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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-16, Page 7Death Penalty. Called Necessary By Earl of Birkenhead in Reply To Arguments for Its Abolition Execufor Crimes lun ty Deter ent; Experrimentts in Use and asan Essential of Life Imprisonment as Maximum Punish- ment Termed Inconclusive By the Earl of Birkenhead There is an opinion, held by r sponsible people, that it is no long right to retain the death penaltyas toren of criminal punishment. Pro ]lerialty bas operated to aid resist- e- ance to. temptation. Q1,. Believes Fear Lessees Crime a I ant certain that in the case of dan- gerous crimes, such as burglary and ably it is impassible -to convince housebreaking, the fact that detec- tion and capture will, at worst, lead them that their opinion is erroneous, to -imprisonment, but that the avoid - but there is a danger that they may ants of capture by murder will cause by their insistence impose that his life to be forfeit, has operated, opinion upon the community if noth- and does operate, upon the minds of ing is said on the other side. the criminals 'who spend their lives it is to those who have an open in such pursuits, and that thereby' mind, and are therefore ready to con- householders have gained a security skier carefully the arguments on both which would not otherwise be theirs. sides, that these observations are ad- There are four crimes for which the dressed. I do not desire to preach to penalty is death: treason, arson, etc., the converted or to persuade -those inarsenals and dockyards; piracy who are convinced that I must be with violence, and murder. There wrong. are, I believe, -no others. We must I think it uncontrovertible that a renlenlber that it is not' sr'itficient to country can call upon its men to die dispute the justice of the death pen- in order that the community may arty in the 'ease of any particular live. It does not matter whether the crime; it may well be that with re - soldiers are volunteers or conscripts. gard to that offense the need for such Consequently, I doubt whether the a•punishment has ceased though the principle underlying 'the objection to penalty is retained, but that will not the death penalty is not really the show that the penalty should be in - expression of unconscious pacifism. flitted in other cases. it must be Case of Traitor Cited- that there is no crime so enormous Yet it may be objected, such a sac- that the offender must die. rifice is for the Life of the community. Now as to treason. We know that, The death penalty is a punishment in days gone by, treason was a charge for an offence against its laws. Is often made on inadequate facts and there, then, no crime which is aimed under barbaric laws. We do not al - against the life of the community? ways bear in mini that those bar - What, then, are we to say of a for- bayous laws have been repealed, and eign spy who is seeking to discover that the law of treason is now coin - and betray our secrets to the enemy? paratively simple. What as to that viler person, the Penalty Sometimes Excessive. traitor who seeks to subvert the laws and constitution of our country, who I conceive that in some of the exist - lends his aid to the enemy which. is ing cases it may well be that the attacking our lives and liberty? If death penalty is excessive, but most it Is lawful to resist the enemy and of them are so triable under the kill him' in open and manly conflict is Treason -Felony acts which were pass - it not also right to trample out the ed so that the offense can be treated life of the worm who is a canker in as a felony without capital punish - out midst? ment. Z4hat le.theobieet of »tutfslrtllent'• Ofthe.secon0.offeese I believe that suffer the penalty, watverer it may I tale it that primarily the object is there is no modern instance in this , be, unless he is guilty. to inflict upon the offel.cler punish- country. During the war there was I have considered on many occas went for his misdeeclr, and also, if it found no one so base as to inflict that sions with sympathy an dwith careful be possible, to cause him (or others injury upon the country or to give attention the arguments brought for- simiiarly disposed) to reform. It must such assistance to the enemy. If ward against capital punishment. also not be fol,gotten that it acts as a there had been, the offender would They have not convinced me. deterrent to others; and further by have been aiming at the life of the •: punishing au offender atter a due ex- his he would have forfeited DO � r� �s^1 amination into his guilt, it prevents 11iS right to continue among els. I as - community, ! i °tlSrltd�T Latest in Locomotives Tho new 2500 class locomotives now being placed in service by the Canadian Pacific Railway marls yet another forward step in the history of motive power. '!'hese locomotives, ten of'• which are being 'built for fast' passenger schedules, are of the Hudson type and in their speed, power, and efflel- ency, represent the result of years of experien.ce in designing and construc- tion on the dart of the Company's en- gineers. The new engines have a wheel ar- rangement not previously used in Canada, with four wheels In the lead- ing truck, six 75 inch driving wheels N f•N and four wheels in the trailing truck. The weight of the engine is 351,000 Pounds and of the tender 293,000 pounds, while the overall length of the two is 91 feet 1 5.8 inches. Like the "fifty-nine hundred's," which were built for the freight and passenger service of the C.P.R, in the Rocky Mountains, they are equipped with the type "E" superheater; are stoker- fired, and have cylinders and under - frames cast in one solid piece, weigh- ing about 50,000 pounds. The nickel steel boiler is designed to withstand a working pressure of 275 pounds, and the engines' tractive effort will be in the neighborhood of 45,300 pounds. flciently Wide area to form an accu- rate opinion for our guidance. • We 'e need also to examine the fate of the murderers who have been re- lgated to life-long imprisonment. It, has been said that in some cases at least the various conditions imposed have constituted in themselves a death sentence far more terrible than one which is expressed to be a death sentence. And while imprisonment is metioned, cannot it be contended with at least as much force that the state has no right to deprive a roan of his liberty? And, lastly, there is the lingering fear that the penalty of death may he exacted in a case where a mistake has been made. If the accused is alive, such a mistake can, though Im- perfectly, be put right, but' if he is dead, life cantiot be recalled.. The public can rest assured that the utmost care is taken not to exe- cute the prisoner unless bis guilt is manifest and in many cases not even then. But the fear of a• possible mis- take has no bearing on the problem whether the state ought, or tau, in natural justice, deprive a murderer of his lite.