The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-27
No Excuse?
EDITOR THE TIMES:


i can't resist answering "A
Wife and Mother" in a last week.
Times.
Dear Wife and Mother, you
know not whereof you speak when
you say there is no excuse for a
married woman to fall.
Surprising you had IL instead of
three or four or even six little
ones, and were sick, and someone
turned you down because of your
social standing and some because
you were physically unable to
work?
Yes, you'd die first, If it we're
only yourself; SO would all moth
ers; but for baby's sake a mother
will live instead of die, and turn
to the ready tool, man, for her
money. She will not only sell
her body but her soul as well to
raise her babes.
A mother will suffer lot her
self, but she cannot bear to starve
her babies If she is really a
mother.
l take it you have never been
where there was nothing to eat
or do till your babies nearly
starved. If you had, you could
feel for fallen mother more than
you do.
Then, my dear, you say so many
choose fallen men. Yes, because a
girl has been started by love for
some one of them and got fooled,
she follows fallen men. You say
she even prefers the married
man.
Now, my dear woman, you feel
as il a mother does wrong to fall
for her babies lives, how about
these married men who follow
fallen women? Are they not much
worse than their fallen sisters?
They are married and only fall
for pleasures sake.
Aren't these married men that
fallen women prefer, twice lower
than the women? This only bears
out my first and second letter.
Men, single and married, are self
ish and excused by people like you
who can't see or won't, while the
girls are kicked little lower, and
that is what makes our under
world women, who lose all faith
lin humanity and even God HIM
self, sometimes.
You see yourself you condemn
the girl and say nothing about the
man. am a wife and mother,
but I've seen this suffering close
lily, and because one escapes and
comes through not marked by the
great beast, man, you must not
think your little world covers the
globe of suffering.
could tell you worse stories
than / have, but personality keeps
me from the telling, and so many
never would see 1t right in print
They would have to see the
actual life to believe 1t could hap
pen outside of dime novel; but
live seen stranger life than any
book | ever read.
Don't blame the fallen mothers
You too many come to 1t some
day If you are truly a mother
and never again blarSe the poor
girls in print as you did, and lei
those free and easy married men
who are running those girls as
|surely as you and I are living, &c
free. 1t is just such digs as that
which keep the fallen girl down
| The girl is kicked and the mar
leither patted on the back or lei
lgo without comment as you did
lStop and think. You may have
girl for some of those men, per
haps a married one, to ruin.
Think before you speak again
: for surely you cannot mean to put
down a woman and not mention
the man as worse than she; fol
, his is only pleasure at the expense
, OF his family. while the pool
woman or girl is so discouraged
, trying to get up the ladder, she
, just sits down and slides to tn.
, bottom, so to speak. Lift her up
7 instead Of pushing her down.
Il MAY.