Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-04-29
Women and Domestic Animals.

Bliss Carman in Golfers Weekly.
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Women and Domestic Animals
In the average happy human family,
the mothers rights are protected. Such
women do not need to appeal to courts
of law on their own behalf because they
already have privileges more than the
law would grant them.
Because this is true there are many
people in all classes of society who be
little the subject Of womans wrongs or
rights. They believe that woman is al
ready a favored individual and that she
has no wrongs of which to complain.
But we cannot judge the position of
woman by a superficial view of the more
f0rtunat@ woman. Just as the test of
ones physical health is the condition of
The weakest organ, so the test of Wom-
ans social right is the status of the
weakest woman.
Turning to the laws of California to
see how the personal liberty of women
is protected we find:
Penal Code, Sec. GOA. Every person
who. within this state takes any female
person against her will and without her
consent, or with her consent procured
by fraudulent inducement of misrepre-
sensations, for the purpose of prOstitu-
non 10 punishable by Imprisonment in
the state prison not exceeding five years
and a fine not exceeding $1,000.
One must notice that there is no mini
mum penalty. The offender may be
found guilty and get sentence of only
81 and one day. By section 4S9 of the
same code we fiEd:
Grand larceny is punishable by i'm
prISGnment in the state prison for not
less than one nor more than ten years.
And section 4S7 of the same code
includes among other thing in grand
larcency the stealing of a horse, mare
COW, steer calf or mule. For the
stealing Of these animals the offender
can get no less than one year imprison-
ment, and may get as high as ten years.
maximum penalty of five years for
stealing a woman and ten years for steal
ing a mule or a calf! Obviously. not a
very high valuation by California legis-
latorS of the women of their own nation
and race.
When it comes to daughters of a
neichDOring race the disparity in val
YES is greater and even more favorable
to the domestic animals; for by Sec. 266c
the penalty for selling a Japanese or
lhmeSe girl is Il fine of not less than
$1,000 or more than $1,000, or imprsOn-
mcnt in the county Jail not less than six
nor more than twelve months. Here the
legislature has reduced The Offense of
stealing a defenseless human being to a
miSdemean0r, punished only by a Jail
commitment, while the stealing of a calf
IS carefully kept ! felony and punished
10y a penitentiary sentence.
Nor is it of laws alone that women
need complain. For these laws weak and
meaGer though they are for the defense
Ut Womanhood. are seldom enforced.
he very sections above quoted are
almost dead letter on the statute books.
and the crimes of white slavery and
prostitution which they We're designed to
combat flourish. And the victims. to the
shame Of the civilization of today, are
The young, the ignorant the helpless.
Ihey are orphan girls and the daughters
of poor widows and of exploited work
hsmen. The greater part of them are
under the age of IS. Amos c. Warner
I'm his book, American Charities) says
mat among the girls who are victims of
evil institutions are the Predetermined
and those bordering on feeble-mindedness
Every one who has investigated this
EVIL, however different their points of
view, is agreed that those things do
not exist and could not exist except by
the protection of the police and poll
UcianS Of the cities. s. :. Mcclure
said recently that 80 per cent of the
women leading an evil life are held in
subsection by men who are helped by
ne police of our cities" And Inc
-L-id uNIEoplSL IN Il recent issue Sdlu
with the local courts the politician
Is al-powerful. He protects his own,
lAe surveyors Of vice, and the latter
furnish the votes by which the machine
Us Kept in power. Agnes II. Downing
Ill The Progressive Woman.
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Essentials and Non Essentials
There is in our land certain mother.
descendant Of that great and yirtuous
laniiy Of the Washingtons Of Mount
Vernon, who had thirteen children. each
one Of whom turned out healthy. happy,
hraTe and useful-to say nothing of he
-AE handsome into the bargain. People
were always looking on IN wide eyed
"iaa1ement, wondering how the miracle
was performed. To see that mother,
.A9 TO hear her talk. would lead one TO
uebeFe that the simplest and most nat
4I5I thing on earth was to have thirteen
sEiehdld children. A neghbor, passing
me mousse one day, heard such peals If
|"-ateF that she went in 10 see what
s"e run was, She found that the maid.
III bringing In the breakfast on a large
ray mad stubbed her toe and sent the
lay hylng. breaking all the best china
"" spreading the food all over the rug to
1 letnment Of both. But the maid and
iahd!y and the guests were all CON
used II that mother had been fluent
r-t "FtcuIate soul she would have said
'al good humOr was more important
Ian good china or good rugs, and that
L. rar.s !.