Show XOT WHITE CAPS The White Caps are all wrong They are men and men arc unreasonable brutal creatures who delight in doing mean things in a violent sort of way when there is little risk of unpleasant consequences attaching to their actions But when women turn regulators and set out to perform the work which White Caps usually perform the case is entirely different differ-ent and instead of calling the vigilantes SWbieakers J and brutes we say they tare the dearest creatures and clap our hands in their praise The wires tell of an occurrence in Allegan Michigan last week which inclines us to urge that at blot Istiif adozen women of that town should have the right of suffrage conferred on tb mif they want to y ° teA te-A man named HunLucf ia Allegan haS been living highly improper life Among I other wicked acts of which he was guilty was the beating of his wife a meek and modest lady who sometimes found courage to object to her husbands deportment towards a young lady of ill repute who lived in the house by HURLBUTS orders The beatings and the goings on generally becoming becom-ing public caused a scandal which the virtuous vir-tuous ladies of the town regarded as a reflection re-flection on the little community One evening even-ing last week six of these angry women without attempt at disguise but hOKdei by a man wearing a mask proceeded to the residence of the HURLBCTS They marched into the house and in a twinkling HUIILBIT was hustled out doors where the women vigorously belabored him with hickory switches The women whippet and whipped and the man begged and prayed for release finally when the ladies were exhausted andHuiiLBtr was bleeding freely and more dead than alive he was allowed to crawl away His mistress mis-tress who had looked on during the castigation castiga-tion was then informed that unless she left town immediately she would be subjected to similar treatment She left at once Now if the whippers had been men their conduct would have been outrageous and brutal in the extreme but who will not applaud ap-plaud the Allegau ladies for their heroic championship of the cause of one of their sex |