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MERCY FOR MURDERERS Jury System Unable' to Punish for Homicidal Crime. From Columbia State. Within a week three men have been convicted in South Carolina of , murdering women. One butchered his sister. Eaclr of th e others craftily murdered his wife. Each was given a boquet by the ju rv in a "recommendatioa to mer- cy" Are we witnessing the final stage in the evolution of our jury system under a lax public conscience? Is it approaching a state of rottenness that must excite,revolt? First, ne groes were murdered with danger, then with impunity; next, white men were murdered with danger, then with impunity: now the mur dering of women, white women by white men, is begun. There is dan ger, bnt how soon may the murder ers count upon immunity when thre juries in three-widely separated parts of the State recom mend mercy for the three men con victed of murdering women! If it is impossible for jurors, sur roundsd in these little counties rela tives and friends of defendants to consent to the hanging of a white man for murder, then jurors should be relieved of that local influence which is proving an incubus upon the administration of justice. There is much merit in the bill proposed bv Mr. Hines, of Lancas ter, which contemplates the draw ing of jurors to try capital cases, when demand is made by the solici tor, from some other county in the circuit than that in which the alleged crime is committed, and to draw them such a short time before the trial that they cannot be "fix ed." Perhaps a better plan of strik ing terror into those without regard for human life would be that sug gested two years ago by the State that is, district courts for the trial of capital cases only, sit, pay, in Greenville, Columbia, Florence and Charleston, and drawing jurors from the State at large In other words, criminal State courts upon the same plan as the United States courts. With jurors chosen from the whole State, the improper influence and the natural inevitable family in fluence that now operate against jus tice would be lirniii.IiKi, and the enforcement uf'ihe law would leauit in vastly increasing respect for the law. Is it not time to do som. thiug to reduce the number of murders that are now daily chronicled? Now and Then. "Washington Poet. When James G. Blaine was Sec retary of State in the cabinet of Be'j;'.miu Harrison he said these words to the minister from Italy: "I do not recognize the right of any government to tell the United States what it shall do; we have never received orders from any foreign power, and shall nt begin now." It appears that some citizens of Italy had been mobbed down iu New Orleans for practicing some of the teachings of an order known as the Mafia, and Italy was insisting that the federal government punish the rioters and asses a big indemni ty. It was the idea of Mr. Blaine that a foreign power entering upon a t-eaty with the United States had some smattering of knowledge of the elementary principles of the Constitution of this country. The news comes from Japan that anv increase in American naval strength in the Pacific will be re garded as au "aggressive act against that country on our part; and State Senator Welch, of the California legislature, tells us that te has personal knowledge, from inspection of certain communication between Washington aud Sacramen to, that war would have if Grove Johnson had succeed in passing his measure through the California general assembly. As for the American Naw, we believe it is under the orders of the President of the United States, aud that it is no concern of the Mikado whether it be mobilized in the At lantic or the Pacific. As Mr. Blakie, in effect, said, this country has not yet eat a dish of leeks, though California has been served with shallotts from Washington, and made to eat the. mess. A critic is a person who can al ways tell how a thing ought to be done better than he could -do it. Future of the Fleet. Baltimore Americari ; ! Mr. Taft has, of course, given np intimation as to his policy with re gard to the disposal of the 'Atlantic fleet and the ships that - will .shortly be added to it. As the. Nebraska and Wisconsin; fresh from the West coast yards took the places of the Maine and the Alabama which were detached at San Francisco, 18 ships in all were engaged in the world tour. While the fleet has been on its course, new vessells of the bat tleship type have gone into commis sion. These are the New Hamp shire, the Idaho and the Mississippi. The Michigan and South Carolina, which are eight-gun Dreadnoughts, will go into commission in October. By the close of 1910 it is expected that the North Dakota and the Del aware, ships of the new class, will be completed. The Florida and Utah, counterparts of the North Dakota, will be in commission with in a couple of years more. The country will then have bat tleships to form two fleets. To gether with the modern cruisers that are but little behind the battleships in tonnage and gun mounts, there will be constituted a fighting force fitted to meet the ships of any na tion. The pertinent question is, what shall be the disposition made of the ships? This is not a query of despair but a question of alterna tive. There is undoubtedly a strong purpose by the administration to nave a portion of them deputed for the Pacific fleet. The Atlantic sta tion has the same claims it has al ways presented. So that a division of the fleet in the course of two years at the farthest, may be ex pected. In the meantime the strong cruiser squadron iu the Pacific wa ters may be counted upon to serve the interests of the nation in rela tion to the protection of the Philip pines. There are constantly arising sit uations the world over, that will de mand the presence of American ships of war. Wherever American interests are in peril or wherever the world's peace is threatened, it is there the American fleet must go. Police duties will entail cruises to many waters. The demands