Show WHIPPING POSTS IN THE EAST commodore gedrys society Is advocating them VIEWS OF humanitarians why they think th the pillory and the stocks are destined to become familiar objects throughout the republic ne publio the gerry bill tile tho ile ee ginkins of a national crusado Coa condign dign punishment copyright I 1 isio b by y 13 er johnson Jo linson chelar chel cr I 1 W york feb rab 1 27 few fear fe ar I 1 tons ot of at a a A a tivo live daturo have I 1 I 1 diore ini teres t than the ones for fo which cam Comi na odo r a tl il N I 1 bridge T gel betry ry new yorks famous ya yachtsman human starlan aarl society leader has just become apons Par crr and which la Is bothin more wn i nv beqo than the or the whipping post poat 1 in the empire state slate wife beaters ibra tera oro are sig ailed out in particular as the target I 1 6 41 5 I 1 r I 1 I 1 1 JI I 1 A 1 iz 2 I 1 I 1 I 1 fi ril 7 1 11 I 1 1411 I i 41 t va 0 I 1 N I 1 4 K T I 1 11 1 I 4 me I 1 P J 7 ik 3 11 IP I P AA A I 1 N 1 r I 1 i 5 i vt 1 LIS g 11 A k k A 41 azz 0 1 16 i 1 2 I 1 L 01 the mute in high life for the iho statutory the state stale la in march begins a series ot of lical ings accor accord bd wl by special resolution to the advocate of the measure there to be ba every i prospect of its ita final pait pa sege Rc morlon morion la is understood to have no objections to the idea ai an experiment yet yd it should not be thought that this 0 1 a 4 14 il i I 1 11 1 0 11 ALS I 1 tl I 1 11 I 1 i I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I I 1 i 4 1 I I 1 J V I 1 ae 4 E 11 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 the wife boater before the Just justice ce post la is intended as aa a local measure simply the gity gerry society has long lon con conte tc till an agitation national in scope the llie end of which id 14 the of the wife beater the tois stocks to Is and pillory pillai y after long relegation releR atlon lothe lo 10 the domain of 0 obsolete things promise to become again familiar objects the commodore has rapel received red unexpected support in this new crale 0 his from acry eiery state lit in the iho union have come resolutions ty by humane toc letle expressing hearty sympathy with tho the object of the bill in spite of tile the experience of 0 the little town to town now they hlll III be urged in prison nor will the nw scourging be as drastic as that anat of 0 former tj men was WAI por for women wore vore driven through 11 ah xh settlements in the fin do d a of the iho seventeen hundred year car tell lashes a ni Titor vals on cir bared bocks backs though tho the iho weather was vaa billow cold and tire the snow deot at one place two bystanders for the poor woman weman were put into the he stock I 1 13 SUP BUP pre their ardor nay we wa roul read that M t maa lati it i woman 63 yearl or of age aea was enat cast into jall jail AvIt without hout food and wt wah h nothing to ili lie upon fiill was her preparation for far the agony of the scourge A friend brought tier hw omo milk when ho he was vas fined and put into tho the same saine XI jail this old woman WK whipped hipped through three S it seems aho 4 he wai a mother in law now in numerous ume rous efforts error I 1 9 are arc maid na to head oft off th the e crusade by c circulating thrilling accounts ao coun counts of these hov noi ars rora and b by dwelling upon ill ll 11 0 haa terl x 0 ot f the puritanical bulaw acx dut tt lef rho ho numer oira advocates ot of the ho ill po post stare arc pointing ou wit thil that all Wile the cheb edless cis atric itlen will li n naief ea from tile die new pi of wa ails ciuch i r by the humane I 1 throughout tile tho country to aha bill now finly afore h tore tile legislature of the emalie vor por efforts aria being ti ills r nide mide tl in legalize the pillory in 0 ight etl pr fr stater and tilt the fate of t alin h it gerry 43 I 1 1 I 1 wll viii sollie ill ailt tt of all the others intent the very point rattled against the in n of tio the aig VAI aall 1 commodore betry when lis fill was wal aha to give ills jews ilcia of i the is s tho the on conf we most IV leichty araz ty y in I 1 alil Is favor li L is pointed i nat ill that ping pine a human i lavin la is most inhuman ana it zenis we w are loid to lelio lp lio nil all of huniA olty and in d to lot brutalize its by familiarity vit adrith do grading form of suffering ax I 1 acely now ov vf vea are benten blattn aaby by 1 I 1 bus ausband band sindee and war find that no erdl ordinary inary form tit of punishment avails lo ito i wipe alpe nu nut t the evil here then we have tho the vry very condition igal list which the 8 opponents of the whipping post complain ct api cpi ly then it behooves us to ell end 1019 ahls as as ble it tn an be ended only wo ive think by iving these a loste of 0 their own medicine we icily deny thit the whipping port lends ends to degrade or brut bi ii latee la tee any community it li 19 the dime pun punished klied by tile the pillory that thai is a