The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-25
THIS paper IS democratic in principles
and Is Independent in its Uieucs on al
local questions.
The Worst Kind of Husband.

Inc WOPSC hlnO Oh HUSBAND.
If a man has a bad wife, it is not
only his privilege to put her away;
it is almost his duty to society topun-
ish her by divorcing her, SO that the
publicity of her shame may deter
others from violating the sanctity of
the marriage bond. The obligation
which devolves. upon the officers of
the law in respect to other offences
in this case belongs to the husband.
But if d mans wife is not subject to
the reproach of unchastity, the foul
est, viiest act that her husband can be
guilty Of is to cast suspicion upon
her morality by assertion or inplica-
ton, directly or through the mouths
Of his relatives or lawyers or
in any other way. The man
who, under cover of the forms of law,
assails the good name of an innocent
woman is as much more dispicable
than a common slanderer as the as
sassin who shoots his unarmed vic
tim from behind a tree is meaner and
more cowardly than the swashbuckler
who provokes an open fight and takes
his chances of killing or being killed.
For against the slanderer,
the powers of the law may be in
voked. He takes the risk of the PEN
atty Of his villainy. But the coward
VINO Incorporates baseless charges in
legal paper, gains the publicity of
the courts without the risk of punish
ment. He inflicts injuryAto some
+. extent ~irreparable, and the unhappy
victim has no adequate remedy, no
means whatever Of retaliation.
1t is evident that nc malignity can
invent a particle of proof against the
character of Mrs. Fanny Olcott. She
lisa perfectly pure, and-maklng due
allowance for human Weakness
good woman. But her husband and
his lawyers, by vague, general state
nients have sought to ruin her char
acter and break her heart. 1t is true
the effort, in a degree, failed; but is
their base attack wholly without re-
sult2 Is it possible to completely heal
the wounds inflicted by their heartless
abuse?
This man Olcott pretends to love
his children. His solicitude for their
future is his alleged motive in per-
scouting his wife.
And his way of fostering the honor
and the welfare of these innocent
little beings is to pillory their mother
before the public as an immoral
woman. He is certainly a pretty
specilnan Of humanity!
OUR only competitor thinks fit to
compliment General Sewell, of the
Home Brewery, on the act recorded in
the following paragraph from a Sea
Girt letter.
The national guardsmen of the First Brigade
while in camp were able at all times to buy beer
on the grounds. William G~reason, of Newark,
has the restaurant privilege and sells beer for
fifteen cents a bottle. On one Sunday when the
First Brigade was in camp he sold $500 worth OF
pSSr. LAnb punudy br lSauiu1-GbncFdA ptWeut Oh
the Second Brigade, gave strict orders that no
beer should be sold Cd the camp grounds.
Now, SO far from seeing anything
admirable in this, it seems to us a
piece of Pharisaical tyranny. We
will wager that General Sewell and
his staff were not without all the re-
freshments they cared for last Sun
day, and why the poor fellows who
were only in the ranks should be de
prived of the comfort of a glass Of
beer, we cannot see.
Plainly, General Sewell, though he
has gone into the liquor business him
self, cannot get I'VE the old ~ingrained
habit of trucking to the fanatical cold
water element, which the Republican
has SO long tried to seduce to its side,