Mower County transcript., 1911-03-22
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nate this niamby -pamby, maudiin'
siekly sentiment against capital punish
ment for murder. The man who de-
liberately murders another forfeits his
own life and the rest of the hundred
million hav leetle claim to be protect
ed from him. Last year, there was
5000 murders in tho United States
about 80 to the: million of population
while right across the border in Canada
there was only three murders to the
million. Germany had less than five,
Great Britain ten, France IA. and Bel
gium 16 to the million. Do you know
why? Cansda Furnishes with death
seysn.eighths IF the men convicted Of
murder while the United States exc
cutss. only one,murderer out of every IA
In this country it's safer to shoot q
loan than q deer in the forest. In
England, q murderer is tried quickly
and executed promptly, and they didn't
hav q single lynehin' last year while
Uncle Sam had 81. The simple factis
that a man amt goin' to murder very
much~when he know he's goin' to get
hung for it while he'Iteake big chances
when he knsws he's got chance to get
off easy.
These chicken hearted folks that
want to $50 capital punishment aboI-
ished don't know what the facts are or
they would revise their decisions.
They say life sentence Is better pun
ishment but the greenies don't catch
on to the fact that in our easy g0in'
methods the average life sentence fig-
gers down to seven years thru the let
tim free by pardon of SO many Jail hf-
ers. amt cruel hearted and like TO
SEQ justice but We ought to show just
ice 60 the innocent who are in danger
Of beln' murdered by murderers who
are treated loniently. Its q trait OF
human natur that light panishments
make crimes easy. zee q great huila-
baloo over lickin' some Of the refrac-
tory boys at the state school at hed
Wing. Folks forget that some oi
these very boys are the wosst Soin
boys,thst hav proved u1Govefnable BY
their ewn parents and hsS sszrted'in on
rash career of evil. The manager
hav tried ali kinds of easy treatment
with 'em and no good. The severe 10
the only alternativ to fetch 'em to their
senses.
II President Taft thinks he's doin'
right in putin q JOB lot of old dis
carded politicians Into fat appointiv
ottises after they hav ben kicked out by
their constits because of treachery aud
graftin' and servin' the trusts and
monopolies, he'll find he's mitiiy mis-
taken The people at the polls cou-
sign lot of these old deadheads that
hav grown rich in oils thru unfair
means to the scrap dump and that's
where they ought to remsin. 1t makes
me puke to see these played outs who
hav run this government into the aW-
fullest extravaganza ever known in
our history now try to tell what ought
to be done Why under the sun didn't
they do it when they had 3 chance?
The last congress spent billion dol
lars a year and experts like Aidrich
testify that the same Identical results
could be got for third of that sum if
business principles instead Of graft and
incompetency prevailed at Washing
ton. The people won't forget eth
er
My paper tells of sanitary pigsty
down at the Pennsylvany state hospi-
tai for the insane for which the legisia-
ter appropriated 5000. The hogs
amt goln' to hav swiii but cooked
food for yitties and there'il be no mire
for them to wallow in aud everything
is goin' to be airy aud clean and venti-
lated and warm and healthful and mo-
del. The hogs diet and physical con-
dition is to be under constant surveil-
lance and all their surroundings will
be immaculate That sounds good
and is all rite. But Farmer Ben can't
see why the same care couldn't be ap-
piled to human beings with good eff
fects l tell you there's lots OF tuber-
culosis and fever and disease right
among human folks simply because
they don't get the proper sanitary care.
Ii thew could have airy claan. well