The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19

markable description of the crime shown in the movie
LEST We Forget:
During the past five years seven have been be-
fore charged with murder -Four have pleaded guilty
three have been tried by jury In each the defend
ant WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXI-
eating liquor at the time the offense charged
committed, as you were when you committed the crime
to which you have entered the plea of guilty
1ntoxicaton not be considered defense in this
The young who at your age has become
frequenter of saloons and as habua drnker of intox
eating liquors is almost certain of moral death before he
reaches mature manhood Oh, could I speak to the
young men of this nation I would beg of them TO
SHUN THE SALOON let its shadow fall upon
you it will blight and finally destroy your young
hood bring unuerable to those who love you,
and hasten you prematurely to the to home
within the prison walls
1.-TWO years ago Dixon young of your age
stood before to receive his sentence plea of
guilty to the crime of murder. What said to him then
I want to say TO you
"There are two great lights which should always
troll the court in of this nature-hrst JUSTICE;
second, HUMANITY. have given much thought in
my efforts determine what justice demands what hui
mainly asks in this We not bring back the
dead life has been taken and the lfe1ess body of
has been laid in the grave and if it again must
be only WHEN GOD COMMANDS that the earth
and give up their dead We to deal alone with
the living.
picture constantly before which has caused the
to think deeply of the tragedy of life and the mystery
and sorrow of death. Upon side the mother and
father widower and motheress child of the who
sleeps upon the other the mother father and other
bers of your family all sorrowing, for the dead,
others for the living; and it difficult to determine
WHICH OF THE BORROWING ONES SUFFER
the greater grief All this has because of your
cruel act But through and beyond the dark clouds of
sorrow and of grief the must look alone
to the evidence and there search for the light which
leads to the right You a young man, Just having
passed your twentieth year In law you have yet
passed from of childhood to the dgned
and responsible ones of manhood Yet you have mental
powers sufficient discern and follow the right and to
know and fully understand the consequences of-such
crime as you have committed She whom you shot to
death was YOUNGER THAN YOU, yet for brief
time she had borne that almost sacred of
MOTHER" Her heart, which beat in LOVE FOR
HER FIRST BORN, WAS PIERCED BY A Bull
LET FIRED FROM A WEAPON in your hand, the
breast that gave her infant child chilled and
she slept.
"NMy God, my baby I am dying, were the agonizing
and pathetic words which fell from the lips of vic
tim just before she passed into the valley where the shad
ows of life faded away and the twilight of eternity broke
upon her. Those words will AT TIMES RING IN
YOUR EARS until the morn of that day when you, too,
must pass into the valley and if the light which then
breaks upon you from the further shore is radiant with
hope it will be ONLY BECAUSE offended but all
wise and mercifu God HAS FORGIVEN YOU YOUR
AWFUL SIN
"Under the sentence about impose you shall
have ample time while in prison to think of the past and
mediate on the future Day by day, week by week,
month by month and year by year until the sands have
run out of the dial of your life you shall the garb