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Show B There, have been column. B amounting to volumes written H apropos the whipping post since H the President's message has re K called attention to that substantial device. Hut the whole I ruth has not been told, and because of the i delicacy or supeibeiiMtiveiuss of the modern ear, cannot be told. In every family the patiiari.-h.il form of government theoretically or actually still eNisis and must exist until the family is abolished. There must in all government be a head a souice of authority with power to enforce authority. Happily in most families, this authority is palriarclial-humanely, benignly exercised. In many American families it m matriarchal, matri-archal, where the husband and children sensibly obey the wise rule of the suoerior mother. Hut there are oilier families heie, for example, the hu.sband spend', all the money, pawns Ins wife's wedding rin;, the family bible, the children's .school books and takes the blanket off the bed of his sick child for drink. Will any one say that his wife ought not to beat him? Hut, on the , other hand, it is sometimes the ' wile who does unspeakable things. So here wc are. The law and the courts have no adequate substitute sub-stitute for patriarchal government. govern-ment. There are some instances in which prompt family chastisement chastise-ment is the only possible remedy and is justified even though it may be inflicted on tho lather or mother, who are sometimes the worst children in the household. Hut this is no argument against the whipping post. By all means let us have it back with some other things pertaining to the simple sim-ple life of yore. It is sa'd it will brutal'ze the whippec. Then all the more kt us have it If it will exal' him to the level of those clean, patient, kindly and moral animals we ca'l brutes, it will do what all the prisons and othci moral reform enginery have pit i fuhy failed to do. |