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The moral consequences are, first, that those who occupy chambers in the Inn may see a great deal of shirtless humanity's habits and enjoyments without doing more than look down from a back window; and second they may hear wholesome though unpleasant social reminders through the medium of a harsh voice, an unequal footstep, the echo of a blow or a fall, which originates in the person of some drunkard or wife-beater, as he crosses and interferes with the quiet of the square.
Sometimes it was a bastard Ku-Klux in the original meaning of the term, a Vigilance Committee operating against abuses which the law failed to check. Oftener it was a masquerade behind which moved designs of personal hatred and vengeance. Sometimes the wife-beater or the harlot was punished. Sometimes the stronger enemy persecuted the weaker.
I should have remained at Graveleigh, with no ambition of being more than a common farrier, an ignorant, noisy, quarrelsome man; and if I could not have made Jessie as fond of me as I wished, I should not have broken myself of drinking, and I shudder to think what a brute I might have been, when I see in the newspapers an account of some drunken wife-beater.
Grummit, whose voice was becoming exhausted, sought a temporary relief in moans. "Is he deaf?" panted the wife-beater, "or wot?" He knocked over a chair, and Mrs. Grummit contrived another frenzied scream. A loud knocking sounded on the wall. "Hel lp!" moaned Mrs. Grummit. "Halloa, there!" came the voice of the constable. "Why don't you keep that baby quiet? We can't get a wink of sleep." Mr.
Once he had gone to a wedding reception, and among the serious presents some grinning Philistine drew his attention to an uncouth club "a wife-beater" he called it. The flippancy had jarred upon John terribly: this intrusive reminder of the customs of the slums. It grated like Billingsgate in a boudoir.
What he was in Riverside London has been disclosed by Colquhoun, the Police Magistrate. Here he was not only a drunkard, a brawler, a torturer of dumb beasts, a wife-beater, a profligate he was also, with his fellows, engaged every day, and all day long, in a vast systematic organized depredation.
As investigation progresses, it becomes at times a question as to which of two great factors must dominate the present status of women as workers; competition, which blinds the eyes to anything but the surest way of obtaining the proper per cent, or the inherited Anglo-Saxon brutality, which, in its lowest form of manifestation, makes the English wife-beater.
How do we know but what that wife-beater loved his wife dearly before marriage, and she did not care for him? His home was unhappy, and so he took to drink and to wife-beating."
Do you think I want Sammy growin' up under my very eyes, a beer-drinkin' wife-beater? because he seen the eggsample of it set before'm by a Dutchman, when he was a boy? Such things makes an impression on the young which they ain't sense enough to know the difference between a eggsample an' a warnin'. An' the girls, too!
The wife-beater, for example, is inadequately punished by imprisonment; for imprisonment may often mean nothing to him, while it may cause hunger and want to the wife and children who have been the victims of his brutality. Probably some form of corporal punishment would be the most adequate way of meeting this kind of crime.
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