a bona fide inducement for
Merchants Week, and on the princi-
pie that no such occasion can be a
success except by the offering of
special and genuine inducements
The offering of a 25-cent jackknife
for t~wehty-four and three-quarters of
a cent is not an inducement, but the
offer of a 25-cent knife for ten cents
is. The half-page advertisement was
the offer of the Landmark for Is
months for so cents to new subscrib-
ers, but not for renewals 1t stipulat-
ed that each new subscriber must ap-
pear in person, and plank his shekeis
upon the office desk. The result was
that 143 new subscribers were OBJ
tanned in the week. Advertising paid
in this instance.-White River juno
ton Landmark.
Capital Punishment Just.
The recent change of sentiment in
the eastern part of the United State
regarding capital punishment is very
marked. being we'll illustrated by the
verdicts in the notorious Beattie,
Spencer and Bosworth murder cases.
There can be no doubt that maudlin
sentimentalism has been a great
agency for the promotion of high
crimes in this country, and it is a
good sign of the times that popular
feeling is so changing that over-lenien
cy is likely to be replaced with some
thing Of the Spartan spirit in dealing
with the worst types of offenders.
In the first place. the wheels of JUS
tice have been impeded by indirect
and Anticipated methods of legal pro-
cedure --technicalities too often have
outweighed known facts. And it is
no wonder that people tire of the
farce, and long for the quicker and
more effective methods of the British
criminal courts. Then, the law itself
too often is lax or all too laxIy en-
forced and again Justice weeps, and
Law and Order receives the solar
plexus blow. So, the awful crime OF
l%ynching has been fostered, and the
normal law-abiding spirit of the mil.
lion has been weakened and in many
cases changed to one of absolute laW-
~lessness.
There can be no doubt that the
stern rule of the Vigilantes in Cali.
fornia in the time of the gold excite
ment was justified, in great measure,
and made practically imperative, by
the lawless conditions that prevailed
and the utter inadequacy of any other
means for the suppression of crime.
Neither can there be any doubt that
the abuses of that system had many
and exceptionally serious results. or
that the state suffered for many
years, and to sone extent still is
suffering, as a result. And there
may be reasonable doubt if the pres
ent rigid tanner of dealing with pris-
oners at San Quentin prison is the best
system. Yet who can fail to rejoice
that it IS to such a prison that the
Mcnamara Brothers have been con-
demned? The Elmira Reformation
system, probably is ore of the best
that could be devised for its treat
ment of the condemned criminal, to
both the ends of his rehabilitation
and the punishment of his crime,
with its consistent combination of
humanitarianism- including enforced
training for possible sometime useful.
ness to society and its rigid disciplin-
arianism.
To some minds, however, the great
est good of the convict looms more
important than the greatest good of
society, although this is a wholly un
tenable viewpoint. The chief object
of penal laws Is neither the punish,
ment 70 the reformation Of the Grim.
inal, but the protection of society
from criminals by the severity of the
penalties against crimes. Here soft
ness and sentimentalisn have nc
place. By all means let the convict
be treated with all the mercy cornpat,
lble with his crime. never cruelty, al
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