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1830 Nov. 19
J.B. to France against Death

Newspaper Editors Corrupt and empty headed editors apter than Aristocrats for Government
☞ Inserendumae?

1. Fellow Citizens! Look to our throne – look to our
House of Lords – Look to any throne but yours – Look to our look to our House of Commons may the profit
seeking the money-getting classes excepted for they have
industry and to whatsoever object applied strength of mind
in those situations these are the situations in which you may see men vying with each
other in unfitness for the management of the affairs of state
of the affairs which the people's evil destiny has placed in their
hands. Look to the Offices of a Newspaper Editor:
in those situations there you may see a class of see the men who in the present existing state
of things are in the most fit are vying with each other in
fitness for the management of those same offenders, the
one thus unfit? why the other thus fit? Why, but for the
same reason cause for which a Cabinet-maker is fitter for
making cabinets than are they who sit in them. Engineers
fitter tha for making Steam-engines than are those they who
ride in them.

⊞ If for the conduct of the
business of government those
who sit in Cabinet have
in any respect more aptitude
than those who sit in Newspaper
Offices, to what is it owing?
To this and that only: that
to the hands of the one
the documents on which
judgments to be apt must
be grounded find their way
in adequate quality and quantity
to the hands of the others
not.

3. Fellow Citizens! Are they – these observations – are they
foreign to the purpose? Not they indeed. The purpose is – to
show that the cause of the tenacity of rulers as to the continuance
of death punishment is has for its cause not its fitness conduciveness
to the end which it professes to have in view for the purpose for which it is professed to be designed but
the advantage which those by which it maintained continued in use
regard themselves as reaping from it. If the laws were had been
made and applied by those who understood understanding how to make
and applying and by remuneration properly applied
were disposed to make them and apply them as they ought
to be made and applied, death punishment would not at this
time have stood upon the list: those by whom the laws are made
and applied either understand not how to make and apply
them or are not disposed to make them and apply them well:
and thus it is, and
from this cause it is
that the in the country
in question this unapt
punishment maintains
its place upon the list.

Identifier: | JB/004/486/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1831-11-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	486	Info in main headings field	bankruptcy court bill
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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