the brutalizing intia once W we e are arc assured that it II 1 is I not don for the h prompts pron tt 0 to 10 the pillory I 1 jl L Is dread aba L the comm N will ill deterer ate alc in altruism as aa si a result of the cepec tattles af Voided by leg allied chamiec mere these arl arguien arru ien which are arc advanced in the best filth faith and from the 0 highest mollies moll ves es I 1 am mure do not c parl the brutalizing influence Indu once or of that illegal beating now on the th indrea je that la Is the beati uniting ngwe WP mul put an end to 40 in the he principle of fighting for peace when it Is is necessary the commodore uld not de lermine to V the TAl lipping post without wI firlit making a thorough orough Ki 9 ludy of of the lie subject llo found that the ill of women is on the increase li us r a consequence of nt the practical r nl cal immunity Immune ty enjoyed by these mile factora there thi re is practically uly legal way of gettine at them nor does the Comm propose any halt measures ile he would pillory it a wife tt le beater whether he be a pauper or a millionaire in his opinion wife wl re beating ds 1 a prolific fic source of the destruction of family life the children in a homo home where it L Is practiced ire are utterly demoralized they can t neither father nor mother the commodore does docs not lint find alte beating practiced d in hie households of the ble poor it Is surprising to if find that men ot of means and even influence are re found who berie beal their felim habitually it if the bill becomes a law there here may be general astonishment astonish nent at the character cha ch of the culprits the pillory and stocks vill not doiy daiy to lo any greit ext exteria cx tent erit from the prevail ent cut pA terns of 0 tolon colonial lal days there la is to be tt a flagellator connected with the ill I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 if 11 r 11 1111 laj 51 1 I 1 I 1 11 ia IM 11 T till 3 1 32 9 I 1 1 11 i I 1 I 1 i 1 11 11 l I 1 j r 11 1 6 11 ak ill de 1 I I 1 11 ill I 1 k bic I 1 w 1 I 1 1 7 e I 1 it I 1 I 1 I 1 ff I 1 I 1 C L I 1 1 I 1 J it A 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 al 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V 1 y 1 i as I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 id I 1 I 1 I 1 what wo we xay may yet see state of 0 delaware has bas maintained a whipping post from colonial days uia the country knows ot of the operations ot of an institution which Is a return to the met methods cods hods of 0 our olar anew tors whipping in the colonies colonl ca according carding ac to our chroniclers xv WAS s a very famil familiar Ilar m mode 0 do of 0 penal correction now new ung enc land particularly uly favored it tile iho less leas heino a offenses asal nit society be belna ing visited by the lash with inflexibility r rather t er than llian severity Bey erity the irne stocks the llory olid and the Nhip chipping ping post dost were things na as as ail blead arid and butter butler in was war dally daily practiced practised but commodore gerry of course does docs not to employ it its a theol theological orIcal argument against herwy her wy after te good old day bay state st ite fa faa lilon ablon in the staunch commonwealth of 0 john adams it was waa found that thai fines and imprisonments were ull operatIve as ft a of various minor offenses this 11 1 1 the very employed by commodore guiry ei ry in supito support rt of this of 0 his whipping wa ti as tile usual for quakers cri lu in now without of 0 age ke 1 or I sex ind band liere here asala the commadore makes make a variation on oft the iho ancient plan for or only im mm it will te be placed in his pillory 1 men I en and borrum were th elrd 4 to tha cats lall fit 1 in what howard iyla it I 1 ow day and from prisons and punishment will be inflicted by by means meana of fit a ecith aca hs Llian ged whip the number 0 of strokes will average ten and they will not be torturing blood bringing mows at loush on the bare back the idea L Is that the sling of the whip will ill effect a cure by arousing in the hie mind or of the a bonse of ind humiliation thero there Is 11 to be no c event creat reat publicity the object of the bill Is to put a stop to wife alto beating rather than to punish it atwould it would astonish the average rian to learn leam how grevoy the habit of 0 alta beating has increased in recent yan the police courm coupin of 0 our larger cities are dally daily crowded by and alli bruised women who they s succeed in their recreant pun jahe d had that a week in jail nver n bep suffices to secure them immunity fiam their hu societies throughout abe he country have vainly with problem or years and have ared caused to be colie collected Aed uia ih op inlo of experienced bai justices of tile tho peace bocc ln in all tile the gr spent grat at cities tji the con census of opinion to Is that wife beating ll Is 11 it 11 creasing cre asins and that existing are all very inadequate |