The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-13
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at Wichita Is the first step In . compiees
exploitation Of the tenets Of FREE Love-
| which Wal occur at their TRAN IN sha
United States district court here.
II It's adherenls are 20 Be believed. tAs
gospel OF Free Love - Wtde-spread. ana
fts followers number thousands uhO Tor
personal reasons keep their belief IN q
secret.
Mrs. chinn was not known BY the peo-
pie Of Arkansas Cfty 60 hold the belief
until she was arrested. The cause Of her
arrest was briefly this: ar. Lee. Who
was travelling In the interest % the FREE
Love belief. sent her. Ars. China. from
his home In Tim. Ohio. a letter. tWo
prohibited books and a photograph which
Is without the pale OF legality He ssked
her 10 return them. and she did 50 d.
reeting them TO Tininy. Ohio. There Il
no TIfsny. Ohio. The letter fen into the
hands OF the post Ofslce authorities, the
arrest OF Mrs Chinn followed. and thar
Of Lee.
The document of Free Love T. a rssols
against the legal institution OF marriaea.
| II presuppOses that marriage carries wfth
Il the assumption OF mastery on the part
OF the husband. OF bondage on the part
OF the wife. The wife Is supposed 70 en-
ter the legal marriage vith q eensclen-
tious revolt against the ehatteAgs i'm
piled IN the nuptial promise 90 obey.
This casukstricai revolt seems ridiculons
TO any young man ana young woman
who. dead in love. are burning 20 marry
each other. and who regard the marriage
oath as a mere incident to a joyful Coz.
| summation
But the Free Love adherent II supposed
TO have worked herself up into such
fine frenzy over her rights and the free
dom Of her soul. that the words Of the
marriage stipulation cut like daEgers, aud
sting like wasps. She believes that she
Is handed over TO q man a. his chatsel.
bis slave. and that her Independence Of
soul. heart and conscience Is thus degrad.
ed and corrupted.
1t was I'm exploitation Of this idea thae
| Grant Allen some years ago wrote a novel
which was the craze OF It's day The wo-
man Who Did" clerKyman's dauRhe-
er felC the inner revolt against the insr-
tuition OF marriage which according T. her
belief ensIaved the conscience and the
heart OF woman. and was worded on ths
1 y
| and not fellow-being. the equal and peer
/ OF men.
She fell In hove with a young man. she
/ would not marry him. In the most Cruz
chatting complications Of emotions. she rs-
volted always against the marriage cere-
mOny. The young man loved the YOUNG
woman and was willing 10 marry her on
any plan she might set forth. So they
| were married outside the Law. Just Is
she demanded. by taking hands ana Call
ing each other husband and wifa OF
/ course the husbands fa1her rebelled
] against such nonsense and upbraided the
young man. The young people vent %
Italy where n child was born. a SRI. ~.
ter n life OF perfect bliss. thu hushaBa
died. left the young wife ia tbs world
alone, penniless. disgraced. She With her
baby went back to England. she was
/ SIN true 20 her convictions. Sut when the
| young baby grew 60 yOund womaahooa
and was having love affairs herself ana
had Il thrown up 90 her that she was lie
climate, and rushed home and uBbFaidsd
her own mother with accusations the
poor mother could not deny. and then De-
sert0i her mother for her grand pateTnai
grandmother. the champion 81 the great
fight against the institution % marriage
gave % the fight and died. OF did come
thing equally as appropriate.
II 81 said TO be the same With ali Free
Love advocates. No matter what they
practice themselves they Insist on q fuIi
legal marriage % their children With a
possible elimination Tor their daughters
OF the word obey"
In the trial az those h0idfnE 20 the doe.
trims in Wichita a fall exehibition Of ths
tenets will probably be Efvea IN opsn
court A great many OF the details Of the
doctrine which are nOw unknown win be
f0r the hrs: time revealed 20 The general
public.
Il r. a noteworthy fac, that the s1is-
;encs Of the belief Eoals not BE- knssa
Il u we're no, for lapees into indecsney On
the part Of some of its sdhefsnts
II r. SAID tina; The doctrine reaches 81
over the United s'atsz snl has a ceassf.
a bead meshum. uho lives somewhere IN
Pennsylvania She ~ a woman what
ever she ssys s. taken as infailibis trufh.
Whatever difcctioa she makes % her fBi-
lowers must b. ifnelicisIy f3iipssd shs
elaine SINE quslihcatIDns similar 30 that
o. trance mediums. ~ rather profs-ssa %
have revelations from heaven Thee rev
elations are occurred. transmitted fzss
writing then printed sna Distributed osst
the country 20 the aaisrerts % Frss
Love
One - whose documents which eaasss -
Teveisfi9n. Il authorizes - a long Bns
., zrss, men IN heaven sbd vioiSn;iy e.
taeks ths Institution % marriar-. u rnaa.s
the astounding claim shat marriage g. 70.
spouxsbIs Tor iii-EiiiHnscy. reasoairK uitA
i18ooE that ~ there were No wsd-ioek sii
shil6rsn would ~ bosn cut % wss -lsek.
ana consequently nDas eDs'd - i.tsSia-
rna1e
This revelation phi-h sdlgrss p-7p,s -
drop tbs fas@ iaa,i'u;tan % taarrfars
and resorm TIE world Is srubzt-,i - ne
toIbvvfnR FsnoSns8 persoaaE-s IN hsaveni
George Washington. Bsaisnin FFanklss
ChrtstoShsr CalgSnsss. DaFsia. koorats-.
Abszhaan I4nesla. WliBsss sa4kesp~ass
ard Cicero
The eocfrsns's esFazfEa'isa ns.istssns .
Frup.zznsa. To baslnsss q thfs sryva-
ganaa b 20 sfrssf the ksVEissgs q ~
au~trias ara se-urs csuFsrfE Lee was
T. IA ere H1rkifa So. - = rns-nh~r % ths
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