The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-08
AGED sYMPATH Y.
THE HERALD,
Salt Lake City,

tits observed that some OF the news
papers express sympathy for Mrs
Sarah Althea Hill Terry, the woman
who with her husband, is serving
Term In a California prison for con-
tempt of court. Our dispatches told
of the contempt the other morning. the
Isdy charging in open court, while ne
was reading an opinion, that Associate
Justice Field had been bribed.
Mrs. Terry is the woman who created
a sensation few years ago by announc-
ing herself the wife of Senator sharon'
and entering suit sgainst him as bis
wife for share of his property. Some
of our Journalistic friends assume that
she was badly treated by the million
ARE echer: they talk as If Sharon hao
deceived the woman, had ruined" ner
in the vulgar sense of the word, and
firing of her charms had cast her Oh
homeless, friendless creature WIZ
honor. virtue and responsibility all gone
and with no hope before her save
that of an outcast. 1t Is ma
tural for man to feel sympathy
for suffering woman, and right-thlnk-
Jog men must despise and denounce tie
male Iecher who taxes advantage OF the
weaker. more confding and trusting
nature of innocent woman to despoh
her. Base indeed is the wretch who
batrsvs an innocent girl and then deserts
her.
But has anybody ever seen anything
in the Aithea-Sharon case which sug-
eested "Detrsyal" or desertion? When
Sharon met Miss Hill she was not a
Young, ignorant girl, unfamiliar with
the ways and wickedness OF the world.
She was a mature woman, and very
smart one as her subsequent life has
shown. She was good deal more Gun
ming than old man Sharon, and knew
perfectly well the kind OF arrangement
che was entering when she went
to live with him, or at least at his
expense. She claims that she went as
his wife, though to please him she con-
scented to keep the marriage
secret for a time; he asserted
that she was merely his mistress
Tt makes little difference which OF the
two was correct. She was cunning
adventures who employed her charms
snd her virtues as a stake which she
plaved against the money bags OF a rlcf
old lecher. Bright and handsome
women of mature years and acquainted
with the world are not deceived ant
led astray by ugly men old enough tt
be their grandfathers. If they ylelt
their virtue to such Wretohes a
Sharon they do 80 deliberately, with
perfect knowledge of what they ar
about, and in harmony with a schem
that is vicious and disreputable
Sharon didn't practice upon Sarah
innocence; he took no advantage OF
simple, trusting maiden; but she dl
practice upon his deprsvity aud trle
to take advantage of his base pas
sion to fleece him of his gold
TO our way of thinking
was fight of depravity against DC
pravity, of vice against vice, OF lecher
and lust against lechery and lus
Sarah fought well and fought hare
she failed, though through no mistak
of hers, through no error of judgme1
on her part, but because his money Wi
more powerful in the warfare than II
force she could command. Havlr
failed, she is entitled to no sympath.
she is unworthy sympathy; she hash
even the claim to decent considerable
by the public of the common woman
the town. The latter hires herself Il
money. and is content with the prl
she asks, but the Hill woman wou
increase her foul gains by base col
spiracy and cunning treac hery.
In saying this much we would not
understood as taking the side of t
Sharops in such affairs as this. TIL
are brutal in their bestiality, and
serving OF the seVerest punishme
ubich can be made to reach them; b
they ought not to be despoiled for
bene6t of the women who are equa
entity with them and equally q
PRAYED.
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