The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-08

non, uon OF the city of Rome was slave The
physicians, the artists. the teaches 10 ne
usually slsyes S1s' "Sfe
~. ensiaved classes were often subjected To
80 most inhuman tortures Noble Roman
- .ea sook delight in sticking into the flesh
a Ihelf maids the long pins of their brooches.
ausussas cruciflsd a slave because he had killed
1910. ea'en iayorite quail, and another ruler
.naoe OF his slaves food for his fish nond And
the thousands of captives who gracad tba -
usnpna marches of the great generals were
..sen mace TO fight like wild beasts to crafty
.ne oeprayed taste of the brutal pouuiaee. and
us 70 add 70 the piaudits and laurels of him
VINO had brought them there as victor.
.Ieeaing intellectual men like Cicero. II they
ia nol encourage these inhuman practices at
ieast apoiogized for them as the best discin,fne
against suffering and death that could he nra
ssuteo 10 the human eye. And many a man
nlsn IN the estimation of the age openly de-
Tended them
among the wealthy classes there were found
oiuxary and aprofiigacy never equsIed in any
@se % the world. Every lust and within had
gratiheation. There was no selfdeuIaI. and
AeiolsIh was dead except among The slaves
An the bath and in the theater the actions
oi'en were such as will allow only a hint as to
their character. - ~
marriage ties were broken at pleasure There
were women with twenty-five husbands. and
men WIN twenty-five wives. Cicero wrote grand
moral truths at times; and yet Cicero pt.t away
MS vile because she could not bring him more
lowry Cato gave his wife to a friend: and
aiter the death Of the friend received her back
again. The shameless career OF Henry VIII
OF England multiplied an hundred.fold
would not equal that OF some of
tue rulers OF ancient Rome; nor
.he records OF the Chicago divorce courts for a
year the record of Rome for day. Neyerthe-
marriages
gustus laws against celibacy failed of their pur-
pose PROSTITUTION became honorable; aud IN
dsr Iiberius an edict was promulgated to kee D
women OF rank from enrolling themselves as
prostitutes Once In the palace brothel was
opened and inmates invited from the forum
ihere IN tnat great Roman empire, where all the
greatness and glory of the world had conferred,
ain had by divine permission been given an op-
portunity to manifest its strength aud tendency
In the world. Its course was then, as it ever
has been, and ever viii be. downward.
II tends not only TO destruction, but to self
destruction
Under its unrestrained course man were not
only beating the life out of Others but also
beating it out of themselves
Without the introduction OF this new power
into the world, without this life in the God
man, planned for of course in tn eternal coun-
CHS OF heaven, it is impossible to tell how long
humanity would have survived in the world
II the great promise had not come when Adam
and Eve lost Eden, the whole history of the
world would be different from what it now is
IL is not likely that many generations OF men
wonld have come upon the earth. Perhaps hu-
man life would have been blotted out then and
there, and the world would have rolled on in
space trackless and lifeess waste.
TX In those Roman days, when evil was reach
ing out with gigantic strides, the promises had
tarrled in their fuifllment, the record of the
centuries would be changed; the histories that
would crowd the libraries of the present--if in
deed there were any histories-would not be our
familiar histories: like q mighty river turned
from its channels ages ago, the old course would
be lost, and over the hills and through the val
legs OF the years the currents of events would
make another and different course.
The Bonded knees of Columbus would not
have touched the isles of the West, nor would
the feet of the Pilgrim or Puritan have been
planted on Plymouth Rock. If inhabited at ALL
this continent would be only the hunting
ground of uncivilized races. No Bunker Hill
monument would tell of heroic struggle for
liberty, and no Bartholdi statue would Lear
aloft its triumphs and cast across the waters the
light of its achievements.
Other quarters of the globe now radiant with
the light and beauty and splender of high civil
ization would be as the dark corners of heathen-
dom. Manhood would not bs manhood as we
knowit; nor would womanhood be womsnhood
Sin would be putting the finishing strokes upon
its deadly work. The drama of eli earthly ex-
istence would soon be played, and man would
pass from his beastly AMI miserable life here
either into an eternal o. Dor TO a life no less
hopeless and miserable bsy0ad.