Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-17
LOVE. NOT LAW.

New York World: "There is but one
true basis for MARRIAGE said Mrs. Eva
F.. Riggs before the Society for the Study
of Life at the Tuxedo. Not lust. but
love; not physical affinity, but spiritual
affinity! Girls want to marry not for a
home or a dress or a hat. but because
they love a man and are willing to die for
him. No man ever inspired tnat ceiling
who was not worthy of it. He will love
her children and his. There should be no
union less than that; no children that are
not welcomed as blessings. We do not
need laws nearly as much as love"
This was called out by the address of
DR.. NJ. A. Stewart. a woman physicians.
on "Heredity and R~egeneration." She
handed the subject without gloves, and
went straight to the heart OF the matter
in a fashion that caused a spirited dis
cussion.
"Heredity,' she argued. Ties in the
innernost springs of existence, and the
curse of man is the sense of shame that
overhangs the reproduction of the race
"a condition so deep and un!,oly that
theologians rightly term it total deprav-
ity.
Every child brought into the world is
born under this curse. the Subordlnation
of motherhood to the will Of man. the
perversion Of the divine order Of creation.
Here sin has it's origin. For ID Centuries
We have had a Christian religion. but the
Christian marriage is yet to come. The
spirit which holds woman in subsection
is the same satanic influence as in the
beginning.
"Original sin is a trouble resistant real
ity. 1t is impossible for the ignorant to
sin so deliberately and disastTGusly as
the educated. We have reached the
utmost advance. The ebbtide has set in
that is sweeping us down into chaos.
The majority of mankind probably came
into existence by accident!'
And the doctor cited French family life
as an example of moral obliquity.
until the movement of the world is
changed, moral and physical dageHer-
acy,' she continued, twill go lland in
hand. We want the control of the Spirit
of God at the threshold of lie to take Ls
from the old Adam to the rageneratad
Christ"
Mrs. Riggs commended that the doctors
was a most depressing view Of marriage
and of human nature.
"She speaks as if the woman were the
victim, man the OppressOr. she said. 81
have not found it so in the majority of
cases."
eff thew are mated" agreed NIrs
Almon T. Hensley from the chair. ''hus-
band and wife will be in perfect accord -
mot one woman in a thousand desires
the responsibility of motherhool,' began
Mrs. Henry Bender, but a chorus of mo,
that's not so,' interrupted.
Il would like to know how the regen-
GRAFTON Of man can be accomplisheG?'
insisted Mrs. Bender.
II don't think it possible to ~regenerate
man. replied the dictor. "It is a natter
of conscience between the woman and her
God whether she will stick to the man
and bring devils children into the world
or leave him."
The women We're up in arms in a mo-
ment, asserting the better nature OF
man.
IF we want to regenerate man. begin
with the boys cried one.
Mrs. L. D. Hubert was Of the opinion
that girls had an equal share of respon-
sibility.
1.-The mother can max, the unborn child
what she O have IT. she cri ID. "!t
is the ignorant mothers that make 'he
ignorant children. who, though igno-
rance. fall into sin"
Accidental children" brought out
Mrs. Riggs plea that Goods plan is
best"
Mrs. Hensley concluded:
Il have known the child of a Irunkard
1--WE have one in the society to grow into
a good m but / would not go so ral
as to say that she might not have beer
better with the right kind Of a father"