The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-16
HUSBANDS CRIMES
AGAINST SOCIETY
Desertions Are Increasing
And Action Should Be
Taken.
MRS. LOGAN'S VIEWS.
ARE NOT OSTRACISED, BUT
ARE TREATED WITH LENIENcY,
FAMOUS WOMAN SAYS.
BY Mrs. John A. Logan.

Washington. Aug. 15.--One is shock
ed beyond measure at the innumera-
BILE cases of unfaithfulness on the part
of husbands who have hitherto been
reckoned among honorable members
of society. A recent instance. if the
newspaper reports be true, is especial
ly sad. A member of a prominent Phil
adelphia family married beautiful
young woman eight or ten years ago.
Two children are the fruit of this un-
ion. There has not been a breath of
scandal against this lovely wife and
mother. Now it is stated that the
husband has become enamored of an
other woman that he deliberately pro-
poses to settle 100000 upon the moth
er of his children and give her one of
the children if she will take up a resi-
dence in North Dakota long enough
to obtain divorce from him and leave
him free to marry the woman who has
robbed him of every sense of decen-
cy and honor. The fact that the wife
has gone to North Dakota to live for
the time being would indicate that the
report is correct.
If it is true this wronged wife has
made mistake. No woman, so be-
trayed and abandoned without provo
cation on her part. should for one
moment consent to anything that car
ried with it freedom to her faithless
husband. This is the one weapon she
has for her defense, and she should
hold fast to that for her own and her
H., =. ;r~t,1
ually see her husband recover his
senses and witness his keen remorGe
for his cruelty
Such examples of infidelity by per-
sons in high places have been followed
by others in the lower walks Of life.
1t seems worse for men who find it
difficult to make comfortable provision
| for his lawful family to undertake to
crafty the wicked caprices of sirens,
who have beguiled them from the path
of rectitiude and honor. The wives of
such men have usually been loyalty de-
voted to their husbands and children,
self-denying and economic in their do
nestle affairs, accepting their fate
with cheerful resignation, rarely know
| ing for long time that their husbands
were leading dual lives.
| That which is the most astonishing
in such cases is that men of intelli-
gence and self respect can be attract
ed by women of the character they
must be who would attempt to wean
them from their families. And yet,
when they are exposed they talk with
perfect effrontery of their escapades
and of the outrage" of anyone inter-
fering with their private business"
affirming that their relGtoinC are based
upon the love they have for each other
boldly declaring that when they are
freed from the matrimonial bonds
which forbid them to commit bigamy
they will hasten to be married.
Take the late case of one Hobson.
| When caught in New York with Mrs.
Pyle, the wife of another Washington
man, he is reported to have said:
Mrs. Pyle and l found we cared for
each other some time ago, and so,
when I was forced to take this little
business trip. she came with me. We
had both left our homes before we
met each other, and we didn't consid-
err either her husband or my wife as
any hindrance to our happiness"
Mrs. Pyle was indignant because her
trip to New York was referred to in
the newspapers as a lark. There's
no lark about it," she declared. This
is the most interesting and important
event of my life and upon the out
come depends my future happiness"
An interview with the abandoned
wife of Hobson revealed the fact that
she and her two little children under
five years of age had not known of
the husbands whereabouts for weeks,
or received a cent from him for their
support
Instead of such offenders against So
ciety being ostracised. they are treat
ed with leniency and many excuses ere
made for them, and IN all too many
instances the inoffensive wives and
husbands are accused of all kinds of
inhumanity and heartlessness. 1t is
incomprehensible that the authorities
are 10th to punish these viol2tors of
the laws of the sacred institution of
marriage which is the foundation of
morality and the most holy relation
OF life. Nine times out of ten the I'M
happy abandoned partners ere unable
to get any kind of rcoress and are left
to spend the remainder of their days
in melancholy reveries over TIE sacri-
flee of the best of their lives upon the
altar of matrimony.
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