Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-11
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And now the learning of New Haven
inquiries, "was it murder or suicide ~
Facts have disclosed enough of her
story, during the short cycle of three
tragic days, for us to know that her
companions gave her reason to desire
the latter, which was also sufficient reas-
on to perform the former, and yet it is
thought necessary, in considering the
guilt of the Malley boys, to decide this
question. Whether they laid violent
hands on Jennie Cramer or not, that
dead girls ghost will haunt James NAL
ey the rest of his life, unless it happens
as is more than probable, that he has
none, but IN any case God himself will
require her soul at his hands, and the
courts of heaven will indict the other
az accessory. They had murdered her
before she died; for they had stabbed
to death her womanly purity, and that
is woman's life. What need to consid-
er the question further?
They are self convicting murderers,
worse than Guiteau; for the pitiless
world half scorn, rs they commiserate
her, while the victim of his semi-insane
freak was borne to the mercy seat on
the white, downy wings Of q Nations
prayers. Poor, dead girl! She was
fond of pleasure, they say, and these
young men pretended to give it to her.
With us young girls may go pleasurirg
with just such young men; and In nine
cases out of Ten the young man is a
villain, at least, as far rs the girls are
concerned. This is why l declare Jen-
ME Cramer victim of the youth of
our country. We have existed too
shert time, aud there has been SO
much else to do that no wise system
of chapeoronage has been established
for the protection of our girls, who
must live tdull uneventful lives at
home, or take the risk, and but few
girls know how very great the risk is,
and thus the more innocent the girl is
the more likely she is to take the latter
horn of the dilemma, and scott at those
who try to warn her. Do you consider
American girls untrustworthyY asks
one with cross-eyed understanding, and
l reply: "You are looking through the
wrong end of the glass, my friend. l
would trust our girls to the end of the
earth and to the very gates al Hades
NEW version, if there were no young
men; but I would not trust single
young man on earth, farther than l
could keep watch, with maiden low
ed, (nor solitary old man for that
matter; in fact, they are the worst of
the lott" The Malley boys are dupli-
Gated all over Washington, arrayed in
their store clothes, with moustaches
curled and boots BACKED. They pass
for gentlemen, and they are gentlemen
very likely in all save their treachery
toward the opposite sex. So the girls
smile on them, and that innocent smile
is many times a beacon to after de-
SPAR. Our parks are nightly crowded
with girls who are out alone with these
young men. l have seen them in the
soft twilight, that yelled without con-
cealing them, sitting with young mems
arms around them, apparently without
a blush at the attention of passers-by;
and vet their innocent looks belle the
supposition taat they are either hard
ened or shameless. Do you suppose
these young scamps would offer such
liberties under the eye of proper
chaperon. Girls are to ignorant of the
bitter fruit of which the unlawful Ca
ress is the tiny, harmless looking seed,
to understand the gravity of their mis-
take in allowing it; but the boys are
better educated in vice; they under
stand it. and laugh at their compan-
ions as they caress them. This is
why style it an unlawful caress,'
for no man will subject the woman he
intends to marry, to the suspicion of
even casual passers, by such an exhi.
btlon. Take my word for it, girls, the
man who hugs you in the park will
never provide for you in his home; he
is building that for the maiden who is
discreet enough to be intrusted with
the care of his whole future life, his
honor as we'll as his happiness. Let
mothers look to it, each one of them,
and see that their own girls are safe.
The girls should not be deprived of
Youths pleasures either, and it is high
time that American "bsy and girl soci-
ETY." was superseded and new regime,
on the European plan, begun. No
matron has right to sit at home in
the chimney corner and send her
grown-up daughter out alone, any
more than she had when tn at girl was
an infant in her first steps; nor as
much, for then every hand would have
been stretched forth to protet her;
now many hands would be extended to
destroy her. l am not writing SEN
sational article, friends; lam drawing
a picture as have seen it in calm, dis
passionate, though troubled view, of
half lifetime.