Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-02-16
PRISON TERM FOR
A FAIR SNUCCL[R
ST|RS UP WOMEN
Jail Sentence Given to Mrs.
Roberta Hill Causes Suffra-
gets to Lodge a Formal
Protest.
CLAIM RIGHT TO sMUGGLE
Federal Judge Who Imposed
Penalty Is Sharply Called
Down By an Organi-
zation of Kickers.
CLAIM RIGHT TO sMUGGLE

New York, Feb Is. The Woman's
Press club. with 200 members. has
unanimously voted to send a protest
To Judge Martin. of the United States
district court, Collector Loeb and Pres
ident Taft against the sentencing of
two days in the Tombs for smuggling
into this country sable coat and jew
elry valued at $4,000.
Our blood is at the boiling point
Mrs. Wood. who is q lawyer said to q
reporter "and our protest is going to
be a very vigorous one. We are going
to carry it as far as we can 60"
The point upon which The club is
especially angry is that Il woman was
chosen to be the example. The MEM
bers say that If an example was neces-
sary, a man should have been chosen.
They characterize the Judges action
as extreme and unfair. although the
federal judges had given warming that
the next woman caught smuggling
district attorney had said that 80 per
cent of the smuggling was done by
women.
Men Worse, She Says.
81 doubt those figures very much.
Mrs Wood said "and if women do
very much smuggling III is in things
of small value. while the importers and
art dealers defraud the government OF
sums reaching the millions. For Il pail
try few thousand this woman is sen,
to Jail, while men who have brought
in hundred times as much have got
off,.
The Woman's Press club members
however, go much farther than THAI
They say women have moral right tc
smuggle and that no disgrace shoulG
rest on a woman who is discovered try
.,1, 1s.. in /.
cake of soap. or a bolt of lace wrapped
about her waist.
NO woman has ever been asked by
the lawmakers If she favored Il higl
tariff or low tariff" Mrs Wood CON
tinued, but she has to pay the dutie:
just the same. She has to pay unneces-
sarjly high Tr5ga, for everything shf
If that isn't taxation without repre-
sentation, will you tell me what it is,
Calls 1t Justified Rebellion.
I'VE resent having to pay these dutie:
and it is the same spirit in us tina
made our great grandfathers pitch the
tea overheard In Boston harbor.'
Though the protest was passed unan-
imously the decision was not reached
without argument, member told tho
reporter.
Some of the suffragists thought tina
as women claimed equality with men,
Mrs. Anna Barton said they SHOULD
not complain about Mrs. Hill having t
pay the same penalty as q man. 9th
ers thought it not fair. as she didn'
have a mans privileges. that she shoul'
have to undergo "A mans penalty.
"A woman is subject to vanity an,
the temptation to bring in some trifl'
that she likes is far greater than a MAJ
would feel. A man smuggles becaus
he has cold-blooded desire to defrau'
the government, but a young woman a
inexperienced as Mrs. Hill smuggles il
u moment Of weakness. 1t WAS crue
and unfair for the judge TO do wha
would blast the life of this young WON
an in many peoples eyes when 50 man.
men have been lei off with fines
Incentive to Revolution.
Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Barton said the.
were not unacquainted with Mrs. Hil
nor did amy member of the club knoy
her Their stand. tlley said, was en-
tirely upon principle.
Mrs. Hill ought TO be q revolution
list, almost an anarchist, when sh
comes out" a club officer said. "fhes
are The outrages that stir us UP am
that viii bring u LOT of trouble from u
l.,ter ON "