The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-30

should accept his offer-and she coulc not do otherwise-the strenuous lead CT would be on his mettle from the jump and would strive with all his might to surpass himself.
 Nothing like this may happen, but it is all thinkable, and besides no harm can come from little speculation. CHR ROGER BASEMENT, who, il o seems, must. pay for his folly with his life, is both picturesque anc pathetic figure. While it may not be possible to excuse him in the eyes of the law, there can be little doubt
 but that he was Sir Roger Easement actua e d by Must Pay for Folly lofty motives
 and had the welfare of Ireland at heart when he ventured upon his seditious enterprise. After brilliant career in the service of the British government, he has been sentenced to die as traitor, yet his plight has created more sympathy for him than blame-at least, outside of England.
 In defnding his motives Sir Roger declared that he had never sold him. self to a foe of Great Britain, but his zeal led him into Germany, and if the Germans themselves did not directly foment the last uprising in Ireland, they are believed to have given it their moral and financial SUD- port. By his activities among Irish prisoners in Germany, which were oft sn attended by scenes painfully hu- to him, he accomplished nothing for the cause of Irish freedom and sealed his own fate. He was re- ,eived for the most part with scorn and abuse and was made the victim of cruel practical jokes.
 The poor knight is not insane. He $ but dreamer whose dreams have ured him to ruin. At any other time lis acts would not have been visited with the severest penalty, but Great Britain is engaged in life -and-death struggle. Treason in any form must pc firmly dealt with.
 Execution will make a martyr of him. Sir Roger dead will be a greater man than Sir Roger living.
 | one familiar with the reputation Kansas enjoys-or does she enjoy it? as hotped of reform and the moral center of the universe, that she will
 set up the pillory Pillory in Kansas again, for pun for Wife Beaters ishing that mean
 est of mortals, the wife beater. A post will be erected )n a corner of a main business street of Kansas City, we are told, and men convicted of laying violent hands on the partners of their joys and sorrows will be chained thereto for a number of days, as the court shall decide.
 Delaware still clings to the whip ping post and finds it useful. Kansas will give the pillory thorough trial in a characteristic way. The sport or crime of wife mauling deserves con- lign punishment and the pillory seems to be condign-if the offender has any yestige of shame left.
 But why, may we ask, should Kan sas, state whose proud citizens, re- plying to the famous query, Whats the matter with Kansas ?" vociferate as one man, "Nothing"-.why should a state as nearly perfect as Kan sas pretends to be, be so cursed with wife-beaters that she, has to erect a pillory to put them down?
 Uncle Sam may hale the Standard Oil to court for alleged misdeeds, put he wants it distinctly understood that no Teutonic submarine commander nay take liberties with one of the com panys tank steamers.
 Captain Tauscher, according to his is as innocent of intentional as babe unborn. Yet he mite are not intended for strictly phi anthropic work.
 While the Rev. Bouck White is in dur lnce vile, the nations flag is not being nsulted outside of Mexico and the Flu .opean war zone.
 The German citizen who shouts Down with the Kaiseri' is apt to get into seri- Jus trouble. He shoud come over to America, where he may shout Down with Wilson.' to his hearts content. The high price of jewelry isn't troub- ing persons who specialize in ropes of rlS.