Arizona republican., 1913-02-02

1 not consent unto him nor hearken | unto him, nor conceal him. but thou shalt surely kiM him" Deut 13. 8 | Thou shalt stone him till he die" | Deut. 19, ID. Again he says But | ir any man hate his neighbOr and | lie in wait for him and rise up against him and smte him mortally | till he die, then the elders of the I city shall stnd and fetch him thence and deliver him unto the hand of 1 the avenger of blood that he may die" (Deut 21. 22).
 ! Again. If a man have committed a sin worthy of death. and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree,'' etc. etc. (Deut. 21, 22D. | And if he Snite him with an in i strument of iron. so that he die, he | is a murderer The murderer shall surely be put to death. Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood wherewith he may die, he is a 1 murderer. The murderer shall be surely be put to death. or if in en-
 mity he smite him with his hand l that he die. he that smote him shall be surely put to death. for he is a | iIlNtl bCISI N-N uHIOtIS %, 10. Z1D.
 Many more quotations might be giv-
 en from the book that says Thou shalt not kill which prove beyond
 doubt that murder and not execu- tiOn of murderer, is meant. Now would ii not be fair for the gentlemen
 who attempt to quote scripture in
 order tos bolster up a pre- conceived
 notion that they have nurtured un- til it has become a good sized fad.
 to not take every one else to be as
 ignorant of the book as they them
 selves seem to be. They attempt to
 quote Christ, and show the same ignorance of his teachings as of the
 teaching Cf Moses. An ex-governor
 says that Moses went over into the land of Canaan and killed nearly all
 the people there while the book
 teaches that Moses was only permit
 ted to view the land from Pisgah's heights.
 Christ taught that the wages of sin is death: he taught the doctrine
 of eternal punishment. which is much
 more severe than hanging by the
 reck until dead He taught in al
 most every sentence the law of re-
 wards and punish1nents. He gave us the parable of unworthy servants. The law of rewards and punishments is
 a part of every nature, the babe at
 mothers breast is taught that if Il does right it will be rewarded by
 kisses and CaresseS. if it does wrong
 it will get q spanking. The trainers Of lower animals accomplish results in the same way Man should do right because it is right. he should refrain from doing wrong because il [ is wrong. and some people make that the rule of life We hope the day ! will come when all will do likewise, , but when they do it will be that glorious day when the lion and lamb shall lie down together without the lamb being inside the lion.
 1 Some say that because crime is in Icreasing (especiany murders) it is proof positive that capital punishment does not deter the criminal. 1 be- : lieve that every one who has given the matter worthy thought will deter mine at once that it is the manner in which our laws are executed that is responsible for the increase in crime. or rather the lack of execution. It is my humble judgment that if every one was hung w'lO committed the crime of murder the hangman could soon take a rest. The criminal in court has 11-12 the advantage to be- gin with. Suppose a man commits a cold blooded murder; he is arrest ed and tried before an examining court: it says he is guilty, and he is 1 hound over to the grand jury. There until lately in this s.ate, three men out Of eighteen could be released
 from custody. There he has three
 against f!Eteen. The case goes be- fore the district or superior court, and the challenges he has of jurCrs often makes the case q farce. Then !When the twelve men hear the evil
 dence one man can hang the jury in his favor and the case will probably never be retried-he is scot free on one mans vote, although eleven men iVCte him guilty. But suppose he is Hound guilty. The case is taken be- fore the supreme court and on some technicality he is given a new trial.
 By time for the new trial some of
 the important witnesses are gone and
 he is freed. But suppose he is found guilty and sentenced to hang. some governor with more sentiment
 than regard for law. by one dash of
 his pen sets him at liberty. And
 this is the history of many; the
 murderer, having succeeded in
 thwarting the law once, is more bold in crime. because he feels that he has just learned the combination.
 In England, where few murderers
 escape execution, the crime of murder
 is rare indeed. The courts did not civilize California; it was the vigi-
 lantees. When nine bad men were |. hung from the pier at one time. San
 Francisco was made so a man could walk down the street without much
 fear C9 being slugged and robbed.
 In Fresno county life and property were unsafe A few vigilantees found a partly completed frame house
 good gaNows, and five men were hung one moonlight night then peo-
 pie did not have to stand guard over their horses at night. Every
 one who knows anything about the