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symptoms of kidney, bladder and rhcu
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These Are the Symptoms:
1 Pnln In the back,
-j Too frequent Centre to urinate
3-Durnlnir or obstruction ofurhJe
4 Pnlu or sjorcncHs in the bladder
CGas, or pain In the .stomach?
Si. cbUlty' wealcn" ai
7Pnin or orene under right rib
8Swelilnff In any part of the body
0 Constlpiitlon or liver trouiil,.
PlhCnrt!IOn r PBI" U !
?o""Sn,ln !n ,ie w Joint.
rSan la il,e oclc or head.
. . or "orcnca in the kidney
14ln or smelling; of the Joint?
Jr"nn or "welllnar of the muScta
10 i0n or siorcneHis In nervcN,
17Aeute or chronic rhcumatlam.
AN OLD QUESTION IN A NEW
FORM
(Continued from Pago C.)
kill him on tho false pretense of
making others better.
If tho samo number of murders
and suicides occur among every one
hundred thousand .people of a given
locality, and in the samo given time
exactly as tho same number of mis
directed letters aro sent is there not
some law of crime in tho wrongful
instruction of mind which gives way
in periods of weakness? I firmly
believe there is and will do all in my
power to root up wrongful sugges
tions of the alleged right in either
man or government to put sa. human
be'ng to death. 1 will always and
with all my power place human life
upon a pedestal sacred against the
alleged right of mortal destruction.
Imagination and speculation of
mind are attributes of a higher civili
zation. There are some criminals in
the lowest scale of civilization who
have no imagination; they live in the
present; they do not think of a gal
lows they can not appreciate a fu
ture until it becomes the present.
Just as there are criminals by nature
so there are artists by nature. The
artist sees a picture, carries the de
tails in his mind and reproduces it
upon the canvas. It is because of an
acute visual memory. In a different
development we have a musician be
cause of the child who has an acute
memory of harmony. You do not
make a mathematician from a
natural musician; nor a .musician
from a logician, and you may not do
much with some criminals. It may
be as difficult to compel a rose after
budding to change its preference as
to compel somo children after birth
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livid with rages of temper. Some of
us are not musicians and artists and
can not see how others are so apt and
Drnnant in tlielr skill, or why we
can not paint a beautiful picture or
play upon the emotions of men with
sweet strains of music. We do not
see how other human minds do not
consider a life beyond the grave; or
at least how others can not consider
a life beyond today. When, however,
we stop to compare the difference in
human minds do you not wonder that
the executions of thousands of years,
influencing criminal instincts of men
from criminal ancestors have not
been even more disastrous in culti
vating and exciting such natures,
just as harmony will excite music in
the musician and as beauty will ex
cite art in the artistic temperaments?
Like always attracts like. No propo
sition is ever presented that does not
effect some minds. Therefore while
reports of hanging will make some
people shudder and will cause a feel
ing of restraint, more especially in
those in whom there is no necessity
for such, yet the mere suggestion of
violence to criminal natures is bound
to inspire them with a desire for new
crimes.
Wo think what we think because
wo can not help thinking it, but we
say what we say and do what we do
aj a result of a cross between our
Luouuma ana otner peoples expres
sions of their thoughts-. Tho in
dividuality predominates in somo
and general public opinion is re
flected in others as their prevailing
sentiment. Those who are between
positive and negative are merely neu
tral, conforming to custom and are
average men. Tliose who are weak
and vacillating and are led by the
nearest person to make suggestions
aro consequently influenced to be
good vith tho good and bad with tlm
bad. Those who are positive work
under tlie predominating influence of
their own will power or natural
thoughts, slightly influenced by nuS
I Itf or private opinion. None are en!
tiroly responsible for their thoughts
and actions as environment or here
dity plays an important part In every
nature. No murderer Is entirely fe
t
from the influence of the, state's
example. A person who continuous
ly covets property of other people
can not help it any more than they
can help dreaming. In such natures
opportunity becomes an irresistible
stimulation to steal and spurred on
by the lash of necessity they become
embezzlers or thieves. Some mur
derers are natural monsters who
think of killing as a remedy for
every injustice, much as the single
taxer thinks of his reform in an
exaggerated way as a remedy for
every economic disorder. Although
much of these disorders are due to
the natures of men and they must
be held accountable to certain re
sponsibilities and be compelled to
look to our laws a3 far as possible
for their suggestions of right, killing
them involves ourselves.
Should society kill her unfortu
nate victims and bury them ouj; of
sight or incarcerate them and- study
tho causes in the minds "of off ending
victims .and the cause in our own
state and national laws and customs
that make more criminals to follow
in tho footsteps of those wa remove?
'We may yet discover where the real
responsibility for crime helongs,
whether they are tho virgin instincts
of the criminal or the cultivated in
fluence of society. It may ho that
to some extent the society of which
you and I are members is partially to
blame in producing conditions of the
mind which causes crime cpsting.
human life and then doubly to blamp
in taking an additional life.
Passion and jealousy may de
throne reason in an individual and
a murder result from an uncontrol
able outburst of temper; drunken
ness, opium, cocaine or morphine may
weaken an intellect and an inflamed
imagination may direct a missle of
death to relative, friend or neighbor
and somo excuse be found because
of an abnormal mind. .But ..what
can be said of the state in such! a
case without the excuse of extreme
anger destroying reason, deliberate
ly and with premeditation, great
care and preparation, pinioning the
arms of an illiterate felon to his side
and marching him to a scaffold in
company with a minister of the gos
pel to strangle him to death?
The reason greater punishment is
inflicted on a private citizen who
takes time to reflect and consider is
because human judgment should
teach him that killing is wrong and
that if after having time to think he
still persists in killing against the
dictation of reason he is a worse
criminal than the one who acts on
the spur of an impulse. Society, act
ing through a moh of outraged and
angry citizens may hang a man and
some mitigation be offered a"s for
second degree or manslaughter com
pared with murder, but in a trial, tho
execution, if it takes place, is cool
and deliberate on the part of tho
state. Is it right for the state to
make long and deliberate prepara
tions for an execution, to be sancti
fied by prayer and damned by in
centive for destruction when the
state can not malco the excuse of
necessity, under sudden passion or
a weak and drunken intellect?
There is one class of offenders
which it is admitted the example of
hanging has never reach 6d. This
class is of the deliberate cold-blooded
murderers who prepare their plana
so carefully that they satisfy them
selves they will never be caught and
will avoid any kind of punishment.
Example of hanging will not effect
them. Nothing but an inherited doc
trine against taking human life will
cause them to hesitate and possibly
not that.
Hanging or any substitute for
hanging would not prevent some of
these criminals from murdering any
more than the inevitable fatalities
of aviation will stop aerial naviga
tion. The state should do its be
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