The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23

Marx and Nordau, would not only de-
stroy religion, but matrimony with ii.
1t would establish the most abject COM
mune, and leave the care of children
entirely to society, not during school
hours only, but from birth 1t would
stimulate those without the restraint of
family ties against our present concep-
tions of purity and morality, and oblige
mothers to deliver their babes into the
hands of the states mercenaries. 1t
advocates not only this, but the extinc-
ton of the cross and the evangel 1t
would extinguiSh Inatrimony, religion
and home, in spite of the anthropolo-
gical law that causes man in his inner
consciousness to recognize tbs divinity
which builds in his soul an altar where
woman and man worship together in
home all their own, heart to heart.
''Nordau and his socialistic creed
would destroy every sublime sentiment
of the race. The love of mother, father;
filia1 love; love of divinity itself; love
of art, science and humanity; in fact,
speaks to the soul of man and
launches into space new worlds, and
places a limit upon the corruption of
human society. When socialiStic
civilization makes foreign to man these
sublime passions, then all civilization
will fall to pieces and perish, leaving to
history an epoch Of putrefaction, to-
gether with the protest of those gener-
Gus souls who, in the midst of vice and
crimes of all ages sacrificed themselves
upon the altar of duty and justice.
In the history of humanity are re-
vealed profound transformations in po-
litical, juridic, social and economic or
der, but every such Transformation has
been in response to anfhropological
laws, contrary to which nothing can be
accomplished for human advancement.
These laws of nature are so Intimately
related to self that not only epochs, but
ages, nations and empires are under
their control One epoch is continua-
ton of another epoch; one people of an
other people. Society and man are eS-
sentialIy perfectible, and they obey a
law of progress which is, by its nature
and origin, impossible to avoid. By the
force of nature it has trend unalter-
able which must be followed even by
those who desire to abandon 1T. Thus
it is that property and the right thereto
is rooted in the human conscience, has
taken an individual character, and, al
though its relations may be modified, it
is a principle that will live and be main
tanned in the absolute.
IF the apostles of socialism, in place
of exciting the hate and envy of unfOr-
tunate people, of fascinating them with
perspectives of joyous future filled
with miracles and enchantmentS which
must forever fade away before the
realities of life like fantastic night
dreanlS-if, in the place of removing
from their consciences those ideals
which inspire resignation and hope,
they would limit themselves to pointing
out the injustices of our social organ
ism, proposing legitimate reforms that
would DeCl2T economic ana social con-
ditions and elevate the moral level, they
would be entitled to, and earn, the
grateful plaudits of the race. Such
work would make better civilization,
that, commencing it's foundation in the
prehistoric cave of man, has battled,
trembled and vacillated before a sem
sualism which hides behind the clouds
of the pessimism and pain that aff1ict
mankind, and which, in the present
century, marshalS its followers under
the banner of socialism as taught by
Marx, Nordau ct al, and whose logical
end is the death of civilization