Women and Smuggling Prompt Jail Punishment Debate
The prosecutor claims ninety percent of smuggling is by women and urges jail sentences to curb it. The judge says women are worse strugglers than men, noting two and a half days in the Tombs. Mrs Hill defends herself as a victim of man made law.
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Fremont Chesebrough
Newton
Mass
Chesebrough
Paris
Amia
Alps
Switzerland
Davos
Uncle Sam
Loeb
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Edwin W. Hughes
San Francisco
Bishop Hughes
The Joys of Winter in Switzerland and Smuggling Debate
A long critique argues that nine in ten American women oppose tariff smuggling law enforcement, citing Mrs. Roberta Menges Corwin Hill and other high profile cases. It notes feminist campaigns to exempt smugglers from prison and questions the morality of laws women helped create or cannot repeal.
I Will Go Home Poem Fragment
Poem narrates return home after wandering, yearning for love and memories. The speaker longs to shed vanity, reclaim humble paths, and be greeted by a waiting familiar voice that consoles and welcomes the return. Refrains repeat the line I will go home.
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Wien
Neaer
Uae
No Jail for Women Smugglers by Mrs H M Johnston
Letter argues against jail for women over tariff laws seen as made by men without women’s consent. Compares to 1773 taxes, asserts women as a majority pay duties and prices unjustly, urging representation and legal reform.
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H. M. Johnston
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Juera
Orr
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Roberta Kenges Hill
Tremont Chesbrough
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Roberta Menges Corwin Hill
New York
Porivon
Hill
United States
National Women’s Press Association
Harriete Mo Johnston Wood
Trenton
N. X
Jay
Caux
Kandersteg
Mr. Loeb
Prof. Munsterberg
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Ll Or. Adriance
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Adriance
Hiram RB
Tlyven
Minneapolis, Minn
Lyon
St. Moritz
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Cecilia Reynolds Robertson
Wood
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New York State Woman's Suffrage Association
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