The Osceola times., 1883-08-11
SOCIOLOGY.
An Emphatic Lecture Written In "voIumes
of Forgotten Love-"


of Forgotten Love-"
VIII II. Herman, in Lsmsrs Is.) Democrat
Mr.. John McElroys new doctrine in
Sociology, published in The North Amer
lean Review, holds that vice is one of
the most efficient agents in repressing
the growth of the human race. lie thinks
it supreme nonsense" to cry ont that in
temperance is dragging down to dishon-
orable and premature graves Hundreds
and thousands of the brightest and fair
est of our land" and adds: with very
few exceptions, everyone who goes u
perdition by the alcohol-route would
reach that destination by some other
highway if the alcohol line were not
running" He holds that intemperance,
like other natural agents, is doing an i'm
jnense amount of good, inasmuch as it
hurries forward to an early death most
of the thieves, thugs, prostitutes, eambl-
ers. sharpers and other members of the
criminal and quasi-criminal classes. Sex
ual vice is a still quicker road to extinc-
ton than intemperance. The whole
theory is summed up i'll a single sem
tence: "Vice does admirable work in
skimm.ng away the supernatant scum
and in drawing off the dregs and settings
of society"
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McEIroy says the sexual vice is still
quicker road to extinction than intem-
perance"-an emphatic and incontro-
vertible fact, but the vice in question is
Just as common with the
Gilded males and
Gorgeous females
OF ROYALTY, as it is with the
Dirty hes and
Dilapidated shes
OF rowpydom.
Sensual license, whether it relates TO
rum or licentious filth, is Just as popular
with the patrician as it is with the pie
bian, and just as pernicious in its con-
sequences, in the one case, as it is in the
other.
The passions of king, priest or prelate
are precisely the same as the passions of
a peasant and the former are frequently
more self-indulgcnt than the latter.
These are elemental truths, and they
are so self-cSiGcnt that We feel foolish in
writing thcm but when periodical
with the reputation of the North Ameri-
can Rcyiuw secs proper to publish n Me-
Elrov essay, conflicting with the funda-
mental fact of sociology, it becomes nee
cessary TO reatirm the lacts in question,
in order that the student in social rhil-
osophy may not be miseducated at the
start.
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If vice is a necessary factor of society,
the sooner the human race dies out the
better it will be for all concerned.
1t is horrible thought to think that
men and women will forever continue to
give life, and give il without knowing be-
forehand whether their children will be
law-abiding citizens, or
Ruiiians and
Desberadoes
Who will be condemned to
The Gallows OF
The Goal
Prenatal influences and
Inherited moral weaknesses
Cannot be overcome by education
The man who is born scoundrel will
be scoundrel, and his progenitors arc
responsible for his devlish nature.
Religious people will hold up their
hands. and say that this is dreadful talk,
but The Lemars Democrat cannot help
that. The Lemars Democrat is paper
that proposes to speak the truth as it
Sees and
Feels and
Knows
The truth-no matter whom or what il
may hurt.
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Life is one tremendous tragedy at best.
If there WASH. felon in the wJrld-if
the golden rule was the rule of every
man, woman and child on carth-it
would be tragedy still for death holds
humanity in its palm, and as our planet
dips through its orbit and between the
stars there echoes in its eternal wake
the shrieks of the mourners, mourning
for their lost. and the means of the suf-
ferers, suffering in darkened rooms from
which the happiness and the sunflash
are shut out forever.
Vice makes this tragedy still more aw-
ful-still more appalling. 1t prevails in
eyerycountry and corner of the world. 1t
cannot be eliminated by the McElrov,
nor any other method. 1t is being pernct-
uated every day and every hour in the
day, by men and women of immoral and
Infamous tendencies-perpetuated in and
out OF the marriage state. The sun never
rises on new day without shining on
new babes who have the blood of
Man slayers,
Foot pads and
Rape-devils
In their veins-babes who inherit an
internal legacy that will lead them to
Kill,
Steal
Defiower and
Be devils in human mould.
You know it menl-
You dare not deny it!
And yet there be those in your ranks
who are perpetually remarking that this
is jolly old world, and blessing God for
eettlng III up IN shape!
There be those, too, in your ranks who
delights with McElroy in the existence
vice, because they say it will eliminate
the vicious, aud when they say "the
vicious" they mean the
Poor and /:
Friendless
Bad.
Yet It should not and shall not be for
gotten that the poor and Friendless did
not make themselves; did not elect that
| they Should be horn 1 moi nlnrt thnt