The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-03-03
WOULD THE SOUTH STAND FOR
JEROME, "DISTRICT AT
TORNEY?"
UNUSUAL ASPECT OF CASE
Could a War Evoke More Print and
Attention Than the Thaw Case?
Harlequin Discusses Jerome:s Cross
Examination of Mrs. Thaw.
From the New Orleans Harlequin's


issue OF February o3:
| am not one of those who delight in
saving that we are different from the
North
| like to think of our great country as
composed of homogeneous population.
Yet | am inclined to thank God with
earnest fervency when | say Jerome
could not have ss-queStioned the low
est denisen Of the red light district III
this old town, for instance, as he has
Mrs. Thaw about her life, without in
curing the lash OF public scorn and
contempt which the years would not let
him forget.
Human language is not capable of ex
pressing the contempt-the ineffable con-
tempt man must feel for thing wear
| ing pants who, for the sake of standing
as a buffer to worthless friend. sub
mits helpless woman to such an ordeal
as this piffling reformer of New York
who confesses that he was friend of
| this White
am really curious to see the effect on
public opinion in Gotham OF this gutter
rats so-called cross-examlnation of this
woman; and make bold to say that if
| Thaw. released, as his next act sent a
bullet through this sweet-scented expo
nent of Law and Justice, every manly
man in the world would applaud him
and, acting on jury. would acquit him.
| | further make bold to say that man
of his stamp: man who siugs woman
with what is worse than his fist or a
club, would not dare examine man in
the same manner.
It would be curious indeed, if we had
the trick to see it, barred in the presence
of Almighty God-it would be curious
Ito see this little wonanS life laid bare,
step by step and day by day, alongside
of that highly virtuous district attorney
of New York!
What an instructive spectacle It would
fpresent, even if Mrs. Thaw were as bad
las bad can be; for the worst woman IS
hardly as ban as the average man, and
would be infinitely his superior had she
i the supporting checks of responsibility
land self respect before the world te
hold her in place.
| Glorious Jerome!
| What a sweet-scented mustard pot hi
lis, to be sure!
/ There is not enough man IN HIM te
stiffen the tail of yellow dog.
Il feel ashamed personally that hi
wears pants and is of my gender.
I set it down that never, since th'
world began turning, has there been ;
man who would strike a woman wl1t
was not a coward in the depths OF hi
heart and who was not conscious tina
lhe was a coward, and 1t is obvious tina
he has done more than strike this de
fenseless woman.
| do positively wonder what NseV rs
York thinks of him!
| wonder how it feels toward him!
i | do wonder what it will do to him
Beautiful. glorious refromer!
There is not a Bowery thug of Tam
many who has not a more gent
|courtesy.
In a melodrarna he could be Kissed a
1.-THE villain.
THE AMERICAN DOLLAR.
In connection with this case, it IS If
teresting to speculate upon the curiou
and all-pervading and growing import
Iance of the American dollar.
Il If Thaw had been an humble lahore
and White bricklayer and Mrs. ha'
a Bowery chorus girl, never elevate
above the third line by wealth, we neve
) would have heard of this case.
} Millions of dollars of telegraphic to
have been spent in telling the nation
it.
Millions OF people are reading 1t.
The women are devouring It
3 The chastest editor is defending n
right his constitutional right to pril
Iit-every line of #.
A war with England could hard
evoke more print.
And why?
Is the case without parallel
@ Maybe, among the yeonlanry who
need to earn their daily bread keel
them too busy for the rehnements
: crime of which Mrs. Thaw charg
White
But there is many and many ca
lust as sensational transpiring alrno