Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-01-12


that one can kill and STAY on almost
any old provocation and be acquitted
on the grounds of emotional insani-
ty," and after his acquittal a lot of
hysterical old hens VIII gather around
the crime-tainted murderer and slob-
Der over him and ask God to bless
him because he has removed from
earth and its temptations one of tneil
own sex.
There must be something in the
psychology of woman the writer does
not understand, because how on cart
a sensible female can congratulate a
W ..iler on being acquitted for a
foul and bloody murder, is a mystery
too deep for infringement with pres
ent lights.
If this chap had gone and killed the
soldier for presuming to address his
wife, or had walloped the everlasting
wadding out of him with a moist elm
club, there might have been some rea-
son for gathering around him in buff
cochin convention and scattering salty
tears over his wardrobe, but the dirty
coward did not give the girl any
chance to explain; he simply killed
her, and his astute attorneys set up
the defense of emotional insanity. and
won out on it.
Meantime the woman is dead. She
will remain dead. Years may come
and years may go, age will follow age
and aeon will chase aeon through the
endless cycles, and she will still re-
main dead. She has been deprived of
the right to live the few short years
allotted to human kind, and her own
sex are making their noses red she'd
ding salty water because of their ex-
IRENE joy and collaboration at his re-
lease, while he is free to wed another
woman, and, if some fellow writes her
a letter, kill her.
We honestly believe if few fellows
afflicted with this sort of emotional
insanity could be executed, the all
ment, malady, or whatever science
designates it, would decrease ma
terally. That laddybuck was no more
insane than was Guiteau or Czolgocz.
Now that's right. This emotional in
sanity business is principally poppy
cock. And what's more, to use a COM
mon phrase, about nine-tenths of the
sensible people of this country, men
and women, know it is; and yet, in
the face of all the facts think of this
band of bonnetted blondes and bru-
nettes congratulating a man on escap-
ing the gallows for the killing of his
wife.
A woman is royal institution. She
Is good fellow everywhere you meet
her. AS a sister she is a precious
thing; as a sweetheart she is price
less in value; as a wife she is all the
world and then some. We could not
get along without her. She sews on
our buttons, she mends our clothes
she tides us up, she confides in us, she
bears our children-they are ours as
a general thing-and she is altogether
loveable and loving. But there are
times when she exhibits such degrees
of crankiness-w were going to say
cussedness-that we wonder if she is
not afflicted with what is now known
as bats in the belfry, and more than
once we have been tempted to express
the belief that she is, and would do so
II we were not afraid of the conse-
quences following such a rash declara-
ton.
But in the instance alluded to let us
make this statement-It wasn't
Schmidt who was afflicted with emo
tional insanity; it was the delegates
to that biddy soiree who were so
affected.-C. M. Jackson in State Jour-
nal.