Show A REFORMER THE marquis of is in this country his name is almost a household word being associated with nearly every prominent prize fight as the author of the rules which govern the pugilistic arena the distinguished aristocrat suffers mental Aist disturbance because of this questionable notoriety doubtless it acts as an impediment to his progress in the role which he is now acting in that of a social reformer the line he has selected to work in ia as a corrector of common evils of society is that of an advocate for friend friendly lv divorce he is opposed to the laws now existing in relation to that subject subjection on the ground that they demand at least a quasi criminal status of one of the parties against the other in order to obtain a decree ot of separation he wishes the statutes so framed that when there is any condition whatever existing that is preventive of the parties living together in the full sense of the relationship relation tion ship as husband and wife they be allowed to part in an amicable and friendly spirit the marquis holds that when the law insists upon the relationship being maintained when there exists a barrier to the fulfilment fulfillment of its natural condit conditions ious vice and immorality in their most hideous forms are generated and fostered innumerable murders even proceeding from this prolific cause of evil this noted englishman gives his views upon this subject in a lengthy article which appears in the columns of the new york herrild berald Herc ild he characterizes the marriage system as a delusion and a sham nowhere existing except professedly fes sedly according to his statement practical bigamy is the rule throughout the civilized world speaking of the situation of society in his own country he quotes from an english bishop as follows we are told that there are no fewer than wretched women in this country no fewer than in the metropolis itself gaining a livelihood by the wages of sin it was a hideous fact let us egal call it by a hideous name each of these wretched women was a centre for the diffusion of vice what terrible prof profligacy iiga was here revealed and what did it lead to why disease lunacy infanticide horrors of all kinds ruin of body and soul for thousands upon thousands for whom christ died we believed in our bible and we read our bible and it told us that these sins were an effectual bar against entering the kingdom of heaven says a good word for the latter day saints paying a passing tribute to their theory in regard regal to the relations of the sexes an and nd their moral status he is careful to say that he is no Morr mormon non and that he believes the system of marriage to be the ideal union of the sexes which however being from his standpoint an advanced condition is not pr practicable in the present state of mankind according to his view it will be the correct system when the race reaches a more advanced plane of moral development the marquis claims that he has baa been unable to unrestrictedly ventilate his ideas on moral reform in his native land but intimates that be proposes to take advantage of the greater liberality of the press in this country and make it the medium through which to give the masses the benefit of his cogitations he announces that he is not a religion idt 1st and cannot be until the existing sham systems of orthodoxy we are supplanted by something more adequate to meet the demands of suffering humanity |