The record-union., 1898-11-03
PRESENT DAY THOUGHTS
BY G. Grosvenor DAVE.

More words with women: Out Of the
fullness of the heart, the mouth Is
bound to speak; and having spoken, the
message is almost equally certain to
run counter to someone's prejudices.
Thus has it been with this column;
that, whatever else it may fail TO do,
does most certainly represent convic-
tions. Three weeks ago l dared to
write to your sex some words that or
iginated in deepest feeling. Yet the Ian
guage was careful and restrained. But
out of the hundred or more editors that
printed this column, several felt i'm
PEELED to condemn it, and one attacked
it in a lengthy editorial.
A species of running comment on his
words will lead you onward to some
further thought. First Of all, however,
let me quote a few sentences from this
knight Of the pen. God made woman
the sole custodian Of the priceless jewel
of sexual purity and virtue" And
again, THE worse than idle talk Of the
free love advocates about Furnishing the
traitoress who possibly invites an at
tack and the man who yields,
alike is contrary to natural
laws. ~" One other quotation is
necessary to show the extremity of con-
demnation4 ''As men despise and re-
fuse to respect one of their sex proven
to be a sneaking coward or perfidious
traitor like Judas Iscariot or Benedict
Arnold, so do women, not debauched
by the polluting influence of an i'm
moral miasma floating through a fcti-
tious, fashionable society, refuse to as
sociate, on equal terms, with those who
have proved traitors to their sacred
trust and trampled the priceless pearl
Of their purity in the filth of licentious
promiscuity. In both cases the abhor-
renee and avoidance on equal social
terms of the offender, is a natural God
given instinct which neither the well
intentioned long haired, male senti-
mentalists or the short-haired female
advocates of natural selections or
promiscuous Woodruff -Clafinism nasti-
ness can overcome
There having been nothing said in
the former Thoughts" to justify such
language, it is not necessary to call
names I merely remark that both
Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold are
unfortunate characters to drag into
such a controversy. Owing to the
theological outcome of Judas act, one
is left in doubt as to what would have
happened if he had been less of a ras-
cal; but there is no doubt as to the out
come of the act of the sneaking mod
ern Judas. who also betrays with
kiss. His act is not overruled to raise
hopes, but to destroy them, and his evil
undoes good instead of leading from
evil to good. And as for Benedict Ar
mold, let us remember that it was his
less guilty associate, Major Andre,
who suffered, while Arnold escaped.
which is exactly the evil that many
broad hearted ones are trying to point
out in relation to morals between the
sexes.
The demand for a single standard Of
morality is not a letting down of the
bars for a flood Of free love, but it fa-
vors an equality of punishment that
raises instead of lowers the obstacles
for those who incline to err. To favor
anything less than equality is to favor
injustice, from which your sex has al
ready suffered through centuries OF
blindness and hardness of heart, Sup
pose you grant that a man, being so in
clined, may very properly act different
ly from woman, where does it lead
you? You make the way of woman all
the harder by declaring, with nv at
tacking editor that woman is the sole
custodian of virtue and men ravening
wolves seeking to tear down and de-
stroy. Apply the thought, not imper-
sonally any longer, but personally to
the men and women of your own ac-
quafntance who are fair averages. and
you will see what untruth there is in
the thought By granting a different
line of conduct to the man, you de-
clare that the union of woman fthe
good) with man Cthe bad) will produce
girl children (good) and men children
(bad); that out of a stream of life
happily united in love shall come both
good and bad, differentiated into the
two classes solely by the chance of
sex. The thought is absurd when you
look around your own little family cir
Gle; then why is it not equally alb
surd when you think of other family
circles stretching away beyond your
own horizon?
Society does not yet bury the SHINING
man with the SHINING woman in the soil
Of the nameless dead. He can turn
backward to light and respectability.
but she can "nevermore." If this is
natural, it is horrible just the same: If
it is simply an abnormal habit into
which society has drifted, then right
minded thought must change 1t all.
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Those who make them: surely not those
who suffer from them. Then may an
other Nathan arise to say, "Thout
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