The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-09

I for a little mob law. If the law could
not reach him the hash would. Poor.
helpless, pitful woman How YOU
have TO suffer in silence and live and
die with your wrongs unavenged,
How many hearts are breait;nE now
because of husbands tyranny or his
faithfulness to hia marriage vows
For her childfen's saks she keene si-
lent and buries her secret in her no.
som. | know of men who made fame
whlle living, and on whose nonu=
ments fulsome epitaphs are chlseled
who disgraced and dishohotad
the name of husband, know
some who are not dead who are
doing the same thing HaW. A woman
chained to an unprincipled man is
the most helpless creature upon
earth. prometheus. bound to the
rock and the eagles eating his heart,
was not worse off Blackstone says
there is no wrong but has a remedy
He was mistaken. Women have a
thousand wrongs that are remediless
What kind of remedy Is divorce or
separation or almony? It Is the
heart that is broken, 1t Is love and
honor that wefiiHn wants, and that
was promised her at the altar. If,
as last Resort, she leaves him, he
struts around and claims the child
rem. ''ihe children are mine," he
sa,ys. The man who says that is a
conceited fool. III the first place he
does not know for certain that he is
their father, and if he is, he made no
sacrifice to be so. All the pain of
motherhood is hers. All the tender
care and nursing and night watching
and generally all the prayers for
their safety and good conduct are
hers, while he is at his bank or store
or office or shop or maybe at his club
or billiard table. There was a time
when the wife was the husbands
slave, according to the law, and the
hard to eradicate that idea from some
mems minds in our day. Woman has
been called the weaker vessel, and
men the lords of creation so long that
it won't obiterate. Girls, be careful
to whom you chain yourself for life.
Better sew or be a shop girl or a type
writer or a school teacher or live with
kindred or friends and do homework
than take any risks. Marry a young
man who has good principles and
good habits, and not much money.
The love of money is still the same
old curse, and most of the young
men want to make it by short cuts
and dishonest practices. Get money,
get it honestly, if thou canst, but at
all events. get money! is still their
motto. The eager, grasping pursuit
OF money is the curse of this age and
generation. Huntington is dead, and
left his millions behind, and his boast
was that all men were purchasable,
and when it was to his interest he
bought them, whether they were leg
islators or congressman, or Judges of
the courts. He spent millions that
way.
Some of our office seekers are doing
the same thing on small scale-buy
ing votes-yes, buying negro votes.
The white primary didn't nominate
them, and they have renigged and re-
fingered. a nttle whiskey and few
dollars will secure the darkies, and
the fear is that the white primaries
will prove a failure. There are men
running for office as independents
who rely mainly on the negro vote,
and can't be elected without it. Such
men ought to have the contempt of
every good citizen. Iney ought to
have contempt for themselves, and /
reckon they do. The negro who sells
his vote is not half as depraved as
the white man who buys it. But we
will know by waiting, and if the pri-
mary proves a failure, then let us
have the Hardwicl1 bill or something
better, and may the Lord protect us
from unprincipled office seekers.
BILL ARP.