Show WHY A THING THING IS RIGHT That plain statement of Jere Knode Cooke published exclusively in The Republican of oC Tuesday is valuable as asa asa a l human uman document and document and an additional revelation of the mans man's baseness He felt tho the Itch for more notoriety notoriety and and got gol it at the expense of or an action which a 3 stronger man would never neer have permitted himself The preacher-eloper preacher the wie de tie- e. e sorter and girl betrayer m mates makes as as g acas a-acas Jn n 11 assigns a a reason which 1 l I ia pr pf probably b bably ly false Having begg beg begged d d' d pity kr from from- froma r ny m a pitiless world he ho goes Oh on with the poetic exculpation of t f h himself He He feels he should be prosperous r and hap happy p- p p- p py In his g guilty love because theY two can get along together h quarrelling He and the young woman wo wo- man rather man rather a u person she sh have havo been together r nearl nearly two years He has provided her a a. place to ca eat cat and sleep and the three of them fo for there is a baby with clothes Because of or this rather average 3 con condition o of material provision pro n the man declare ho he should be excused that his action should be bo condoned that no l punish punish- men by DY or the laws should be visited upon him He takes th the wholly Impossible affinity ground And nd it will not do Probably he ha hamade has made as good a n case as ever was a advanced ad ad- b by so rank an n offen offender er Everything Everything Every Every- thing In Ia Don Juan and Henry VIII VII and the Russian Catherine belongs I Ithe In Inthe inthe the same class Some things are wrong because th the world ha has tried and found out Th The Tho world has been a long time determining determining ing log certain facts Not everything 1 is yet known for tor sure by bythe the pe But Bu there then are s Oine inc absolutely ol tely facts OD One of them is that a ma mm man must b be betrue true tI t to bL his On OD One Is 15 that tha he must not take advantage ad of girls who ma may be under his Influence OncI One I is that ho he must be bo honest One is that he must be bo truthful One Is la that he must must- work There Thero are some come others but th these e will do for Jor- the for tho present consideration These things are right Their c con converse h 1 verse erse Is wrong wrong It t is wrong be because beuse use it causes unhappiness Tho The world has bas tried out various arious things and has haa arrived ar ar- rived l. l at ar that verdict and It will not be overruled There is no appeal from it Maybe it took a thousand generations to mako make sure the tho fact that a man man must be true to the weman woman wo we- 0 man whose love he lie has bas won But Dut it was finally seen that an any other course brings more sorrow than happiness ss That way war virtue Is established Vice hurts The wages of sin Is death Right living pays The happiest hap men In the world worM are not those who ho violate the laws and ond enjoy a limitless freedom The happy happ men are those who live ll clean and right lives Departing from that rule brings pain and sorrow and regret more moro than it brings jo joy and happiness Right night makes make for for contentment Wr Wrong Wrig lg Insures unrest and discontent The happy happy happy hap hap- py women are not those who run runaway away with the man ran man they love defying laws aws the they have known about through their lives Happy women are those who live as live as so nearly nearh all of them do do- do Jives lives accor according ing to the rules that civilization civili IlI has tried and formulated through centuries s of experience We Ve arc not arguing for the life here here- after aftel Wo We dont don't know much muck about it That is for the preachers preachers and and the they are taking care of the subject splendid id- id ly h But Dut there is enough and plenty in inthis inthis inthis this life to to- tomake make sure the principle that right action right living produces produces produces pro pro- duces more happiness than any other course and does it right here on ont t earth rth who 1 is' is hI deceived ed about it t Is not wise And there Is another phase The Bible Dible has this The beauty be of of holiness holi hohl- ness noss There Is no beauty In iii all an the tile world to compare with ith the beauty of ofa ofa a n good woman There Is no majesty majest tinder r she ht ski skies S to compare with the tho majesty of f a n go good d man Jere K Knode ode Co Cooke ke has simply proved for or the the rest of the ra race race race-a e-a e a little late late late- the he facts facts' that were ere tried out and proved many a year car before he lie was born |