- We are all agreed that a man charged with murder should not both the comunity and individuals from taking the law iuto their own hands to exact retribution. We have no desire to introduce lynch law into England. Penalty as a• Deterrent I am unmoved by the argument that the death penalty does not deter murderers, In the sense that no pun- ishment has ever been an effective deterrent to a man who has commit- ted a crime, it is a mere platitude. If punishment were an effective deter- rent in all cases, there would be no crime. A criminal is a man who has not been deterred, whether he be a pick- pocket, a burglar, a bigamist or a murderer, In his case the deterrent has failed. But to argue from the ex- ceptions that hanging is no deterrent to a man who may be tempted to commit murder is to advance a very grave error of reasoning.- We should require to know all the cases in which that temptation has arisen and has been resisted, and in what num- ber or proportion of eases the death Edge -Holding Fast East! -Cathing SiMONDS SAWS Guaranteed because made ' tr. rrn our own steel SIMONDS CANADA SAW CO. LTD. MONTREAL VANCOUVER, sT.JOHN,N.u.. ronortto A C,6ttUrNF PHILLIPS i�y4s p %MAGAFs 4,?. For'.froubles due to Acid INDIGESTION ACID STOMAGI-t HEARTBURN NEAOACH e GAS8S-NAUSEA ,• 1Vhat many people call -indigestion -very often. means excess acid in the stomach. The stomach nerves have been over -stimulated, and food sours. The corrective is an alkali, which neutralizes acids instantly. And the ,best alkali known to medical science Is Phillips' Milli: of Magnesia. It has remained the standard with , physi' clans in tbe 50 years since Its laren- tion. sert that it would not be right that such a man sbould live. The third offence is piracy with. vio- lence. We think that piracy is an obsolete crime. There are no pirates nowadays, and time has confused in one golden haze the exploits of those mariners of England who exacted re- tribution in the days when private vengeance was still arguably lawful, and the misdeeds of the truculent ruffians who disgraced the high seas before the British Navy drove them into oblivion. But history proves that piracy re- vives whenever government is weak, and at the present time we are mourn- ing the loss of two gallant men who died defending their ship • from the pirates whom lately we dislodged from Bias Bay. . In the olden times the pirate was described as "Hostis humani generis" and he alone of all criminals could be hunted down and tried by any nation, no matter what his allegiance or where he preyed. The rule appliesto this day. But 'when people talk of the death penalty they usually have in miud the fourth offense, murder. The offender has not considered the right of the victim to live. That victim is now dead and buried. Sometimes we are tempted to think, when we read of hysterical interest in murderers, that the victim is forgotten. Experiments Held inconclusive It is said the experience in other countries has shown that the aboli- tion of the death penalty has not in- creased the number of murders. It may be the case in. particular areas, but the experiment has not been tried for a sufficient period or oyer a suf- Wh Cpm YOUR LITTLE ONES At no time of life is delay or neg- lect more serious than at dhildhdod. The ills of little ones come quickly and unless the mother is prompt in administering treatment a precious little life may be snuffed out almost 1before the mother realizes the baby is ill. The prudent mother always keeps something in the medicine chest as a safeguard against the sud- den illness of her little ones. Thous- ands of mothers have found through experience that them is no other medicine to equal Ba'y's Own Tab- lets and that is why they always keep a box of the 'Tablets on hand—why they always feel safe with the Tab- lets, Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which by regulat- ing the bowels and stomach banish constipation and indigestion; break up colds and simple fevers and pro- mote healthy, natural sleep. 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For the East two years the Soviet Government has concentrated its efforts 011 provision in the towns at any cost, particularly the larger cities with their industrialized popu- lation, Now, however, it has fotincl itself compelled to introduce ration books for many of the necessities of life. Queees of women, many of whom have got up at three in the morning, so as to get their rations be - for the shops are sold out, are to be seen in every town in Russia. Bread once you learn the efficiency of this, Is short, and so are meat, sugar and Go get a small bottle 'to try, tea. Be sere to get the genuine Phillips' MilkOPMagnesia prescribed by physis "I am net a gentleman. 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Most serious ob- jection of all to any such proposal from our point of view is that it would inevitably close the dooaato the far greater prospects which are of- fered us by the expansion of Empire trade an dthe development of Empire resources.. - . Even to -day, from the Point of view of this country, the Em- pire market is by far the most im- portant element in our whole econ- omic system. . . If the Empire trade is already the most important factor in our white external trade system, it is no less important to the other units of the Empire. Over 40 per cent. of the exports of every con- siderable portion of the Empire find their market in the Empire, and more particularly in the United Kingdom. Something like 84 per cent, of the total of inter -Imperial trade is focus- sed on the United Kingdon either converging upon it or radiating from it. Compulsory insurance R. E. 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