FULL TEXT: Washington, D. C., Feb. 11. — The introduction of the whipping post for wife beaters in the District of Columbia has been put up to congress by Robert Adams, Jr., a representative from Philadelphia, who fathered a similar measure in the Pennsylvania legislature twenty-two years ago. He is encouraged to revive it for application in Washington by the recommendation for corporal punishment of wife heaters in the president's last message.
The
bill provides that any male person who shall be convicted of beating, bruising
or mutilating his wife shall be whipped upon the back, the lashes not to exceed
thirty. The marshal of the District of Columbia shall wield the lash within the
prison inclosure in the presence of a physician and the keeper of the prison.
Adams
says the value of the bill is based upon the historical demonstration that the
treatment of women by a nation is one of the best tests of its progress in
civilization.
Whipping
a brutal husband, he claims, does away with the objection to imprisonment –
destitution of the wife and family without support.
He says
that in Pennsylvania in 1904 there were 525 complaints of wife beating received
by officials. Hundreds more are never reported. In nearly every case the man
was under the influence of liquor.
Confinement
in jail, authorities say, has no terror for brutal husbands. It has been urged
that wives would not inform on their husbands and expose them to the disgrace
of being whipped. They would at least have the chance, says Adams, while at
present they dare not complain because the want of food stares them in the face
while a man is behind the prison bars for a long term. Besides, it will be
cheaper for society to punish a brute in this way.
It is
denied that the English law recognized whipping as a legal form of punishment,
and cites a statute passed by parliament in 1863 to add flogging to the
punishment for garroting. This form of highway robbery that held London in
terror for several years disappeared after one or two convictions.
In
1883 the legislature of Maryland passed a bill to punish wife beaters by whipping
them, Adams says the district attorney at Baltimore informs him that after the
first conviction the crime ceased as if by magic in the state. The wife beating
statute in Delaware is reported as having a very salutary effect.
[“Whipping Post For The Wife Beater – Representative Adam
Fathers a Measure With Such Provisions. – Only Way To Curb Brute,” Des Moines
Daily News, Feb. 1, 1906, p. 3]
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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.
►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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►• 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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