The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1915-02-04

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sit in judgment upon his fellow men.
Murder and treason are kindred Of
lenses. Fhe one affects the individual,
the other the state. Both alike are
heinous and the penalty of death may
be inflicted for either:
"Your only u in mitigation Is
that you were drunk when you com.
mitted the deed-a plea which can only
be received to save you from the gal
lows.
81 do not know, and, under the pes.
ent state of our law, / never want to
know, who sold you the liquor, under
the influence of which you committed
this unnatural crime. Let that mans
conscience bring such remorse that it's
energising power will never let go, n
til the largest possible reparation be
made.
"Whoever he was, and wherever he
may be at this sad moment; whether
his place of business is IN the we'll
adorned and highly decorated room,
where tempting viands appeal to the
taste; where sweet music delights the
ear and lulls to sleep the reasoning
faculties; or whether it was in the
lowest, dirtiest, man abandoned, God
forsaken and death dealing charnel
house of despair, where only abides
thoughtless and sullen greed for gain,
1t matters not; before the bar of God,
if not of man, he stands alike with you
morally responsible for this horrible
crime.
"The trouble is he is not here with
you to receive a merited punishment.
"The statute says 'All persons con-
cerned in the commission of a public
offense, whether they directly commit
the act constituting the ~offense, or aid,
or abet in its commission; or who by
fraud, contrivanoe or force occasion
the drunkenness of another for the
purpose of causing him to commit any
crime, are principals in any crime so
committed
IF your partner in this offense were
here, he would plead by way of de-
tense that he did not by fraud, con-
~trivance or force occasion your drum
kenness-a plea which would have to
be sustained.
Glow much longer will the courts
be deprived Of authority to do CON-
plete justice between their fellow men?
An enlightened and long suffering
public will some day. and that very
soon, rise in the majesty of it's
power, and demand that the legisla-
ture strike out the words by fraud,
continuance or force and for the pur-
pose of causing him to commit any
crime and boldly declare that he who
in any manner sells intoxicating IL
quor to another as a beverage, under
the influence of which a crime, whether
of murder Or of some lesser offense
is committed, is equally guilty as a
principal in any crime so committed.
Such a law would distribut the blame
and place it upon all those RESPONSE
BILE for the crime.
"The persons who, for business or
other reasons, vote to permit the con-
tinuance Of a traffic which robs men
of their reason, increasing the liabil-
ity of crime being committed, are in a
measure responsible. Away with your
mistaken notions of business %necessi-
ty. 1t does not exist. Treason against
the state stalks abroad in our midst:
How much longer will the people per-
nit both treason and murder in order
that there may be continued a system
Of dealing with the liquor traffic,
which preys upon the appetites and
passions of men? A quarter of a cen
fury & the good people of our state
dissolved partnership with the &C.
cursed license system. The state of
Minnesota still permits the evil. Her
splendid western city of Moorehead,
we'll located for business and contain
ing some of the best people on earth,
seems blind to the great wrong of the
traffic in rum. We must suffer be-
cause of their inability to see. Most
of the persons sent to the penitentiary
by this court would not be deprived of
their liberty and our state would not
be burdened with heavy expense for
their care, had they not gotten drunk
in Moorehead. The time has come
when this iniquity should be banished
forever. You, who will suffer all
your life because Of your misdeed, may
unconsciously by your act arouse
public sentiment to the end that such
ofenses will not be repeated and that
its contributing cause will be re-
moved. 1t is dovoutly to be wished
that such will be the case.
1.-The sentence and judgment of the
law is that you, Robert Hendrickson,
be confined in the penitentiary at Bis
marck at hard labor during the re-
mainder of your natural Life. Let
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