Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-04-12
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EQual Suffrage
w 0uId Bring
w omen Jurors
ny DOROTHY DIN.

IN an address which he made a few
nights ago 10 the Grand Jurors aaso
citation. Judge Mulqueen said that his
reason for voting for woman suffrage
was that the women might relieve the
mon on grand Jury cases This, Judge
hulqueen declared, would correct man,
evils
A Daniel A second Daniel. come 10
Judgment
Judge Nulqueen Ia right one Of the
blessings that woman suffrage would be
atoW on The country would be 10 render
r IarRe body ~ citizens eligible for Jury
fserpice who would not only have the hbil
~ but TIE leisure IN which 70 properly
perform that civic duty
When the average man h drawn for the
jury n calls FOR such d sacrifice that he
y---~~ dos serving n he can possibly 10
30. IN ha IN clerk. his employer let's
him or with muttcrlnEs and grnmblinga
and no has always The fear Of someone
supplanting him IN his situation while he
N gone
n be ~ n business or professional man.
his absence from the store or office fof
week. or more may fost him thousands
~ dollars, and no matter how he tries
~ follow the lHtficacieH ~ chte. IN The
back Of his mind In always an anxious
worry over the probable mistakes that
bis employees are making while he N
gone
II In not because men are lacking lh
civic conscience thai they are i0alh ~
s"rTe on Iuriea bit simply because 10
the fierce competition Of The struggle
for existence thoy cant afford Il. The
average woman r. not N hard pressed
Bbe hnB plenty ~ the time that n not
money and rhe would be giad 10 do nor
BIT for her country By relieving men from
having 10 serve on jufiea.
IN every community there nre numbers
~ we'll on, nlddle-aged women locally
renowned FOR thhcir hard horpo sense
md tbef kind bGarts women who are
wise IN the knowledge of the human heart
md ripe ~ experience women ~ whom
everyone who Knows them goes for coun
Eel and Hdyico,
These women have raised their own
families and their hands are Idle. They
would make ideal Jurors who would bring
an unhufried lnw0rfied attention 10 tho
consideration Of case submitted 10 them
fhat IN impossible 10 men worried and
troubled about their own affairs.
L II has always been cynical little ie-
Rat iost That THE right Of trial by Jury
which guarantees 10 the offender against
iae aW the right 10 be tried by Jury
~ his peorr," dld not permit women on
lures.
Men universally assert that they have
never Leen able 10 lehrn even the a, b.
~ feminine psychology, md that woman
kind Ia riddle beyond their guessing.
Realizing this. mon juries generally
lust throw up their hands and give the
problem up when they are called upon 10
deal With woman criminal. and let her
20 scot free This gives us those traY
estes Of Justice That diBgraeG our courts.
4vhere, after tho prosecutor has spent
weeks of time and thousands Of dollnrs
IN growing a woman guilty Of some crime.
the jury brings IN verdict of mot guilty /
In the face Of overwhelming evidence 10
the contrary.
A woman Jury would correct this evil
woman jury would have no traditions
of gallGntry 10 uphold nor would II be
affected by the beauty Of the defendant
or consider that the possession Of blue
eyes and golden hair and wiilowy fiE
IRE gave lady q right 10 put poison
In her husbands coffee because she had |
fallen IN love with another mum
And woman jury would possess the
lnfalllble recipe for testing womana
tears and telling when they were genu-
Inc tears Of grief or repentance and when
crocodile tears.
Nor would women 1uries be unduly
. harsh to their sex They would simply
' understand Just what motives lay behind
every act that woman committed
They would simply Judge her intelli
gently, as men Judge another man.
That women should be on the juries
that try cases involving little children
and errfng girls "a self obvious. Mother
hood gives an intuition that II a sort Of
second sight IN these matters. and that
would enable a jury 81 women 10 dis
ranse Justice with the wisdom OF Solo
mon.
~ course the woman Jury 10 coming
III VIII be one Of the modern improve
menta ~ the near future, and then we
siaIi wonder. "a they 40 out west where
women vote and where they have the
woman jury. why we were silly enough |
90 Do without IL so long