Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief Aderholt died the next day. Harrison and 58 others were arrested, some charged with murder. Thus ended the twelfth week of one of the first strikes in the "New" South...
...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...
...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...Harry Canter's placard literally accuse Governor Fuller of committing the crime of murder? Last week a Boston jury decided that it did, that Harry Canter had criminally libeled Mr. Fuller, now out of office. The court would hear no evidence whereby Canter sought to interpret or justify the words on his placard. Judge Robert F. Raymond gave this lecture: "This man is of the working class and works eight hours a day or less. I am of the leisure class and work 16 hours a day. . . . The sentence will not be as severe as it would...
...them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand? Has not the individual...