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THE SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD THE WHIPPING POST place in the conduct of a civilized people. Let us The Seattle Mail and Herald HAT very ably edited weekly journal, The not seek to go back to it, else we shall lose that T Argonaut, is a champion of the whipping post which we have acquired in moral stature. Published Every Saturday at 484-6 Arcade Building, Seattle. as a fit means of punishment for wife beaters, and thugs. We quote the following from its editorial WHY NOT AN ELEVATED ROAD TO QUEEN ANNE? By Mail-Herald Publishing Co. (Inc.) pages, for the purpose of criticism: OW that there is some considerable talk of N new stret car franchises, how would it do for Since the whipping-poat has received President i, CORA BLISS NAGEL Editor and Publisher vili's endorsement as a fit punishment for the wife-beater some one to apply for a franchise to build an ele C. E. BOWMAN Associate Editor and the thutr. there have rallied to the support of moral vated street car line from some point in the busi suasion all the hosts of the aesthetics, the timid, and the ness center of the city to the top of Queen Anne super-civilized. From New York to San Francisco we are Telephones: MAIN 1385. IND. 946. being told that it is a return to barbarism, that flogging hill? Here is an investment for some one to make is a relic of the dark ages, that to whip a man for beating that would pay right from the start. tv is simply to bring her into disgraceful promi- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: and enrage the victim of the municipal eat to What the people of this splendid residence dis Twelve Months $1.00 Three months $ .25 murder. High heaven is called upon to frown down trict especially need as an aid to further progress Six Months 50 Single Copies 05 this horrible thing, and to rebuke the President, who has given a bo ivagry. Judges, commissioners, and and development of their district is a more rapid officers of charities have lifted up their voices in protest. transportation lo and from business. This need Entered at the Seattle Postofflce as second-class mail With all respect for the eminent authorities against matter. Mr. Roosevelt's and the Argonaut's contention, their can best be met by the building and equipment arguments are flubdub, froth, and wind. If flogging a ot an elevated road that shall, in running, make thug Is barbarous, how about hanging a murderer? Is it a reversion to savagry to whip a man who has broken but few stops between Pike street and the top of a ehair over his weak wife's back? If mere Imprison the hill. It ought to he that one could be taken Editorial Notes ment has no terrors tor the sand-bagger, arc we to let bin' go seott free because it offends us to hear him cry from his home on the hill to ihe business center out beneath blows? in ten minutes' time. This would add materially Senator Piles had better look for pins in that As to its bringing the family of the whipped man into to the desirability of a home in Ihat district. There senatorial chair before he sits clear down. disgraceful prominence, will it do so more than having the neighbors aroused by ms of his wife? \s is an abundant population now residing on this to its enraging the whipped man to the grosser crime of hill to make the running of such a line profitable That spot on the sun may be one of those awful murder, as Judge Scott, of the District of Columbia right at the start, and within a year it would be r fears, are we to think that the man who fears for his swear w ords of Senator Foster's stuck fast. hide will not also rear for his neck? Shall we omit to greatly increased by such an opportunity for quick punish fitly a vile linst mora trips to and from business. Here is a first-class for fear the miscreant may straightway go and c a greater? It is all very well to say: "Put the wife- opportunity to gel a franchise and build a road Argentina has revolted once more and the dove on the rock-pile and let him earn bread for his that will be worth millions of dollars in Ihe future. family." There is but one way to scorch the nerves of a of peace has another feather or two in its nest. man who strikes cowardly blows: strike bin- hi Who will take it? Those affairs are very exciting. Where the cowed and groaning woman can only cower and groan, let the strong arm of the public officer lay on stripes that will avenge the woman's hurt and make the THK PROPOSED LIBEL LAW beast writhe in his foul agony. There are some things in this world we can not blink. T is said thai a few of the members of Ihe slate Portland is still busy indicting her best citizens We must have laws to dictate and officers to BXi I islaiure have such a bitter feeling against for every crime in the calendar from manslaughter We all of us regret that murder is prevalent, We are sorry that men steal and rob and default. Hut we owe the press of the stale that they desire in Insistently to horse stealing. At this rate they will be com a duty to society, and that duty is to put away our urge the passage of the Pennsylvania libel law pelled to import a few men to run their fair. timidity and dread of causing suffering, and teach the through both houses at this session. This is c ir criminal that when he oversteps the law. he steps into trouble which he will never again voluntarily fall liable tainly very unfortunate, if true. It ought not to to. President Roosevelt is right. He shows his man l.e truthfully said of any man representing citizens hood, his clear-sightedness, by pitying the victim The air is so full of street car rumors that the than the thug, by thinking more of the physical welfare of this state in the legislature thai be feels so bit ol' the wife than that of the brutal and gloss husband. terly against any industry or enterprise, as a i motors on the top of the Alaska building asked the It is true ;hat more men in high places were seeing be weather man across the way for a transfer the yond their own personal aversion to Inflicting pain, and that he would be willing, lor the sake of getting other day and got the slip. This was blown in were defending the weak instead of finding excuses for revenge, to encumber the statutes with an unjusl the strong. It is easy to moralize behind the broad back by the alternating current. of the policeman. But men with native instincts not law. wizened by disuse will still thrust a hard ft! t Infc This Pennypacker law is not only unjust, but i, face of the brute, and say, "If you strike that woman or that child. I'll beat you till you crawl away in blubbering is founded in malice toward the press of the state. There is an old saying that it is the so evident that in its borne state the officers of the If Blanche Bates and her darling gods had tender-hearted surgeon who makes the stinking wound. struck town a little earlier the chances are the law are unable to enforce it. This fact is con fessed by the fact, that in the stale of Peni winter's coal supply would have been a trifle shy, We are aware that by taking up arms against vania the governor, whose name the law bears,ha3 and as-it is we may have to pick up a few chips this proposed remedy, the classification already been forced, in order lo Strengthen this same law along toward spring to piece out. made for the opposition, by the Argonaut, will be and if possible make il effective, to ask at the made to include us. But for all that, we cannot hands of the legislature tne passage of another forego an expression of our disapproval of this bill providing for a son oi commission empowered primitive form of punishment being again put in Mayor Ballinger has not affirmed it, but there to confiscate, without process of law, the news force by Statutory enactment in this country. is a rumor afloat that he scooped up that first paper property of any publisher of a newspaper shovel full of dirt on the old university site just Based upon the idea that society has a right to inflict punishment upon those who do evil, the whose articles are offensive to the intent of the for a little practice in the line of the strong arm law. he is cultivating for spring pruning. argument of the Argonaut is unanswerable. But we assume a higher prerogative for society's deal Juries have refused to find verdicts under il ings with those whose conduct must needs be re against men charged with its violation, and the strained for the safety and peace of society, than Courts have decided against its constitutionality. Word comes from the far off Tahiti islands that the mere use of corporeal punishment as a means it is also objectionable as class legislation, it a monarch has grown tired of his crown and cast of revenge.