Newark post., 1913-04-16


through court proceedings with
your eyes open. Grimes against
property bring the lash for the poor
but not for the rich. If Mr.. Conner
writes again he would please me by
answering this question: II he Sc
lects the two richest and most pow
crful families i'll Delaware { | could
name them probably, but just think
Of them) and if from one Of them
came man to the bar Of the court,
surrounded as such men always are
when in trouble by all the manifes-
tatiOns Of wealth and the presence
Of leaders Of the ruling class III
Delaware, would any judge In Del
aware order any member Of either
Of those rich families whipped, no
matter what they had done? If Mr..
Conner thinks any judge would,
unless moved by hate, he will find
little company III that opinion. II
he thinks no judge would he must
himself join those who think the
judges would discriminate if the
test came.
Mr.. Conner presents the state
ment that the whippings are not
accompanied by much physical
suffering Why then, when last
year a man was sentenced to the
full number Of lashes, did the judge
as measure Of precaution, lest the
man be permanently disabled or
die, order the lashes administered
in installmcnts, one some days after
the other, SO the man might build
up after the first torture to meet
the shock of the second? Why did
the public become so aroused that
| the last installment was remitted I?
Yes, we will get back to the
"point of discrimination" 1t is in
class rule. The people who use the
means of production Of wealth, such
as factories, railroads and mines do
not own them. The people who own
the means of wealth do not use
them. This enables the few to con-
troll the many and fosters caste.
Caste develops double standard of
treatment one kind for poor people
one kind for rich people.
But, if we go less far back than
that, we come to the real philosophy
Of the existence Of the whipping
post it is the survival of the old
idea of revenge according to law !;
legal regulation of the worst hu-
man passions. 1t justified the
butchery of many a patriot, their
vital organs being torn out by
red-handed executioners who held
them up before their dying eyes
amid the hootings of mobs. There
is not an argument which Mr.. Con-
ner can urge for the whipping
post now, which was not urg-
ed as successfully to defend the
piercing of tongue with hot irons,
the faggots of green wood, the rack
the boot, the boilings in oil, with
which in an earlier day the rich
tortured not only criminals but pos
sible witnesses. The system, ex-
cept in Delaware, has passed from
use because men now see that re-
venge is unworthy of a common
wealth. England, has recent
ly revived the use of the lash
for the owners of girls but she has
not revived it for the owners of
owners of buildings where those
slave holders do business at triple
rent. She has not revived it for the
rich man who deceives simple
minded child to her ruin. She has
not revived it for those store own
ers and mill owners who underpay
their working girls and suggest
that they get friend to help sup
port them. Let those who will de-
fend the lash and all that goes with
it of class discrimination. I ad-
mire most those who have souls
above the torture chamber those
ages when the church trium-
phant was the church that tor.
umphant was the church that tor.
tured and the state gave legal Ii
cense to the rich to not only plum.
der but to dismember the poor.
My friend has suggested that
will use Bible phrases in this reply
The Bible is so rich in democracy
} in cries for justice for the common
people. That being expected of me
so will | do. Here is verse which
} expresses my feelings as to the
cruelties and plunderings Of this
, age:
Zone caIleth unto me out of SER
Waterman what Of the night
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