| Show I 1 A orime mime AN articie article under the above title appears an fn lly ily liy dependent a new I 1 york gland rd religious weekly il ft trenta treala tie I 1 a t upon 1 I p agn a grest great g rest reat evil in society soc letain in very tery pointed dadd language the marriage oj 91 girls with well known debauchees debau chees whose only cha eha charm Js Is a held up to te reprobation probation and jils frequency IA lai spoken of aan aba 19 a fact beyond dispute ine alje iDe giter prefers to beyen eyen seyen eases cases cases eases of divorce now ngin that city in conn connection etlen etien with which there are so incredibly vile that even men speak of efthem them to each other in a whisper they are ali illustrations of af hla als subject and show that the tho law laws 8 of well ordered society were tampered wl with th in the start by the sale bale for that is what it amounted to of tb tho women who married immoral immor almen aimen men for their gold the author r re 6 markt marka when a girl marries mariles aman with a damaged le ie and a mere competency we are unanimous in hi the opinion that she is culpably reckless and has thrown herself alsky awry but when she marries a well known debauchee whose income inco ia beyond competition envy the inevitable future and glares at the pile flig of gli glittering t bering coln coin A man with blender slender means must needs remain a bachelor because the tho devotees of the golden calf have never even deigned to loo kupon look upon himbur him but money with physical phy and moral corruption behind it in the disguise cf manhood la Is in such demand that maneuvering mammas go wild in the competitive chase for it and ambitious young ladies ladles stimulate their fascinations to thel the utmost in the fond chopo hope of possessing poss posE essing it this Is a avery very frank admission and Is made in regard to christian society by a christian clergy clergyman mand he goes further and declares that in the wealthy and fashionable clas cesare ses ees are ane persons as dangerous as reptiles their thein time is spent went in a round of pleasures suggest suggested edby by a painful ewsii intrigues of cf the most moat com corm promising character are arbnot not nob ent and theair the air ali 13 Is atiat at times hit uit made foul toul by k which point ca hopeless wreck of domestic ba happ bapp P r ness 11 and these are to be found in thie the very first circles not in those parts of the great city cily where M the refuse refund of nationalities jd is gathered edy nor in places laces inces whee wh cri crl crimo mo hides bides I 1 itself tse af pf torm form labe libe 01 a garish light of dax dayel but in irr the 6 moat fashionable avenues and in a the realms ot of upper ten bonx dom ad anid the worst cayet is yet tet to be bd told jn these forcible words A marring ble bie girl who eels herself to be in the market Is hot in the slightest g h degree shocked because her lover lov iov e dare not tell teli her where he goes goeb when ho he leaves her on olf the other hand his hia known impurity teems to be au an added charm in her bight eight not been meen taught to bed bet any high nigh value on oil virtue neither does she r regard eg ard acm it as indispensable anh an a lius husband baud bhe excuse excuses ii able and ignores the tha prime cond bond eions of so bo she have money she bild ceases quee flon it is better so be perhaps because be usa if she ghe were weke pt at all curious currod al sw bhe nal would tid iid never marry olam adasm U th the e purgatory of social lire life and so 0 rather than live purgatory jn ory bry bhe ehe moves into a 6 palatial pilat ial fal residence in the nameless region beyond who N does not know that in id me the which she belongs alin airn simple piel honor and fidelity are retarded regarded dedas ins low antl anti that the appetite fon for excitement is so quickened by the we vice that excite mentis tu tasteless an ah d insipid unless jc J la fi highly ob seasoned abone wite with immorality 1 1 1 the thel truth of these cannat cannot be dented but what remedy can be found for the monstrous evil hero here described the tho purgatory of social life is the certain doom of hosts of fair women fitted by nature for the heaven of ct honorable nant rant maur anity unless they accept thea thep theothor alternative of marriage to person pers with whom such a union is macd sacrilege ag purity wedded to impunity impurity chas chad ba city given or sold cold to corruption corrupt lod iod virtue bund band b to t 0 vic vice vie e it itis is horrible la hi the extreme and ethere Is no thickness of goldvender gold veneer which can cover cov er its foulness and incurable discrepancy from the eyes of god mid and the angels and the disgust of untainted mortals plural marriage marria gd as th the creed of bf the mormons cormons Mor mons 12 does away with nil nii all bebes necessity sity for such sacrifices of true pure pune deserve the fair la fi its rendit rendition fob fog 0 of as a ilma hoil holi bred adage girls hr are p taught by marmon patents who are soun boun sound bound d luu luf that marriage with a libertine Is id degradation that they have the same right to require purity JA in a bridegroom as aa he has to demand Itina it in a brida brido that it la far better ta wed a virtuous married manth manthan I 1 0 o be joined to an single maur many though be compora dively poor while the latter lis ird revel revell ino inh in wealth A man who un uh polluted before marriage 18 true irue to 6 his marriage vows is sexually clean in the th sight of bf heaven