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THE WEEKLY J0U1AI BataUlalr 187- Published In Two 5 Sections, every Tuesday and Friday at Ko. 43 Pollock Street. . ; - i-: ' "-r E. J. LAND PIUN rlNG COMPANY i , PKOPKIBTORS. . 8UB8CRHT10N RATES Two Monti) . " Tbr siootba fat Month . .. .. ftrai-t Month .1 n CO l.M ONLT IN iUVANCJL Th Journal -J wnt onpay-lu idvance bH-li. Su Ucrlber will rs Ml? notksa of i pi ration of their b rrlpttori' s1 r-j immediate rtepoBss to notlra wi.i or irctateil by tn JnnrnaJ. AdrerUsIng rate- furnished upon application at the office, or upon in nulry by mal1 iintend at th Poatolflce, New Bern. (J. C, as second-class matter. NEW BERIS, N. C. AUG. 20, 1912 Capital Punishment. For the crime of murder seven men were electrocuted Monday at Sing Sing. Immediately there began a renewal of the agitation against capital punish ment. Regarding this agitation the New York World says : Many worthy persons were inexpress ibly shocked 1 y the execution at Sing Sing Monday of seven men for murder. They spoke of it as an ' outrage against society." The immediate effect of these seven executions in one day has been to renew the agitation against capital punishment. Yet the July record of a murder a day in this city leaves the people un moved. They accept calmly the appall ing growth of crime and Bhudder only at its occasional punishment. Perhaps if these thirty odd murders had been committed within twenty four hours some of these good people would have felt a thrill of horror. Capital punishment is a serious thing, but there have been so many shocking murders in this count ry of recent years that we believe the best opinion now is that there is no way to dispense with it. The feeling seems to be gaining ground that the only way to keep down crimes like those of Beattie and Rich eson and others equally horrible if not altogether bo much discussed is to make the death penalty the inevitable outco ,ie. The execution of Beattie and Uicheson cannot have failed to have a. deterrent effect. In Virginia when any young degenerate feels in clined to take Ilia wife to a lonely spot and murder her, the recollection of what happened to Beattie is tolerably apt to give him pause. In fact, such an exe cution is calculated to have an influence in the direction of deterring young men and boys from forming the habits which lead to the abnormal moral state which made Beattie's crime more or less a matter of course. The horrible thing about capital pun ishment is that the criminal has to go to his death knowiogly. Violent deaths are so numerous nowadays that they do not excite horror. But it will always be a fearful ordeal for a man to go to hia doom consciously and with time to reflect on the awfulneas ' of his predicament. It is a terrible thing to take a man's life as a penalty, but the punishment has to be made to fit the crime if it is to have the desired deter rent effect. One Battleship. The indications are that the present Congress will content itself with one battleship. There are some Congress men wbo favor two and some vho fa vor making appropriations at this ttrm for none at all. So tha one-bat tl ship plan is a compromise between the op posing vie sa. This country esq well afford to take the lead in the direction of reduction of armament. The other nations are eager for an excuse to do the same thing and will promptly fol low America' example. J, The Comfort of Speech. -Kicking about .the weather won't . make It any cooler, sifplently observes an exchange. Our contemporary doesn't want to make the mistake "' of . conclu ding that every time a man says it's hot, he's kicking about the weather. Just as to grunt helps us to endure pain, to to ssy it's hot makes the heat more endurable. " The average man iao! enough of a Spartan to be dis posed, to endure pain in silence. ' -' ? The House of Represantatiyei thinks as well of Its opinion at it, does of Mr. Tafl's. It has passed another bill the steel and Iron measure over his veto. The House is for tariff for rv ecua and Mr. Taft is of those who think onee an infant industry always an in fant Industry. " -. V Editors Not. Required to Do '''?:' Detective Work. , Editor Par ham, of the Fayetteville Index, having in his paper given voice to repeated rumors that Fayetteville had a number of disorderly and gamb li g ho joe , the Mayor of the city, who st ems to I e of the Gajnor type of chief executive, demanded that the editor submit proof - In other vim ds he wanted the editor to leave h's regular work -and go around and do ti e ork that the Fayetteville p lice ought to be doing. The editor should have refused with- ut hesiUtii n to do anything of the sort. Bu. n .'ttled by the defiant de meanor of the Mayor he said he would get thi evidence, undertaking to do something which under the circum stances one of Burns' best men could not have accomplished. He Boon saw that he was in a very unequal fight and gave it up. 1 But the failure of Parham to get the evidencn to support the charge that there are gambling and disorderly hous es in I'aye'teville does not signify that there are no such houses io Fayette vilie. The existence of such places is hard to prove, hut human nature being what it is, every mature man in the average geod-eized town who his had his eyts snd cars cpen end las sense enough to put two and two together has a conviction amounting to a certain ty that these houses ro ixist. Still he would find it hard to prove their exist ence. He is not a detective. His infor mation may have come from confiden -tial sources. He realizes full well the difficulty, amounting to a practical im possibility, of getting the frequenters of such places to testify to their exist ence. And it is no part of h's duty to prove the r existence. Neither does that fact, In esse he is a newspaper man, estop him from directing attention to lawless conditions when he is practically cer tain of their existence. To keep down vice requires the ut most vigilance of the police and when the police are not on their job3 or if they relax in tbeir watchfulness vice will quickly gain a foothold and obser vant m?n wi!l know that it exists though not prepared to assume the roles of detectives and get evidence such as is necessary to convince