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HE ADVANCE HERBERT PEELE i Fditor and Publihr Mh. HEHUERT HfctH Aomt f Hior JO&tHM PfcELE tuff Corra.pond.nt with ths Colors IAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY ::i .Mi:tu of the associated I'HKSH The Associated Prem li ex clusively "e.Ultlod to the una for republication of newt dispatcbea credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also lotul news published there- in. I'BiCRIPTION RATESi DAILY ?A months fey f month by t month by Inail of aarrloe- 11-00 mail or oarrior 2.00 mail or earrior 1.00 1 month bv mail or aarri.r M 1 hk by oarrior,. ...... 1Ue lit Ml.WFFKl ft month ., SIM month Mi t , foroaom rate annlv only to aub uiion vd in advance. All arrears cimrKAo at th rate of lOo a week. . UMiriuUor by mall are not entered tor Kiortfi' verlod than one muntn. T tore4 t the poetoffloe at Elliabetk Uvy N. Ca sooond ela matterv WATCH YOUR BILLS If the Elizabeth City house wife who carefully (notes her household expenditures has not noted within the past few weeks a considerable reduct ion in the price of many foods, the chances are that she has not had just treatment from her butcher and grocer There has been a falling off of from six-to seven cents a pound in the price of cattle. The same is true in the case of hogs. Lamb and veal are also selling at lower prices whole sale and the price of eggs, which always grow cheaper at this season, is falling faster even than usual. Butter, whole sale, has dropped twelve cents a pound and the New York .World describes the butter market as "panicky." , The Advance has a suspicion that retail grocers, or some of them, are not playing square with their customers in these days of declining prices. If you are a housewife who is really interested in lowering the cost ; of living join the Housewives League and inform yourself on these matters. AGONY COLUMN llTTLB BOY . ' AND WENT TO VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER AS ALL LITTLE BOYS DO THEY SPELLED 'EM D-O-U-O-H-N-U-T-8 ' ' i I . AND THEY PUT ( TLENTY OF GOODNESS v INTO THEIR MAKEUP t A3 WELL AS A SUPERFLUITY OF LETTERS INTO , THEIR SPELLING BUT I NOTICED WHEN I GREW UP THAT THEY NEVER , TASTED THE SAME "ANY MORE ; AND THEN WHEN THE WAR CAME ALONG I OBSERVED THAT THEY HAD BECOME ENTIRELY EXTINCT , AND I , GRIEVED FOR THE DAYS OF MY JOYHOOD AND BOYHOOD ,', , , , i:UT I NOTICE NOW THAT THEY'VE 1 : !:N REVIVED AND THEY SPELL 'EM D O-N-U-T-8 AND I DON'T MIND HOW MANY LETTERS THEY LEAVE OUT OF ; THE SPELLING OF 'EM li' TII3VLL JUST PUT IN' THE INGREDIENTS AND MAKE THEM T.V'TE LIKE THOSE MY GRANDMOTHER ' V D TO MAKE IK YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY AT.OUT IT MT.ET ME AT CITY ROAD ITIIDAY NlfiHT AT TI'W VALENTINE SOCIAL ' Mi WK'l.l. FIND OUT 'J Fii' iiiiiN YEAH OLD COY AUGURS iiJ FAVOR OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Buxton Midyette, of Jackson, Cites The Figures Which, He Says, Sustain His Contention To the Editor; I am enclosing to you an article on Capital Punishment, by a fifteen-year- old boy. It weta bis speech in a debate on the subject in, Jackson, N. C, and I need hardly add that Ma aide won. I The Scripture tell ui that a little child ahall lead them, and it the pub- Ucation of thli production ahall con- tribute anything toward putting a quletua on the restless aplrit of in no- vatlon which bobs up bl-ennlally in the General Assembly and much oft ener elsewhere, It' will not bay been in Tain. I thought the question of capital punishment had been settled four thousand years ago: whoso sheds man's blood by man his blood shall be shed Is the decree written- by God when Noah began to live under the constitution of a renovated earth. It appears that there was no capital punishment before the flood, perttaps following the ruling, when popula tion was scarce, in respect to Cain, whose Immunity was in contravention of the general lav, as' he himself ad mitted; and the Book says the earth was filled with violence. W. J. PEELS By BUXTON MIDYETTE Mr. President, Honorable Judges, La dies and Gentlemen: My purpose today is to convince you that Capital PuniHhment should not bo abolished. I do not want you to think that I do not value human life. I will take for my first point, Pub" He Safety demands Capital Punish ment. (a) It Is the most effective deter rent. . ' Statistics given out by the differ ent governments