No Martyrs This Time

It was an awful rcsponsibility Uiat Gov. Oglesb.v, of Illinois, liad forccd upon him in the case of the anarchiste. Witli the lives of six nicn dcpending upon his word, and with men, women and children (mptoring by word of moutli, by letter, by telegrama, in cvery way possible for Ihem to appeal, for the lives of thosc six men, it v;is a hard place to put a man in. Uut the governor's decisión will meet the approval of the general public. Those who attack the principies tliat underlie all government, all protection of home and society, and in addition to suoh dangerous and horrible teachlngs add the crime of murder as these culprlts dkl, are cntitled to no person's sympatliy, and the mandates of the law should be enforced. Many people.and with them stands the Codrieb, do not believe in capital punishment, but that belief does not enter into this question. The law of Illinois nietes out death for certain crimes, of which these men were proyen guilty. They knew before killing the policemen in Chicago, whattheir punishment would be, and took their chances, being eacouragcd by the flood of legal technicalities that so often interpose and shield crimináis f rom their just punUhmcnt. As long a capital punishment is the law of a state, and as long as men are accorded fair trials and given every opportunity for defense, as these men were given, and proved and adjudged guilty as they were, Uien the law should take its course. Gov. Oglesby, in commutlng the sentences of Fieldin and Schwab, was justified by thefacts in the case, and In golng that far went just as far as justice could be tempered with mercy. The general verdict will be that he acted nobly. To believe for a moment that these redhanded murderers who swungfrom the gallows last Friday will become martyrs to the ciiuse ia sirpreme nonstnse. Only a guod cause can produce martyrs. The cause of anarchy is vile and wicked, and should it ever galn the ascendancy our nation would be stricken as with a plague, aud its inhabitants deterloate to barbarism. When the sacred rite of marriage is abolished, the home - on which all civiliation is founded - must of a necessity be abolished also. And when the home goes, and the right of every man to retain ;is his own the product of his own toil, then will the people have fallen upon sad times, indeed. Xo, the cause of anarchy is an unlioly cause, and can produce no martyrs. The ñames of Spies, Parsons, Engel, Fischer and Lingg will be classed in the hlstory of the world side by side with those of Guiteau, Judas Iscariot and their ilk.