The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-18

sane asylum, and those went into dis
solute public life, and all went to de-
struction. The mightiest war ever made
against the marriage institution was
that free love campaign, sometimes I'M
der one name and sometimes under an
other.
The System of Polygamy.
Another influence that has warred up
on the marriage relation has been polyg-
amy in Utah. That is q stereotyped carl
cature Of the marriage relation and has
poisoned the whole land. You might rs
we'll think that you can have an arm in q
state of modification and yet the whole
body not be sickened as to have any ter
rtories or states polygamized and yet the
body Of the nation not feel the putrefac-
ton. Hear it, good men and women OF
America, that so long ago as 1852 law
was passed by congress forbidding polyg-
amy in the territories and in oil the
pNces where they had jurisdiction. ThIr-
ty-seven years have passed along and
nine administrations, yet not until the
passage of the Edmunds law in 1882 was
any active policy of polygamic suppress
sion adopted. Armed with all the power
of government and having an army at
>their dfsposal, the first brick had not till
then been knocked from that fortress OF
libertinism. Every new president In his
inaugural tckled that monster with the
straw of condemnation, and every con-
gress stutitied itself in proposing some
plan that would not work. Polygamy
stood in Utah and in other Of the terri
tories more intrenched, more brazen, more
pussant, more braggart and more inter-
nal than ut any time in its history.
James Buchanan, a much abused man of
his day, did more for the cxtirpation OF
this yillainy than all the subsequent ad-
ministrations dared to do up to 1882.
Mr.. Buchanan sent out an army, and,
although it was halted in it's work, still
he accomplished more than the subse-
quent administrations, which did nothing
but talk, talk talk. Even at this late
day and with the Edmunds act in force
the evil has not been wholly extirpated.
Polygamy in Utah, though outlawed, is
still practiced in secret. II has warred
against the marriage relation throughout
the land. 1t Is impossible to have such
an awful sewer Of iniquity sending up its
miasma, which is waited by the winds
north, south, east and west without the
whole land being affected by it.
Another influence that has warred
against the marriage relation In this
country has been a pustulous literature,
with its millions Of sheets every week
chol;ed with sh,ries of domestic wrongs
md infdelitica and massacrcs and out
rnecs. until il Ia wonder to me that
there nrc any decencjes or any common
sense left on the subject of marriage.
One-half of the newsstands Of our great
cities rock with the filth,
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H"' .-" s,.';t .m .bo,o
NOW e"!s e"ihe' w "u"'.' ~. a. .''en
eVi's' anu inc only way ~ e.eui . , ~; y,
OF 10 correct tneln ~ ~ easS u'H'e..
well before we yie'o 10 'nnt cry u. us
nlu out noM .ass III A.. NV. ns
looseu over INC l.Ms VI III 'ne s'nt'e' "n !.
l nuu tha,, Whne III 'oine s'"'ss ~
~ easier thah III M ''ne.s' q" MY
e,a'e IL Is easy ine sur Vi ii'I''U ,;s,
through us ies'siu'ufe' iee''eS " 'oi's 1881
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Of proper causes for divorce and then
closes up by giving to the courts the right
to make decree of divorce In any case
where they deem 1t expedient. After that
you are not surprised at the announce
ment that in one county of the state OF
Illinois in one year there were e33 d.
vorces. If you want to know how easy it
Is, you have only to look over the records