Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

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the great distinctive feature Of Inf.
deity that our prime purpose is to
promote good morals. We want
seen in all that we say and do, the
words of Thomas Paine, the great
est sentence ever spoken, '"To do
good is my religion"
You are guilty of what logicians
call petitio principii-begging the
question. You assume the whole
matter in debate when you allude to
free love as immoral While on this
subject am no; fully pursuaded in
my own mind, and have, under this
head, said what did more for the
purpose OF eliciting discussion-as IL
has done-than for anything else,
for the sake of argument here de-
fend the most radical "free love-"
and by free love, mean that men
and women should enjoy each others
bodies just on the same grounds that
they now enjoy each others qualities
Of heart aud brain. There is no par
able In that.
or course do not mean absolute
ly miscellaneous sexual communion,
any more than / mean absolutely
miscellaneous social communion.
mean that men and women who love
and admire each other should have
the right TO enjoy, untrammeled by
law or conventionality, each other
sexually just as they now do socially
aud intellectually, and that just as
the sexes are now warranted in pro-
vijing for the comfort OF each other
in eating and sleeping so they should
be justified in providing for the CON-
fort OF each other in the matter of
gratifying the sexual appetite, which
is just as natural. and therefore NOR
al and proper to be gratiied as the
appetite for food and the desire for
sleep.
One OF your objections is that this
kind OF sexual enjoyment is like the
animals. An argument that proves
too much proves nothing. To eat
and sleep and exercise is also like
the animals, aud men and women
are not only animals, but, in many
respects, the human animal is below
the general average OF animals. A
hog will not drink whisky; a dog
will not use tobacco; bull will not
fight and kill a COW as man will a
woman, especially II the woman be
his wife.
Webster defines morals" as
course OF life in regard TO good aud
evil. That is good which makes
men and women and other animals,
happy. That Is evil which makes
them unhappy. II 'to do good is
our religion" to do the greatest good
to the greatest number should be
our purpose.
There might be many "evils we
know not of" in free love. There
certainly are many in matrimony. l
am married man You will notice
that my hair does not seem to have
been pulled out. Bob Ingersoll is
always harping on lone woman for
one man. ," You notice that he does
not have any hair on tie top of his
head or any beard. II God numbers
the hairs of our heads he has big.
ger job on mine than on Bob's.
A few days since, in Lexington,
Harris killed Merritt because Mer-
rift aud Mrs. Harris had been hav-
ing little two-handed picnic. The
woman was IA preachers daughter,
aud the trio were N. G..
Harris seemed TO think he owned
his wife, and the Catholic Judge who
acquitted him, seemed to think the
same way. / don't think that way.
II the wives OF Lexington would kill
all the husbands that forge outside
of their own close there would be
hell TO pay.
[ reckon | am hardly going to
develop into gay Lothario as ! am
coming down the 60 mile stretch in
the race of life, but suppose the wish
is father to the thought, as you sug-
gest may be thought of me, what are
you going TO do about it?
You ask me "why not let this sex
question alone?" Some In6dels
have asked me why do not let Pro
hibition alone, and some Prohibi-
tionists have asked me why do not
let religion alone. II l let every
thing alone that have been asked
to let alone you would not take my
paper because it would not have any