The daily sentinel., 1908-01-04

vidence intervenes to save us from
our fate, New York will have a .'blue
Monday" next week, when the dirty
linen of the Thaw-White case will
again be dragged forth and washed
in public. All the nauseous details
OF this famous intrigue of degener-
ICY will be rehearsed and the pub
lie Afforded another opportunity to
revel in the pornorgraphic particu-
lars OF '.high life" in the million
aire set of New York and Pitts
burg.
The histroy of love has been writ
ten in blood as well as in books
since history began. The cave man
who wooed his wife with a club and
Stayed his rival with jagged stone
was the ancestor of Harry Thaw.
whose generous procliyities found
their natural expression in murder.
Unprejudiced psychologists who
have made a study of Thaw consil-
er him. not a madman from the me-
deal or legal standpoint, but re-
erslon to type.
In the primitive man religion. love
I'D murder-lust were almost. If not
llite, Identical passions. Harry X.
Thaw is primitive only a thin veneer
If civilization separating him from
fliC cave mal. He loved Evelyn
Nesbit with the mad passion of own
ership. He killed White with as lit
tlo thought of right or wrong as
would have entered the mind of his
raked ancestor. Thereby he believ-
ed he bad pleased his God. He con-
sidered himself the CHOSEN avenger
of Providence.
Harry Thaw is not an immoral
man. He is merely immoral. With
the brutal passions of primitive
man, tempered only slightly by in
tellectual culture. he has sepht his
| life In seeking satisfaction for his
desires and has never considered the
cost, He is natural anarchist. or
the philosophic anarchy which ev-
Olives systems of self-government and
which has non-ir,vasion as the prin-
cipal feature of Its creed. the man
OF the Thaw type knows nothing.
Thaw was born too late. He has
no place in an age given over to gov
ernments and laws ard ethical sys-
TENS which teach repression and re-
gard for the rights of others. AS n
| rl H.,
eating snakes and roots, loving bru-
tally and killing without compunct-
ion those who attempted to balk the
satisfaction of his primitive desires.
he would have been huge success.
There is pornography of blood
lust as well as love-lust. The world
II ly-wise editors of sensational news
papers understand this and are pre-
pairing to satisfy the popular de
| mand for romance ard crime and
nameless horror even more fully dur
ing the coming trial than at the first
The ''dementia Americana" of the
New York populace, civilized to- a
point where 1t does not dare to do
the crimes of which 1t loves to read
Will have surfeit
Critics of American Women.
A couple of weeks ago l made cas-
ual mention in these dispatches OF
the heresy of NJ. Alexander Ular
editor of leading Partisan newspa.
| per. who publicly declared that
American women are less charming
and lovely than those of France. Al
the time | was disposed to be char.
table, hoping that when NJ. Ular ha
been afforded opportunity for a more
thorough inspection he might chang,
his opinion. Much to my sorrow he
remains unrepentant
Indeed NJ. Ular has added anoth.
; er charge TO his Indictment of Amer
q lean women. II this French phil
osopher Is to be believed-and. o
! coures, he isn't-the females of I'm
Gle Sans lands are heartless nirts
Illustrating this assertion NJ. Ulai
said;
You have seen cat play with
mouse-cajole it, caress It softl,
with her paw. worry it through ev
cry stage of hope and despair ant
finally break its backbone with hei
teeth. That is what the American
woman does with a man-oLly sh,
breaks his heart instead of merel,