Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-07-30
QUEER SOCIAL ETHICS.
A Plain D-iseussis. sr . Delicate
Qusssisn.

EDITOR GOLD Hull Nrws: II the
newspaper accounts Of the killing Of Dr..
Lsfsvre Of Oakland. California. are cor
rsot, and Mr.. schrosdsr's reason for his
action In the matter is, ~ stated. because
OF the seduction OF his wife by the
Doctor, and for no other reason, then I
hold that the killing vas . most damn
able outrage. q dsstardly and cowardly
murder, and q foul blot upon our civil.
xstiop. From the San Francisco papers
it appears that about six weeks ago the
wife in the case confessed TO her
husband and to her father that
some two or three months before
abe had been ssdueed BY Dr.. Lsfsus,
and that during the two or three months
preceding her confession . criminal In
%tercourss had BEEN maintained between
herself and her ssduosr. In other
words, the Doctor had ssduosd her again
and again. . great many times, and kept
doing 20. But not until the evidence Of
her guilty conduct had assumed such
shape that longer conosalmsnt Of II wal
impossible did the weak. minded woman
confess. Bah! The talk about ssdue-
ING a yirtuous married woman-a woman
mentally % well a. physically virtuous
-is the thiunsst kind Of nonsense. and
believed to be possible only by nincom-
poops and fools. Gases are rare indeed
where q well. behaved married woman 10
subjected to an insult. or an improper
advance from her male acquaintance.
And, In the exception to>his rule. II the
woman rspels a. she should the Arst i'm
proper advance, she may depend upon
II that improper advances will never
again come from the same person. That
young, upsophisticated girls are fire.
ausntly seduced and ruined by bad and
designing men Ia too true. but the ssssr-
ton that q woman married and living
With her husband for eight years can be
ssducsd, unless she 10 willing and anx-
ious to be ssducsd, 10 q too great strain
upon the probabilities to DO believed BY
thinking persons.
In fashionable society In . cities
there are married women whose minds
and hands are continuously idle, who
are too "high toned" to feed their "
children according to Natures laws,
who become satiated with the company
Of one man, their husband. and % Q
consciousness firt with other men, and
endeavor to make oonquests among their
male acquaintance Just for change and
variety. Women OF this class are willing
10 be seduesd. and they drop into the
embraces OF Rood-looking. wsll-dressed
men very mach a. ovsrrips fruit falls 10
the ground. These women make the
first improper advances TO their gentle
men friends themselves. and, a. there
are few Jossphs now living. they find
some indiscrsst man willing to ssducs (O
them.
But, because o man 10 possessed OF
sufficient human nature not to run away
from o proffsrsd gift OF this kind, shall
he be shot down like . dog when his
weak. minded s~ccomplics oonfesses her
w~ioksdnsss2 Under such circumstances
as the case before referred to, ought not
the man to be allowed 10 tell his storyf
Is Il not time that the oowardly assassi.
nation Of men because Of the alleged
seduction OF married women should be
discountsnanssd by society. even II 1t
cannot be stopped by lsw2 The ooun-
tenancs and support o given 10 assas-
sinations OF this kind BY society, because
Of mistaken and morbidly ~sympathstis
feelings for the srring woman. affords
opportunities for eowardly "Bombastss
| Furiosos" to "shoot their man" without
taking any risks themselves. hold
that, In cases Of the kind under discus
sion. justice demands that the ASSASSIN
should speedily sxpists his crime upon
the gallows. and that, II II 10 Justice 10
kill the alleged male ssducsr, II 10 also
Justice that the female willipg.to-bs.
seduced should share his fate.
UNCLE DANIEL.
GoLp HILL, July 80, 1880.