two choices, should prefer being the squaw. The
men are economically dependent on their masters,
and the women are economically dependent on the
men. The result is, the woman gets the beating
the man should give his master, and she can do
nothing. There are the kiddies, and he is the
breadwinner, and she dare not send him to jail and

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leave herself and children to starve. Evidence to
convict can rarely be obtained when such cases
come into the courts; as a rule the trampled wife
and mother is weeping and hysterically beseeching
the magistrate to let her husband off for the kiddies
sakes.

The wives become screaming harridans or broken-
spirited and doglike, lose what little decency and

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