The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-05
Barometer OF Public Opinion
Let's lie Honest,

Editor World In the Daily Oklahoman OF
juno 80, 1892, appears an article headed, Mrs.
Lcecrafts Blood on Hands OF Legislature"
which also mentions the untmely death OF Mrs.
Len Small
Tho governor ~ oklahoma Is reported 20
have said; Mrs. Small might as well have been
shot with n pistol and that the blood OF Mrs.
Leecraft IL upon the hands OF the oklahoma
such reasoning Is pure so?histry, for under
1t any criminal would go scot-iree. should their
punlShueht make an innocent woman suffer.
We dcplore the suffering Of the Innocent, but It
does not follow that the guilty shall not be
punished. Take the case published in the Tulsa
world sunday, July ?, OF Hadlcy. Il murderer,
ana his wife who threatens suicide II her hus-
band IL not released. Would anyone say her
faith In IIadley and her suffering should demand
his release when he IS twice n murderer? There
Is not citizen in oklahoma who does not SYM
pathi2o sincerely with women Ike these, who
bechuse or love and anxiety for their Hfe's
chosen companions, were compelled to endure a
mental and physical strain which proved fatal,
oehalt OF men who bring disaster to loved ones.
and then hope to evade Gods law that tho in
nocent suffer with the guilty
II is true that Governor Small was acquitted
and Leecrat absolved by the Oklahoma legisla-
ture. The law says they are innocent. We hope
IN these cases the law has dealt Justly, but we
40 not condemn any honest effort OF the law
10 purify the body polite. We have in mind
many cases OF acquittal, in which the impres-
sion left in the public mind is that tho law was
Juggled To meet the exigences OF the case we
may mention Arbucke, Newberry. Clara Hamon
out or the state for other examples
God grant that the time may come in these
united states. when n trial by the courts means
pure Justice and not merely the settling OF
u case often In favor OF the man with the
biggest pun or the longest purse who is usually
pruke When ne has settled with the lawyers
Everyone worth considering regrets IL with sin
cerlty, when n mans or q woman's character
is attacked by character assassns" of which
the world mas an overproduction, but IL there
anyone IN their right and normal mind today
thh can say, that graft and It's train OF politlca
owls nave not been rampant In our land and
is there anyone who can say Il has nor been
winked att by the politician and political law
yer who often owes his job or his practice to
the gang and is one of them?
often feel sorry for the Jury that bns 70
rehch n deciiion after hearing all the rnisron -
resentatlons that have been presented for con
slderation during n trial
Lots be honest!
We exceedingly regret the fate Of Mrs Small
ana Mrs Ieecraft but God have pity at the
Judgment day on any who are guilty before hin,
OF bGlns the real and true cause OF their nm
timely passing. VI 'e'i uH-
Governor Robertson says IT hope to God nono
pI ySu VIII ever have to go through what have
IN the past four years" Most any man vouiJ
ne justified In wishing TO escape sch accusa
i,Ions M are In the governors mind we grant II
Vs. tnNesty on political equity whom mon in
ulen places are unjustly accused WhiI. servint,
tnHEvlr, constituents; but IL we will destroy the
ilIe or political and commercial graft thai "a
I,unsulnins our national integrity, we will have
under discussion. ~ 90 '"ose
,MMhat Is needed are men whom "the spolIs ~
otuce cannot buy" II there are anv lnft 80 o
few. ' '" W. '"'Hh 'nere are a
Cleveland. Okla, July /. ALSO A WIFE,