The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-05-09

Club, men high and low, every
where, have cried out against it as
personal insult.
Not the women of our nation
alone, but the men as well have
risen to thank and bless Judge
Wilson for his clear, unfallering
statement that there is but one
code of moral purity for men and
women alike. To those whe have
watched this trial with the mem
DRY of an instance not decade
ago, when charges of a somewhat
similar nature were brought against
an aspirant for public honors, the
growth of sentiment upon this line
is nothing less than phenomenal.
Surely it presages the dawning
of brighter day.
The second lesson is of like
nature, but is one which fills us
with still gladder surprise, and it
consists in the fact that we seem
to be approaching day in the
worlds history when the men more
than tho women is to receive pub.
lie condemnation, If it be clearly
proven that he, more than she, is
responsible for guilt. Madeline
Pollard has not posed as saint.
We have no desire to lesson her
manifest sinfulness. A disgraced
woman, guilty in the sight of God
and man, pitiful to a degree which
God only can know, but which
those who see God most clearly
because "pure in heart can d.mly
apprehened-she stands to-day.
God himself cannot give back to
her that which she has lost. Etern-
ity cannot restore what she has so
wantonly thrown away. This we
all know; this is the orthodox
standpoint from which the 'fallen
woman" has been viewed since the
world began. We would not have
her viewed otherwise. Not a mis-
taken concoding, but true valua-
ton of w0mau's sin can alone bring
to her salvation from sin.
But in this trial, side by side
with the "fallen woman there has
appeared new factor-the "falIen
maryland behold, we find that he
ia regarded as an object of greater
adherence than is she. The pub
lie mind actually discriminates be-
tween the proportionate guilt of
the man of fifty; the husband of a
loving wife, the father of children,
the Christian philanthropist, the
silver-tongued advocte of high
moral ideal, the man who had been
elected by the franchise of his
native state to a position Of honor
and responsibility in our national
life--it discriminates, we say, be-
tween this man and a woman of
twenty, who, at best, could have
known but little of life, who came
to him for counsel as the friend of
her dead father. And 10! the dis
elimination is in favor of the wo-
man as against the man.
Society at large--nOt religious"
society alone dares boldly to say,
ale is more guilty than she. He!
His very manhood made him the
rightful friend of every unprotect-
ed woman. Ills own fatherhood
made him the father of universal
girlhOod. The vows of Christ upon
him made him the champion of the
weak against the strong. If she
were an erring, easily tempted
girl it WAS his duty to save her
from herself. If, as he claims, she
tempted him, what right had he
a Christian man--to yield to such
temptation? What right had he,
having yielded, to cover up, by ly-
ing, BY false promises, by persis-
tent hyphocrisy, for nine long years
during which he posed as q model
man, his own pollution? The cries
OF his own children whom he tore
from the arms of her who, however
sinful. was still their mother, and
consigned, without single, paren-
tai instinct to the hands strangers,
condemn him as being both without
heart and without moral sense.
The personification of cruelty and
hypocrisy he must remain through
the ages. Compared with him, the
woman--the partner in his guilt
walks in white, blameless."
Yes it has really come to pass
that for once in the worlds history
it is the man who stands i'm the