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FORT MILL. S. C.. FEBRUARY 3. 1910.
Stenaland's Punishment.
In these days, very happily, punishment
is not imposed in a vindictive but j
in a corrective sense and as some
reparation for injury done. At the
same time a too lenient view is occasionally
taken and a criminal, especially
if he has influential friends, is
set free after a very inadequate term j
of punishment.
Whether this was the case or not in
the matter of Stensland, the Chicago
bank wrecker, who has just been set !
free after serving but three and a half
years for his offense, is a matter of
opinion. But certainly the devastation j
he wrought by his misdeeds was far
above the ordinary. Not only did he !
reduce many families to poverty, but
his action was the direct cause of one |
person falling down dead, of three
others committing suicide and one or
two others becoming hopeless maniacs.
His career shows the wide swath of
destruction one man may cut who defrauds
other people that he may spend
the money on wine and women.
Of course no amount of punishment
imposed could adequately atone for the
evil done under such circumstances, and
no amount of financial reparation can
bring the dead to life again or restore
reason to the unfortunate who were
bereft of it. Hut it is questionable
whether the law is sufficiently vindicated
by so short an imprisonment in J
which the work performed by the prisoner
was of the lightest character. And
certainly the leniency shown to Stensland
is not likely to have a great
deterrent influence upon other unprincipled
men.
The cadets at West Point Military
academy are said to be considerably exercised
over the probable admission to
the academy in the near future of a
negro who was recently named by Senator
Clark, of Wyoming, as first alternate
for the next senatorial vacancy at
the academy to which that State is en- ]
titled. There has always been a strong
^feeling in the North against the admis^lion
of negro cadets to West Point. 1
Why this feeling against admitting
negroes to the government's military
school is so strong in the North, where j
the color line is not drawn against the |
negro either in the great colleges or
public schools, is hard to understand.
Yale, Princetcn, Harvard and many
other great schools of the North admit
negroes to their student body and their
prc-3ciice does not seem to be objected
to hy the white students. It is to be
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uuptu (.nut me v> yoming negro will
^ not be admitted to West Point on
account of the Southern boys at the
academy.
What nearly every town net ds is a
more pronounced public spirit. Civic
stagnation is the result of indifference
and that indifference has its root in a
selfishness that considers nothing but
private gain. Take any community
whose citizens are intent only on their
private afTairs and you find a community
destitute of progress and public
spirit. It is a short sighted policy
based upon the wrong idea that it does
not pay individually to spare even a
fraction of time to devote to the
general good. In truth it does not
pay not to do it for in thete pushing
days the town destitute of that wholesome,
wideawake spirit which makes
for the public welfare falls behind.
Other towns pass it by, draw away its
trade, and leave it hopelessly in the
rear as a fossilized specimen of an
tiquity petrified through clinging to a
dead selfishness and obsolet" methods.
There's something wrong in Columbia.
For a full week the newspapers
of that city have failed to greet
their readers with the usual stori- s
telling of great feats just accomplished
in behalf of the people by Commissioner
Watson's bureau. The propie
have learned to look for Watson's
"dope" in the Columbia papers every
day and it is nothing short of a serious
oversight for our Columbia contemporaries
to thus disappoint them. The
headline, "Commissioner Waison to
Speak," has a charm about it that
nothing can displace and we trust the
Capital City's papers will hereafter be
? more considerate than to disappoint the
public in this way.
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Some of ttte weekly newspapers of
the State which seemingly devote more
time and space to trying to tell the
farmers how to run their business than
to publishing the news are handing out
the information that bacon can be
raised for three cents a pound, notwithstanding
the high price of corp.
They have it figured out how it is possible
to feed hogs on sweet potatoes
and slot* until within a month of butrh
ering time and then by n generous allowance
of corn three times a day so
harden the flesh that it will be first
class and will have not cost the farmer
| in excess ef three cents. Farmers who
i know what it costs to raise hogs say
| that the statement is absurd.
A Northern man, temporarily re|
siding in Columbia who is happy to sign
; John Adams Winthrop as his name,
protests vigorously against The News
and Courier's stating that the Republican
party is responsible for the high
price of meat. Winthrop does not
think that the Republican party is the
most corrupt political organization in
this or any other country. He lacks
information. The Republican party is
, now, as it has ever been, hand in glove
with the most putrefied set of scoundrels
and thieves that has cursed the
world since Pontius Pilate was sent to
hell for crucifying the meek and lowly
Nazarene.
Rabbits and the English sparrow are
generally acknowledged to be destructive
pests, but they make good eating,
all the same. 11 may be that in these
days of soaring prices, when so many 1
people have sworn off meat until the
price drops, sparrows and rabbits may
be considered as a providential supply
to replenish the larder with meat. If
so, then in more ways than on?, the
high price of meat may be regarded as i
a blessing in disguise. Rut think of the |
time spent and powder and shot used j
in killing a sufficient number of spar- i
rows to make a pie or in bagging the >
sportive rabbit.
At this season of the year many a |
pleasant evening will be spent looking
through the numerous seed catalogues
that enter our homes, and in planning
for the garde n, great er small, that is
to he made in tne spring. '1 're giowing
description of the flowers- ar.ei vegt - \
tables and the highly colored p.ctures
showing everything on a mammoth
scale, fire the imagination. But, aiasl
the difference in the size of the ] lar.t
grown by the average man and that
pictured in the catalogue is so git af as
tr than u gratifying comparison.
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