The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-04
NEWS; VIEWS AND
eossIP SoIF NEW YoRks.
BY Glenn euernssy. {.


Providence 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 wash
ed in public. All the nauseous details
of this famous intrigue of degeneracy
will be rehashed and the public will
be afforded another opportunity to
reyel in the poronographic particulars
of "high life" in the millionaire set
of New York and Pittsburg.
The history 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 STAY
ed his rivar with a jagged stone was
the ancestor OF Harry Thaw, whose
famous proclivities found their nat
ural expression in murder. unpreju-
diced psychologists who have made a
study of Thaw consider him, not a
mailman from the medical or legal
standpoint. but "reversion to type"
In the primitive man religion. love
and murder-lust were almost. If not
quite identical passions. Harry Thaw
is primitive, only thin veneer of
civilization separating him from
the cave man. He loved Evelyn Mes
bit with the mad passion of owner
ship. He killed White with as little
thought Of right or wrong as would
have entered the mind OF his naked
ancestor. Thereby he believed he had
pleased his God. He considered him
self the chosen avenger of Providence.
Harry Thaw is not an immoral man.
He IS merely immoral. With the bru-
tai passions OF primitive man, tenn
pered only slightly by intellectual
culture. he has spent his life in seek
ing satisfaction for his desires and
has never considered the cost. He is
a natural anarchist. or the philoso-
phic anarchy which evolves systems
of seIf-government and which has nom
invasion as the principal 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
governments and laws and ethical
systems which teach repression and
regard for the rights Of others. AS a
naked barbarian, living in a cave, eat
ing snakes and roots, loving brutal
~ and killing without conjunction
those who attempted to balk the sat
isfaction of his primitive desire he
would have been huge success.
There is n pornography of blood
lust as we'll as love.lust The worldly
wise editors Of sensational newspa-
pers understand this and are prepar-
ing to satisfy the popular demand for
romance and crime and nameless hor-
ror even more fully during the COM
ing trial than at the first. The de
mentia Americana" of the New York
populace, civilized to point where 1t
does not dare to do the crimes of
which it loves to read. will have a
surfeit.
cr,.,ce of American Women.
oounIo ~ woe1,s ago made cas-
r,1 n,ontion IN those dispatches of
~ harasv 90 NJ Alexandra 1rlar edi.
80 80 1oo1tnr porisfan newspaper
,rho nrh,ic1v declared that American
romnn ara loss charming and lovely
nan those Of France At the time I
was 5isnoso1 to bc charitable, hoping
ma When Al 1rlor Ind been afforded
onnortrrttv for = more thorough in
snec+,o, ba might change his opinion.
,Incn r. mv sorrow he remains IN.
roron+ant
rr1ao1 n Mar has added another
,.h,rr, ~ his Indictment Of Ameri-
a., women If This French rhiloso-
nher - to he bcIicyea-ana, Of course,
ha isn't-the females Of Uncle Sans
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