Blue-grass blade., 1894-05-20


go and do likewise" If every Mis-
Pollard in the United States were t.
arise in righteous indignation. and seel
redress through the courts-it woult
certainly hurt no woman, nor would i
ruin the thousand souls as Col. Butter
worth suggests. though a good man,
thousand might wish they had never
been born
If all SHINING men were sure of the
punishment that Col Breckenridge ha.
received it would have a most whole
some effect. No doubt is has already
in some instance, proven lesson and
warning. This is inferred from the vast
amount of highly moral talk men have
indulged in for the last few weeks, both
in the press and out, and doubtless
many wayward husband has suddenly
discovered that there's no place like
home.
1t has not hurt good women, and has
only served to make vice seem more
loathsome than ever to respectable peo.
pie of both seves, and to intensity their
desire to see the Augean stables cleaned
out, no matter how heroic the treatment
One sided measures have never proven
efhcacious. Justice knows no sex, and
demands that both sexes be Judged by
the same standard and punished accord
ly. "For there's is sin that banes them
with one bane." 1t is not necessary of
course to spread aboad all the disgust
ing details of such trials, but no one
who has been thus wronged should be
browbeaten from seeking redress
through the cOurts-out of sentimental
regard for the public's feelings. AS the
sun purifies, so will the search light of
investigation into such evils, and the
punishment of the wrong doer. 1t is in
the pursuance of the policy of cloaking
and covering up such vile deeds that
they grow and flourish, for sin loves the
darkness.
But curiously enough the men are all
crying out, the woman is getting off too
easy, she has sinned also, and vet she is
going OH the stage, going to get gold
and glory. Why has she not received
the usual stoning from her own sex?
For this reason. Back of Miss Pollard,
this one woman who has escaped ston-
ing in nineteen hundred years, (no won
der the show managers want herr is every
woman in America. Her revenge is
their revenge. This was shown by the
intense interest they took in the trial,
and their universal delight in her
triumph. That Miss Pollard was ele-
waited was but mere incident of desire
to degrade the man who has drawn up
on himself the intense hatred and con-
tempt of every woman in America, it is
believed-with the single exception of
Mrs. Bullitt, of Kentucky. The unpar-
alleled impudence of the man who after
confessing his iniquities, nonchalantly
remarked that such exposures as would
ruin the woman only injure the man,"
was the straw that broke the camels
back. The worm has turned. Every
woman in the land, to judge from reports
from all quarters, of the best and
purest, mothers, wife and daughter,
has registered vow that it shall ruin
him also, if she can accomplish it, His
words and his manner said thus-I am
man-nothing in the way of morality
is expected of me. l can sin, and sin,
and sin, and the woman whom have
ruined will go to perdition, and will go
to Congress.
AS for Miss Pollard though no one
deems her blameless-far from it
though all must concede that she was
most sinned against, still seeing all that
she had suffered, no one can begrudge
her any comfort to be derived from stage
gold and glories. And there is very 1T
tie reason to doubt that if the world
should treat her as it has for years past
treated the man in the case, although
fully aware of his notorious immoralities,
should heap upon her honors and emol-
uments, should listen spell bound to her
oratOry, pay her six thousand year, and
send her to Congress, she might at least
attain to the high moral standard of the
average Congressman. And right now
the women of this country want to know
why it is that candidate for Congress
is not required to give certificate of
good moral character as we'll as poor
woman who applies for clerkship in
one of the departments. Surely the one
Office is more exalted than the other, and
demands more exalted character to fill
it. We would as leave have our pen
sions, patents and mail dished out to us
by an immoral person, male or female,
as to have our laws made by such.
The closing years of the nineteeth
centure will witness the beginning of
new era-and it is time. Breckenridge
and Pollard are only straws which show
the way the wind blows. If there is any
doubt about women being able to raise
the wind-just listen for the coming cyc-
lone Ill Kentucky.
Now as has been said woman has lust
discovered herself-but now that she is
awake, she is very wide awake, and is
ready for changes. 1t has gradually
dawned upon her that she has all along
for nineteen hundred years been ston-
ing the wrong party. That there must
have been something radically wrong
with that plan, is evident since it has been
signally unsuccessful in improving the
disobeying the teaching and example of
the Master she has brought upon the world
most of the trouble and sorrows that
exist. That by stoning the woman and
letting the SHINING man 60 free, she has
defeated her own object. She has set
premium on mans immortality, and made
his opportunities for SHINING, and lead
ing double life, all the more easy and
convenient BY stoning and ostracizing
the erring woman, thus depriving her of
all opportunity of earning an honest
living, and regaining her own self-repect,
which is denied to no man, however,
much he may have sinned, she is driven
to the only alternative left open to her,
from which she turns with the sense of
this injustice ranking in her heart, and
to prey upon the pure homes from
which she is spurned. Instead of en-
couraging her to reform and lead life
of decency, thus making fewer and
fewer, instead of more and more, the op-
portunities for sinful living for both
man and woman, she is driven an out