bat this is 13 so SD contrary to traditional notions that it would be ed by the society which indulges in the evils depicted in the independent ande pendent those who live in that atmosphere cannot comprehend the moral purity of such buah as these they judge of a man who vieda weda more than one wine wife by their own degraded moral guage when the men look upon marriage as a legalized method of gratl ying sing jing lust just and the women regard it aw as a source of money 1 supply how ean can they be expected to understand the motives of those who enter into matrimony in the spirit in a which it wag wag divinely instituted they cannot co compre pre hend how tow low bow a man can marry more ore wives 3 tha than n one with a pure motive because their own motives in entering into monogamous marriage are zire impure to demonstrate this thib one has bas only I 1 to LO listen to conversation the tho of buch 1 persons and their marr marriage lage is contemplated what they think it is for can readily be ibe determined this a licentious age and its thought runs in licentious lines this to la evidently the yiew view of 0 the writer of the article from which we quote again hessye he baya saya conay nay the whole community fox for for foi that mattefs matter Is ia wallowing in the pit in dramatic representation for exan example pie shakespeare is adored with a sham never listened to with even tolerable patience pa tlene in the rivalry between shakespeare and a bemi semi lewd play the bard of ason avon avonia fi t odthe hoube horte the which tahe the he lq iq tug atif riar flar sn A tle tib th the dizzy edge of pre precipice c apice ari bli ani and in ohp theatt 10 q ac ct tails talia inthe in the falth deatha of 61 domestic housea tle us 8 to efio highest eo t bf aam nothing nys sya aya so Y well fell in hi a play i i as disguised eted indecency and at tui tbt dis guiao be very alith we do not abot al low our s ec ru ples pies to mar our oun enjoy ment nt 21 the licentious tendency rith alth t times Is not only seen been in the irellia i for the kind of af plays alluded to td la 14 taff th independent it Is shown in iii the class of literature which la popular and esthus ia thus described in another paragraph r cc jn n order tobe iobe eally eaily a novel must have hige a sulp hurom blot biot one the heroine or hird hero of which has bas a reputation which faught to bring a blush to the cheek tk seii geif orthe i reader but which nils ails falls jin in the accomplishment of cf taht benl enl ent the moat sa leable books ann ame madeep made up of the piquancy of brotea vows and the delights of it jim of fahame IJ it idt leT among people with this thes these e tastes thib thia mode of thought this estimate of bf the marriage relation that he the cormons mormons Mor mons pre are berated my by them piar plural i al marriage is counted a crime and anda year there isho is nothing thing criminal cr I 1 in it aa taught jrr mormon theology lory dory while thel the estem effect pisces places the charms of woman ip in the market annd anid gives cash eash what nothing budlove and ana g f tue should possess bi 1 is I a or of theal ve essence of cr erime crime hidei and andis Is subversive of social order thed the degna igra tion tiou of a sacred ordinance ani adi the desecration of af ii 6 holy hoh estate It haim hAlm ils fis orce force orca to td ali ajl 6 conje nf ence fri iri which there Is no nib congeniality and nothing 1 ae sanctify an the union no ygo goad women ought to ba placed in that thai condU ioni lori where bhe she must choose beti betwee veed ri perpetual ual nai spinsterhood and the bonds afima abbi i tr amm whom she esteem SM nuna who h has hns k no iio pid ped aoniA attraction forler nor for her wi laws mid wid customs restrict matr marr marriage I 1 aagep making it impossible tor lor for foi large laree numbers of virtuous women to wed med with the men mell of their choice ch oloe olce have to wink at or ignore alviad amount ot of social which are chargeable to those very vey restrictions where every woman harthe has the opportunity of being ried to bome some man whom she ihu can fal fat least respect 1 and confide bure sure much less les s ortt W in mode soc boc society I 1 e t y of course while fumk nature IB ln tin ltd itts its present iiri liri went kent imperfect condition third ivill be ba ovila evila under any system it is not idair to td take tahe exceptions tor for the th erule rule ruie nor to judge budge of fany fank any society by the nets acts of a few of its members it Is no more mord correct to tb condemn plural marriage m a i rr iago lago because of the wrong doings af a enter into tott tolt it but i thith than it is isto to condemn conda nin monogamous bibb og amous mii mil marriage tri irl he excesses and obscenities ot of soma who violated its obligations but ilja right ight to expose errors ol 01 principle and wrongs in practice when tho object Is ia th correct ba of evit evir and the the truth and tile the authar ot the article in the ande pendent wea ara or irresponsible ns ible pe pet twin bon boh but bu t a D adof D of d Is tin and culture la Js doing good service i in n exposing the criminality of the large numbers of people who while to themselves ves xea credit for foj propriety moving I 1 in n exalted social circles and figuring as aa high toned christian church members are drag dragging ginZ down into the mira miia of lust lusts and mammon obie one of the most sacred established by thel the A almighty mighty for the happiness and exaltation df HU and daughters who dwell upon thia jhb planet 9 4 |
