Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-15

the VlllalnOuS ''OaIn wen Case
In Kansas City, where two juries before Judge
White but short time ago, rendered similar YER
dicts-that justice-loving judge rebuked them in
unmeasured terms and ordered their names to be
forever stricken from the jury lists of his court
saying the verdict was a trayesty on justice and
disgrace to manhood.
Have we, in st. Louis, no judge with a like ap-
prehenson of the outrage of such decisions
against all womanhood and contempt of mother
hood?
Verify, if each and every mother today in st.
Louis after reading such cases as the Frankel one,
and this of your court, can still say, 81 have all
the rights want and women who are not moth
ers can witness without protest the cheapness of
mans estimate of children's fair, sweet innocence
his low apprehension of the Dissertation of the
temple which is consecrated by nature to their sex
alone, as the holy of holes, wherein all human ma
ture receives the gift of life through her divine
self-abnegation, then alas American women have
already toled the death knell of this nations re-
PROGRESSION toward barbarism, and herself and
children are but the sign and synonym of a gross
animalism which point the estimate of American
men in appetite and passion to the protective
care which marks in law caricature of all that
women vainly and ignorantly suppose to inhere in
American manhood.
The English language does not possess vocabu-
larry enough for the righteous indignation to be
fifty expressed over these two illustrations in our
midst of what man-made laws and decisions can
make possible for every wife, mother, woman,
child, in experience if conjunction of circum-
stances agree.
If in your court man had been arragned for
forcible entrance of church, the dissertation of
what is styled in your laws "a sacred altar" the
theft OF symbol Of divine worship, the malefac-
tor would have been sent to the pententiary for
years and hoRilY to, both prisoner and his jury
estimators heard from the bench, on ''this most
henous crime of sacrilege." But here was a crime,
as compared to which the other has no estimate,
the forcible dissertation Of the temple sacred to
divine motherhood-a robbery of that sheknah of
Gods presence, which is alone limited to woman
hood; a murder of sweet innocence which can
never be atoned for by the yolator nor his Cocoon
sprators in the jury-box, who have thus pro-
claimed to other roaming vampires that the altar
OF sweet motherhood is no longer protected by
what their law styles ''the natural and legal
guardians of women" but the ghouls who are
running about our streets, in all our highways and
byways are thus notified that for the consideration
OF three months free board in Jail, with warmth,
and light, and protection at the expense of the
State, every child of tender loveliness, every
maiden of gueless innocence, every woman not
physically able to defend herself from the forcible
attacks OF these giaours of Christian civilization.
Is theirs by rightful appropriation of Drawn and
muscle, and when again seekened and aattened in
ldleness OF our jails, so-caled punishment in re-
treat this pensioner (not criminal by the terms of
his ln,carceration) on the bounty Of the common
wealth, again energies into the freedom of his
"olVlne" ruling over women and children, bis right
10 sn run and be glorifed shall be, as of yore, The
lull and unlimited prerogatve of himself and his
co-rulerS' and there is no judge on our bench who
5 MIN nay, or courageously rebukes his up
. very if Polish women and girls to the number