| Show WHAT HAP l IS THERE HB TO 10 SAY I J Why hY dont don't you ou sa say something about the Thaw Tha case asks a friend who likes to see sec an au editorial arrow Impaled on every evil There Isn't much macit in gentleness s s to say gj The young man shot a human being to death and now now ho lie Is Js on trial for H it ft rt An n effort will ho bo made mado to plead insanity b by wa way oCI of oC I J defense And It Jl docs does not look Jool promising Thaw loses caste in tho tim world of which he thought ho was a by assuming Irresponsibility He lie i would inake a better hetter appear appearance nce If It he stood up faced the tho jut jury and said s. Yes I shot him I killed him r That's all You see sec If JC a num man xan Is' Is Iss Is's game ho lie lakes takes the cons consequences of or hi his acts Stanford White While took the tho consequences He lIe lIer r r ma may not have done it willingly But it was ono of or the t i things that a man of or his habits knows I Is among the possibilities every ery day ay of his life lIe Ho assumes that risk rish when hb lib lives the thc lire life Women omen outside the palo pale of at family and usual conventionalities ma may be he vcr very desirable but there thero i i. i is an element of risk in relations with them l. l i In that male creature called man the quality that most persists is an nn Impulse impulso for possession He lIe particularly resents anyone's anones Interference with his woman If IC ho lie hobo liebe bo be In the Stanford White While class where open claiming of or orI I the woman Is Impossible impossible for for It will be he remembered that Gmt Mr 11 White had a family and a home home lie he takes the additional additional additional addi addi- chance of or violent reprisal whenever he wins the favor of f a woman whose favor Is free lee to others' others winning White 1 took tool the risk of or whatever mI might ht come when he ne' ne went nt into the thc game of JC enticing women on whom 4 other othel men had any sort of oC a claim As he might have been supposed ready to defend his possession of one oneL L against sall of oC some somo ot other ler creature so 50 he was vas charged with tho the risk isk of the like like visitation m whenever t tIt t 11 H. H It c t jt t. t t of ff That is a part of or that of-that that sort of life the lire the primitive life where a 11 man had a right rIs-ht to take tako o what he wanted if IC he heere ere ore ere strong enough h And the essential correlative was wasI wasand wasi i and aid Is and al always vas va's will be that ho lie must be prepared to I c surrender when a stron stronger er appears appeals Men who became pirates aro are supposed to have gone s r into the game ame perfectly understanding that If captured th they y would have to walk wall the plank And the redeeming 4 feature of or the pirate story is th the calm smiling figure me of the buccaneer as he ho fared along alons- the tho swinging spring len length th of ot the thc last timber and took a heroic header Into f the sea 3 And that Is what this potato faced Harry K IC Thaw should do It isn't isit nice jilce that he took the chances of the thc game played it to the destruction of his rival and then Instantly and like a cow coward reverted from the primitive to 10 the polished age and begged to be bc excused 1 t because he was cruZ crazy when he shot A rI right ht game man would scorn COln to receive life liCe under such a pretense He lie should stand up before the world he has offended and r at least have the lIle manhood to he be consistent He should sa say gay He trespassed and I killed him That's all J We Ye might might- electrocute him lim but wo Yo would 0 11 him him him-at at least a little As It is he is a vel very shabby i protector of a slippery slipper woman He lIe isn't n. n thing poor heroic enough to save c and he Is hard hardly I y Important enough to 1 kill 1111 |
