Milford chronicle., 1926-01-29
MILFORD. FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1926

in recent years thSAO AeeS 5AN"4
the idea that criminals shall re
ceive a kindergarten course in Ou
jails as to good citizenship, a quail
fication the convicts and their an
cestors disregarded in training thu
youth of both sex. Repeated, cases
have occurred where the crimina
after conviction and sentence to &
very moderate punishment in the
jails, has through the mistaken
sympathy of zealots and visionary
people, received parole or pardon
after a small part of the terms i'm
posed by the courts have been
served.
The criminal is held up for pub
lie sympathy by this custom and an
impression created in the public
mind, that the Importance of lessen
ing the punishment for the convict
by the fanatic reformers, is of far
greater importance to the pub
lie, than are the rights and
privileges of the law abiding
citizens, which have been disre-
garded. AS result juries are
Wheedled into recommending mercy
to the court, in punishment for the
convicted man or woman, and re-
suits in punishment failing to fit
the offence; but, unfortunately, the
fanatic in reformation, rather than
protect the law-abiding citizen,
starts to shape up the prisoner for
curtailment of his term through a
parole or a pardon and after few
years is again turned loose or pa
rolled.
This policy will result in revolu-
ton by the people against criminals
especially those who commit the
horrible violation of women by
deadly assault and even murder by
degenerates, that the world would
be much better without their exist
ence.
When the people revolt and take
the law into their own hands for
punishment of crime, that is the
time when their revolution takes
form in lynchings, burning, torture
snd other horrible forms of punish
ment, which we hear described as
disgraceful and shame on the peo-
ple of the state. All good citizens
believe in law and order, but they
also believe in a fair punishment
of the fiends who commit crimes so
revolving that they arouse resent
ment by all men and women with
good red blood in their veins.
Just recently a jury in case
where a young fiend ravished an
aged woman under most atrocious
conditions, found the prisoner
guilty of the crime-but made the
amazing return of their verdict
saddled with a recommendation of
mercy to the court. Memory Of that
crime is smouldering in the minds
of the people, with its failure to
meet out a punishment equal to the
crime; and, as a result another
crime of the same character again
st a child just budding into girl
hood, accompanied with assault
which may result in her death, was
committed in Sussex county last
week by another brute.
Will the mistaken fanatics at
tempt to save this fiend from pay
ing the penalty with his life, with
specious arguments as to his mem
tality, or his degeneracy? 1t is to
be hoped that they will not; for as
sure as the day follows night, the
people Of Delaware will exact an
-eyeRor an eye-and a tooth for a
tooth, even though their form Of
revolution takes the form Of a
lynching.
Let the law take its course, but
see to it that the penalty is such
that the fend pays the penalty pre-
scribed by the law, death. 1t is a
mistake to set greater value upon
+be head of fend, than that Of
the peace and law-abiding people
and their protection against Grim
inals.
The people of Delaware do not
want lynch law, but they do demand
Justice and protection from all
classes Of criminals. In most cases
the best way to reform a fiend' is
to hang the outlaw.
Delaware has got far along the
wav for a revolution Of the people
AGAINST crime. It is now up to the
inpies and the courts to turn the
tide and save the state from burn
ings at the stake, such as New
Castle county mob applied a few
wears ago to a Negro f1end. The
effect of that event had an effect
upon other brutes living at that
time which has probably been out
grown in the memory of those in