The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-04-18


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kept the more closely in check by so
ciety, the less disposed he himself is to
hold it in restraint,
"1nstead Of the lesson of the Breckin-
ridge trial being as Mrs. Bullitt draws it,
that ladies should be 'sterner with their
own SEX it is, therefore, that they
should be sterner with men. Feminine
depravity is innocuous, except so far as
it is supplemented by the deprsvity OF
man, which is usually its original cause.
BY holding men up to their moral obi
cations strictly, women will be relieved
from the necessity OF being 'sterner
with their own SEX BY excusing in
men moral rottenness which they
make disgraceful and intolerable in a
women they neutralize to large extent
the beneficial effects OF their condem-
nation of feminine corruption. They
encourage the multiplication by men of
the smooth-tongued sirens who make
willing victims Of men.
Moreover, no man worthy of the
name would ask or accept mercy for
himself which was denied to the wo-
men with whom he had offended. He
would not make the false and cowardly
and contemplate plea that he had been
led astray by her, rather than gone wrong
himself. All men know that they are
not entitled to any such discrimination
in their favor, but that the great prepon-
derance Of the culpability rests on their
own shoulders"
MRS. BULLITT's DEFENCE.
Editor of The Sun, SRI wish to
thank you for your honorable and help
full treatment of the present woman's
suffrage movement, and for the stand
you take in all that pertains to the adj
vancement OF women. thank you par
ticularly for your just and vigorous edi-
torial article of this morning. 1t de-
serves to 60 into every home in the
country. 1 refer, of course, to the ar
ticle "An Undeserved Feminine De-
fence" 1t is long step in the right d.
rection. One of the crying needs Of the
time is that men be judged by the same
moral standard as women are judged by,
and the advancement of women means
this with may other things.
In Mrs. Bullitt's letter she has dis
graced herself: and one may fairly say
she has disgraced her State II she Is
representative woman of Kentucky.
KATE r. BUTLER, 227. Harrison st.
Brooklyn, March 81. ''
Editor of The Sun, Sir-If Col. Breck-
inridge is not lying now he must have
lied when he vouched for the good
character OF "this most unfortunate girl"
when he secured for a government APP
pointment. If he is telling the truth
now, something should be done to pro-
tect the decent women working in
Washington in the employ of our Gov
eminent for their daily bread.
Certainly things have come to pref
ty pass if an immoral Congressman can
put his mistress, for such Breckenridge
says she was, into department to asso-
ciate with some OF our best bred and best
born women, who really struggle hard TO
support themselves and their families in
an honest way.
Breckenridge is too well known in his
own State to succeed in making any one
there believe he was led astray. The
idea is an absurdity, for he was old in
sin when he met this girl.
A KENTUCKY WOMAN.
New York, March 81.
Editor OF the Sun, Sir-Mrs Bullitt,
OF Kentucky, in letter published in the
Sun, of March 81, asks justice for Col.
Breckidridge. She ends the letter by
the following: "Let the ladies be sterner
with their own, sex and such disgraceful
things as the Breckenridge case will in
the future be unknown"
She is mistaken. Women are too
stern with an offending sister, while ev-
cry excuse is made for man.
Let women require the same code OF
morals for man as for woman and then
indeed will such disgraceiul things as
the Breckenridge case in the future be
unknown. nrt
A WOMAN.
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