Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-06

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All Who heard Robert Ineersoirs last
lecture, entitled Liberty for Man.
Woman and Child" must have been
thrilled with some OF bis beautiful word
paintings "a he talked Of the hsppi-
ness Of home" "the divinity Of liber
IT," and the supremacy of love-
His eloquent coIloquy over the grave
of Napoleon concerning his brilliant
course, " his c.Jld. selfish rspnls4 Of the
only woman whom be ever loved. saeri-
ficinr ell 90 a worldly ambition" was
worthy OF immortality. His beautiful
comparison OF the French peasant, lIv-
ing 10 his own happy home with the
wife of bis early love, dwelling in the
duiet shade of his own vine and ft2
tree, uhare the grapes grow rice IN
the amorous kisses Of the autumn sun"
az better far than the grand and terrible
murds rer who filed the world vith hor
ror, vas purely orthodox, and. ge SOS
pect. annexed Of the early teachings OF
his pious Presbyterian parents. Bat
the corollary Of this proposition laid
down so positively by the apostle OF
| liberty - not 50 PLAIN.
at is only necessary for man TO
have won the heart Of one good, splen-
did woman TO be success. Indeed,
ssppose his whole after life proves, like
80 many husbands lives, that be IL to-
tally unworthy the jewel of love placed
in his keepingf Suppose he falls 20
drink and heats the beautiful bride
Suppose he makes shipvreck Of his
| genius and wastes her dOvry? Thus
| far We moFalizsd. while he drove that
| nail Of success" TO the head. Imagine
our astonishment At bis cliucher !:
Money Is nothing, fame is Testing
| though the nan die in the gutter,
clothed in rags, be 10 still success y
Go, ye converts TO the liberty OF Ii
cense, seduce the fair, unthiBking maid
| en- Who believes you a pure, high, noble
/ minded man. Go favn like serpent
at her feet till you win hsr love. win her
| confidence, bring her 70 the hym eneal
altar, and g. en-. AZ your throw aside the
mask OF your meanness, turn from her
| with your proud boast: ~ have won
The heart of a pure, beautiful woman.
and am a success" Then sqnander
| your property like lord !" roll in the
gutter OF your intoxioation, defiantiy
shake the rags Of yourself IT. posed pow
erty. and then, as the angel OF your
Youths love leaves her washtub TO lift
yeu from your filth and vomit, you may
still, with "hic" and an oath, assure
her despairine spirit with the words "
| am a success"
| Thank God, the Colonel is sound on
the suffrage question, however, and
woald allow that woman to join hands
with her suffering sisters and curtail or
behead the liberty of her drunken lord
by the arm of the law. l noticed that a
certain element OF his audience failed to
appreciate his plea for the woman b
vote, and applause" died away at that
point.
We listened intently to his compari-
son of the Brahmin history of the crea-
ton Of man, and, like many free think
ing persons, we're nearly ready to adopt
the Hindoo religion, creation, fall, for
Rlveness and all, when We rememb ered
something We had read from the laws
of Manu-, set down by Max Muller at
b. O. 1000, and by others at Il. @. 800.
who says Since the Brahmin sprang
from the mest excellent part
he ia by right lord of this whole crea
tion," laws of Manu-. l., SO ; quoted by
Costa Christi, p. 448,) and learn tina,
"the wife Is permitted" by this ancient
lawglver to be sold or beaten, having
No will and unfit for independence. u
Mill quotes from an ancient HindOo
writing of woman: I'm infancy, her
father should guard her Z; in youth. her
husband in old age. her children for
at no time Is a woman fit to be trusted
with liberty" Day and night" con
unues Manu-, must woman be hold by
her protector in state of dependence
Home in india" says Williams, il
so closely shut in by the close ST. utter.
! Il caste that healthy ventilation is i'm
, possible" Perhaps some men would
,reftr Brabmin customs and religion
with its Impassable lines of four-folC
caste, its burning of widows ard 1t,
. clay ing of infants, but woman suffrage
: will go against II every time.
. Fooled IN our quest of happy HON,
in India. we turned TO Greece, the hOm'
of the highest culture, the sepulcher o.
|, Immortal ART and eloquence, the areni
of worid-rsnowned victories, and tn
Spartan rule that the boy should b.
torn from his neither and put unde
, military training seemed unfavorabl
> to the development OF home. / sat n
Plato's feet and heard him say tina
the state is wholly disorgAnized wher
slaves are disobedient to their master
and wives are on an equality with thei
j. 1 uuHUhnuA- htUuOtIGr ILL., DOO.
i And DemOsthsnes, giving the use @
. wives and concubines (Uhlu ms Cor
' fiist Of Christianity, 81 l came {
/ the mistress OF the world. ealth COZ
3 queror under Jupiter, and found th
I wife takiae her place among her chic
l rem as n serf of the husband. As Cicer
!. said. Necessary because of her il
. trinity of purpose" Owning nothinl
9 earning nothing, having nothing,
o Subject To a court of her RELATIVES
q who could infiIct the severest penalties,
= passed about like the Chinese women {
g soday as thing, not a helpmeet. j.
J venal tells us of woman who ha
q eight husbands In five years.
n Whence comes the home pictured D
e Ineersoil 7 From eighteen centuries {
0 upward struggle of Christianity vii
o heathenism through the world. No al
ie cisnt civilization approved IL no oths
d modern system has adopted IL. Ind
10 still burns her widows, except when
= Christian government Restraints he
! China still sells her daughters az me
i ohnndise. Heather women are slave
., Only where the Gospel has come can "
II find the ideal home. he rightly rid
Q Gu 60 the abuse OF Christ's precepts an
b holds up TO our scoru the brutal hul
- bands and fathers " ho abuse their wivs
and children and assert their despoti
~Ili. Yet he strikes At the foundatio
3 Of the OF II system that, as such, eve
N taught the sacredne ~ of the family r,
Is lation, and actually quotes from Chrh
tian axiom when lie atfrms that Ga
family il the foundation of the State.
II Why should he object 90 system tha
a places all mankind In the same hol,
nappy relation TO "Our Father 1
r Heaven" aud makes the grand obiec
of life 10 be the proper training Of thss
immortal children. that they may 10
n herit an eternal home where sorrow
n never come.
4 In the light Of many OF his state
ments. we commend bis ridicale Of Cd
o lawyer who would whip his boy ~
n nos giving quite all the TRUTH" pras
tice by when ''he gets half his living.
but we would like to test his "real low
, of childish prattle," which he consider
. las Rood as an OPERA" by t,klng abou
|. ten babies OF one Kind into hts lecture
|. and giving them iuss The .iserty whic
he demands: let the little felloss stFik
q, tune a. their leisure.
! think Just nse minutes of drst elias
!. baby music after thudly of hls lectur
4 would convince the apostle OF libert
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