The woman who kills Is crazed, and she should
nut suffer the ultimate penalty, setting aside the
arguments advanced above. Tho governors of Mas
saehiisc-tte and Ohio have an opportunity to set tho
example of a ucw code in p< nal ethics, aud IheWls
•curcely a suno person In .all the land, and certainly
no legislative di*judicial body, which will not com-
Bleltdk commutation of sentence In tho cases of
these two women. Tin n let tho legislatures follow
and enact u statute in which tl.o blood of u woman
sbijll not bo sited by the hand of tho taw.
I’osslbly this errs on the side of sentlnicnt
alism, but the views expressed will be in
dorsed by many of the wisest and best
people In the land. It is easy to believe
that tho woman who crushes her gentler in
stincts so far as to make her capable of mur
der Is not of sound mind. Such a woman
is more, fit for a life time term In an asylum
than for the gallows. In an age when en
lightened statesmen are seriously thinking
of abolishing capital punishment altogether
it ought not to be very difficult to secure
the exemption of women from the death
penalty.
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"Old lluteh” Hates the I’ress.
"Old Hutch’’ is in a bad humor. Tho
money ho has wade In the wheat pit docs
not compensate him for tho loss of the good
opinion of his fellow men.
In a recent Interview the great speculator
spoke very bitterly of the press. He said
that the newspapers were all liars. Ho was
not bothering them and he wished they
would let him alone.
