The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-02-05

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1893.
FOB ZNGER.SOLL,S PLE1
FOR LIBERTY.
On last Sunday night Col. Robt.
Ingersoll, the famous agnostic, de
hvered an eloquent address on tn.
liberty of man, woman and child
Among other. things he said:
The man who does not do his own thinlk
ing is slave, and is traitor to himself anc
20 his fellow-men.
Every man should stand under the blu.
stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the
Peer oi every other naan
You cannot change the, conclusion of the
brain BY torture; nor by social ostracism
But will ten you what you have done.
You can make a man say that he has
changed his mind; but he remains of the
same opinion still. Put letters all over him;
crush his feet in iron boots; stretch him to
hst gasp upon the holy rack; burn him, il
you please. but his ashes will be of the
same opinion STILL.
Let me say right here, that regard mar
Iiage as the hottest Institution among men.
vancement; without the family relation
there is no Fife worth living. Every good
government is the family, and anything that
tends to destroy the family is perfectly dew
sIish and infamous. I believe in marriage,
and hold in utter contempt the opinions of
those long haired men and short-haired
women who denounce the institution of
marriage.
The grandest ambition tina, any man can
possibly have, is to SO live, and so improve
himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of
the love of some splendid woman; and the
8randest ambition of any girl is to make her
~ off he OBJ s.
magnificent man. That is my idea. There
u no success in life without love and mar
Hage. You had better be the emperor of
one loving and tender heart, and she the
empress of yours, than to be the king of the
world The man who has really the
love of one good woman in this world, do
40; rot care if be dies in the diteha beggar his
had rather be beggar and spend my
hast dollar like a king, than he king and
spend my money like beggar.
Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.
Joy is wealth.
It is not necessary to be great to be happy;
1t is not necessary to be rich to be just and gen
erous and to have heart filed with divine
affection. No matter whether you rich
or poor, treat your wife as though she were
4 splendid flower, and she will fill your life
with perfume and with Joy.
And, do you know, it is splendid thing
to think that the woman you really love will !
never grow old to you. Through the wrink-
les of time, through the mask of years, if !
you really love her, you will always the
face you loved and won.- And a woman
who really loves man does not see that
he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; he
does not trenable; he is not old; she always
sees the same gallant gentleman who won
her hand and heart. like to think of it
in that way; like to think that love is eter-
nal. And to love in that way and then 90
down the hill together, and as you go down,
hear, perhaps, the laughter of grandchil-
dren while the birds of joy and love sing
once more in the leafless branches of the
tree of age.
believe in the 6reside I believe in the
of home. I believe in the re-
publicanism of the family. I believe in
liberty, equality and love.
When your little child tells lie, do not
'ush at him as though the world were about
o go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him.
: : tyrant father will have liars for children;
10 yon know that? A lie is born, of tyranny
lPon the one hand and weakness upon the
'ther, and when you rush at a POOR little
10Y with club in your hand, of course he
Ithank thee, Mother Nature, that thou
.ast put ingenuity enough in the brain of
hid, when attacked by a brutal parent, to =
brow up a little breastwork in the shape of
lie.
Do you know that have seen some peo-
lie who acted as though they thought that
hen the Saviour said, ssSuffer little chill {
rem to come unto me, for.of such is the 1
au8NOAA "a uSdVCu, ne 0ao a hide l..
er his mantle, and made that remark sim i
iy I" get the children within striking dis :
ance? .
The laugh of child will make the holiest :,
ay more sacred still. Strike with =
and of fire, o weird musician, thy II
arp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fiji
le vast cathedral alsles. with symphonies
veet and dim, deft TOUGHER of the organ ~
eys; blow, bugler, blow, until thy silver
otes touch and kiss the n,oonlit waves t
i'd charm the lovers wandering mid the :,
ne-elad hills. But know, your sweetest
rains are discords all, compared with. child u
ood's happy laugh-lhe laugh that fills the :.
res with light and every heart with Joy.
ripping river OF laughter, thou art the u
essed boundary line between the beasts e
ID men; and every hayward wave Of thine =
9TH drown some fretfuls6end of care o IL
aughter, rose-lpped daufS of Joy, there 8
e dimples enough in TIT ee,es to catch -
d hold and glorify ali O. Tears of grief X
There has never been ufon the earth ! h,
'neration of free men aud women. 1t is ~
u fine fr to' i