The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-06-04

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medical supplies. This news was
censored out, on the ground that 1t
would encourage the enemy.
But horde Of spies had transmit.
ted the exact conditions to the Span.
iards Just as quickly as the newspa-
per men got hold OF It. Could the
news have gone through, feeling In
this country might have compelled
Washington to act more efficiently
and promptly. o':.1 '-
Military, censorship in the Poer war.
the Russo-Japanese war, the Philip
pines, and In the Balkans, was apt to
be stupid. IA The excuse was given
that information should not be offered
to the enemy. But no intelligent enc
my would base his strategy on
newspaper story. Actual happenings
are seen by the enemy quite rs soon
as the correspondents could get 1t.
The actual reason for the censorship
is more frequently a desire to cover
up inhumanities, mistakes, and ineh.
cheney.
War is the fiercest and most sensa.
tional of all human dramas. Every in.
telligent man, interested in life and
It's conflict and suffering and passion,
wants this story direct from eye wit
nesses. The time has gone by when
any military power can draw cur
tain, and fight out this drama unseen.
giving out afterward such piecemeal
information as 1t sees At.
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THE JURY IN MURDER
TRIALS
1t is probably safer in this cotntry
to commit homicide than 20 be bur.
glar. The more serious the crime.
the harder fight Is put up for the
criminal. For instance, when Gas.
Becker was again found guilt of the
murder of Herman Rosenthal, it vas
the first time in New York City that
two juries had pronounced the Yer.
dict of guilty of first degree murder
twice in succession in the came case.
These twelve men are entitled 20 CT ed
it for their promptness, AMI their fl
deity to the jurors oath.
The lax enforcement of the law
against homicide IS one o. our pet
scandals, due in part to n TOO tech.
meal view OF the law on the part cf
the courts, and the disposition on The
part OF juries to dodge a dutT.
The moment a man comes M for
murder, at least in any state having
| capital punishment, there is q unant-
nous effort to dodge jury service.
/ Thoughtful men shrink from the task.
/ Murder juries In the United States
are not as rule equal in intelligence
or in personal force to the panel as
sembled to try man for larceny The
case that calls for the highest sense
of responsibility and the broadcast in
telligence may draw a Ininina- OF
I these qualities. ......' ..'..'
1t is merely the duty Of. a murder
Jury to look at the evidence In a sen.
sible, common sense light. Even II
one believes that the penalty imposed
is too severe, yet the responsibility
for that penalty is wholly upon ,he
citizens OF the state, and 20 more on
the Jurors than on their next dol
neighbors.
In almost any murder case, an ap
peal to mushy sentimentalism II
made. The jury is implored to dis
regard a sworn duty, simply because
It is difficult to inflict punishment
II takes iron in the blood to stand NJ
against these appeals to universe
human sentiment. The jury ina
brushes aside all this fog, and render
an honest verdict on the facts, is en-
titled to thanks.
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