The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-11-24
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
NEEDED: A FEW HANGiNas.

cutcheeon Of Old Maury county.
young citizen, just in the prime o
life, has been assasslnated in cole
blood upon one of the public high
ways Of the county and in what hal
heretofore been one Of the mos
peaceful and law abiding comnunI
ties within all the bounds OF the
State. No effort should be spared t
apprehend his assassin or assassins
and when they are caught they
should be made to pay the full penal
ty of the law. Crimes like these car
only be properly punished by
imposing the penalty that the law
prescribes. There can never be any
mitigation or paliation for deliberate
and cold blooded assassination
Brave men, men who have real griev
ances against their fellow men, dc
not prowl the public highways and
lie in wait 10 kill their victims in un.
fair fight There is no criminal more
to be dreaded or who should be more
vigorously dealt with than the COW;
ardly assassin.
Too often has the record of this
county been stained with human
blood in the past few years. Crime
after crime has been recorded in the
columns of this paper. Murder after
murder has blackened the name Of
the county within the last half dozen
years, but enc may search the court
records in vain for a single instance
where the death penalty has been
visited upon the murderer. And yet
murder has been the highest oifense
known to the law of God and man
since that day in the early dawn of
civilizations first morning when the
Almighty Numbered the command
from Mt. Sinai, Thou Shalt Not Muir
der" And no people have right to
call themselves a civilized people
who do not punish murder, all MUIR
der. every murder. When man takes
human life he takes that for Wlich
he nor any other mortal upon earth
can ever make restitution The thief
may restore to the rightful owner
his i'll gotter gain, the barn burner
NAV make restitution for the pro
peyty which he has destroyed, but
the murderer cannot give back that
Goa given ilfe that he has ruthlessly
taken. He can only eXpiate his
offeuse upon the gallows or in the
electric char.
II there ever was a State that need
e0 legal executions and a large num-
Der of their it is poor old bleeding
Talnessee. If we had thousand
prayers to oher for our common
wealth to The eternal throne of Trace
every one of them would begin with
the earnest supplication to teach
the people to obey the law and to
punish those who violate the solemn
DEGREES of God and man.
BY the enforcement of the law, its
ricid, impair al aud just enforcement
alone can We hope to escape the ter
rors of anarchy While the machln-
cry of the law ''"s Dormant. imDntent
to accomplish its purpose, we may
eypect the grim monster of anarchy
to show its hideous form. laws
that are not executed are but en-
cumbrances to the statute books; de-
crees that cannot or will not be en-
forced are impotent to protect life
or save property. Unless we are 60
ing to enforce our laws and end this
bloody carnival of crime we might
lust as we'll be frank and confess
that we arc incapable of self-govern-
ment and summons the man on
horseback If it is not that 1t must
be anarchy and God save this fair
land from the terrible consequences
which we invite when we extend to
that monster Of hideous mein" the
%S1st note of encouragement
This county has had its carnival
of blood. 1t should have period OF
law enforcement The Herald sum-
mons every man in the county re-
CARELESS Of political or religious
affiliations to follow it in its demand
for the enforcement Of the law
against muId der, even If they are not
all willing to stand upon our plat
form of an enforcement Of all the
laws. Let every man who hopes to
merit the title of good citizen forget
past differences and rally to a cause
about which there can be no differ
ence of opinion among those who
really believe in a government OF law
and who shudder at the suggestion OF