Life — March 2, 1911 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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448 -LIFE- What Was Her Crime? After being prevented by the rules of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn from secing her father for thirty years, Sister Mary of the Rosary will be allowed to look upon his body to-morrow by 2 special dispensation from Hishop McDonnell of Long Island. Mr. 1 d lived near the convent ever since his daughter n 1880, He was allowed to talk to her periodicall; through a screen, but they could not see cach other.—N. Y. World, HIS reads like an extract from some grewsome tragedy of the dark ages. Sister Mary is, as we understand it, a life prisoner. Her offence consisted in being young and inex- perienced. She allowed her religious emotions to be worked upon by Catholic priests. She took vows, administered by those men, which vows she, in her innocence, considers bind- ing. But the Catholic priests who administered these vowS— are they also volunteers for life imprisonment? Hardly, They may be unwise in some ways, but not to that extent. It would be more in accordance with the laws of civilized countries, and with the American spirit of fair play, if Sister Mary be set at liberty and the priests who deceived her put Lchind the bars. “A PALK OF SPECTACLES.” The Warren Fiasco HE Warren fiasco is unique. The mighty forces of gov- ernment spent three years trying to find a legal and plausible way to put Fred D. Warren in jail. Just when they had succeeded in fastening guilt upon him and tagging him with a sentence, they discovered they had made a mistake and it devolved upon President Taft to find a plausible way to keep him out of jail. It was a mean trick to play on the President. But, while we sympathize with him, we also congratulate him. It was once said in relation to specie payments that the way to resume was to resume. So, also, the way to drop a hot poker is to drop it. Even so lofty a personage as the President of the United States can be excused for dropping a hot poker. We would do as much ourselves. Mr. Warren presented himself at the jail, but they wouldn't let him in, President Taft explained why the next day. If, he aptly says, this man had gone to jail, it would have enabled him “to pose as a victim of governmental prejudice. That would have been foreign to the American spirit. Mil- lions for governmental prejudice, but not a cent for posers. We hope, therefore, that Warren's disease may not become epidemic. If victims of governmental prejudice should sud- denly take to posing, we should either have to cease the preju- dice or shut up our jails, a dismal prospect either way. In order to have things work smoothly, the beneficiaries only of governmental prejudice should pose; not the victims. Vic- tims should slink in due humility. That was Warren's fault. He wouldn't slink. On the contrary, he thought the govern- mental prejudice was more to be scorned than himself and was willing to upset the whole country on that theory. He wouldn't even ask pardon for being sentenced. Such a felon is hard to deal with. And so we do not join with those who think Taft weak- kneed. The only pity is that he had to reverse the worthy judges who passed sentence; but no doubt he can appoint them to the Supreme Court one of these days and then make it all right. 1Y did Delilah discard Samson?” “ Because when he was hirsute he was strong.” comicbooks.com