The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-02
BILL ARP FOR THE RIGHT.
He Stands Up for Marriage and the Sane
tity OF the Sabbath.

as marriage a failure?" We see that
question going aroung and being dis.
cussed. If I knew what particular
marriage they are talking about maybe
I could answer. l know several that
are failures. But as general proposi-
ton they might as we'll ask, ISIS man a
failure, is woman a failure, is creation
failure??"
But suppose marriage is failure,
what are you going to do about it? Mr..
Ingersoll says unite the knot. Let a
man unite it for cause and woman
without cause. His precise language
is, II would give divorce to every wo-
man who wanted it whether the man
had violated the contract or not =
Surely be dident mean that. He dident
reflect on the consequences. 1t is a
kind of "free love" that we thought
was abandoned even in New England.
1t 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 price she would want some other
woman's husband and so would destroy
the peace and happiness ofthat family.
Mr.. Ingersoll's theory is to let every
woman float around loose until she
found her affinity, but sometimes a
woman loves a man that doesent love
her; what then? The poor fellow would
have to run away, reckon, and if he
was uncommonly good looking another
woman 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 time when seven women
shall take hold of one man. Good gra-
ciousl From such a calamity good
Lord deliver us. Mr.. Ingersoll sought
to write a book on "Divorces Made
Easy" and tell US what is to be done
with the children-the poor little inno-
cent things who wouldent have any
father to speak of, and hardly any
mother; no happy home, no parental
training, no comfort-for you see their
mother might be living with another
fellow. Mr.. Ingersoll says that "pa-
rents make a mistake in bringing up
children, instead ofletting them grow"
Was there ever such theoretIc nonsense
uttered by learned and intelligent
man? We have all admired his beau
full expression, his tenderness, his sym
pathy, 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
o5literate the Bible and all its teach
irgs, and he makes stab at marriage
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 monu-
ment of impudence," He is welcome
to his company, for every bad map,
every immoral woman, every anarch-
ist, every lawbreaker is on his side. On
the other side are all the great and
good men of the centuries that have
passed from Milton and Shakespeare
down to Macauley and Gladstone. All
the greatest philosophers and poets of
the past 200 years stand as firm as a
rock upon the Bible and its teachings,
and it does not become one man, how
ever learned, to array himself against
them. To do that a man must be a
monument ofimpadence." DR.. 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 no worship" One man cannot
destroy the sanctity Of she Sabbath 1t
is strange that he would wish to. j
heard Jewish rabbi say in public
| lecture: II CO not believe in your Chris
tian religion. 1t is not my faith nor
the faith of my fathers, but I would not
live in any but Christian country,
under Christian laws and Chris n
rulers. A Christian civilization has
done more for humanity and liberty
and progress than all others, and offers
the best protection to my children and
my property"
do not believe that an agnostic OF
inidel or gambler or cheat or swindlel
If he has family, would tear down
the spires of our churches or muffie the
sound of the Sabbath bells. livery man
however self-debased, has a. hope fol
the welfare of his children. Mr.. Inger
soil lectured on Liberty" and in hi:
enthusiasm over his subject, he want:
every man and woman and child to dt
as they please, especially the womer
and children. He says that men arr
slaves, and women are the slaves o
slaves, and children arc something
worse" If men are slaves, who are tn
masters? Ifthere is any slavery at my
house Mrs. Arp doesn't know it, anc
every morning at daybreak my rooste
crows, Woman rules here" and I hea
it echoed over at Judge Miners an(
John Atkins and DR.. Kinks, and ever
old Uncle Simon Feter's ducks say
"Quack, quack, that's a fact.' Solomol
said:
f "Train up a child in the way b
, should go, for when he gets old yo
f can't"
, And Pope said: Just as the twig
bop+ tho trao'c poIipo5 - tn my opir