San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09

was another proof of the high value
of the whip.
With the whip in the good old
days went all the incredible cruel
ties of the debtors prison, the fiend-
ish treatment of the insane, the un-
speakable filth and immortality of
the prisons. 1t is stated by histor-
ians that there probably never was
in the history of the world moro
horrible prison than the Newgate
prison in Connecticut which was
used for over so years. 1t was an
abandoned copper mine reached by
a ladder where the prisoners were
kept in dripping galleries with their
/. nccks chained to the roof and their
feet fastened to iron bars.
ENGLISH CRUELTIES.
We are taught in school a good
deal about the prison ships where
our forefathers starved, but we are
not told of these Sinsbury mines
where British prisoners and Tories
fairly rotted in the ooze. The Black
Hole of Calcutta was no worse.
/ never read of the whip without
thinking of the dumbfounding fact
that King George III Of England,
when he suffered temporary men
tai breakdown in 1910, was flogged
violently every day by his butler
for the good of his soul. And still
he did not get well, until a silly
sentimentalist of doctor came
along and treated him kindly.
But the, golden age of whipping
was in good old New England where
the pillory and the whipping post,
the stocks and the thumbscrew fur
nished thrill for which the chill
dren of today find a feeble sub
stitute in the movies.
They stripped and whipped men
and women necessarily. Governor
Winthrop describes how the whip
was used on a woman named Oliver,
in Salem, because she criticized the
magistrates and insisted on arguing
about doctrines that had all been
settled. When she was whipped:
"she stood without tying and bare
her punishment with masculine
spirit, glorying in her suffering. She
had a cleft stick put on her tongue
half an hour for reproaching the
elders"
Then there was Dorothy Talbye,
who went out of her mind, refused
meat and finally grew so bad that
the magistrates had her whipped.
Then she went quite mad and
broke the neck of her own child and
was duly hanged.
WOMEN WHIPPED.
The whip was always flying. I'm
pertinent or lazy servants were pub
licly flogged. Disobedient children
were at first ordered to be put to
death and when that failed, they
were ordered publicly whipped. They
were publicly whipped for staying
home from church and for calling or
walking on Sundays.
Immoral women were ferociously
whipped. In Massachusetts, hardly
a court day passed without such
punishments, yet, curiously, new
whippings had always to be ordered.
In 1907 in Plymouth woman
was set on the gallows, given 30
lashes on the bare back and ordered
TO wear an "A" for life. The man
in the case was acquitted. On the
other hand, when Elizabeth Burge in
1861 sued her husband for divorce,
she got the divorce and he terri
Bile flogging.
There were many divorces in those
days. In 1865 in Rhode Island, a
guilty wife was whipped with fif-
teen lasheS in one town and fifteen
more the next week at Newport.
In Virginia mary women were
whipped for loose conduct. Their
partners ordinarily escaped with a
reprimand.
But the most frightful whippings
were those inflicted on the most
harmless of people, the Quakers.
Once they whipped three women
through eleven villages, carrying
them from each village to the next
through such cold that the blood
froze on their naked backs.
QUAKERS ARE WHIPPED.
One of these three was a quaint