Arizona republican., 1913-02-02

invaluable service in his continual advocacy of the rule of the people His next duty is to instruct them in law endorsements.
 The Wisest utterance of President elect Wilson is when he said that if
 every man in the United States
 would read one chapter of the Bible
 each day and strive to follow it's teachings most of the trouble of the nation would disappear, or words to that effect.
 Genesis TX. 5-6 plainly sanctions
 the death penalty for murder. And surely your blood of your lives will l require; at the hand of every beas will l require it and at the hand of 1 every mans brother will I require ] the life of man, who shedeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be l shed, for in the image of God made 1 He man.
 | It is somewhat curious confirma = 1 ion of the position that in the four
 states where capital punishment has
 been abolished, murders have steadily | increased. In Michigan. Iowa, Colo ! radO and Rhode Island, the legisla - | lures restored the death penalty after 1 a short time, owing to the marked | increase of crimes of violence. Tn 1 Michigan this increase was as high 1 as twenty-five hundred per cent, an6 l in Iowa between 1872 and 1876 il
 was very rapid. In New York state l IL was restored, and VOluminous re- | port to the legislature set forth the l conditions that called to a revertine
 10 the death penalty. Abroad, the
 abolition has been followed by in- | creased crime. In Switzerland Aus
 tria and other European countrie.
 the temporary trial led to the re
 adoption of the earlier practice. II is in my opinion childish tC | confute the fallacy that the command
 ments, Thou shalt not kilr' ant
 Thou shalt do no murder" contradict
 the old Mosaic law. l really think i
 is time we contented ourselves witt 1 th2 tact that, whatever theories W'
 may have. where there is a single | plain revelation of Gods law, we may
 be absolutely certain to find no con. l tradictiOns of It in any other portion | of the Bible. and that only harm car
 come from our disregard of it. I l a person attempts to take away ml ! life, l have, doubtless a right tC ! protect myself, and if l cannot secur,
 myself but by taking the life Of my l assailant. I have the right to take 1 il. If men had the right to form 1 society for mutual benefit and SC. 1 curity, they had the right to punish l other persons who would overthrow 1 it
 l l close with quotation from tht ] Editorial Review, from the pen of the | bishop of Albany, Bishop Doane, anC 1 let me add, that of all the states in 1 this union, the abolition of capital 1 punishment in Arizona would be most 1 dangerous. Divided from people who | are making murder and crime a | profession only by an imaginary line l il would be an invitation 10 Mexican | murderers to come to Arizona, where
 their breed of unfortunates will be 1 welcomed
 1 There is nothing more plainly ! taught in the Bible than capital 1 punishment. Moses said that The ! murderer shall die" Christ did not contradict that law in a single word 1 or act. but taught that the wages of sin is death.' IL is certain that l Solomon had three murderers executed during the building of the temple, and is seems to me that. with these facts before us. the man who would do away with capital punishment
 must consider himself a greater man than Moses, a wiser man than Solo ! mon, and a better man than Chrit. Thou shalt not kill' certainly does not mean that a murderer shall not be executed"