The Columbus journal., 1910-03-16

he who tries to disrupt BY villifyings
wife does 50 At his own peril.
And 50 . lawyer Of distinction writes
me from Montgomery, saying. 81 heard
the Rev. Dr.. Torrey's remarks about
you and your family. 1 also have the
stenographic report ofhs sermon, and
the Newspaper clippings. The langu.
age is certainly actionable, and l am
1t your service if desired, without fee,
in order If possible to teach these pul.
pit blatherskites . lesson"
Oh, no, I'm not going to kill Torrey
much lsss does my wife have designs
on his ecclesiastic carcass.
If there were . shade of truth in his
vaporipgs, We might go after him. but
We leave him to the devil in which he
believes, and tn the hell he breaches;
and We ourselves thank the good God
that when We paas from this life to an.
other, We shall not 60 to the same
place where 10 located the Rev. DR..
Reuben Archer Torrey, Reviler and
Traducer Of WomanhoOd.
Just in passing let me say, no one
who ever saw Alice Hubbard and
heard her voice, ever believed Ill of
her. much leas did they use any one Of
the awful words which this alleged
servant of God filings in her direction.
Alice Hubbard is reaching out for
her fiftieth birthday. The gold o. her
hair has turned to silver; deep lines Of
thought and experience farrow her
plain but honest face. She has lived
an earnest, active and useful life.
From childhood, without rest or respite
she has been . workers. wage Garner.
She is . woman of intelligence, aud is
today one of the worlds great women
workers.. She il . writer, . teacher,
the superintendent Of q factory, and
the manager Of . hotel. Every Sat
urday she looks . pay roll Of over
three thousand dollars, square in the
eye. She is a creator and . builder.
How cheap and silly for . man who
does NO useful thing, who lives on the
labor Of others, to revile . woman of
this type-a woman with grown up
children, whose life is devoted to
human needs, and whose heart goes out
to the whole world in blessing!
Especially does Alice Hubbard
think other own sex in desire to give
them the freedom Of opportunity which
the mothers of the race deserve. She
is . woman who knows the great and
good who have lived and worked and
loved, and often subliinely failed and
nobly died. A woman who loves the
memory of Froebel. the friend Of chill
dren, and lives in the spirit with Eliza
beth Fry. Susan B. Anthony and
Ralph Waldo Emerson, cannot be
reached by the malodorons lyddite sent
forth from the lying lips Of Torrey, the
evangelist.
A few weeks ago Billy Sunday was
horsewhipped in the pulpit for villify.
ing womanhOOd. There were some big
wells raise,l Oh the evaDgelistic legs,
but it is doubtful If the lesson will
short.stop the Reverend Billy from
continuing his libels on the race.
The man who stung him up with
buggy whip had no right to do 50. and
was promptly given term in Jail. A
remark made by the judge who sen.
fenced him is worth quoting: while
it is doubtless true that this defendant
and bis wife have both suffered from
being wrought upon through religious
emOtionalism, there Was no excuse for
his assaulting Mr.. Sunday. The de-
PENDANT has here stated that Mr.. Sun.
day has reviled the women Of this
town. Granting for arguments sake
that this were true, It gives no man
excuse for forgetting law and order.
Had Mr.. Sunday reviled some partic.
ular woman to her shame aud dis.
grace, there might then be some ex
cuse for some particular man to come
to her defense. As it is. the defendant
should be punished"
The Rev. Walter Holcombe was
recently fined five hundred dollars for
using insulting language toward .
woman in his audience. The woman
was . worthy wife and mother. The
Georgia court Of appeals confirmed the
sentence, and said among other things:
even though the woman were . per-.
son of i'll repute, the law protects her
from insult and assault"
The ingenious Maspis.