The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-08-12
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Our Male Relatives.
The woman tempted me and did
eat" The miserable. sneaking, con-
temptible hound that he was to estab-
lish such cowardly precedent; and
the ten times meaner cowardice of the
men who follow in his footsteps, as
men have done since that unhappy
horticultural display which brought
our first mother to grief. We have
often pictured in fancy the brave APP
pearance of this man who earned the
title Of Adam, though he wasn't worth
the name, unless you put coward,
sneak and fool behind it, hiding among
the underground worrying himself
over an apron. (The first odd fellows
regalia was invented by Adam on this
occasion.) When he heard his name
called aloud, and knew that there was
trouble in the camp because of their
mutual disobedience, why didn't he
march up like noble souled creature
and say, I'VE are sorry, but it really
did look SO inviting as it hung on the
tree, that we took a bite; and as it
can't be helped, let US make the best
oft" In our very soul we believe
that more mercy had been shown him
had he borne the brunt Of the evil,
instead Of sneaking out and putting it
all on the woman. Eve was close by,
eve-dropping, and of course bound to
bear the blame and the children.
Since that first fall (or Spring. when
we 'sinned all" there has been no
such clear case Of repetition known
as the present.
1t is true that history repeats itself;
and there is only this difference now:
whereas there was but one Adam
then, there are several millions now;
all ready to repeat the unmanly cry,
1T was the womanl" 1t is high time
for the woman to cry out, "How long,
oh. Lord, how long?" tits time for a
reconstruction of society, and mighty
good time to kill scores of lying edi.
tors. If there is disgusting thing
too thoroughly SO to bear, it is the way
the editorial fraternity have turned
loose upon an erring and unfortunate
woman. From Maine to California
all themes have become tame and un-
profitable in the sleepless and eager
race to see who will get off" the
sharpest, lowest, meanest thing hav-
ing bearing on the great case, One
newspaper even goes so far as to col
lect from hundreds of exchanges the
brilliant witicisms and publishes them
under the title of "Scandalets." All
the vile talent in the country is en-
gagged in serving up conundrums which
lack even the commonest wit. 1t
sounds very like the cry which a
thief will raise to cover his own escape,
to hear these virtuous teachers of the
people who fill editorial chairs, weep
ing SO loudly over the fall of a great
man! Ten to one you couldn't go
through" the editors drawer with
out finding out why he is so painfully
sensitive about scandal. Noisy dem
onstrations are always suspicious;
what must we infer from the outcry of
the press? If real sorrow caused their
hearts to ache, would they handy such
coarse jests and low vulgarisms? Is
it not more cause for tears than
laughter? If every thing which we
have been taught to revere is broken
down by sin, should not tile feeling be
more in sorrow than in jest that We
should comment upon it? Shame on
the men who, having wives and Sis
ters who may be SO weak as to listen
to the tempter-and fall-through the
best and hottest emotions Of their ma
lures, can enjoy the calamity Of this
woman! Shame on the men who
have nothing better to 30 than to read
and wink, and gossip away the reputa
ton of woman! We want new race
of men who will not kiss and kill with
the same breath. We drop these few
rambling remarks as preface to what
we mean to say when we get fairly
started. HYPATIA.