The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-02-21
through a frenzy Of abnormal feeling

OF some Sort A murderer" at whom
you shudder is very much like you are.
Everybody is a potential murderer.
You know perfectly well there are
times when 1t is only a lucky accident
that you are left outside the bastile.
Lots of people throw things. Suppos-
ing some day you hit a mark instead of
going beside it.
Then you'd be handcuffed and haul
ed to Jail and be Gagged up as danger
Gus to the community and for the SAT-
ETY. of society would be railroaded to
prison for life-or may be hanged or
electrocuted.
There is a good deal said about the
they are led toward the place OF execu-
ton. OF their hardened" demeanor.
OF their stolidity of manner.
One fthe finest traits in humanity
is stoicism under suffering.
One of the finest traits in humanity
to be proud of when one of their kind
is led to execution without resistance
and without murmur of fear.
The papers exclaimed in spectacular
headlines over the "sneer" and the
hardihood of young Beatty as he ap-
preached the electric chair The ex-
preston of stoicism was interpreted
into a "sneer" by the accomplished
hcadliner
No finer exhibition of courage was
ever shown than that of this youth
"ho had committed a dastardly crime
Although it's causes were attributable
to our false social system. 1t was said
he read the papers with avidity and
conned over and over those para
graphs which referred to the main
tainance of his nerve. 1t was thought
that he took a pride in displaying a
Spartan manner in order to live up to
these picturesque portraits painted by
the press"
Whatever or whoever the cause,
r,akes no matter-he died like a Spar
tan. Though. rather, he was murdered.
For when the state executes it is MUIR
der-and cold-blooded, planned muir
der Capital punishment does not be-
Ling to the Christian era. AS long as
alleged Christians include the death
penalty in their role of social regula-
ton SO long will they be ranked out
side the pale.
They are not Christian nations
Killing people will not stop crime.
1t never has and never will. The pre-
vention of crime will come from the
other end of the pole. When our ano-
Ealous social system evolves to sane
and normal basis, when attention is
given to the sources of being instead
Of the mere haphazard continuation of
the race, when it is admitted that
marriages are not made in heaven,
when laws are enacted recognizing the
psychology and physiology of the hu-
nan animal as we'll as his political
significance-when in short we begin
at the beginning instead of back-pedal
ing toward the end.
To return. however, it is just as we'll
not to know too much about a lot Of
things
People. in instance.
Why be advised of the fact that
Jones. who seems decent sort of
chap, DULLES his wife. beats his chill
Gren. keeps a strange clutch on the
purse strings and jews down his en-
plOyees to the last penny.
That Mrs. Blank who rolls her eyes
to heaven and signs in public for soul
uplifts, who is referred to as sweet"
"philanthropic." and "altrurian," is a
regular feminine tight-wad on the side,
will haggle all day over a penny, has
a vixenish temper. hen-pecks her hus-
land and locks up the cake.
That dear, demure little Marjorie,
who runs hither and yon waiting on
people and smiling brilliant smiles.
who is the storm center of the Chris
tan Endeavor and is called dear
Ettle thing-so simple and ingenious"
is the most scheming, intriguing little
hypocrite in two states and carries on
a sanctifled filtration with every man
who looks her way
You can't tell anything about any
body by surface Indications.