The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01
THE FREE LANCE.

The San Francisco Eraaniner-always
snappy-hlls nearly eight columns Of re-
cent issue with the escapade of one Emily
hort Maitland, corpulent woman of
twenty-siz, and connected by birth or mar
rlage with some of the leading families of
Callfornias Four Hundred Briefly
told, the story is this: Emily,
whose maiden name was Temp
kins, married Mr.. Maitland, when she
~as Is He WAS very kind to her, and in
the course OF time two lovely children, a
boy and girl, were born to them. So far, |
so good. But my husband failed in every |
thing he ever undertook, T" says the woman, |
and unwilling to condone this capital crime
for which there is ne pallistion, she aban-
doned him, her children and their
home and eloped with hired
farm hand named William A. Ingram.
The sweet couple very discreetly sought
an obscure retreat in the woods while the
deserted husband offered a reward OF
q, ZOO for their apprehension, and all the
gosslps of California were busy with the
scandal. Somebody, more impetuous than
the rest, suggested through the papers
that the couple, when found, should be
tarred and feathered. Well, The couple
WAS found and-interviewed.
Now it is the interview with the woman
that creates as much pious consternatloe
in the vicinity of the Golden Gate as the
eopement itself. Madame is not IN the
least disconcerted about her little adven-
ture, except in two things. One is that
the horrid papers persist in calling In
gram a farm hand, and the other that TIM
latter shows symptoms of conscientious
scruples and urges marriage as soon as
the aggrieved husband has secured a
divorce. Mrs. Mallliard would rather
forego this little formality. eve are liv-
tng,n she says, sin the nineteenth century
and not in monestic and medieval days.
Why should any man own a woman!
Why have nst as much right to break
bonds which are hateful as the chains
ABOUT a slave2 When men were apes
they fought one another for the possession
Of woman, and marriage is one of the rem
nRnts of their apehood. In my life have
been to one funeral, and shall never go
Rgain. The ceremonial and the reading OF
the liturgy disguised me. 1t is the same
way with the wedding ceremonial; it is 8
bill of sale for female slave. l care for
my life; 1t is sweet; 1t is delicious-why
should | constantly sacrifice it TO one who
spurns the sacrifceE A woman
awakens one day to the fact that every
step she is taking is upon her own
heart, and IL she shall continue tell me
now does it profit her owl soul! l am re-
sponsible for my own soul to God and not
TO my husband, and il further leaving it to
his care, as women do, will be for evil to
me then l depart from him.
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Now It Is this declaration of indepen-
dence that shocks the moral sense of the
late neighbors of Mrs. Mailliard:
But why should 1t, prayl
The woman need not necessarily be
crazy as her relations claim. Victoria
Woodruff and Tennie Clatiin were not
crazy when they preached free-love twenty
years ago; and there is a score Of petty
publications in this country today that
breaches the same doctrine. Madame is
only an apt scholar in this school of licen-
tiousness.
The singular thing ABOUT it all is that 1t
is woman, in nine cases out OF ten, who
finds sllurement in such philosophy. For
some time pestlferous Kansas sheet,
called Lucifer, devoted to the propagation
of free-love, came to the exchange table of
the Free Lance, and of all the crazy
things suggested therein-that man re-
turn to natural law'' and be dog; that
parents abandon their children and turn
Them over to the government; that the
state become huge infant aSylum-eman-
ated from that sex. 1t is evident that all
the women on earth are not brevet angels.
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There is, however, another phase to this
subject. Is woman's mental equipment
the same as MANS Scarcely. The advo-
Gates of equal rights may say what they
please. but it is a fact that she is unable to
concentrate her mind to the accomplish
Inent of the greatest mental effort even in
sphere where she has the greater oppor-
tunities Take music, literature or paint
ing for example The proportion of women
educated in music is certainly ten to one
man, aud yet where in all these ages has
the better half of mankind produced
Beethoven Mozart or Wagner! In litera-
hoc an ny-
cellence than in any other branch of art or
science but still the chasm is very wide
between Victor Hugo and a George Sand,
Tennyson and an Eliot, Goethe and
Muhlbach, a Longfellow and Stowe while
in painting only one conspicuous name,
that of Angelica Kaufman, appears to u.s.
and that is completely obscured by long
list of eminent male painters. And yet
these are fields in which the woman has
always had an equal chance with her
brother.
This is not said in dispsragement of
woman nor in opposition to the equal rights
movement. That Is not under considera-
ton. On the other hand she excels in
those yirtues-in nobility, beauty, love,
gentleness and soul-that make this world
better and happier. We award to her the
palm Of superiority.
Since Theosophist Judge explained to US
the principle of re-incarnation and the pro-
gression of man, we can better account for
Balmaceda Clute.
When Sergeant Csntln was discharged
from the police force for drunkenness Su-
perintendent Ryan, Of the wsterworks,
picked him up and gave him a job. Mike
was grateful and Immediately organized a
drum corps and named II after the city
official. Twice each week he mustered his
force, marched il to the city hall and there
made the wellzin ring with the beat Of the
sheepskins. At the end he proposed three
cheers and tiger, which were given with
vim that fairly confused the city fathers,
whose session nights were invariably
selected for these exhibitions. About
sdrift ana then the drum major marched
once more 10 the city hall and beat the
drums, but the climax WAS varied in this,
that in place of the usual cheers for Ryan
a blankety blank groan was given for him
that must have convinced him at least that
conditions have changed.
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All through the country the newspapers
are commenting upon the superb Grafton
delivered by Governor Hill, Of New York
al the unwilling of the Grady monument.
The governor has been SO persistently
misrepresented and SO necessarily vilified
that il required just such an exhibition of
his matchless versatility to convince some
people that David Bennett Hill is truly
superior man. They will hear more about
him by and by.
The general manager" of the little Times
announced several days ago in his second
manifesto that he would take his own time