The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-09
Sometimes its Editorial Utterances Border
on Very Delicate Subjects, and Bring
the Law Down on the Head of the Edi-
for, as it has at Present, Sending Him to
the Penitentiary--His Last Article be-
fore he Put on the Stripes in which he
Answers Crazy Women who have Writ
ten Him.

| have been taking "Lucifer,' the paper
which Harmon published. According
to the doctrine every woman should
have the right to choose the father Of
her children, regardless of all civil anG
prevailing mental laws. His whole
paper has been devoted to this ides
and he sometimes uses language tina
is far from delicate. This was the case
when he published a letter which ha:
landed him in the penitentiary.
| Harmon also has been agent for e
number of books on the sexual question
which he advertised in his paper and
| which all his subscribers read and be
| lows:
Law Of Population" Mrs. Besant
perfect Motherhood, Lois Wais
BROKER.
Fountain of Life" same author.
| Occult Forces of Sex same author
| "a Sex Revolution" same author.
| Anything More, My Lord?" same
author.
| DIANA"
woman, Church and State" NATL.
da Joslyn Gage.
Strike of A Sex" and after the
Sex Struck" George n. Miller.
| Rights Of Natural Children" Daw-
son.
Discussion of the Social Question, ~
| Severance Jones.
| Coming Women" Mrs. Lille d
White
"Aedoeology," DR.. harrington Elliott
Rights of Women and the Sexual
Relations" Karl Heinzen.
Radical Remedy in Social Science
DR.. Z. B .Foote, Jr.
Helen Gardeners works-"Is this your
Son, My Lord?" Published by Unseen
Hands" "Thoughtless Yes
Government Analysed John r. KEEL
ESQ. treats the Sex question from the
radical reform standpoint; as does also
| 'Cityless and Countryless World
| In his advocacy of his hobby, Har-
| mon has penchant for taking up all
| the strange and curious crimes afioat
| and blaming them to prenatal inf1uen-
| ces. In his last article written just
| before he went to the penitentiary he
| tries to give solution for the Dur
| rant murders in San Francisco. The
| article in question is given below. 1t
| is as curious as the other things Har-
mon writes, all of which his conSti-
tuency of free love advocates dote upon:
THAT our social life is filled with in
stances of wrong-doing, of outrage, of
crimes and their consequences, few OBJ
servers will have the hardihood to
palpable to need argument. The only
points of difference relate to the cause
and the remedy. The theologian's or
clergyman's explanation is Human
Depravity," derived from the sin of
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,
and his remedy is faith" in a vicar
ious atonement and in forgiveness of
past sinfulness- also of all future sin
fulness, if penitence and faith shall not
follow each tranSgreSSiOn.
The lawyer and the judge accept the
theory of depravity. but are not will
ling to let the culprit go free on con-
dition of repentance and faith. Their
remedy is "law'-human law, with con-
dign punishment for the offender. That
the people generally believe with the
lawyer and the judges is sufficiently
shown by such tradegies as the recent
double lynching at Danville, Ills.
THAT there is a basis of truth in
the theory of hereditary depravity, or
of parental bias, seems quite undeni-
able, but why go back to the first pro-
genitors of the race? Why not look a
little nearer? That hereditary infuen-
ces extend through many generations
is proved by a long array of evidences,
but that much of it, if not most Of,
hereditary depravity can be traced to
comparatively recent causes seems co.
ually demonstrable. Take for instance
the following extract from recent
letter written by lady correspondent:
'I.know of one family less than five
miles distant, where there are three
children deaf and dumb. and the fourth,
a boy of Sugars, can hardly walk, the
Neutrality-suspicious. claim-of overwork
by the mother before their birth, while
carrying them. Another neighbor wo-
man said to me: L am going to have
another brat by that fiend Cher hus-
band and 1 have murder in my heart
Congeital deformities of body-defor-
mites caused by PRENATAL impression
are defects so easily seen to be beyond
the power of their owners 10 prevent
that no one blames or seeks to punish
these unfortunates for any failure 20
bear their share Of life's burdens or re-
sponsibilities We build asylums for
them and hire the best teachers and
musicians to serve and care for them
Bu twhat of congential deformities Of
the mental and moral make-u$ :?
Though not so apparent 20 the untrain-
ed or unprofessional eye are not these
inst as real as are those Of physical
or bodil nature? And are they not
alike caused by prental impression on
the mind of the mother? And should
rot these moral and mental cripples re-
ceive the same careful and kindly
treatment as is now given 10 those born
without arms or legs, or without sight
or hearing?
.eTiue was when the insane. the cpl
lentic. etc. were beaten. Gagged and
starved by public authority, to drive
out the demons that were supposed to
have taken possession. How much
more rational or humane IS our present
treatment OF the morally deformed-
the so-called criminalsr Let the re-
suits Of prison discipline at hard, up
paid and degrading labor answer? And
let the result of the public hangings
and private lynchings answer. 4 friend
sends us a printed leatlet entitled. Oar
kest Science intended 70 show that the
delight some people take in 'vivisec-
tom is OWN 10 sexual parental con-
ditinns Saws the writer:
THE medical expert and reader
knows that there are hundreds Of thise
sexual perverts in all American and
European cities. The subject is one I'D
on which very little is said in medical
books. II is mentioned in the recent
works OF Spitzka and Shaw. The work
Of Kraft-Ebing, Professor of Nervous
Diseases in the University OF Vienna.
contains full calculation. Kraft-Ebing
describes i've different types Of sexual
peryerts. but as We are only interested
in two Of them I VIII quote from him
upon these:
IN some cases OF these unnatural
perverts under the head OF -Sandismus.
or 'Nanochismus. the subject before he
can accomplish the sexual act. must
practice cruelty 10 the woman OF upon
some animal In these case coltus Is
only performed when accompanied by
acts Of horrid cruelty. or murder after