Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-07-20
THE LOOS(E) LAW.
II Kay Discusses 1t From a Stand
point Of Right.
q Kay. in cole County Democrat
Jefferson City, Mo-, July ~, 1906.


To the Editor of the Democrat:
And so Elder Loos is to abolish by
legislative enactment, constitutional
amendment if necessary, hanging in
Missouri. And the bill will be known
as the "Loos(e) Law" All on account
Of poor, suffering Mrs. Aggie Meyers.
Aud that's not ali of 1T. The promoters
Of the proposed loose law" of this old
commonwealth are going to have Cover
nor Folk try by the terms of the new bill
Mrs. Meyers, the woman" who has
been sentenced by the courts of this state
under existing laws TO be hanged by the
neck until dead, dead, dead! no doubt
50 that they may know in advance how
the thing is going to work, and as a
testimonial in it, favor? OF course this
i, a huge joke, but probably comes from
the sickly sentimentality expressed by
aud through the mall percentage of the
Missouri press which has deigned to
take it up.
Mrs. Meyers is to have the gallows
"loosed" from her neck, for the
reasonf0 that "she is a woman She is
also a fend, and female though she may
he she is nonetlielcss a yeritable angel
Of hades.
| submit that if when the mature
companion OF an unsuspecting indu.gent.
continuing husband, enveigling into her
confidence ID omparativelv inexper.
fenced lad and with the lad stealthilv
through the darkness and stiffness OF the
night crecps UP to the bedside where
STEPPED III s,umbers deep" lies the form
OF her spouse tired and weary from the
toll, of the day for her sake. and udgcon
IN hand, brains him whom She has
worn to love, cherish and administer to
III sickness and III health, and in the NH.
even and sickening struggle which
follows draws the keen edge Of the cold
dagger across the jugular o. that already
mul,ilated, bleeding, dying husband .
,hat if the good women OF Missouri, ard
the Steiner men OF sense viii saw tina,
She did not by that act leave the sphere
81 w~omanhood and forfeit al, rigG, 10
plead for mercy or otherwise ia the
name Of Woman then the "L.oos.r
Law is right and ough. to ie enforced
without regard to the time Of is enact
ment or Whether or not II should ever
become a statute.
The modest women Of Missouri have
not, VIII not express an opinion through
the public prints. but that nor one
among them would care to see license
placed in the hand OF every woman in
lnis State TO depart from the sphere of
womauhood and become a Acnd incar-
nate by ''loosing the loop" from the
righteously condemned Ms. Mey,rs on
:hc plea that she is a woman, admits of
no doubt. Such an act would degrade
itthcr then elevate ~womanhind for if
they are anytheless responsible in their
spherc than men, and can betray and
murder their husbands in sleep and
.scapc the extreme penalty of the law,
'lley are not to be trusted and are I'M
worthy of consideration only as yassals
20 be watched by day and locked in at
Hlght. No, indeed, no such ~liccnce is
demanded in Missouri, no such
degradation desired.
Enforce the Law man or woman, en-
force the law. BY the law and the
evidence She has been condemned. AS
:he courts have decreed, SO mote it be.
] n KAY.