I accept that. Therefore let us throw out the rest of the dispatch as being no longer a part of Dr. Ament’s case.
EXHIBIT H
The two clergymen and the Board are quite content with Dr. Ament’s answers upon the two points.
Upon the first point of the two, my own viewpoint may be indicated by a question:
Did Dr. Ament collect from B (whether by compulsion or simple demand) even so much as a penny in payment for murders or depredations, without knowing, beyond question, that B, and not another, committed the murders or the depredations?
Or, in other words:
Did Dr. Ament ever, by chance or through ignorance, make the innocent pay the debts of the guilty?
In the article entitled “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” I put forward that point in a paragraph taken from Macallum’s (imaginary) “History”:
EXHIBIT I
When a white Boxer kills a Pawnee and destroys his property the other Pawnees do not trouble to seek him out; they kill any white person that comes along; also, they make some white village pay deceased’s heirs the full cash value of deceased, together with full cash value of the property destroyed; they also make the village pay, in addition, thirteen times[[13]] the value of that property into a fund for the dissemination of the Pawnee religion, which they regard as the best of all religions for the softening and humanizing of the heart of man. It is their idea that it is only fair and right that the innocent should be made to suffer for the guilty, and that it is better that 90 and 9 innocent should suffer than that one guilty person should escape.