of the leading na tions show us that there is an in cronsa of crime and a decrease In the number of persons electrocuted or hung for murder. For Instance, In England and Wales in 1902, 28 men and S women were sentenced to death. In the year 1110, in the same countries, 86 men and 5 women were condemned to death. The an nual average for the years 1896-97 18-99-1900, inclusive, for men and women, was 21.2 percent for men and 8.4 percent for women. From 1901 to 1905 inclusive, the average was 29.4 percent for men, 8 percent for women. Of those sentenced to death between years 1891 and 1900, Inclu sive, 10.4 percent were commuted to life imprisonment; and between years 1901-1905, inclusive, 12.4 per cent. But what causes this increase in crime? First, the leniency In the use of the death penalty; second, the Increase in the nambttr commuted. to life imprisonment In the year 1775 a great number of robberies were started In Paris. The death penalty was given to those captured and they stopped ' at once.' ' Rhode Island abolished caDltal nunishmant and there were 154 percent more murd ers in the Bttae of Rhode Island where they did not have capital pun- Ishment than there were In the State of Massachusetts where they did. All criminals are cowards and therefore the select the States that do not have capital punishment for the scenes of their crimes. Criminal wardens and Jail keepers say that capital punishment is the most ef fective punishment Professional robbers form in bands and if one of them was to betray the band he would be hung. So even robbers use ) capital punishment because they know it keeps their followers from betraying them. Frsnce not long ago abolished capital punishment, but there occurred 80 assassinations In the public street,', bo they reinstated capital punishment. (b) It prevents criminals from committing more than one crime. criminals are alwaya ready to kill any one if in doing so they can further' their purpose. Then why should we, '"'prison murderers never knowing i they will escape snd "kill an nan. Most Worthy Op ponents (he life of the criminal be more . ,.rtl than the life of the man that he murders? . We know if he Is dead he can liar in no one else. Dut alive he Is bell on legs, never knowing what he will do next. Fre quently we see a man sentenced to the penitentiary for life pardoned by the President or the Governor after staying In fifteen years because he behaved well and was on the honor roll. Then he has another chance to murder some one through revenge. Our Worthy Opponents who talk so much of the samHiues of humuu life do not provide a way to keep this man after he conies from the penitentiary from- killing another man. I suppose the second person's la not sacred tit all. Very few ' - r-' " Imial criminal bccmtie pt-iice-" ' .V it!,i.!'ig ( it . s, ;, r,-. wolves turned in t flock of sheep which hat no shepard.- The outcome ii the sheep are killed. (c) It Is needed until the negro race had progressed further. If w are to abolish capital pun ixhment we roust wait until the negro race i better educated. My Opponent! of course own that there li a great difference in a negro and a white person Intellectually and that more murderers are negroea than white people. You say why is it that there are more negro murderers than white people? It is because the whit man has the most vense of the two. Our Opponents who want cap ital punishment abolished do not pro vide for the negro. (d) There is no adequate substl tut for Capital Punishment. 1 have shown you that imprison ment for life could not work, then what are we going to substitute? Kill is impracticable. Hut let us take Life Imprisonment instead of Capital Punishment. Our statistics show us that if you put 100 men in Jail for life, giving them no hope of release, In fifteen years not a one of them would be living. So we see that the only substitute at all, which Is life Imprisonment and exile, is death by slow torture, which 1 cer talnly more cruel than to hang the victim. When we put the murderer In Jail for life we do the same thing tnat tne English did to the Jews which was to put them on the rack Is this Humanity, Most Honorable Judges? The Abolition of Capital Punish ment has not always been satisfact ory, (a) It has led to Lynchings and in crease in Crime. Colorudo abolished capital punish ment in 1897. In the year poo three lynchings occurred. Two of