The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

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Dsdgo W. Dodge-Tilteavs. vs.Tiltoa.
For the Grange Advance.
SAINT PAUL, Aug. %, 1874.
Oh Dodge! Dodge! Dodge! You
are the very worst Dodge that ever
Dodged out of this Sanity City. Last
February we penned the following arti-
Gle, but as we felt very doubtful about
any St. Paul paper being willing to pub
lish it we retained it in our possession.
Believing the Grange Aduance to be
the friend of the prosecuted, acting upon
the principle ofjustice to all and malice
to hone, condemning not even the evil
doer but the evil, We now offer it for
publication, and now that Dodge has
performed the dastardly act Of stealing
the mothers children, and through false
pretences wheedled her into signing
away all her right to his property and
absconded, leaving her penn,less, all
will see that the foregone conclusions in
rega, d to his chicanery were more than
likely to be correct. I will further
state that I am altogether unacquainted
with either party except what have
CLEANED from public opinion since the
divorce suit commenced last winter.
An exchange says ''the charges
against Mr.. Dodge are hardly likely to
be sustained, while those against Mrs.
Dodge places her before the public Is
one Of the most shameless women Of the
age" No one suspected aught against
Mrs. Dodge until she applied for d.
vorce. Her husband did not know Of
her evil ways, and asked time to pre-
pare an answer. How much time did
it take for him to hire witnesses to
prove her guilty and blast her fame and
name !? Is it not good circumstancial
evidence that it was for this purpose
he asked the Court to postpone the
suit Ifsuch grave causes existed, ex-
cept in his fertile imagin alton, why was
he not prepared to meet her charges at
onse! Probably Dodge has more money
at command than she has, and a mas
culine Judge and jury, possibly Lought
up for the occasion, will no doubt de-
eide in the mans favor, simply because
he is man. The soul Of every true,
virtuous woman in this land
should burn with honest indigna-
ton if such be the result. How
long, oh, man, will you use your power
over what you are pleased to call the
frail portion of humanity, to crush her
for your own personal aggrandizemente
Here are two Of the fairest an purest
women-Mrs. Theodore Tilton and Mrs.
Dodge-arraigned before the bar Of
public opinion for the same crime, !. e.,
unfaithfulness to their marriage VOWS.
Surely these accusations must be false,
or, if true, we are compelled to believe
that the best among women are becom-
ing unfaithful as wives and mothers,
and there must be some great undcrlie-
ing cause, and we are unwilling to believe
that it is because she is inherently bad,
but because man does not appreciate
her as he ought, and throw the fall
measure OF sunshine into her life that
her loving nature demands. Woman
has labored faithfully for man much
longer than Jacob worked for La6an,
while he, as the supreme law maker Of
the land, holds her as chattel or :
slave. To-day men ask Of women, first,
the qualification of lust and then any
thing else he may require. Woman has
part in making the laws-hence they
are ever unjust to her, and if ever so
just it would be difficult to get men to
execute them. No balance Of power is
left her by which just execution Of the
most righteous laws could be enforced
(as witness in the case of Mrs. Julia B.
Nelson of Red Wing, against saloon
keeper of Anoka, for, assault and bat
tery.) Corruption or moral disease IS
IS contagious as disease Of the physical
system. Pure, refined wemen cannot
be the companions of polluted debauch.
ers, and submit to their embraces with
out partaking more Or less Of their
magnetism, and hence may have, to a
certain extent, the same licentious
or depraved appetites.' Men make
laws against polygamy and adultery,
but At the same time understand well
how to ev.des them As, some have a.
many wives in every sense, save thst d