The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-03
atlanta Constitution.

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Aua,.ta Constitution.
"Is marriage failure ?" We see that
question going around ana being discuss
ed. If I knew what particular marriage
they are talking about maybe could an-
swer. I know several that ere failures.
But as general proposition they might
as we'll ask, "Is man failure, is woman
failure, is creation a failure ?"
But suppose marriage is a failure, what
are you going to do about it? Mr.. In
gersoll says unite the knot. Let a
man unite it for cause and woman
without cause. His precise language is,
II would give a divorce to every woman
who wanted it whether the man had vio>
lated tho contract or not" Surely he did
not mean that. He dident reflect on the
consequences. 1t is kind of "free love"
that we thought was abandoned even in
New England. It shocks the judgment
of all mankind. What would become of
the children if the mother was permitted
to change husbands at her pleasure? {?
Maybe in her caprice she would want
some other woman's husband and 80
would destroy the peace and happiness of
that family. Mr.. Iugersol's theory is to
let every woman float around loose until
she found her affinity, but sometimes
woman loves a man who doesent love
her; what then? The poor fellow would
have to run away, I reckon, and if he was
uncommnnly good looking another wo-
man would grab him on the run-in fact,
two or three might grab him and fight
over him, for the Scriptures do tell US of
a time when seven women shall take
hold of one man. Good gracious! From
such q calamity Good Lord deliver us.
Mr.. Ingersoll ought to write book on
divorces Made Easy" and tell us what
is to be done with the children-the po
little innocent things who wouldent nav
any father to speak Of, and hardly ::
mother no happy home, no parenta'
training, no comfort-for you see their
mother might be living with another fel.
low. Mr.. Ingersoll says that parents
make mistake in bringing up children,
instead of. letting them grow, Was
there ever such theoretic nonsense utter
ed by learned and intelligent man :
We have all admired his beautiful ex-
pressions, his tenderness, his sympathy,
his exquisite pathos of thought, but his
utterances in his late lecture in Chicago
would indicate that the man has lost his
reason. In his desire to obliterate the
Bible and all its teachings, hc makes a
stab at marriege and training up children
and at the Christian Sabbath. He says
that "a man who says the Columbian fair
should be closed on Sunday is a monu-
ment of impudence." He is welcome to
his company, for eve"v bad man, every
immoral woman, ever. anarchist, every
lswbreaker is on his side. On The other
side are all the great and god men of the
centuries that have passed from Milton
and Shakespeare down to Macsulay and
Gladstone. ALI the greatest philosophers
and poets of the past 200 years stand as
firm as a rock upon the Bible and its
teachings, and il does not become one
man, however learned, to array himself
against them. To do that man must
be monument of impudence." DIR.
Samuel johnson, the profoundest thinker
and philosopher, says:
Religion, OF which the rewards are
distant and which is animated only by
faith and hope, will glide by degrees out
of the mind unless it be invigorated by
external ordinances and by stated calls to
worship" Ore man canuot destroy the
sanctity Of lin s;hthalh. 1t is strange
that he would ,ri.h to- heard Jewish
rpbbi say in :. i'ahiir lecture: I do not
believe in ypu. ch.iatiau religion. 1t is
net my faith nor the faith at my fathers,
but I would no! live in any but Chris
tian country, under Christian Laws ard
Christian rulera 4 Christian civilization
has done more for humanity and liberty
aud progress than all others, and offers
the best protection to my children and
my property"
I do not believe that an agnostic or in
fdel or gambler Or cheat or sTindler if
he has family would tear down the
spires of our churches or mufle the
sound of the Sabbath bells. Every man,
however eelf debased, has hope for the
welfare of his children. Mr.. Ingersoll
lectured on Liberty" and in his enthu-
siasm over bis subject be wants every
man, woman and child to do as they
please, especially the women and children.
He says that "men are slaves, and women
are the slaves of alaves. and children are
something worse" If men are slaves,
who are the masters? If there is any
slavery at my house Mrs. Arp doesn't
know it, and every morning at daybreak
my rooster crows, "Woman rules here"
aud hear it echoed over at Judge Mil
ne1's, and John Atkins, and DR.. Kinks,
and even old Uncle Simon Peters ducks
say, "Quack, quack, that's fact"
Solomon said:
"Train up child in the way he
should go, for when he gets old you
can't"
And Pope said "JuSt as the twig is
bent the trees Inclined" To my opin.