Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-07

do you. Io' mother, she dat busy right
now she won't even have time to go to
yo' funeral"
The s. eat Thaw tragedy has startled
the town as it has not been startled
fo1 many month. The prominence of
Stamford White, unquestionably a
greet architect and man of art, and the
gnotesque eccentricities of Harry X.
Thaw, who has been the stock furnisher
of sensations ever since his father died.
make the affair of worldwide conse-
quence, and it has been served up to
the readers by the acre in the big pa
pers The issue will come to a fair de-
termination when the question is de-
cided whether White was pursuing
Mrs. Thaw with his attentions, or
whethcl MI Thaw was forcing her at
temtlion upon White, hoping to win him
once more to active support of her.
The general conviction is that Thaw
will get clear by pleading the higher
law, and THE bad character of White.
as lately revealed, showing a depth of
iniquity that New York did not sus-
pect existed. White seems to have
been am educated old roue, who chose
for his prey membos of the chorus
girl crowd, and treated them with dis
tinctdo% and kindness until his aim
was accomplished and then the victim
was thrown upon the meroies of the
world, like squeezed orange. The
worst feature was that White was the
leader of gang of men about town,
with plenty of money and disposition
10 spensD it in any kind Of dissipation,
so long ais it was new and piquant,
without any regakd to its morality, or
the effect upon the victims. The
chorus girl certainly has hard lot,
and hight ais we'll jump into nest of
rattlesnaloes as come to New York and
get Within the embrace of this crowd
of libertiHes, who, it seems, have been
known to the police for a long time.
Thaw was a. degenerate the victim of
ciga cities, and is Plobably a victim in
this scrape, as his wife called it, for it
is quite clear that White had some en-
at least, and that Thaw 3
wife egged him on to do the dastardly
d,ed. Ii is about the time that great
wave of reform should strike Pitts
burg, where money has been made so
rapidly that the Deoipients of it don't
know how to get hid of it. The town
has been the birthplace of more scan
dals of great note than amy other place
this side Of hades, and ii is now almost
a disgrace 10 be known as coming from
Pittsburg, great city of industry that
it is, with aM tine machinery of civili- |
cation 10 speed it to the head of the
procession. Mr.. Bryan has been in
vited to participate in the great re-
vival service that will soon be inaugu-
rated there, and it is to be hoped that
his eloquent tongue will be touched
with new fire whom he steps upon the :
platforms and gives one of his sonorous
and enthusiastic speeches Let us
hope that it will stir Pittsburg TO its
Depths and bring to the surface 80
hat it may be scorched and killed the
nurky mass of filth and heathenish
nastiness that afhicts the city, and then
with a huge broom that the authorities
may sweep the dead stuff into the riv-
srA, no matter whether it kills every
ish in tho waters thereof or not.
SOdom and GOm0rah attempted such
'ffenses against humanity as Pittsburg
8 doing right along, and they were
1urged with fire. and there were no
5odom and Gomorrah after that. But
Pittsburg has too much that is good
N her, and must be eleansed and al
owed to start once more on the right
'ath, with watehful care OF her young
nen and young women. We want no
more Thaws and no more titled for
iigners for husbands for Pittsburg or