a jury. Wherever there is a great deal of smoke there will usually be found some fire. Montague Wins. The sentiment of the people are de cidedly against the standpatters. This was indies1 in the Third Congress ional District of Virginia Thursday when the Democrats of the district re tired Capt. John Lamb in favor of for mer Governor Montague. Capt. Lamb's platform was in brief "Let well enough alone." - Montague belongs to the anti-machine forces and maintained that there was considerable room for im provement in the party methods in Virginia snd a strong demand for reme dial legislation in Congress. The Pro gressive in the House of Representa tives will hive a very notable access ion in the person of Governor Monta gue. This is h s second victory over the machine in Virginia. Wilson and the Farmers. Governor -' Wilscn is displaying praiseworthy interest in the farmers, in his first campaign speech, delivered Thursday at Glous ster, N. J., he asked at tha very outset, "When did the farmers evero:cupy the center of the stage of pilitic.?" He added that he had seldom seen the in'eresis of farmers regarded in legislation, particularly that touching the tariff. "It is a long time," the Governor continued, "nines tariffs were made by men who even supposed that they were seeking to serve the general interest, because tariffs are not made by the general body of members of either house of Congress. They have in , the past bean made by small groups of individuals in certain committee of those house who ever refused Infor mation to their fellow member a to the basis upon which they had. acted in framing the chedule.'' ';;; Of course a tariff which was made io secret after the fashion described - by Governor Wilson cxild not be expected t be one that would safeguard the interests of the f aimer. Such tariff making a that lends itself to the pur. poses of the interests which ; have ex pensive e uosel to e. that ? they are taken care of and not to the purpose or needs of the farmers, who do , not give th tariff vary much attention because their interest as individual has not generally been supposed to be vital enough to justify any great concaro on their part as to tha framing, of sched ules. " " '- ' ' "; Governor Wilson has taken up the Battleships. u; That the United State ? must con tinue to build battleships so long aa the other Great Powers keep on adding to their war fleets is one of thoss t ques lions which we have never considered debatable. ' ' .!" It seems to us I hit there Is ni argu ment to the contraiy which is worth consideration and we have never beard ofonebeicg ad van ed which seemed to have any substance, Norfolk Ledger Dispatch. Some one of the powers has got to take the initiative and get out of the mad race. Some one of tha p wers will do it sooner or lattr. The United States has been AM in so many worthy un dertakings that it would seem that it could well afford to be first in this re form. As it is now, every one of the powers is afraid to quit building war ships. But the one with courage and vision is goin to take a decisive step in that direction and then all the rest will follow suit. Every one of the world powers is groaning under the s' rain under which the war crsze has placed them. Mad Dog Problem. Th ' bitting of cows at Maysville by mad dogs calls attention to the ever present mad dog problem. A timely article an the Subject appears in the Ct a-lo te Medical Journal for August, It is written by Dr. C. A. Shore, of the S a e Laboratory of Hygiene, who says tersely that a State-wide law prohibit ing the running at large of unmuzzled dogs is the only way of handling the problem. Says he: "Our faithful friend, the dog, is directly or indirectly respon sible for its dissemination," referring to hydrophobia. To quote him further: The suffering, distress and loss caused by this disease cannot be real ized except by those who see it daily. We get almost daily information ab out the death of horses, cattle and hogs in various parts of the State, and the total loss would be astonishing. Without committing one's self to the policy of uniformly muzzled dogs, one can at least be excused for saying that the opinion of an expert like Dr. Shore is more apt to be the sensible view of the problem than the view of some person whoae horizon is bounded by the satisfaction he gets out of a coon hunt. La Follette vs. Roosevelt. Senator LaFollette in an impassioned speech in the Senate , Friday declared that when Mr. Roosevelt became Pres ident there were 149 trusts and combi nations in the United States and that when he turned Over the government to Mr. Taft there were 10,020 plants in combinations. That is not altogether explicit. To get a fair comparison it would be nec essary to know how how many trmts the 10,020 plants formed. Either that, or how many plants were in the 149 trusts with which Mr, Roosevelt start ed business. Nevertheless we telieve it is gener ally conceded by well posted individuals that the trusts multiplied tremendously under the Roosevelt regime. It is known too, that he holds that the country cannot make latisfactory com mercial and industrial progreis unlrss the trust-makers are given a free hand. So it doesn't matter si much about Mr LaFol etts's bill of particulars after all. His accusation" in general is amply justifud by the facts. The Colonel claims to be the, original Progressive In the Republican ranks, but the judg ment of those ho are not blinded by a foolish prejudice in favor of the Oys ter Bay man nil) give th p-lm to Mr. LaFollette rather than to the former President. The Senator'- speech on F iday would certainly make a finie campaign docu ment for the Wilson forees and we are not sure that it couldn't be used to considerable advantage by Mr. Taft though his own record as regard the tariff connection of the trusts ia not by any mean clean. $100 REWARD. The reader" of thi paper will be pleased to learn that there is at .least one dreaded disease that- science has been able to cure in all it stages, and that ia Catarrh, Hall' Catarrh Cure is the only positive curt now known to th medical fraternity. Catarrh being a eons' itutional disease, requires con stitutional treatment. 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