The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-31

men, who to me is almost divine. 1t
was not these men VINO acted on the
pardon of the Roberts boys altogeth-
err, it was the queenly intuition of
their mothers reflected through them,
that called up all the real humanity
and mercy that their mothers were
capable Of teaching to them. All, if
it were left to me, would like to
place upon each one of these mothers
head a crown that would outshine
the diadem of any queen who has
ever reigned, and as l pliced it there,
l would like to say, to your who are
the true angels of mercy, you who
inculcated in the hearts of your boys
the beautiful principle of mercy for
the helpless and unfortunate of earth,
to you who bear the impress Of your
divine Lord, to you and upon you,
place this crown that it may inspire
all other mothers to train for the
worlds service such men as Trammell,
West, Luning, McRae, Knott and
Clark consider any attack on these
men a challenge on the training of
them and their mothers.
Let's look for moment at the OPP
portunity of the Roberts boys; train
ed by the hand of an unlearned, I'M
tutored mother and father, reared in
log camp, without schooling or the
opportunities of an education, never
heard father and mother pray, but
instead, cursings and babblings and
parental rows. Bad associations and
environments, all of the bad and brut-
al powers of their natures developed,
| with the good that was in them to
dwindle and die. Then to want to
hang them for crime, when they knew
nothing but crime, is below the atti-
tude of a common beast
Just so long as our people build
hundred thousand dollar court houses
to try our boys in, and hundred thou
sand dollar jails to confine them in,
and convenient gallows to break their
neeks, just so long you may expect
crime to be on the increase. Great
God, held the people to see what they
are doing. Take that brick court
house and turn it into common
school for the right training of our
boys and girls; make a compulsory
law to keep them in school, so that
you may turn loose on the world a
trained lot of boys and men who will
/ hate crime in all of its forms. Our
present system is only creating GRIM
| inals.
Don't expect anything but crime, so
long as you make slaves to your
criminal system; money is high pres
sure of the hour, and men are willing
to sacrifice tender boyhood in order
to get money.
! Where do we get the law to kill
men on the gallows, anyway? 1t GER
tainly does not come from the Christ
of the New Testament, for our Lord
does not advise the death of Grim
inal, either by a man, or a jury OF
men. Christ says, that he came to
seek and save that which is lost, Luke
1910. Even his own slayers, He ask
ed his father to forgive them fol-
they knew not what they were doing;
they were just as unconscious of the
magnitude of their crime, as were the
Roberts boys when they were Staying
that harmless old couple. upon the
bay.
The Lord says he has no pleasure
in the death of the wicked, but rath-
er all would turn to him and live
(Ezek. 18-32;33-1D. But cruel mer
take great pleasure in calling fol
the sentence of death. When oul
Lord was being tried at night by thai
Roman sanhedron | imagine his
prosecutor was just as void of merc5
as some of our modern prosecutors.
/ want to say again that | AN
proud of Park Trammell, and up tx
: this time l believe that he is the
| greatest and most humane goyernol