San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-16
MEDoRA's MELANGE.
A Dissertation on Social Morality
With a Little Politics sown In

privilege anu iTdHCnlSe OF sowing
wild oats and all oithem SOW these
wild oats; the only difference con.
sisting in the quantity of wild oats
each one sows. One sows a peck,
another half-bushel, while the
prodigal soWs hundreds of bushels,
and sows them all his life as il he
had nothing else to do in this life
save to sow wild oats. Butswomen
are not allowed to SOW wild oats.
Should woman so far infringe on
the franchise of man as to sow
wild oats, the poor giddy thing is
hustled out of respectable society
and hOoted, jeered and din-gonged
at until despair and desperation
drive her to cast herself into the
"facilis decensus averni" and slide
to the bottom at break neck speed.
Everybody casts stones at her and
conspires to prevent her scrambling
out of the loathsome pit.
There is code of morality for
men and totally dissimilar code
for women; but the Bible contains
but one code. When man robs
and despoils confiding woman
of her priceless jewel of vir-
tue by means of lies and treach-
cry sugar-coated with vows Of
eternal love, so far from losing
cast with society, he instantly be.
comes a sort OF idol and is even
lionized by the women. Society
grants him absolution without
waiting to be asked to do so. But
how fares it with the victim of the
heartless, lying and perfidious sedu-
Ger whose conduct violated every
honorable principle? Why her
own set tears and rends her with
ravenous teeth and bloody Jaws,
and casts on her ali the blame Of
her undoing and spoliation? AS
the seducer is bound to be white
washed and exonerated, his victim
must be inundated. That is the
way in which society regards the
matter. Even the pious church
people join in the deafening hue
and cry raised against the seducers'
victim, and in showering caresses
and absolution on the unprincipled
and dishonorable seducer. The
wrong.doer is voted not to stand in
need Of bleaching and absolution,
but his victim is declared to have
committed the "unpardonable sin"
and told that her repentance will
be unavailing. She must go down
into the mire and slime of the pit
and be a vile thing and an out
cast all the days of her life.
That is mans sentence and decree,
but it is not the sentence and de-
cree of the righteous and holy God
of hosts, who "knoweth the most
secret thoughts of the hearts Of
men," When the woman, who was
taken in the very act Of adultery,
was brought to Christ, the son Of
God said: "Let him that Is guilt
less OF the sin of which this woman
is charged, cast the first stone at
her." or words to that effect, where
at the men sneaked of, shame.faced,
and with bowed heads, and none
were left to stone the woman. Did
the immaculate Son of God hurl a
stone at the woman No. With
Infinite pity and compassion,
Christ said to the woman: $50 and
sin no more" Man says to such q
woman: $50 forth and be a moral
leper and outcast all the days Of
thy life; thy portion in life is to
wallow in the stye of sin and to be
accursed Of men and women all thy
days. No repentance can bleach
you enough to render yof a fit as
sociate for respectable people"
How many Of the paragons OF re.
spectability would be respectable,
were the veil rent asunder and all
their thoughts and hidden mean
nesses, rascalities and sins ex-
posed in all their naked
ness, to public view -? Fall down
on your knees, ye Pharisees, and
thank God, that you have not been
"found out" by your neighbors and
friends, as He has long since done,
and putting off your pride, AFRO
gance, and self-righteousness, try
to be humble and charitable and
leave off your foibles and sins. 1t
is honester and better to be plain
unvsrnished sinner, without the
least bit Of cant, make believe and
sham than to be such fraud as a
deliberate hypocrite, made up Of
lies, both spoken and acted--a hol-
low effigy Of man. Hypocrites
ought to know they cannot deceive
God, and that sooner or later, their
fellowmen will detect their hypo-
crisy and despise them. The Peck
shifts, Uriah Heaps, and Joseph
Surfaces may fool the world for
wears nv thir DretSnded morality