Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-08-06 | Page 4 | Sound Thrashing for Wife-Beaters

I The Washington Star notes that, the Washington Washing-ton Police Judge in sentencing a man for maltreat- ing his wife to pay a fine of $25 or spend three months in jail, remarked that "if evry wife-fe&Lter xras horsewhipped good and hard there would be more, happy homes." This would be poetic justice, but more than this,, it aceords with pmmon sense. The Star well says v -r t . , ? - x , ''There is an economic side to this question apart from the matter of punishment or morals or domes-: domes-: tic happiness. This man is, perhaps, the main reliance reli-ance of the household. It may be that his wife supports sup-ports him. Which is frequently the case in his social range. But giving him the benefit of the doubt, his payment of 5, or, failing in that, his sojoorn of three months; in jail, must leave a sad effect npon the finances of that home. It may mean domestic ' bankruptcy. ' It certainly means harder labor for the v4fe for ft time, unless she is the wage-earner" and her husband elects to take his punishment in jait If Be chooses to pay the fine and she is the tooney getter of the family she will probably furnish fur-nish the'funds. That is a by no means uncommon spectacle in this city. Had the wife-beater been takn to the jail or workhouse and trussed to a post and whipped 'good and hard,' as Judge "Kimball said, he would have received his just dues and without with-out passing the punishment 'down the line to his wife and children." -