Show t MEN MEN WOMEN AND MORALS The m most st remarkable and biting piece of l j cism in the twentieth century is according to to to Mrs W. W II n. Fulton in the tile Atlanta Journal Henry Ya Watterson's Wat- Wat terson's scathing review of the men and wom women n methods methods' and morals of the moment The rhe work of a master mastel it is also the overflow of a full heart Not Nota a suggestion suggestion- however however- faint of uncertainty in an any word or 01 line of this thi frightful arraignment for the writer is t terrible in hi his earnestness and unimpeachable unimpeachable in his stat statement ment of facts It is not the ther r r wail of a disappointed and embittered soul but th the f lofty utterance of profound conviction con prophetic in warning and anci irresistible in exposition and de de- de Mr MI Watterson's fearful indictment applies to many more than the called so-called Four Hundred Hundred Hun Hun- dred of or New York There is a smaller Four FOUl Hundred Hun Hun- dred in iu every every ci city Y and toY Yn 9 of f prominence in the Unit United d States Imitators copyists worshipers they are theY me doing their very ery Re let t to ape the follies frivolities and unspeakable wickedness of the hi higher hiher hel and more nore dissolute lot in New ew York Replying Replying Re Re- pl plying ing to the charge of Harpers Harper's Weekly that his I attack on the Four Hundred is based on mere hearsay hearsay hear hear- sa say Mr Watterson returns to th the charge with overwhelming over ovet whelming force After speaking of the smaller F Four ur Hundred springing up in all our large cities aping the mock graces the airs and and- vices ices of the parent society society- an nn instructive object lesson to lesser and poorer looking on he lie utterly demolishes demol demo the ping pong logic of or Harpers Harper's Weekly In Ina a sense all evidence is more or less hearsay If to have been born a gentleman and to have ha passed a lif life in th the company of pf ladies Indies and gentlemen does docs not invest est one with the title to speak at first hand handI I the editor of the Co Journal Courier is willing to quit the witness box Assuredly there is nothing vague ague about the defendants defendant J i name named ri his liis indict indict- F I ment except that he has declined to reduce to a vulgar personal quarrel a really great ethical question ques ques- tion The writer in Harpers Harper's Weekly ly has lias only to take a turn through the most exclusive e clubs of New York city to obtain names and particulars in ill plenty n ir all nIl of them people o ot no consequence If lie be wants as they say in Con Congress res persons and papers let Jet him make friends with Oscar secure a table in the South Palm Garden for the Horse Show Shou week and in case he be be the man Ulan of the world we take him to be lie lic would only need to o Je leave ve tile he rest to chance cliance and r fate te It i is that these and the them are ore exuding a poison it may be he hut hilt a slow poison through all the n veins im of our body cor cor- 1 e al l c pora so corrupting ih the very vcr rou fountains of our judicial and legislative being and putting weapons into the hands of the agitator and ancI the leveler 1 Ch sl should arrest the attention of good men of all classes and all parties and gi give them pause to reflect whether that which was but hut buta huta a local absurdity is not becoming a national nation l men men men- ace Old Rome went to pieces just in the way here She went on in her career of moral degradation degradation degradation deg deg- till a woman wearing the imperial purple commanded c her chariot to be driven en over oer her er fathers father's s 's dead body was but u a t type pe or ob oh object lesson of her particular age and paid the pen pen- alty Mary Queen of Scots by her disregard of morality invited in those denunciations of John Knox which made the Scottish atmosphere vibrate and she too paid the penalty of her foll folly Mrs Fulton very verj justly affirms that a nation never goes to smash so EO long as its women are clean and upright morals in-morals find and manners The proudest boast of the lat late Southern Confederacy even in defeat was the exalted and virtuous life of its woman woman- hood Not one of these wom women n who during four aw awful uJ years of trial remained at home gm guarding fireside and family ever e tarnished the honor of the ther r South land by bJ betraying the cause for which husbands hus bus bands brothers sons Bons and sweethearts fought Not Nota a sp spy or traitor among these legions of noble wo woo men Inca The he same Iame was as true of the noble women omen of the North who sustained by countless deeds of sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- I pathetic kindness the brave soldiers in the field Our American women North Korth nn and South stand for refinement virtue and pure I living But we must keep off on the wolfish foes of womanhood that would destroy the hearts and the homes which now make makel but bur l' l strength If our men become generates degenerates d our women wi will become heartless without a single charm left of that grace sweetness purity purit and love loe which now invests them with a n radiance c celestial a majesty like unto that of the cedars of and a strength and glory lory like unto those polished d corners of the temple I |