Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-06-24

guide its members i'm their relations
to each other. Laws without penal
ties are n mis-nomer. Penalties
without power TO execute them are
vhild's play. So that simultaneously
with the origin Of society was the
origin OF government. Even if yeur
propositions were correct they would
not aid you In an argument for wo
man suffrage. For government, If II
came into being after society would
he but a creature of society for its
own protection, and that protection
must extend To those natural distinc-
tions necessary for the very existence
of society. 1t would be strange
Indeed, If government formed for The
protection of society should over
ride the radical distinctions and
institutions fundamental to the ex-
istence of the very society IL seeks to
protect. ..' .'va .s~s
You say Marriage and diversities
of occupation are not sequences al
government hut of society" In this
you are incorrect again. Marriage is
not n sequence of society but ante.
cedent aud fundamental To 10. On II
true society Is based and on its intcg-
rity is the moral character and hap.
piness Of society founded. And here
Is one of the blasting. blighting curses
of this doctrine of woman suffrage.
ttramples under foot the family and
the true idea of marriage. IL pro.
ceeds on the assumption that the
married pair are not one but t,co. II
reverses the true and the scripturaI
idea of the marriage relation. You
cannot vindicate the ballot I'm the
hands of married lady except on
the assumption of the individualit,
nf the married pair. If they are one
and not two, as our Creator asserts
both in nature and relation, then
they are entitled to the one uote.
This assumption of the continued
individuality of the married pail
prostitutes the sacred rite of mar.
fiuge. the most sacred relation hu.
man beings can sustain to each other
into mere partnership. to serve the
common and selfish purposes ar base
passions of the parties--a partnership
10 he thrown off when I'm the Judge.
ment of either party, 1t fails to serv,
this purpose longer, or when new nj.
iiances would serve them BETTER.
Here is the cleurest postulation cf TN,
Free-iove, and All apology for divorc,
on almost any plea Mt the will O
either party. Woman suffrage dnt
free torctsm are based on precisely th
same uteW Of marriage and the .faai
| W relation. The freelovar IL homes
and out'spoken I'm his attempt tn un'
dermIne the family aud thereby de,
stroy the public morality that stand.
In his way. He knows that as thu
family become demoralized society |,
demoralized I'm like manner til,
family IL the great conservator o
public virtue. The advocacy of wo
man suffrage, based upon this con
tinued individuality of the marriag
plan, is working OUT slowly, bu
surely, the same terrible end. 1
brings an issue directly before Tia
people that turns their attention
away from the fearful system oil
which IL Is based. Covering up th
most hideous features of this attacl
upon the morality Of the Gospel, h,
undermining the whole structure O
christian society as based upon tin
family. Many honest aud true, an,
we are sorry to say christian men an,
women. have been betrayed into IL
support. But we repeat, sir, tire de
mand for woman suffrage aud free
l"veism are out-erowihs of the sam
fnJldefity and Hcentious uieUs of tn
relations Of husband and wifc. You
correspondence shows rs much a
this. Wliat else is 1t, when you sa,
that marriage IL sequence Of soci
ety." No, sir. it is the basis of al
society fundamental to its existenc,
and the blows you are aiming ut tin
integrity of tile family, you are aim
Ing at society itself.
Il We do not believe that the advo
Gates of woman suffrage are aware o
the true philosophy and necessar,
tendency of their efforts. Man,
most earnest worke I'm this cau-
! are not free lovers, and many met
} who have more gallantry than dis
criminntion have been led to embrac
these ideas under the false name q
, progress. Many vain and ambition
women too have been led to desir
the ballot, deceived by just this kim
of generalities and platitudes yo
have used i'm this correspondence
! without thinking Of the PHILOSOPHY
that underlies this whole movement
! They have never seen the relation q
this movement To the free love teach
ings of these times. Many are read
To deny the relation OF the two move
menis. But is it not strange tina
every free lover IL an advocat
, of woman suffrage. True, man
, noble men and women are advocate
, of woman suffrage, who iothe an
despise free loveism in their inmos
souls, but every free lover il a wa
man suffrage advocate, not by nccI
dent but on principle, by virtue Q
] the atfinity and similarity OF the tw
movements. They are both diffarell
phases of the same idea that .maI
riage Is sequence OF society,"
Therefore convenience and suijec
to its control, that the married pal
are as much two after marriage rs he
fore aud all personal rights and pre-
! negatives are SD far above the mar
riage relation that its vows canno
reach or change them. We do no
wonder that since the propagation d
their aboniinable and disorganizin
} doctrines divorces are being multi
piled and families are being broke
up. In Connecticut alone, ovcrru
! with xoman's rights coventions an