Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-17
what they please with him and. his reIa-

what they please. with him and his rela-
tions with his wife?
Judge Henry speaks of one species of
immortality that was rare fifty years ago.
But il was not. The only difference was
that in this very state hitX years; ago &,,i II
women, and if Judge Henry does not know
this, ! DO not know where he Kept his eyes
AMI ears in those days.
''He SAYS: Since the Savior appeared on
earth, in every land which Christianity
has reached and obtained a footing the
marriage relation has been held sacred
and recognized by the law as such. While
marriage originates in an agreement be-
tween the parties, which until executed is
of no higher obligation than any other
civil contract, yet. when the minister OF
the Gospel or other person authorized to
perform the ceremony with their consent
completes the engagement between the
parties who have agreed upon marriage
ii ceases to be mere civil contract, which
may be annulled at the pleasure of the
parties and becomes a solemn engagement,
to be terminated only in the manner pre-
scribed by the sovereign power of the
state. And it would be well if the
lawmakers would heed the law of God etc
III that Is not Il case Of 'reVerSlon to an
ancient type the type of union between
church and state. l cannot see very well.
The people of this country have wisely
concluded 10 stick to human law. for the
excellent reason that it is impossible for
them to agree as to what is the law of
Cod
Il venture the assertion that neither
Judge Henry nor any other Democratic
judge in this state truly define law.
Voltaire says to disputants, define your
terms Judge Henry has not the remotest
idea of the origin and meaning of the word
Cod
1T is said that man grows old by the
deposit of chalky substance in his tissues,
and, whereas, they are 'Springy' in youth,
they get less and less flexible in age. A
state has its youth and grows old and be-
comes like a stiff old horse with chalk in
his tissues. The enactment of laws that
limit the natural rights of the individual
are to the state what the chalk in the It's
sues of physical man is. They make it less
and less possible for the individual to move
and thus old age comes over the state.
What we need is proper economic condi-
for himself and herself must at last walk
up to the captains office and settle; and
the captain is the law of the survival of
the tittest.'
Nature the Proper RuIer.
People who have sense enough to marry
wisely and live together pleasantly will,
other things being equal, leave more chill
dren of like natures than those who do not
diyorcing and remarrying. And it is much
better to leave them with that natural adj
vantage and that natural penalty. The
best of life that I have ever seen was in
an unorganiZed territory where there was
no law or courts. Everybody minded his
own business; there was no interference
with anYones private affairs, and no taxes
to pay for services that we did not need
or want.
IN his History or American Banking
Gouge, in 1895. foretold the social decay
and misfortunes that would be brought on
this country, just as they have come, and
added: Instead of tracing its cause to
some positive institution. the removal of
which, while it might not Immediately re-
lieve. would prevent re-
currence, men set themselves to heaping
law upon law and institution upon institu-
ton. They in this resemble quacks who
apply lotions to the skin to cure diseases
of the blood or digestive organs occasioned
by Incorporate living. These projects of
relief and efforts at corrective legislation
will be numberless in multitude and divers
flied in character; but as they will not pro-
ceed on the principle of removing the
cause that the effect may cease they will
ultimately increase the evils they are in
tended to cure
Certainly there are few states in our
Union where there has been more close,
searching and tyrannical legislation, in
fringing on the natural rights of the indf-
vidual, than by the Bourbon Democracy
of this state-what we might call, in their
own language, a lot of 'projickin simlin-
heads. And the breath was not out of
their mouths for cursing the tyranny of
it."