The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

marriage, a joyless life, a loveless life;
the tempter enters, and she falls. 1t is
the story Old as humanity, told first
in the Garden of Eden. People never,
never can learn the lesson that is con-
| nected with the tale. The tempter en-
tered. and she fell. She fell because
he taught her to love; and to woman
love is life. Love comes TO woman
with the first breath that she draws.
Love clings 20 woman until her eyes
are closed in death, and her spirit
passes to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns" For love woman
will spurn wealth. For love woman
will cast down position. For love wo-
man will abandon everything and all.
And this strong man swept her from
her moorings, taught her to love him,
taught her to cling to him, and she
fell. And let him that is without sin
cast the first stone at that poor little
woman.
Mr.. Baker, object to that, if the
court pleases, as not a proper argu-
ment.
Mr.. Powers.-That is the Bible.
The Court think il is a proper re-
ply TO the argument made on behalf of
the government in the opening. That
took a somewhat wider range, perhaps,
than the issues; but I think it is a
proper reply to the criticisms made up
on her.
Mimi Broken by Love.
Mr. Powers-I insist that we must
consider these things, because we con-
tend here that we have one whose mind
become broken-that we must of ne
cessity consider the intensity of her
love, the intensity of her devotion, the
manner in which she fell. This is not
a story where a wicked woman worm
ed herself into the household of an
other. 1t is a story of one admiring
the abilities, the intellectually. the po-
sition of another, of one herself natur-
ally ambitions. and she fell-fell as
many another woman has fallen before
her. This was no gilded drama, set
about with pictures of the rarest kind.
This love was not nurtured amid the
electric lights of the great white
way" 1t contained no dancing girls.
1t was not born amid the champagne
sparkle. For she was not a wanton.
She was not a woman that was filled
with greed. She was not one that was
controlled by avarfce. She fell be-
cause she had >the love in her heart of
woman who must love or else pine
away. And the man who won her was
strong and dominating, a peculiar man,
holding, as have suggested, high po-
sition; and he tied her to him. He
bound her TO him as with links of steel.
Like Svengali, he compelled her to
obey his every thought, his every
word. He bound her until she felt,
whittier thou goest, there must ! CO."
She in fact became to him q bond
woman, knowing her shame, yet turn
ing always to her master. She was
bound to him 50 closely that she had
nowhere else to turn.
Wearing the Scarlet Letter.
They ask you, Why did she not
leave that man? Why did she not take
some other cOurse?" He led her on I'M
til society turned its back upon her
until, as she says. she had nowhere else
to turn. He was all the world to her.
He had taught her to believe that. She
was his bondwoman. You saw that
woman here upon the witness stand.
And no doubt that wonderful romance
referred to so eloquently by my distin-
guished and eloquent friend (Mr.
Wells) was brought to your attention,