The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-16
AFTER ONE NIGHT IN JAIL
4 GIRL COULD NEVER REFORM,
SAIS Az OUSTED MATRON.
Queens County Oneials Mere DebanchlnG
Prisoners Three Wears Age, Accord
Inc 90 mary DOnnelIy THO ''sInEIe
STANDARD and the PAGE Law.

Prisoners Three Years Age. Accord
Inc 90 MARY DOnneIIy the single
standard" and the Page Law.
Two hundred men cheer~d Dr. Maude
Glasgow last night in Madison square.
when she shouted at them from the top
Of ladder. Col Roosevelt when he was
Police Commissioner OF this city gave
orders that men as well a. women should
be arrested In houses OF ~ Tepute lie
said that IL any preference was To he
shown he would rather the women should
60 free and the men bc punished
/ What kind Of a Legislature il it, she
went on. that SUBJECTS onH-hah OF It's
citizens 20 = degradation from which
they can never recover You snow that
| arm referring tn tho iniIuiious law in
reference To- the examination 81 women
brought into the night court. measure
which even II rigidly enforced. - practi-
cally ineFec'ull a. n prnteC1in ION TO public
health. while i've existence upon our
statute looks g., an insult 20 American
womanhood
-Res~ che sneaker yelled a man adj
vancinG rapidly but unsieadily toward
the lidder He was dragged away Ivy q
policeman
The crowd listened a;tentivelv Will.
DR.. Glasgow 'old them that cnc.fourth
81 the women IN IN" city were earning
their living and that in many cases the
so-called living was mere pitiance.
Tan you blame these girls. who are
half starved and who haven't one penny
10 spend on the pleasures Of life. II they 90
wronR'' she demanded. Are Won going
to 80 humil,ate and degrade a girl hruugit
into court Tor "A nrSt offence tnat the OBJ
portuniiy for decent life - lost To her
forever Don't you know that the sv--
TEN followed IN night court under this
.ntnmops Page law brands the poor
creature DO you men who havrdaugh-
ters as we'll a. sons want To see these poor
girls tortured while tue men who are
responsible for their fail 20 free
No shouted several Voice
This double standard Of morality
must be wiped out. went on the speaker
4 believe that " we had the Initiative
and refsrer dun YOU men would vine
u out a. far ~ the laws are concerned
IL IL Noticeable and II ~ something that
the women ~ this country won't endure
much longer
with our heads In the sand When We ask
for the vote We are iecred ~ because 81
our unfortunat. sisters We are going
TO ignore them no lonRe. IN ~ Won men
who are responsible for th~ir downfall
II shall he our portion TO lift them ur The
first thing Ne mast get for them - Justice
and We are going 20 get II
oud Orps % That's good -~ha's
right weT" teard a. the speaker de-
sCend-d the ladder
Dr Anne panieis Of no Woman
InS-uary. who was chairman 81 tho
meeting. then introduced Miss Mary
ponnelly. a militant sufras.'t"
am hare 'o-nigh' very reluCtau'Iv.
Miss Dpnnelly said y ecaus" I thuug
~ my duty 10 tell You \ few facts FROM NY
own personal "NpHr,r.Irn Three wears
ago ! Was natron ~ u" hu""r- county
Jail VAS dIs"ha ed aud nv name
was tax an m the civil -aVyi,. lIsf h,.raus.
| sought ~ protect tie girs VINO wsrc
brought IN there from the pi.trages per-
petTated upon them b., ~. prison o4iCiaI-
L assure you -Olemnly that reforma tod
was impossible for any girl after she han
spent one night in the Queens county Jail.
II wasn't jail az Az u was "a dive
Not only did offiC, = II IA" prison degrade
the women prisoners Wh8 wai. Al -p.'It".v
IN their power. but they pu' N" poor
creatures AZ the dispose " the ,u1I.
one g'ri tod ~" that -Eo had he"u q nai
Eir whom a." wa brought th"-". bat
Z hat she had never known fu' r. ~. So
much wIck"dn~-- ~ 'G. world - -lH
had son Their" And v-t - - only thu
women who are punished ruisr our
Laws The real cr.m nal, g. Nrp' free
Mis- MargAre' Johnston . Young
English woman engaged m phitntaropic
W0rS, Dr Jane Berry " the Women
Prison Association and Mis- Olive Pear
Il lso made speeches