Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-27

1t did not last long, for she soon be-
came the wife of murderer, and as
the direct result of his act, she is COM
PEELED to go on the witness stand and
tell the world the details of her life,
something few women care to do"
slavery worse than African slavery
ever was" Did our slave owners fur
nish their slaves with champagne, pay
dentists bills for daughter and mother,
send young girl slaves away to school,
pay expenses for foreign trips. No.
Stamford White was bad man and
used his slaves He did not, like the
"rescuer' Thaw. turn scalding water on
women in bath tubs.
Something will happen some day
when President Roosevelt will not have
chance to get into the fight. His
motive was good one his motives all
ways are, but slowly but surely he is
finding out there are some things even
president can not do. One is to
change the spelling of certain words
in the English language. Another is
that he is not yet authorized TO exer-
else censorship over the press, or in
other words to deny papers the use
of the mails unless there is prima facie
evidence that justifies their exclusion
1t can be admitted that the Associated
Press erred in sending out the exact
words of Mrs. Thaw in describing her
downfall, but outside of those two sem
fences, no purist can reasonably OBJ
ject to the press report. That certain
yellow journals have enlarged upon
such details and thus made themselves
liable to exclusion from the mails as
we'll as to prosecution under state laws
for indecent publication is by no
means an argument favoring an exclu-
sion from the mails any newspaper re-
porting the proceedings and evidence
in the Thaw case.
And all this brings easily into this,
discussion the effect on the public,
young and old. of reading such reports.
One good citizen said in the presence
OF the writer: II have three daughters
at home; no paper containing this
Thaw case will come into my house il
I can prevent 1t. Any editor allowing
such stuff to be printed in his paper
ought to be ashamed of himself" And
an old gray-haired man present re-
piled: If you have any 16-year-old
girls in this town that deliberately all
low married man to pay their dem
fists bill, that invites them to a sup.
per at midnight in his house. that re-
main there alone with him, that after
wards drink champagne with him, that
go with him into bed rooms; IL you
have any such innocent girls in this
town, wouldn't it be q good idea for.
them to read the accounts of this trial
and notice the result of such actions?
And so, after all. in all of this talk
We get back to this one question:
whether the purity of our boys and
girls--for that matter, our wives and
ourselves-is protected and strengths
ened by knowledge or ignorance. One
side claims that knowledge increases
desire for personal experience. the
other that knowledge Is a weapon to
repel attack. One man claims II he
takes his son "a Summing" the fasci-
nation is destroyed. Another equally
good reasoner claims that such knowl-
edge makes him familiar with vice,
and finally ito embrace It." Mean
while Stanford Whites, Evelyn Nesbits,
and, Harry Thaws are born every day,
and. they'll get together some day in
the future, there will be another Thaw
trial and once more this some old straw
wilIhe tllreshed over again.