The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-22


particle of moral sense or manli-
ness would have deemed himself excep-
tionally fortunate in securing SO fine and
gifted woman for wife, and would have
been proud to have endured any hardship
and sacrifice for woman who proved her
willingness to make the best of their lot,
so long as she kept his love. A young
man of any sound moral sense and manli-
ness, even if he had married woman less
charming and devoted than young Mrs.
Blaine proved to be, would have scorned
to have deserted good woman whom he
had persuaded to become his wife. Young
Mr.. Blaine is very contemplate person,
and ought for the rest of his life to be sent
to social Coventry by every decent man
and woman who believes that it is a great
and objectionable outrage for man to
win girls love, make her his wife, make
her the mother of child and then desert
her without cause.
The proper way to test young Mr..
Blaine's conduct is for every respectable
father and mother in this land to ask
themselves how they would regard young
Mr.. Blaine if his victim had been their
daughter. There are certain kinds of wrongs
inflicted on good women for which there
seems to be no adequate retribution but
horsewhip applied with severity to the
base man who has been false to all the
obligations of husband and lover, and
young Mr.. Blaine may thank himself that
he has thus far escaped what he would
have been in danger of getting on this
Coast, viz, public horsewhipping for his
cowardly heartlessness.
However, it is better as it is; he will
carry the brand fixed on his forehead by
Judge Thomas all his life. The oppor-
tunity of clean court to denounce, on
the evidence, the conduct of young Mr.
Blaine as that of base and cowardly
traitor to and deserter of good and low
ing young wife, was not neglected by
Judge Thomas, and the finger of scorn and
stern rebuke that this just judge has
pointed at this delinquent husband will
make this young man wish that
he had never been born. But this just
judge, while he did not spare young
Blaine, did his full duty in
pointing out the shameful conduct of
the elder Mrs. Blaine and her RESPONSE
bility for the sorrowful alienation, separa-
ton and final divorce of this young
couple. The elder Mr.. Blaine treated the
young wife with kindness, but the mother
was implacable; from the first she became
most inhuman conspirator against the
happiness of the young woman whom she
ought have taken home to her heart and
home, even if the young wife, instead of
being as she was a brilliant and accom-
plished young woman, had been a good
girl of humble life, limited intelligence
and slight education. A woman must
have tigers heart who could deliberately
foment the arrangement of this young
couple, and procure the desertion of good
wife by the young husband. This cruel and
heartless act the elder Mrs. Blaine was
guilty of; her weak, worthless son was
happy with his wife the first year of his
welded life, until his mother began to
execute her relentless purpose of separat-
ing the young couple.
was the more inexcusable because she
married her own brilliant husband when
they both were poor young school teach
ers, working their way in the world, with
nothing but love as their marriage portion.
The memory of her own love mar
riage, when her illustrious husband
was an obscure, unknown youth
ought to have filled her heart with
sympathy tor the romance of the young
couple, but it was her cruel hand that
wantonly determined to dissipate loves
young dream and to cause her reckless
young son to wantonly disavow, regret
and repudiate what was probably the
decentest action of his whole frivolous
life. He had won the love and hand of a
bright, charming and accomplished young
girl, and his mother ought to have dropped
on her knees and thanked God for her
wild boys good luck; ought to have been
glad that youthful dissipation had left
enough of romance in him so that he
could WOO and win good girls love.
Mrs. Blaine has been severely punished
for her inhumanity to her sons wife. The
mark of Judge Thomas brand is on her
brow; its print is ineffaceable. Mrs. Blaine
could afford perhaps to laugh at "newspa-
per talk" but she can no more afford to
laugh at the opinion of this Dakota court,
rendered after Judicial traversal of the
evidence, than she could afford to laugh at
court which decided that on the evil
dence her son had embezzled money or
violated a financial trust Her victory
in all this sad business is really disgrace
full defeat. Her son is no longer the hus-
band of the yirtuous mother of his
child, and he is no longer a man
among honorable men in consequence,
and Mrs. Blaine is publicly
exposed and iudicially denounced as guilty
of cruel and inhuman persecution of q
young wife and mother who deserved her
affection and esteem. Young Mr. Blaine
is judiciaIly shown to be worthless, weak.
unprincipled young cad, destitute of the
moral pride, courage and manhood that the
world had right to expect of the son of
his father, while the elder Mrs. Blaine
will go down to her grave with the bitter re-
lection that decent America Will never
think of her except as the latest and
meanest illustration of that peculiar wom-
ans inhumanity to woman that makes
thousands of their fellow-women mourn.
General Ayers military record and his
reputation as brave and loyal soldier are
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