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Show Sta.te of Vermont ia shortly going to li'ang Mrs. Mary Rogers for the murder of her husband, and Miss Goggin. objects to the proceeding. She is'not an unyielding foe of capital punishment, but she thinks that because women are not allowed to vote that their nearest male relatives should be punished in their stead. v Nice, cheerful theory, isn't i? It is scarcely as humorous as the proposition of Artemus Ward to end the war if he had to sacrifice all his wife's relations rela-tions to do it, but it has a grim humor that must be apparent to all save Miss Goggin. The argument is so preposterous that it is hardly worth passing notice except that it shows how ill-advised ill-advised it would be to make the elective franchise general. The States where women vote have had no material change in consequence. Things go on about the same' as before, and it is not denied that many women do not take advantage of the right conferred upon them. y As a general proposition we do not believe women wo-men want to vote. They have more influence in making ma-king laws than if they had the franchise. Women have rights in this country that few other nations grant them, and in the main they are satisfied. The Miss Goggins are not representative of the sex. Another Chicago Theory. Almost any old thing can come out of Chicago. There may occasionally be something 'good, but most of the output is on the freak order. "or does the University of Chicago have a monopoly mo-nopoly on the weirdness of idea that characterizes the city of wind'hnd dirt. The microbe attacks any resident that ? omes along. The latest outbreak is by Catherine Goggin. She in A maiden lady who was formerly president of the Chicago Teachers' Federation. . If the picture of her published by a Chicago contemporary is true to life, the reason why she Is a maiden lady is not a mys-' mys-' tery. 1 Jut. we have to do with her theories not her i appearance. The spirit has moved Miss Goggin to have views " -njKin capital punishment as applied to women. The |