Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-12
THE HOME TYRANT.

The home tyrant is the meanest speci
men Of humanity living, for the punish
ment OF whom no law is recorded in the
statutes. You may always know him by
the suave and toadying fashion in which
he approaches strangers, and the un-
usual hours at which he may be found
away from his home. The unfortunate
woman to whom he is tied by the law,
and whom he rules by fear OF his ruffian
and cowardly hand, is always nervous
specimen OF femininity, who starts at
the quick closing of a door, and whose
mind is never at peace, but always dread
ing the approach OF her tyrant. She is
hollowed-eyed and flat-chested, and her
children and herself are unkempt, and
cause the visitor to resolve in his heart
that such men as the tyrant should be
forbidden to beget family. When he
works, he throws his money on the bar
and wastes it in luxuries for his worthless
self, ignoring the fact that his slave is at
home, trying to conjure up meal from
among unpaid tradesmen, and fearing
his frowns and growls more than the
looks OF wolfish hunger which plead to
her from her children. He knows all
men and speaks OF them familiarly, and
though many OF them would not walk a
block in his company, he boasts OF their
friendship, and in manner succeeds in
establishing sort OF claim as good
natured fellow among the "boys." At
what a fearful cost, however, to his poor
family is this claim made. Unlimited
beatings and cruel blows, hungry sleep
ings and wakings, days, months and
years OF abject fear, until his going
ont is regarded as a boon by all, and
his coming as dreaded calamity
the development OF all that is vicious and
bad in their natures, and frequently Il
series OF lies to escape punishment,
which tend in the end to ruin their young
lives, and fit them for careers OF deceit
and dishonesty; horror and dread OF
home, and final flight from it as soon
as they are able to get away-and thus
the sons are fitted to recruit the criminal
classes, while the daughters fly to life
of inglorious ease and end in prema-
ture death in shame. An absence OF all
the holier ties OF home and blood, and a
desecration OF the hearth-stone, TO the
pitiable spectacle OF ministering to the
wants and vagaries of blackguard glut-
ton TO escape bodily harm from his cow
ard blows. To be revled, pointed at and
talked about by inconsiderate neighbors,
being afraid or unable to lift voice in
their own defense, and finally yielding tc
the weakness OF a spirit crushed and
broken, their lives become veritablC
burden, and no hope can find its way
into their cruelty darkened careers The
author OF all this misery, however, con
tinues TO go among men who do moi
know these things, and is as loud as ever
in his joke and ribald repartee, holding
good his claim as one of the "boys,
while to the few who know him, he is the
meanest thing on Gods footstool, anC
unfit to mate with dogs. The belief in
future punishment gives hope, however
that when he shall have paid the penalty
OF nature, the home-tyrant will be in Tho
van OF the damned OF earth.s people.
A REPUBLcAS paper is about to bt
started at Winnemucca (Nevada) in the
interest OF w. M. Stewart for United
StaIss Ssnator. u is q scant field for out
journal, and is already filled by one b
the best little dailies in the State. tn,