The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-09-23
a MARRIAGE vows
r,se with Which They Are
Broken Is Deplored.
ni.course Of Dr. Tnimage on
uorItnI Relationships
,,rm divorce Laws Are
Needed,
,r.rbt. 1899, by Louis Klopschl
Washington,


r,lmage In this discourse dis,
a question of national impor-
,,bich is confcssedly ms difficult
"A :. Urgent The text is Matthew
A oWhnt therefore God hath joined
A bcr let no man put asunder'
A there are hundreds and thou
of inlclicitous homes in America
~ will doubt. If there were only
A pcrton in the closet, that might be
mn and abandoned, but in many
4 N, there is n skeleton in the hall
and a skeleton in all the apart
"UnhappiIy married are two
. descriptive of many a homestead,
4 ais no orthodox minister to prove
/ badIy mated pair that there is II
They are there now. Sometimes
land and gracious woman will be
iorarrcrated, and her life will be a
ey;8u. as was the case with Mrs.
rury. the great poetess and the
,oJl. Sometimes u consecrated
,,HI be united to a fury, as was
Wesley, or united to vixen, as
|lobr Milton. Sometimes, and gem
both parties are to blame, and
has Carlyle is an iutolorable grum-
and hi, wife has pungent rotort
Us ready. and Froude, the his
ln. pledged to tell the plain truth,
IN mil aside the curtain from the
|Opq squabble at CraigCuputtock
B Chcyne row.
Ine say that for the alienation Of
I,e,e domestic disorders of which we
easy divorce is Il good prescription.
sometimes authorizes divorce as
bfulv as he authorizes marriage.
inst as much regard for one law
/, divorced as have for one lawfully
Ticd. But you know and | know that
Iesale divorce is one of our national
lrges. am not surprised at this
n | think of the influences which
been abroad initiating against the
rage relation. For many years the
forms of the country rang with talk
lt a free love millennium. There
meetings of this kind held in the
lcmy of Music, Brooklyn; Cooper
.ute. New York; fremont temple.
on. and all over the land. Some Of
women who were most prominent
hat movement have since been dis
oishcd for great promiscuosity of
tiou. Popular themes for such oc-
ms were the tyranny of man, the
esson Of the marriage relation,
eu's rights and the atfinities.
aineut speakers were women with
{ cur.s and short dress and very
tongue. everlastingly at war with
because they were created women.
e on the platfOrm sat meek men
soft accent and cowed demeauor.
}getic for mascuIinity and holding
1arasols while the termagant ora
went on preaching the gospel of
love. That campaign of about 20
, set more devils into the marriage
ion than will be exercised in the
50. Men and women went home
such meetings so permanently
used as to who were their wives
husbands that they never got out of
and the criminal and the
'ourts tried to disentangle the Had
oes, and this one got alimOny, and
one got a limited divorce, and this
er kept the children on condition
the father could sometimes come
ook at them, and these went into
louscs, and those went into an in
asylum, and those went into dis
Q public life. and all went to de-
ton, The mightiest war ever made
st the marriage institution was
free love campaign, sometimes I'M
ne name and sometimes under an
other influence that has warred
the marriage relation has been
amy in Utah. That is a stereo-
caricature of the marriage re-
and has poisoned the whole land. |
night as well think that you can
an arm in a state of modification |
ct The whole body not be sickened |
have any territories or states
and yet the body of the |
not feel the putrefaction. Hear
cd men and women of America.
0 long ago as 1862 a law was passed |
lgrcss forbidding poIygamy in the
cries and ii all the places where |
had jurisdiction. Thirty-seyen |
have passed along and nine adj
irations, yet not until the passage |
Edmunds law in 1852 was any !
policy of polygamic suppression |
ed. Armed with all the power OF
lmentand having an army at their
val, the first brick had not till then
shocked from that fortress of lib
'm' Every new president in his
lral tickled that monster with tie
OF condemnation, and every CON
itself in proposing some
nat would not work. Polygamy |
IN Utah and in other of the terri.
more intrenched, more brazen,
lulssant, more braggart and more
al than at any time in its history.
buchanan, a much abused man of
v did more for the eXtirpation of
llalny than all the subsequent adj
ratlonS dared to do up to 1882.
uchanan sent out an army, and,
On 1t was halted in its work, still
omplished more than the subse-
administrations, which did moth
u talk, talk, talk. Even at this
~ and with the Edmunds act in
The evil has not been wholly eN-
d. Polygamy in Utah, though
'ed' is still practiced in secret. It
lrred against the marriage rela-
lroughout the land. 1t is impos-
have such an awful sewer of in
sending up its miasma, which IS
by the winds north, south. east
est without the whole land being