Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-05-28
THE TWIN.RELICT.

"Hsbits are soon formed but when
we strive to shake them of, It's being
flsyed alive"
Pope never penned finer epigram
than the above. 1t is true whether
applied to individuals or nations;
for nations by allowing slight moral,
political or constitutional infractions,
learn unconscious!y to adopt them.
Rome, afer the odious rule Of the
Tarquins, would under no circum-
stances countenance king. But she
gradually, while all the time detcst-
ing kingly rule and hating the very
name of king, allowed the term of
office and powes of her Consuls tc
be unconstisutionally 80 increased,
that more than regal power was
welded by them, and the people
we're unconsciously in the hands of
a greater despotism than that of the
Tarquins. And all this went on
under Republican forms! Habit
blinded them. Attempting finally
to shake it off, the nation was shat
tered. The American people main
tanned for three. quarters of century
a government which they boosted
the freest in the world. They pro.
claimed to the world that here was
to be found full freedom protected
by law, aud yet they were holding
four millions of human beings in a
bondage mole CALLING than that Of
the Israelites under the Pharaohs
Virginia introduced slave labor with
her earliest settlement, and it extend
ed to the surrounding communities.
Slave labor seemed profitable. Wealth
and consequent ease and luxury
doomed up in the distance and in
vited them to persevere. The South
saw its shame. Their best minds
knew its import, and early called for
its abolition. But HABIT and its
concomitants overrode the conscience
of the people, and they were placed
in the incongruous position of being
advocates and defenders of liberty
and at the same time the upholdcrs
and promoters Of a most barbaric
system of bondage. Habit had SC
enthroned the body polite that they
could not of themselves throw it off
1t required the tiaying- knife in the
hands of the North and gigantic
and fratricidal war to accomplish thu
mission. The nation survived; blu
has it learned the lesson of that war
History repeats itself. Great calam
tiles convey great truths. Have thu
American people reflected On thu
great historic axioms so Yividly out
lined to them2 Wrongs cannot al
ways endure. The longer a ma
tionsl wrong is persevered in th'
greater peril it will entail upon thu
nation. The history Of the human
race for three thousand years has
been one long battle in undoing
wrong.
1t is q we'll known historical fact
that as woman has been elevated in
the social scale, so has society been
elevated, so have morality and en-
lightenment been augmented. What
ever degradss woman must in the
end degrade man. For woman is the
depository Of whatever is good in the
world. Slavery is gone, but its twin
in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wherever 1t touches it tends to de-
bauch the mroals of our people. II
is q crime against woman. 1t is a
crimeagainstsocisty .Polygamy makes
of woman mere puppet, and play,
thing of man. Habit has accustomed
many to speak of it lightly, but we
should remember that ours is the
only enlightened nation that tolerates
such system. Why do we allow il
to exist The only practical answer
Is this, and its is disgrace to out
civilization: Parties are evenly
divided; Utah has large population
and has been for years clamoring fol
admission as a State. For these
reasons party leaders pay court to il
and prevent it's becoming a direct
issue in politics. These facts an in
dependent Press should keep before
the public, that the people may be
aroused, before it is too late, from the
lethargy which habit has silently
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