The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-01-31
written for the JASPER COURIER
MORAL ESPIONAGE.
By LADY COOK. nee Tennessee clafi'in.

"A
The Office of a spy is not one az
which finds much favor in TINS
.ountry even in the most exalted u
,ause. Almost every one desplses +
Ia common informer. All feel that :.
man must have undergone con-
siderable moral degradation to en-e'
rage in such vocation. Ana II =, !,
lis we'll known that in countries y
where espionage is or has been gen =
ral. general decentralization has (
oeen q natural result. To instance i
la few examples, this has been incl"
lease in Russia for long period, IN
the Venetian Republic under the =
later Doges. in France under the /
second Empire, and in England
under Cromwell. And in all 1t has
been followed by partial or complete
disaster. IL;
1t is only when the detective Is
invested with official authority by
lhe State that the odium attaching
Ito his occupation is somewhat re-
Iduced. Yet other times had other
Il manners. We regard with mingled
scorn and amazement the immense
movers which were exercised by the
Roman Censors. They appear TO-
he have interfered in the most private
ne and domestic affairs of the citizens,
and to have fined or imprisoned at
discretion. And this when the
Romans prided themselves in their
w .unposed freedom. Dress, TODD,
table decorations, general conduct
religion. and morals, all came WIN,
in the scope Of their authority and
ant vet the people continued deterlorat-
;no from bad to worse. And It was
cry little better in the palmiest days Q
a,e Greece. Interference with persona
liberty had much to do with the de
cadence of both it and Rome.
'ue, We weie led to these refiecuon
mes bv very ordinary circumstance
.er namely. a visit from lady OF goo
I'm Intention. She is intelligent we
!. educated. Of irreproachablc col
for| duct. and ardently desirous Of co
rectjng social evils. She regarI.,
: SEXUAL and social purity as indl
pensable to a happy and prosPe
ous community. 80 do we. y
She would take one method to q
complish reform, and we ano'he
To her. ours is half-hearted al
!, ridiculous; to US, hers is despls
run ble and tvranical. We would re
on economic improvements, !
reaching. exhortation, and exampl
she on following up moral dell
uuents in public and private,
bounding them wherever they IN
be found BY any sort OF esplonas
VS. and making their lives lntolera'
'ep' 10 them. The one Is Purlta'
Stoicism which any cruelty disp
wee'' ed person may practice; the otl
i that compassionate course whl
was inculcated by the wisdom a
tenderness of the Great Founder
Christianity, and which, we hum
believe. has never been surpassed
When two women, both earn
,ats, and both right in their own op
ions come together, the discuss
sselsd Is certain to be warm and prolone
' Neither of us could convince
other. nor make the least favori
;mpression, and so we parted,
no doubt, regarding the views
nosed to hers as practically fool
-o.soa and we regretting that a weil-me
Inc ladv should be bent upon
perate and fatal course. The al
ment had been sharp and fatigu
IThe comfortable couch invited
so that when she had gone Il
was nothing better than to G
ones eyes and indulge in q
: home reverie.
zone zone When the seers Of old wished
laskas to peep into the future, they
ciously went asleep. The hu
,Ts, 'va0, ! brain. especially the very wear
the very excited brain, is
roppiate p somnambulist. 1t travels far
'y After perceives much. Somehow, !,
travelled into the two thousa
rs. century,-A. d.. 1920, and say
borrow, progress which had been mad
those whom "The Daily Telegr
smithlin its choice and felicitous lant
,iilburn|has named "Prowling Pru'
weeney They had won all along the
,ollmcr since our visitor had left,-a
Eckert ter Of century, in which each
.ssinger Year brought successive wet
;utpsel County Councils and Nun
Jelchoir Governments were their humDl
obedient instruments. lhev
lev to- captured the Legislature an'
school churches. Everywhere they
dominant. Their keen and vi
crowdor eyes swept each public place
p;arson Englishman's house was no
avanJ.,|his castle, and the poets prai'
'A"' ia oomforts az aa inn were