Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-18
',gilY MARRIED IS A HELL
r,,.uacE breaches ur-
p'' ,vpoRrANT SUBJECT.

,,,t the Dissoiuteness OF
!. ,.sslst,-whoie.ale Divorce
-nIessed Marriage state
yak. March frey. Dr.. Tol.
foaa, tho subject OF his afternoon
~. ~ = Academy of Music today a
y W .lonal tntorest-viz, "Wholo-
sS Tho great audience re-
'o ,,1s,,ed its appreciation of the
sruressed by the reverend
~ ~, Nc sturdy blows in behalf
~ OF the household and
4 .'s,ssoln,eness OF modern society
,.sd with marked appreciation.
|. .slscted was Matthew xix, o,
Y ,,s,ssorc, God hath Joined togeth-
], nan put asundor."
~ arc hundreds and thousands
ns,,rs homes in America no ono
~ II there were only one skelo-
4. ,,oset. that might be locked up
'ssred but In many q home there
'.,on in the hallway and u skeleton
1. apartments
~ m many n homestead. 1t
r.bodor minister to provo to
IA palr that there Is q holl.
mere now. Sometimes a grand
.,,us woman will be thus incar-
nj her life will DO cruciflxion,
"a case with Mrs. Sigourney, tho
.. Y, and the great soul. Some
,ousecrated man will BIO united
4 was John Wesley, or united
.,,n. as was John Milton. Some
"a generally, both parties are to
"a Thomas Carlyle was an intol-
IA, and his wife smoked and
"a Froude, tho historian, pulled
i, curtain from the lifelong squab-
cuigcnputtock and Five, Cheyno
oar National Scourgo.
,ay that for the alienation of all
.mestic disorders of which we hear
|,orce Is good prescription. God
a; authorizes divorce as certainly
bthcrlzes marriage. l have Just as
pcard for one lawfully divorced as
a, one lawfully married. But you
nd know that wholesale divorce
dour national scourges. i am not
IA q. this when think of tho in
(which have been abroad militat.
,Inst the marriage relation.
4 nary years tho platforms Of tho
L ,aus with talk about FREQ love
itam. There were meetings OF this
LA in the Cooper institute, New
IRmont temple, Boston, and all
\ land. Some OF the women who
u. prominent in that movement
|fnes BEEN distinguished for great
xurslty OF affection. Popular
4 70, such occasions were the tyrnn-
usr, the oppression OF tho marriage
., woinen's rights and the aflinities.
s,at speakers were women with
ui, and short dresses and very long
y rsflsstingly Mt war with God
y they were created women, while
Iaiiofm sat meek men with soft
I'd cowed deneunOr, apologize
rilnlty and holding tho parasols
t, termagant orators went on
xtho doctrine Of FREQ love.
Two Blighting Poisons.
unpaign Of about 90 years set
ttTlls into the marriage relation
vii be exercised in the next 80.
I'D women went home from such
% 50 permanently confused as to
Pss their wives and husbands that
|utr got out of their perplexity, and
fninal and the civil courts tried to
Hnele the "lliad" of woes, and this
4Linony, and that one got u limit
frs and this mother kept tho chill
. condition that the father could
mes come and look at them, and
vent into poorhouscs, and those
hto an insane asylum, and those
MO dlssolute public life, and all
destruction. Tho mightiest war
aide against tho marriage institu-
r. that free love campaign, some
under one name and sometimes un-
fgiher.
her Influence that has warred upon
liiage relation has been polygamy
n Tint was sterootyped carica-
The marriage relation and has
a the whole land. You might as
'lnk that you can have an arm in
notification and yet tho whole
Abe siekoned as to have those ter
polygamised and yet the body CT
'sn not feel the putrefaction. Hear
men and women OF America,
iong ago as 1869 a law was passed
rss torbidding polygamy in tho
nn and in all the places whorc they
hsalction. Twenty-four years pnss-
lsnd five administrations before
Il brick was knocked from that
ad libertinism.
new president, in his inaugural,
mat monster with tho straw OF
.Iailon, and every congress stulti-
VII In proposing some plan that
y. work. Polygamy stood moro
a'd' and more brazen, and moro
and more braggart, and more
II james Buchanan, much
man OF bis day, did more for the
'acn OF this villniny than most
'nosequent administrations. Mr..
.'n sent out an army, and although
suited In Its work still he accom-
more than some OF the administra-
'.eh did nothing but talk, talk,
Vast but not until 1t had pol
k.sIss,iations, polygamy has received
|,nny In Utah warred against the
nv relation throughout the land.
Ipossible to have such an awful
mquity sending up its miasmn,
Nas waited by the winds north,
~ and west, without tho whole
Nns affected by it.
fustuious Literature.
\. IN influence that has warred
Il we marriage relation In this
"s' neen q pustulous literature,
millions of sheets every week
ss si,h stories Of domestic wrongs
my, and massnores and out
u Is q wonder to me that
IN, any decencies or amy common
- IN tho subject of mnrrInco. One