The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-25
THE MILLS OF TIE GODDESS
A Sensible Editorial on the Thaw
and White Affair.

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New York City, and to a considerable
extent the whole world, has been deeply
interested by the trial of one Harry K.
Thaw, for the killing Of one Stanford
White. Both Of these men were famous
and infamous.
The.man killed was noted architect
and his work was praised all over the
world. Any stranger that entered New
York, the city toward which all people
gravitate, could not help seeing some
of the effects of this mans genius. He
was known as a good business man,
just and even generous in his dealings.
So far as his outward character was
concerned, he seemed of benefit to his
city, and credit to the nation.
! He was the son of an author whose
books no doubt graced his library in
gorgeous bindings: Richard Grant
White, an able and welI-known COM
mentator on Shakespeare. To be the
son of an able man is sometimes a dis
advantage, but it is a great help, in
case ability on the part of one genera
ton is added to that of another.
Thus we find the murdered man to be
at one time in the enjoyment of enough
blessings to make any reasonable per-
son happy as happiness goes in this
world.
The man who killed White Harry K.
Thaw had no gift Of genius or talent;
but he was the inheriting possessor of
large quantities of money. 1t may be
said that it is no credit to any one that
he inherits wealth; but the same things
might be said concerning ability, a good
disposition, or a sound physical constitu-
ton. The fact simply is, that Thaw
had too much money by inheritance, or
maternal love, that his income went a
long way beyond. his necessities, and
gave him the means for indulging in
any wild dissipation he chose. He soon
became famous on two continents for
his reckless and spectacular expenditure
of cash.
This man also had a father of ability;
a man who had been able to bring to-
gether vast amounts of money, through
his own acumen and industry, and
through taking advantage of the cir
cumstances around him. He was to a
considerable extent a benefactor Of the
human race. He did not advertised
his muniicsnce very far, but his old
neighbors in Pittsburg say that he kept
an office open every working day in the
year, for the relieving of distress. He
met his wife, Harry K. Thaw mother,
from the circumstance of her impul-
sively throwing a rich inger-ring into
a collection-b basket when he was an
usher, and his impulse to pursue and
detect so charitable a communicate.
eiStill, these two fathers, White Senior
and Thav Senior, possessed other and
less desirable qualities, which they may
have bequeathed, unconsciously, to THEN
sons. { Richard Grant White was not
without his feminine adventures and
the same thing is reported of the elder
Thaw. At any rate, the two sons seem
to have both owed their downfall tc
utter disregard for sexual decencies OF
life.
Underneath Stanford Whites talents
seems to have lurked an utter disregard
for the honor of woman. The same
must be said of Harry Thaw; and it is
not strange that they should have ac.
quiredia murderous hate for each other,
on account of fral creature whom
both desired. Neither is it curious that
one of them, "maddened" (perhaps in