FULL TEXT: Portland, Ore., Jan. 10. – Senator Sigmund Sichel, the father of whipping-post law” in Oregon, is spiking his guns for a bitter fight which will be a feature of the legislative session next month. The Bar association of Multnomah county, is at the back of a movement to repeal the whipping-post law, and Senator Sichel, who drew up, introduced and successfully engineered the hard fight which placed the law on Oregon’s statute books two years ago, is preparing to battle against the repeal, tooth and nail.
Oregon is one of the few states providing for the official
whipping of wife beaters, and the Oregon law is perhaps the most conservative
of any, in drafting the measure, Senator Sichel intended it to be more of a
deterrent influence, preventing brutal men from beating their wives, than a
means of wreaking punishment upon the offenders. That his intention was carried
out in the actual working out of the whipping-post law is attested by the
statement of District Attorney John Manning of Multnomah county, in which
Oregon’s largest city in situated. Mr. manning declares that wife-beating has
decreased fully ninety per cent since the passage of the whipping-post law, and
that, while the fining and even imprisonment of wife-beaters for atrocious
brutalities was formerly a matter of almost daily occurrence, since the
whipping-post law has been in force it has been necessary to punish only two
men at the post.
The Sichel law is so drafted that the penalty of official
lashing is to be ministered only in deliberate and brutal cases, the fine or
term of imprisonment serving as a penalty where the wife beater can show that
extreme aggravation or had other partial justification. The criminal is further
guarded front unjust or undue suffering at the fact that three different
tribunals must pass upon a case before the offender be sentenced.
Senator
Sichel will go to the coming session at Salem next month armed with the written
testimonials of police judges, superior court judges and district attorney,
warmly commending the law, and Gov. Geo. E. Chamberlain who was recently quoted
in favor of repeal, has assured Senator Sichel that instead of favoring the
repeal, he will be one of the law’s most ardent defenders.
Senator
Sichel, while acting as police commissioner, witnessed the abuse of women in
the lower walks of life, many being compelled to lead a life of shame under the
fists of men who had married them for the revenue they could bring from the
dives, and this determined him to devise some means effective protection for
these unfortunate women.
In
the whipping-post law this means has been found, says Senator Sichel, for the
ninety per cent decrease m wife beating has proved it. In fight against the
law’s appeal, Senator Sichel will have the support of the women of the a well
as a generous proportion of the men.
[“Wife Beating Now Decreasing – In Oregon Because of the
“Whipping Post” Law. – Since Establishment of Law Only Two Men Have Been
Whipped – Ninety Per Cent Decrease. – Despite Good Law Has Done, Some in the
State Want Law Repealed.” Logansport Daily Reporter (In.), Jan. 10, 1907, p. 5]
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►• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.
You have been lied to. The people who told you these
lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes
and tuition fees) to be lied to.
Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate
the truth.
►•►• To see more eloquent, vivid
evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:
►19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence
► Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960 – this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)
No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).
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“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system
begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family
matter.”
From the entry: “Domestic Violence” on encyclopedia.com
This claim has been proven to be false.
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