Arizona republican., 1915-09-23
lUmcem@@red Sense
 and Nonsense
(By RemIik)

(By RemIik) Do you wish those in limbo l Who are socially curst To come back among us? To again do their worst? 1 If so. let's agree l To set 'em all free 1 Let's grant 'em their freedom l By hangin' 'em first. Those Who favor the abolition of capital punishment, do so on the i grounds of mercy, largely. All the humanity which a criminal has a right to appeal to is found in 1 a just sentence There is a sense less habit of accounting mercy supe- rior to justice, in which great many believe.
 l The idea of justice contains every conceivable perfection; and the mer- cy that puts aside real justice, is treason. to society. Had justice all l ways ruled the world, the name of mercy would have been unknown among men,
 l Had justice always appeared in the | history of the heavens themselves ] the name of mercy would not have filled our prayers.
 1 The plausible claptrap of temper l ing mercy with justice is rank non- sense, nonsense in its very terms; consider the grand force of the word l JUST and the absurdity of it all at once rises to the surface. A good many people though not in prison, and suing for mercy ought to be hung. It would be a MERCY. | If lynchers always hung the guilty rarty it would not be SO bad. It is more mercfful than the long waiting | spell if it does catch the victim in a state of unpreparedness. Docs have to examine" the school children. too. The children HAVE to be looked over" whether they or their parents WANT them to be or
 not The docs look wise and say
 something once in a while such as
 This child must have her teeth
 fixed This one must wear shoul-
 der braces This one glasses and | sc on down the line. It don't mean a thing-it is all claotrap and a ! joke. with the bad result that the 1 parents Gin a few cases the advice" 1 is followed) have to pay a dentist or
 an oculist or q something or other.
 It's a habit with docs to cause peo-
 pIe to separate from their money. One
 doc recently-in a primary school 1 handed q book to little girl and | said, "Can you read that?'' The
 child looked at the book and answer
 ed in the negative, when the doc
 said to the teacher, This child must
 wear glasses Now the teacher
 NEARLY laughed-the child even 1 snickered-for she had never been
 in school but two days in her life
 "nd DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO
 READ.
 In the meantime-to use an in-
 elegant phrase-the stables still
 STINK.
 This is a promise-defined A pro
 mise KEPT is an obligation, or deht l settled A promise unkept is a
 LIE told. A promise should be made
 by the conscience and remembered
 by the head. It should be made, CT
 given with caution and kept wth
 care.
 promise is the offspring of IN l TENTION and it's performance 1 shOuld-like correctly balanced 1 scale, present a mutual adjustment |
 poned.
 | Paste that in your hat. There's
 no joke to it. We treat our prom ises too lightly. That is why the
 banks ask you to sign your name to piece of paper before they will
 loan you money. They are USED
 to broken promises. They take no mans WORD and the banks arc l RIGHT.
 In the next issue of this paper
 and in this column I am going to
 tell the truth about Adam and Eve
 There's a good deal about them that's ! never heen made public and there's
 no use in suppressing the truth any longer - besides. we're uncensored l The brides off