The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-26
May Replies
EDITOR TILE TIM

Let me answer the letter from
lone Who Knows Some of Them"
I take II she is woman, for
no sane woman of today would
make such a remark, so l will an
swer both as such.
Now, Miss One Who Knows
Some of Them, perhaps you are
sincere in your idea and have es-
capped the sharks yourself; but l
dare those men to take oath they
tell the truth and ask them to say
they never said word out OF the
way to girl or woman, or at some
time from the age of 10 years to
the present time have not ruined
some girls or woman's peace OF
mind II not actually left them with
a little child to guide.
II they haven't it's all God
goodness and no fault of theirs.
Although you have escaped their
clutches, some poor, loving, con-
fiding girl innocently paid the
price to everyone of those men,
for love she never got. | may be
wrong, ! do not know those few
men personally; but ! would al
most wager my own soul against
their honesty if they say their pas
siOns and lust never got the better
hand of them and won some to
love them, and then they deserted
the love they won; and so i say
no sane woman would say such
stuff should never be printed, SO
it must have been man and he
put the shoe on that | fashioned
for just such men, and it pinched,
so he squelched that such styles
were ridiculous.
Some time he has wronged
some one and he was afraid II
such stringent laws were passed he
would have to pay as well as the
poor girl he betrayed and left. l
am nearly 40 years old, am mar
ried 81 years, and have had IA
children, three of them girls. Two
of all these are living. They are
boys, and If such laws are passed
they must pay If they wrong any
woman or girl; but ! say If they
do not use women and girls with
respect, why shouldn't they pay
the price, too, although it would
break my heart nearly to see both
suffer so. ] have seen little coun-
try towns, big country towns, little
cities and big ones.
I've been in a position to know
the rich, the poor, the old and the
young, as well as the underworld,
and | say ! do not think that any
man reaches 81, sometimes young
err, but what some girl or woman
has paid the price of his pleasures,
expecting love only to get fooled.
don't care who they are. Even
the preachers are not innocent.
Some time in their lives they, too,
must answer for their sins to
women.
You say shame on me for say
ing it so broadly about all men;
men say it's a shame to say such
things of men; but we women are
only learning from men to point
the finger of scorn at the fallen
men as they do at fallen women,
and they don't like to take the BIT
ter pills they have been mixing.
If they are not guilty, they will
not care what law is passed, or
what is said, but uphold 1t to abol-
ish such sins and wrong. If they
are guilty, / say let them suffer
as all women have been suffering
for ages. We have been paying
all along, now turn the tables and
let the men pay awhile, and IL
won't be so very long that they
will pay. They are towards, gen.
orally speaking, in this respect.
While you speak from the heart
what you believe of your few, I
say you haven't seen their inner
most hearts and behind the door
actions. Beware how you trust,
for some day your eyes will be
opened and 1t will hurt nightly
when they open IL you keep such
faith as you have now. for / can
personally bring people, women of
all classes who suffered for love of
a man, in hundreds, from coast to
coast, just like the lives I printed.
If there be few innocents, God
be praised, for they don't need to
worry, but not for the few should
the many go free. / say, let there
be law to protect our women and
girls. It's only the guilty who
will squeal cts too much to pay"
it's no more, only different, than
women have paid for ages. This
may be pretty strong for you, un-
learned in the ways of men, and II
may be too strong for the public
in general; but ! believe just all
I've said. that all men over 81
years old have wantonly ruined
some young girl or woman some
where, somehow, in their lives,
even though they appear so inno-
cent to you.
Beware, / say, for the most in
nocent appearing sometimes are
most dangerous. Now | have a
husband, two sons, two brothers
and q father living, and also a
mother and four sisters. But still
say, Let men suffer as we wom-
en- have always had to, and as they
deserve" IL they are not guilty
they are all right; If not Gas !
truly belieye thew are nOt) let