The Washington times., 1920-01-08

his "most dangerous criminals" to
watch the hanging. His intentions
are excellent. Says he;
1t ought TO make them better
men," But is that soi
IL you made two hundred goril-
las look on while you strangled one
gorilla, would it make them better
gorillasy Would not the gorillas
say 10 themselves: "Good idea; i
shall choke a white man the first
Do you make better men of
criminals by reminding them that
government itself does not hesi-
tate to kill when 1t thinks killing
desirablef
Hardened criminals are men
with hardened brains, badly-shaped
skulls. They see one of their kind
choked to death by power that
does not like him. Will they not
say, Thanks for this lesson. ]
also shall choke my enemy7" =
Here is offered to the jailer, at
the suggestion of Mr.. John Cowley-
Brown, an extract from Thacke-
rays essay, "Going to See Man
Hanged:"
When Thackeray saw his man
hanged. eighty years ago, they
thought that public hangings would
diminish crime. :
~There Is some talk too, of the
terror which the sight Of this
spectacle inspires, and OF this we
have endesvored to give as good q
, notion as we can In the above
pages. i fully confess that l came
away down Snow Hill that morn
Ing with q digust for murder, but
IL was for THE MURDER / SAW
DONE, This is Goth Of
July, and I may be permitted to
declare that for the last fourteen
days, SO sslutary has the impress.
sion been upon me, ] have had
the mans face continually before
my eyes; that I can see Mr.. Ketch
ut this moment with an easy air,
taking the rope from his pocket,
that feel myself ashamed and de.
graded Mt the brutal curiosity
which took me to that brutal sight;
and / pray to Almighty God 10
cause this disgracefuI sin to pass
from among rs, and to cleanse our
land Of blood" S
Important, because IL will in
fuence the human race thou
sand years from now, is Henry
Ford's start in fighting the most
horrible blood disease that attacks
the human race. Scientists pre-
dict that IL not checked this dis
ease, ultimately will wiDe out the
white race, leaving dominant the
yellow races that have proved
themselves immune.
Future history may write about
the day when Henry Ford sent to
Germany for fifty thousand tubes
Of "Salvarsan" long after II stops
writing about our present Bolshe-
vik bogey strife.
Today the Jackson Day diners
will tell you why they think they
ought to be elected President on
Democratic ticket. 80
You heard from Republicans
yesterday. Did you hear anything
convincing?
There might be another dinner
on the anniversary of Jackson's
death, the subject of all speeches
to be: What Became of the
Democracy That Made Jackson
Say He Would Not Allow One
Big Bank to Dominate the United
States?" jackson is no deader
than Jacksonian Democracy.
Banks have grown bigger and
statesmen smaller.
A colored gentleman convicted
of murder did not offer modern
excuses of insanity or BRAIN
storm. He said: "The woman
made me do it," and named the
lady.
Thus also Adam tried to excuse
his apple-eating: Muller me de-
cepsit." Like Adam, the colored
man was convicted.
The other news in the colored
race is the divorce granted to a
white woman who proved that her
husband was'a mulatto. He told
her he was descended from In
dian chiefs.
Why, in the estimation Of
whites, are negroes that fought
the sun of the tropics for thou
sands of years and have done
much good work in the United
States less acceptable than In
dians, that fought only heavy BIZ
sons of the North and have had to
be supported by their Uncle Sam ?
The answer is that labor as yet is
not really respectable. Negroes
work; Indians do not.
New York's Legislature. imitat-
ing the lower house of Congress,
throws out five members elected
on the Socialist ticket.
The majority rules, unless "A
local majority elects a man that a
bigger majority doesn't want"
Il DROWN WHEN TWO