tht per sons lynched were negroes. One of thees negroes' was charged with the assault and murder of a twejve-year- old girl. He was burned at the stake, and it Is said that he was taken to the place where he was lynched by the sheriff who hsd him in custody, The newspapers said this in the fol lowing words: "If thai bill had never been repeaeld there is a general Pub lic Opinion that the various lynchings that have taken place in this State would not have occurred." In Rhode Island where capital punishment Is abolished there were 650 percent more murders than in New Hampshire. Murder in France Increased 68 percent. Murder in Michigan Increased from sixteen in the six years before abolition of hanging to 152 In the same period after. Murder increased so In Cali fornia and Colorado that the death penalty was again enacted. But my .opponsiaj Say that the death penalty ,houl(f b abolIsh4, because life la so er.cred. But Isn't it better, Ladles arid Gentlemen, that one person be k lied than three? ' Then let the per son that is killed be the murderer not the lnnent law-abiding cltlren. Germany abolished capital punish ment but aoon adopted it aagin. Our Opponents' sacred paradise Italy had 8.807 murder trials In 1910, which means 2,807 murders. Life seems to be very sacred In Italy where they do not have capital punishment. Can my Worthy Opponents cite me a place where they have capital punish ment and life is sacred. (b) Criminals do not dread life imprisonment. Why? flecause of two reasons: First, in a short time they are liable to be pardoned by the Governor or the President Then a criminal re venge himself on the people that put him In prlHon; second, the chance of escaping. In many cases they have killed their Jailers. If' the murderer Is In a State where tapital punlahment is not abolished he turns this over in his mind, "If I kill this man, I will be killed in turn by the State. I won't kill this man." .But If e Is in a State that does not have capital punishment he thinks Just the opposite. The statistics" that I have given you prove this point because there are more mur ders In the States that do not have capital punishment than there are in th State that have ItV Ishould like to ask you this question. Would you rather be executed or put in Jail for life? Mpst of , you would rather be put fn Jail for life. For whut reasons I have already prosed to you. (c) Life ImprlKonment frequently develops Insanity. Of those that are put In Jail for life 27 percent are killed by Insanity. All this In four years. The Nation says this: "Insanity Ih fifteen times more prevalent smong life convict ttimi nmi'iis filluMH." At! nf this ' Ml n I ! T u !:. t'n r v, ;- : ' V Stop That COLD PENSLAR - - Laxative Cold Breakers Should always be kept on' hand to break stubborn colds, lis effect in relieving con gestion and cut ting short the symptoms seems almost magical. The Apothecary Shop , 1 that Insane people can not do much work. But still, Ladies and Gentle men, capital punishment should be abolished. If my Most Worthy Op ponents call this humanity then cap ital punishment Is heaven tgi it. ' (d) Life Imprisonment does not -eform criminals. Very few criminals are reformed, an average of forty out of hundred, but we see that aixty out of a hun dred are not changed. These are turned out into the world and im mediately they take up their old practices. -... i . Ladies and Gentlemen shall we re turn to barbarism? Do' the citizens of this country vear arms? Why? Because of the assurance of the gov ernment to protect human life. If a man breaks into your house and you live in a State -where they do not hive "capilar punishment his Ufa is protected while yours la put in dan ger. Shall the Twentieth Century re turn to the errors of the former cen tury as some States have tried? No, let us profit bV our experiences. Ladles and Gentlemen, I have proven to you the following points: 1. Public Safety demands Capital Punishment - (a) It la the most effective deter rent. (b) It prevents criminals commit ting more crime. (c) It is needed until the negro race has progressed further. (d) There it no adequate substi tute for Capital Punishment 2. The abolition of Capital Pun ishment has not always proved satis factory. (a) It has led to lynchings and in crease in crime. , ' (b) Criminals do not dread Life Imprisonment. 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