The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-11-24
The Woman to Hang

woman's heart! Over in Connecticut they We
got jury of men who say they understand it, and
they say that Mrs. Bessie Wakefield shall be hanged.
But wise men concede that woman's heart is the
great unfathomable mystery All that's understood
about it is that it is the seat Of purest unsefshness
and strongest passion.
Who sacrifices self like woman9 Not man, nor
male of any species of animate things. Who dares
all, gives all under grip of passiOn9 Woman, and
nature, with intent decreed that it should be so.
Those IL men over at New Haven understand
woman well that they do not believe the young
wife and mother when she says that her passion for
her paramour put an .sevil genius in her heart and
made her irresponsible. They might have believed,
had she pleaded drink greed for gold But it was
just another instance, among millions, OF woman
giving her all, and man rarely believes that. Man
consoles himself over the inferiority of woman IS
brains, and hangs her if she gives way to govern
ment by that which shapes her life, her heart She's
his inferior in will responsibility take
her lfe If she yields to the power that makes her the
nobest of martyrs but that may go contrary to man.
made lawsl
Plew, the fellow who helped to murder Mrs. Wake
fields husband, had won the womans whole heart.
She isn't fit for the responsibility of making laws,
but the law steps in and says that in crime you
man, and you, woman are 'equals;" your brain
power, will power responsibity- on par and
you hang together.
Believe that IAN evil genius" possessed woman s
heart and made her irresponsible, made her risk ALL
descend to the very depths of hell itself? Certainly
not for where is the superior who would not cal
cuate, cover under the risks, and finally dodge all
responsibility, if he could2
There used to be-and is still extant, in parts-al
notion to the effect that wife should not be con-
cted of offense committed in the presence of her
husband. It based on the supposition that the
mans brains would exercise the power Of decision
and thus make him the responsible party, while the
woman heart would compel her to acquiesce in the
deed We're stronger the equality nowadays
Notwithstanding that have spent centuries in con
filming woman's action to impulses Of the heart
re not going to believe that there where
In powers of the heart make her at all irresponsible
The woman who gives all-husband, SELF reputation,
home and even child-shows signs of irresponsi-
bility, disarrangement of will power, and we'll
strange her the gallows beside the fellow who has
rsked only his miserable body and the clothes in
which it is clad.
They were not married. One-third of the court s
time is occupied in making mockery of marriage,
and about half of socetys time is engaged in the
same business.
For the first time since she had constitution,
Connecticut is face to face with the business of legal
ly killing woman The justice of the matter hinges
upon the understanding of woman's heart by al
dozen men, who, If selected as jurors usually are
chosen because they didn' understand much of
anything 1t is business to stir the pride of fends
in their own nobility.