The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-07-16
POINTS OF VIEW.

Men who oppose giving the ballot
to women make a great miration,
as Uncle Remus would say, about
their inability to be soldiers and to
serve intelligently as jurors.
Just as if large proportion of men
are not exempt from both these i'm
portant duties and as if there were
not plenty of things women can do
to aid in the defense of their coun-
tries beside enlisting as soldiers.
AS to serving on juries and de-
Gliding what should be done with muir
derers just think of the record men
have made in such matters
Some time ago the Savannah
Morning News, commenting on the
fact that female murderers had only
to shed few tears and declare they
had either been goaded to fire the
fatal shot or had done so accidentally
to be freed by men jurors) gravely
declared women could kill men with
impunity
Not long ago Mrs. Cora Harris
published a story in Good House
keeping entitled Justice 1t in
Guided accounts of two murders, one
in which a man killed his wife and
the other in which a woman killed
her husband.
The man came home drunk and
was so Infatuated at finding his wife
asleep and his supper cold, that he
killed her unintentionally while try
ing to punish her so severely for go
ing to sleep before bedtime that she
would never do so again.
When he realized his wife would
never awake from the sleep into
which he had driven her by cruel
blows, he ran away in an effort to
escape punishment.
RE was found, tried ana sentenced
to death, entirely on circumstantial
evidence, and his fate was consider
ed as fully deserved
The woman who killed her hus-
band was a mother of two little
children and she had suffered all
kinds of cruelty and injustice from
their father One inexcusable act
was the selling of the farm his wife
had inherited from her parents and
spending most of the money upon a
worthless woman. Finally the wife
killed her husband and then surren-
dered herself to the sheriff and con-
fessed her crime. She was defended
by woman lawyer and was declared
not guilty by jury of men.
If woman kills man it is in
self-defense and is justifiable horai-
cide-almost without exception.
AS for the logical masculine mind
weighing evidence, take this in
stance, from a Sunset magazine
story: There was a rustic Shyiock
so years old, trying to marry an Is
year old girl and at the same time
acting as a night-rider in Disguise
buying cotton at ten cents a pound
The man was named Schoonover and
the girl Steger.
When the night-riders called Mr.
Steger into the yard he yelled to hi.
daughter to bring a gun and the CIR
rushed to the door and began to firt
"A caliber pistol into the crowd
Schoonover fell dead, shot through
his neck, and his companions remov,
ed his disguise and fled leaving him
alone. The evidence, although il
was circumstantial, proved Miss Ste
ger shot the man, but the foreman
of the coroner's jury said
my notion isl don't know how
you other gentlemen look at it-but
I've got bunch that no lii girl like
10 Steger could hit man with j
gun. That's my idea, gentlemen II
don't seem to me, Mr.. Coroner, like
it would do a-tall for a jury of hus.
bands and fathers to go out of this
room and home and tell their wives
and daughters that they had found a
young girl guilty of shootin a man
even by accident, and no matter how
much he deserved it. No sir, don
think so. Consequently l don't be-
lieve 10 done it. Did you examine
the deceased careful, Doc? That
black horse Schoonover rode was a
mighty ornery animal and its my no.
ton that he done run away and