The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

caused that! Mental distress and mental
trouble. You men who are fortunate
enough to be blessed with wives know that
there is nothing which so quickly affects g
woman's intellect as a disturbance of the
womanly functions. What caused this
great disturbance! II was the intense
mental suffering that this girl was endur
ing. Flowing from that disturbance was
the reaction that caused the continuous
pain In her head, from which she had
never suffered before; the feeling of
giddiness, and those spells of fsinting
which never before that time had in any
way afflicted her. Now, mark you gentle
men: We started with girl so Joyous,
free and happy that she was like the bird
that scars In the blue ether, and within a
week she was poor, morose, blue, melan-
choly, broken, physical wreck. Must there
not have been some mental cataclysm to
produce that. Was there not in that mind
an earthquake, that split apart and reft
those slender threadsthat working together
make the human intellect so complete!
Did you ever stop for a moment to con-
slider what wonderful piece of mechanism
the human intellect is. Complete i'll all
Its parts, 1t works as certain and as sure
as the intricate wheels of me watch, and
| from 1t flow deeds that cause the admira-
| ton of the angels; before it mountains
melt away; before it vast armies are con
quered; with it, working perfect and COM
plete, the lightning is taken from the
| clouds and brought down here and chained
and made the servant of man. When work
ing perfect and complete, it harnesses the
steam to the vast trains of cars, or sends
| the WondrouS steamships shooting across
the ocean. But like sweet bells "gang aft
aglee," whenever there is broken a single
cog, then the disturbance CONNER ces; then
the man is not right; then the trouble be
gins; then the intellect which is all power
full, becomes wreck. Previously, under
human control, it carries all before it.
tive that
| CARRIES DESTRUCTION IN ITS PATH.
Now, it is like an uncomfortable locomo-
And do you think this, this girls mind
could stand the strain, that the mind of a
great, strong man could not endured You
men who have felt simply in your business
| troubles, as you must have felt heretofore,
that you could not endure longer the dis
tress that was put upon you, how do you
think that this girl could withstand that
terrible trouble that she had! Had she not
been wronged enough! What more would
you asks
The man who breaks open your kitchen
window at night, and comes in and steals a
penny from your table. the law says you
may shoot down because he is taking your
property. The man whom you find in
adulterous intercourse with one whom you
love, the law says you may shoot down.
But it is claimed that girl who has given
her ALL who has given her love, who
morally, has felt that she has been killed,
who mentally has been ruined, shall keeI
her hand off from her betrayer. for the
reason, the prosecution says, that it would
depopulate our cities, and it is so necessary
that we should keep in our midst that kind
of mem | have no patience with it. | have
no patience with that kind of theory at all
| feel good deal as the old gentleman in
Dickens did, who was little, small man
didn't weigh over hundred pounds, and
whose wife weighed two hundred anC
seventy five or three hundred and
quarter; she committed some atrocious
deed, and they had him arrested for it, and
like a good man that he was-wise mar
that ne was-he went and employed him {
lawyer. He stated the case, and the lawyer
told him, with much circumlocution, be
cause he wanted to make as big fee as hs
could, that under the English common
! law the wife was presumed to BIT
under the coercion of the husband, anC
that whatever the wife did the husband
, was presumed to do. The little man,
with the thoughts of that great big wife
before him, who had many times druo
bed him with broomstick, looked up a
the lawyer and says, ''If the law pre-
sumes that the law is idiot" And so
when the law says that a man may b,
, killed who would attempt to take penn,
| of your property, and said that littl
girl whose mind is completely dis
stracted and torn and rent apart mus
keep her hands off of the man who ha
Just taken
ALL THAT SHE HAS IN THIS WORLD,
3 | say the claw is IDIOT
1 This is not the law. The law simpl.
5 says that if this girl was not carried ava
by an overpowering, irresistible, over
, whelming impulse, was not swept off he
5 feet through some mental disease or troubl
3 then she is responsible; but if there is an,
3 doubt about that, she is not responsible
! That is what the law says. 1t does no
D saw as my brother Critchlow would hav
q YOU believe that this is a case where i
you were to render verdict of not guilty
r it would encourage murder on the part o
4 young girls who have been betrayed b,
5 men old enough to know better, almos
q old enough to be their fathers men VIII
v have had experience in the world. Wit
t all due respect to my brother, must sa
5 that | wondered this morning what kind o
9 men he had been associating with lately, i
Y he has gained such an opinion as he ey
5 pressed to you about the virtue of mankin
in this community.
: That girl for ten months suffered unde
t this great stress of feeling, endured it a
: best she could, went to her work when sh
5 could and, without detailing to you mi
g nutely the testimony concerning he
! physical condition at that time, l simpl
q beg to recall your attention to it. Their
r are some things that do not care to dis
: cuss to you any more than l am compelle
: to in order to present the case of this dt
e PENDANT, and suggest that the mere hin
. that give you is sufficient to draw you
minds to the point which desire to make
: One of the evidences of insanity is tina
. there is a complete change in the person
. life. The cheerful man becomes moros
t and melancholy. The man who has Ell
a loved society seems to desire to shun i
Y The family of the man wonders what all
r him. They observe that he seems to b
e worried, and they think possibly it is som
L business trouble. He is blue, he does NJ
t want to talk with the folks at home, b
t meets people on the street and eyinces u
t desire to speak to them. he draws himse
/? within his shell, and becomes melancholy
r and from that there has been coined by th
e physicians the name OF one type of insar
II ity. which is called melancholia. 1t arise
:, more frequently in women than it does i
# men, and 1t affects women during the p,
# Rod from forty to fifty years of aQ
d more frequently than at any other. 1t grow
{ out of a blue, depressed, melancholy fran
of mind. The whole type if expressed
the one word, melancholia.
If this girl did not suffer from that, VIII;
1, was it that allied her. The doctors said tn;
d they recognized the symptoms of melaI
: cholia in the case. They all agreed upo
d that-Dr. STANDARD, DR.. Hamilto
II and DR.. Foster. ..They all agre
It that that girl, during those tt
d months, was
:, SUFFERING FROM MELANCHOLIA.
k DIR. Hamilton and DR.. STANDARD tell VI
10 that at any time during those ten montl