The Glenwood post., 1911-11-25
A. J. DICKSON, Editor and Proprietor
Saturday. November 25, 1911.
DO WE DEMAND A
SINGLE STANDARD !

Ask any of the hundred men yoj
meet if they believe in single stan /
ard OF morals for men aud women and
at least ninety of them will declare
that they do. And yet. DO they! Per
haps the men themselves believe or Try
TO believe their own statement when
they say they would place men and
women on an equality, but do they
really believe it, Facts and condi-
tions are forced upon rs every day -
prove that they do discriminate in
favor of the gentler se,,
\ woman on trial in the district court
last week was by a jury convicted of
serious criminal offense. This is tine
fourth effort of the district attorney
to convict this woman of larceny.
While the natter is not susceptible If
proof is there a person who heard the
testimony who will doubt that con
viction would have been secured in the
other trials had the defendant been 4
man?
Scarcely had the verdict been an
nounced than certain persons bestirred
themselves in circulating a petition to
the court, asking that a portion of tho
statutory penalty, the prison sentene,
he suspended. Does anyone imagine
that these persons or any others would
have interested themselves to this ey,
tent in behalf of any MAN convict
Another woman was on trial CHARGED
with Forging money order and. al
though she admitted the commission of
the deed with which she was charged.
Il lury of "twelve good men and true
this respect give the lie to our claims
that we believe in a single standard?
Think it over. What's the answer?
Is there anyone who doubts that this
Jury would have convicted a man on
the same testimony presented against
this woman? VIII anyone who heard
The evidence claim that anything less
than sympathy for poor. weak woman
prevented Htr cOnNlCllOnI
Watch the murder case of Gertrude
Patterson, now on trial in Denver, and
then say if you can that we place
woman on an equality with man. The
fact is, we dom do it and the Post is
not making any criticism against orr
failure to do so, but only calling atten-
ton to our failure to live up to what
we often claim.
All around us we hear the timeworn
statement that a woman has as much
right to the use of the ballot as has
man, and we readily ADMIT the state
ment as true We likewise declare that
woman has equal RIGHT with man
to smoke cigarette or a sinking ola
pipe, or use profanity or get drunk and
make beast of herself, and yet 10
some of us these things DO not appear
quite right. We will tolerate in a man
that which we severely condemn in
woman.
Many of us believe. whether from
trimming or heredity or from some other
cause, that woman is the sweetese and
truest and best half of humanity: we
step back and allow her to precede us
INTO the elevator, the postoffce ani
the car. We reserve for her the best
seats in the synagogue. On every hand
we do her Difference, and may the tima
never come when we shall be so lack
ing in chivalry that we shall abandon
the time honored courtesies, and. per
nit us to say in passing, that nothing
has done more to weaken mans respect
and rob him in measure of the chiv-
alrous attentions which he has so long
extended to the gentle sex than the dis
position of the woman herself to elbow
her way into the throng and engage In
the mad scramble while claiming her
RIGHT with man along political anj
commercial lines.
We have exalted woman and placed
her on pedestal of superiority and
that is largely the reason why to some
of MS crime, committed by woman,
committed by man, but even so we
dare not deny that when placed in a
position of pronouncing sentence there
is a strong, and apparently natural,
tendency to govern our actions IN
favor of the woman.
And that brings US back to the ques
tion at the head Of this article, "Do