of in ternational coraitv also call for fre queut dispatching of snips to tore ign ports. Tnis will notably be the casi when Japan mvites thena 'ons of the world to do her honoi jpou the occuaiou of her great ex position, A i that time it i quite likely that the fleet will be muster ed in force at Japanese ports. The necessities of the couutry's world relations will supply ample employ ment for the ships without the nec essity for devi&iug artificial utiliza tion of ihem. Death of an Indian Chief. After 22 vears a prisoner of war. Gerouimo, the Apache Indian chief died at h ort Sill, Oklahoma, aged 86 years. Geronimo aud his band surrendered to Gen. Nelson A. Miles at Skeletou Canyon, Ariz., Sep tember 3, 1887, after a long chase, during which the Indians massa crixl scores of whites and led the United States regulars from the San Carlos Agency, in Asiz jna, where the outrages began, to the Mexican line. After taken prisoner of war, the chieftain, was. sent to Fort Pick ens, Fla. He was afterwards trans ferred to Mt. Vernon, Ala., and la ter to Fort Sill, where he remained until his death. During his term he was permitt ed to visit Omaha, the Pan-American Exposition aud the St. Louis World's Fair. He was buried on the reservation at Fort Sill with Christian rites. All of the 267 Apache? held ther were permitted to attend the funer al. Governmental Extravagance. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Extravagance appears to be the besetting sin of the time. Govern ments have extended the paternalis tic activities in all directions, and in utter disregard of sound financial consideration until there are few na tions to the first class, if there are any, whish are not today seeking new sources of taxation or consider ing the advisability of resorting to bonds for meeting current, expenses. The pinch is felt at Washington, in Berlin, London, and even thrifty France faces a growing deficit. State lawmakers, like national, have been too careless of consequences, and need occasionally to be remind ed that "rainy days" come to gov ernments, as to men, and that debt is a burden which it is often wise to avoid. MrvTaft's Legal Battery.is; , I vnewnierSOrTfiale fToo??n Washington Herald. It is pretty well established that Mr. Taft's Cabinet will contain at least five eminent lawyers,' of whom at least three will come to Washing ton fresh from corporation practice. So far from evoking criticism, the selection ot these meu has' been, at once connected with plans "of the new administration for dealing with the great problems of - corporation control. It is recognized that the government wijl have at its com mand some of the most eminent le gal talent the country affords, thus placing it on fair footing with the corporations, which now absorb so large a portion of the country's brains. In thus going dirsct to the corporation camp for advisers Mr. raft appears to have ignored poli tical considerations, though recog nizing the principle ot geographical distinction. It is evident that his selections have reference to an ad ministration policy wherein lawyers are expected to play an important role. For many months, even during the Presidental campaign, Mr. Tail's utterances on the corporation problem have stressed the legal as pects of it. The public conscience having been awakened by Roose velt's strenuous proaganda, he has said, and the people having affirm ed their purpose to solve the prob lem of corporate control, it remains to carry out the programme in sta tute and judicial judgement. Re turning to this subject in his Wash ing birthday address, the President elect declared that jst here the le gal profession would be able to per form a public service by furnishing the legal means of making popular i;eforms permanent and effective. Constructive legal work is ahead, such work as was done by Mr. Knox when Attorney General, vhen he proved that the plenary power of Congress over interstate .ommerce could be invoked to curb trust inhibitions on interstate trans actions, and that no amendment of i he Federal Constitution would be necessary to bring the oierations of vast corporate enterprises within the purview of the Federal power. We have said that Mr. Taft's Cabinet selections have escaped criticism thus far; but we have no loubt that the old cry that he has -urrendered to the trusts will be eard before long. Ilvvill have less -iguifieaijce, however, than hereto fore. People are beginniug to rec ognize that their are men, even in the service of corporations, who will serve the United States as faithful ly as any client, arid that mere pre judice should not deprive the gov- rnmeut of the abilities of these men. Moreover, there has been a real change in the attitude of those at the head of many great corpora tions toward the program of gov ernmental control. Thev are no longer hostile to it, and the acces sion of a corporation lawyer to the Cabinet does not necessarily imply that he takes the office wiih an inher ent antagonism to corporate rpfbrtu. VVe shall assume, until, or unless, the course of events prove the con trary, that Mr. Taft's advisers are in full sympathy with his declared intention of clinching the Roose velt policies. Wiping Out War Feeling. Baltimore Sun The restoration of the name of Jefferson Davis to the place it oc cupied on the arch of Cabin Johu Bridge is a sensible recognition on the part of President Roosevelt of the fact that, in this area of the printing presses, fame is not achiev ed or destroyed by the stone-mas-son's mallet and chisel. The time had come, with the subsidence of sectional passion, tor the removal of this one evidence of its former existence. It is evidently useless to perpetuate bad feeling by retaining memorials of it. In this view the President's decision will be com mended by every one who .thinks the civil war ended in 'a 865. The Road to Success has many obstructions, but n-ne so desperate as poor health. 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