The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-04-18

 human being within the state; ant such inalienable right as they posses. in this respect shall not be imperilet or abrogated with my approval, ol even by tacit assent.
 Very Respectfully,
 GEO. w P. HUNT,
 Governor of Arizona ] The Honorable, The Secretary of State, State House
 DEATH PENALTY AND HOLY
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 Following is an address by Dr. H. A. Hughes on the subject of Capital Punishment before the county med ical society at Phoenix, Ariz It was of special interest on the eve of a campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Arizona.
 Mir Postmaster and Gentlemen of the Profession: Just why your pro- gram committee should ask me to de- liver an address on the subject of capi- tai punishment at a meeting like this and a festal occasion where the speeches are usually convivial in na- ture, | hardly understand However, obey, I will give you a few thoughts on the subject of Thou Shalt Not Kill"
 The frequency with which this one sentence is used lately would lead one to believe that some of our learned had it not that they get so badly mixed in the application of this commandment.
 What is meant by it? Does it mean that Thou Shalt Not Kill for Food?' Does it mean Thou Shalt Not Kill Wild and Ferocious Ami malS?" No; for the same great Law-giver directs that these shall be killed. Then does it mean that men shall not be executed for crime? 1t certainly does not mean anything of the kind, for the same Law-giver tells us that this shall be done, and pre- scribes the various ways of taking the life of the murderer
 For the benefit of these gentlemen who quote this one commandment so glibly, I will give few quotations found within a few pages of this one, in the same book and given by the same Law-giver through which this is given It says: 'Whoso killeth any person, the mur- 1erer shall be put to death" CNum- { Ders 3, 30) Moreover, ''Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death, | put he shall surely be put to death | The land cannot he cleansed of the . blood that is shed therein but, by the . blood of him that shed it." Numbers 5, 31.) In another place the same -aw-giver says, Thou shalt not con- sent unto him nor hearken unto him. TOT conceal him, but thou shalt surely Kill him. Thou shalt stone him till le die" (Deut. 13, s. Again he says, But if any man hate his neighbor md lie in wait for him and rise up gainst him and smite him mortally ill he die, then the elders of the city hall send and fetch him thence and eliever him unto the hand of the of blood that he may die.'' Deut. 21, 22)
 Again, If a man have committed sin worthy of death, and he be put 0 death, and thou hang him on ree,' etc, etc. (Deut. 21, 22)
 And if he smite him with an in- trument of iron, so that he die, he is murderer. The murderer shall urely be put to death. Or if he food wherewith he may die, he is lurderer. The murderer shall sure be put to death. Or if in enmity e smite him with his hand, that he ie, he that smote him shall be surely e put to death, for he is a murderer Numbers SC, 16-21) Many more C might be given from the d ook that says Thou shalt not kill" hich proves beyond a doubt that under and not execution of mur- erer is meant. Now, would it not | ? fair for the gentlemen who at mpt to quote scripture in order to r 'lster up a pre-conceived notion that d ley may have nurtured until it has II 'come a good sized fad, to not take O cry one else to be as ignorant of II e book as they themselves seem to Il ,. They attempt to quote Christ u id show the same ignorance of his Ill achings as of the teachings of III oses. An ex-governor says that " Oses went over into the land of III InaaR and killed nearly all the peo- DC 3 there, while the book teaches that oses was only permitted to view the Id from Pisgah's heights. St Christ taught that the wages of sin o1