New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-31
Psychologists Discuss This
Attitudes Some Say Men
Have More Sentiment
tally Than Justice.

was executed because she implicated ih
Lincoln's death yet she was only an accessory
before the fact. The conspirators met IN ner
house and she was not spared because she was
a woman, nor should she have been. Occasion
ally men are carried away by sentiment ana ie'
women of then they hold that rare case up 70
women for years afterward to show how gen
erous they are The old-fashioned man VINO
INDUCES in maudlin sentimentality about spe-
cial privileges for women is usually the FRS, TO
cheat her in business. | am strong tor women
but am stronger ior justice. If women have
a voice in lawnaking they won't need any spe
cial privileges. They will take care OF them
selves The crime against Edith Caven was
not in executing her, but in the fact that She
had no voice in the laws that governed her.
Miss Lillian Wald. head OF the Henry Street
Settlement, also regards the matter from
broad humanitarian view.
"On the whole said she, the killing OF
Edith Cavell is just part OF the general horror
and may be classed with the invasion OF Bel
GUM and the sinking OF the Lusitania
We are shocked to our marrow by the loss OF
this splendid woman, this valuable nurse who
is as highly esteemed here as in England, and
who cared for Germans as well as her own
people Now, if she merely, as faithful, COM
petent nurse, helped prisoners escape, that is
part OF the tenderness and compassion OF
nursing. and there isn't a woman living who
would not have done the same. But ii she was
engaged by the government as spy, that is
different matter. She took her chances and
she should not have escaped because she was
a woman Which was the case do not know.
| do know that whatever the reason for her
death, whether it was justified or not by the
laws of war, it is one OF the most convincing
proofs that war should be abolished"
Like many other sufragists Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch reads into the Csvel case an
other argument for equal rights
The Juror of the men over the Cavell case
is pure hysteria" she said They hang, they
electrocute, they shoot women in this country.
One group objects only when another group
does it, When il comes their turn, they are
quite ready to execute women, with whom they
are always willing to share their suferings, but
never their powers.
Women can't sidestep res. visibility because
they are women" said Miss Henrietta Rodman.
War is not woman's expression-that is the
only argument against the execution OF Edith
Cavel"
During this war Germany has committed
three appalling outrages, which, from every
point OF view, are also three appalling blunders
the invasion of Belgium the destruction of
the Lustana, and the execution Of Edith Ca
VEIL" said Miss Elizabeth Jordan. of Harper
G. Brothers. "She has tried to justify each OF
these, and in every attempt she has shown 10
Mortified world the vulnerable spot in her
mighty armor-the quality which, great as She
is, must lead to her ultimate defeat
No nation which performs and defends such
actions can long survive; no such nation can
triumph over the civilized peoples OF the earth.
For Germany is undermining her own social
structure as we'll as the worlds; she is tearing
away from beneath her the splendid foundation
of civilization and high ideals which her own
people built That the many high-minded and
heroic Germans should suffer for the blindness
and plumbers OF the few is the real tragedy Of
the Fatherland."
Other expressions are;
Judge Ebert II. Gary:
My opinion is that Miss Cavell made herself
amenable to military law and gave the Ger
mans the right to put her to death, but also
think that, as she was a woman and believed
herself to be working in good cause, it would
have been better if her punishment had been
less.
Alice Hill Cht;enden of the Anti Suffrage
Association:
Certainly the execution OF Edith Cavell was
by no manner of means justified. Women
from the point Of view OF sentiment are en-
titled to certain privileges of protection
Miss Alberta Hill, of the Woman's Political
Union:
From the point OF view OF sentiment the
execution of Edith Cavel was not justified
but it has at least refuted the argument OF the
ants that in time OF war women cannot die
for their country"
Dr. Stephen S. Wise:
technically justihable. | am presuming that
the German law dealt thoroughly by Miss
Cavell. II So one must be sorrier for the
spirit that informs and executes German law
than for Miss Cavell"
Mrs Arthur M. Dodge, president OF the
Anti-Sufrage Association:
Capital punishment should only be melted
out to women if it can be proved that they are
danger to the community ard cold-blooded
criminals Otherwise, from the viewpoint OF