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Show AS BETWEEN A : 'MAN AND A WOMAN . ' , : ; , BY FRANCES GILBREATH-IXGERSOLL. Why should. Gov. Folk interfere in behalf of the "convicted murderess, Mrs. Aggie' Myers? Because'she is a woman? That is a very poor and insufficient in-sufficient plea. Is a brutal crime any less brutal because committed by a woman? Is ' there a law and its penalty for a man, and that law without its penalty for Jj a woman? '"w Only a few days ago a young man went to his legal doom without a shred of any but circumstantial evidence against him, without a single de- . tail . of his alleged crime as sickening as this committed by the woman wo-man in question,- and without a tithe o f the womanly sympathy shown to- ward the latter. ' - , I ' Flor long years men have been hanged and executed by law, and no woman's voice raised in protest. B ut let a woman commit crime, and every other woman after her kind cries out against the "brutality" of the law. If anything were needed to show woman's unfitness to be turned ' loose in law, politics, or. religion, without a masculine controlling power, it l ' is her capacity for spasmodic hysteria. Women clamor for their "rights" and then kick when the law Is meted out without regard to sex. ,-,-JVhat "rights'' do they want? The "right" to all the "soft snap" Jobs; J tlfdxiest cushion for the biggest salary; the "right" to shoulder men and ' j fathers nto the curbstone, while they flaunt along the commercial high- way; the yrlght" to neglect womanly duty well performed for shoddy mas- cullnity; the "right" to all the masculine vices, and not lose caste; the , "right" to commit any or all crimes in the calendar, and plead Immunity r from -punishment because of her sex? - Personal opinion as to the right Of legal murder, and personal sympa- v Ihy for the unfortunate human being who was made what she is through j Just such social conditions, have no place here. The point is,' If women 7 want the rights of men, then let them stand up ' like - men and take their ' ... medicine. " - ; Y, . , .... '. : '. - - ';- ;. . , . - |