The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01

cumulates margin then he is under obi
cation to do with that margin all the good
he can. This is first rate, but, it will be
obsery ed, so commonplace that the SEN
fences amount to little more than plati-
tudes. However, it is his way of getting
at things; to put it in the language of the
turf, he must do certain amount of scor-
ing before he goes under the wire. After
little more of the same kind, he gently
touches the subject proper, saying that in
''true marriage men and women give not
only their bodies, but their souls.
This is the ideal marriage; this is moral.
They who give their bodies and not their
souls, are not married, whatever the cere-
mony may be; this is immoral. If this be
true, upon what principle can woman
continue to sustain the relation of vito
after love is dead! Is there some other
consideration that can take the place of
genuine affection! Can she be bribed with
money, or home, or position, or by public
opinion, and still remain vjrtuous womana
Is it for the good of society that virtue
should be thus crucified between church
and state? Can it be said that this con-
tributes to the moral purity of the human
race: Is there a higher standard of virtue
in countries where divorce is prohibited
than in those where it is granted. Where
husbands and wives who have ceased to
love cannot be divorced, there are mistress
ses and lovers"
The colonel gets in some pretty fine work
there, it must be conceded OF course he
could not go very far in that direction, or
in any other direction for that matter,
without pulling out the ecclesiastical stop
of his organ and hitting the church a sly
dig en- PEASANT. He concludes that the sac
ramental view of marriage is the shield OF
vice. The world looks at the wife who has
been abused, who has been.driven from the
home of her husband, and the world pities :;
and when this wife is loved by some other
man, the world excuses. So, too, the hus-
band who can not live in peace, who leav es
his home, is pitied and excused. Is it pos
sible to conceive Of anything more immoral
than for a husband to insist on living with
wife who has no love for him. Is not
this perpetual crime! Is the wife to lose
her personality! Has she no right Of
choice? Is her modesty the property of
another? Is the man she hates the lord of
her desire? Has she no right to guard the
Jewels of her soul? Is there depth below
this! And is this the foundation of mo-
rality? this the cornerstone of society! this
the arch that supports the dome of civiliza-
ton! Is this pathetic sacrifice on the one
hand, this sacrilege on the other, pleasing
in the sight of heaven!"
One thing is very evident-he has not
forgotten and does not seem able to ever
forget the potency of the Interrogation
point. This is an adjunct to literature
which he invariably uses without stint, and
it must be admitted that as a rule he makes
it count up pretty well.
1t is, however, when Colonel INGERsoLL
drifts into p0tpourri of blank verse that
he is most entertaining, at least most read
able. Some of his metaphors lack SYM
metry, parts or reason at times, but are
always pleasant reading, just as the trans
formation scenes in a pantomime, which
presumably represent nothing in heaven,
earth or hades, is never tiresome spec
tacle to the eye.
He winds up his ReUtew article with
strain of this kind, which will bear repeti-
ton. He says: ITO me, the tenderest
word in our language, the most pathetic
fact within our knowledge, is maternity.
Around this sacred word cluster the joys
and sorrows, the agonies and ecstacies of
the human life. The mother walks in the
shadow of death that she may give another
life. Upon the altar of love she puts her
own life in pawn. When the world is
civilized, no wife will become a mother
against her VIII. Man will then know that
to enslave another is to imprison himself"
THE HERALD can afford to, and does,
stamp the quoted lines with the seal of it's
unqualified approval. The words are not
only put in the proper places, but there is
much of justice, common sense and fair
play breathed forth by them. To maintain
and advance our civilization, we need a
divorce law as well as marriage law; but
it does not follow that either should be
abused. Unquestionably it is a social
curse for men and women to live together
in the most sacred and binding of relation
ships when their every thought of each
other is freighted with the dregs of bitter
ness and from whose actions one toward
the other all trace of gentleness, to say
nothing of affection, has gone. And this
condition is made ever so much worse by
the presence of children to grow in such an
atmosphere and partake of the loathsome
spirit which it contains every day and
hour of their young lives. The divorce
law, if it does not, should be made to cover
such cases, and an important feature in
the plan of civilization and humanitarian
ism is omitted when it does not