Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-07-21 | Page 6 | The Real Martyrs

THE REAL MARTYRS. . The president pardoned the sixteen suffragists who were sent to the District Dis-trict of Columbia workhouse after being be-ing told by the husbands of some of the misguided women that there were small children at home needing the care of their mothers. Under such circumstances circum-stances there was nothing else to do but to grant the pardons. "vVhat these husbands think about the picketing business perhaps could not be expressed in polite language, but they must have some ideas upon the subject that would be illuminating if made public. Perhaps Per-haps some of them haven't spunk enough to register an objection when left at home to fill the bottle for the baby while the wife and mother goes out with a bunch of spinsters who are not. under any marital . obligations, and are probably just as well off in the workhouse as anywhere else. "We have no kindly feelings or respect for the man who stands this sort of thing more than once. Neither have we any respect re-spect for a woman who leaves her babies to the tender mercies of husband or servant in order to make a nuisance of htr?c!f. The martyrs in such cases are not the women who are jailed, but the husbands and little ones.