The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-06-20

planned all this and why? Who paid
Mrs. Heron the money for her support
and that of the children? There is
hardly any doubt that it was Miss Rand
herself. No sooner is the divorce OBJ
tanned than the two principal plotters
are married. Prof. Heron is free from
the wife of his youth whom he had
sworn to cherish for better or for worse
he is free from the care of his four
children whom he was bound by every
honorable instinct to support, and can
marry a woman Of wealth. He has
escaped from the anXieties and respon-
sibilities of his former state into that
freedom and ease which money can
give. Little money and family cares;
the discipline of children, all this he
has escaped. Now he can sing truly
the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places: yea have goodly heritage"
THE whole course of this affair
reveals its mean and sordid character.
We cannot Judge how far Prof. Heron
is self deluded; but | cannot avoid the
feeling that he is both hypocrite
and a coward. All the fine talk of
himself and his friends about soul
sympathy and the joyous rhythm of
souls will not blind the world to the
blackneSS of his action He poses as a
reformer; he has acted like scoundrel
He declares himself to be one OF the
Illuminated; his deeds proclaim him a
paltroon. He lectures upon the needs of
society and processes to have found the
way OF salvation while he breaks the
most sacred ties; abandons the first
duty of every good citizen and yields
himself captive to that very capital
which he has so loudly denounced as
the Moloch of our time.
lit is sign of moral soundness to
see the unanimlty of public con-
demnation of this man. BY their fruits
We shall know them Nothing that
Prof. Heron can now say will restore
his shattered reputation. We judge his
doctrines by his deeds; and we say if
this be the proper thing for the prophet
of the time we will adhere to the old
order of things. If the new school of
sociological thought plays thus fast
and loose with the marriage relation
teaches the abandonment of wife and
children and allows the wife to carry
the responsibility of rearing them alone
while they grow up deprived Of
fathers care: if it permits man to so
act and claims it as his right and even
his duty, then will the sturdy moral
sense of the world condemn such teach
ing as doctrine of damnation. Heron
has gone to his own place His place
IS with the eccentric and unprincipled
Rousseau, who put his children in a
founding hospital while he pursued
his amours with the high born ladies
of France. We condemn the man as we
condemn the selfshness of Shelley for
driving his own wife Harriet, to suicide;
as we condemn the immoralities of
Byron and the drunkenness of Poe. If
he has acted without delusion then is
Heron grovelling hypocrite. If, how
ever, he has deluded himself into the
belief that this was right course and
that in taking it he would accomplish
his true destiny then indeed is he hood
winked with Dreams He has ruined
his influence as teacher; he has set all
good men in array against him and he
has contracted marriage which in all
probability will result in unhappiness
and possibly in separation. Is there
right minded poor man in America
who, as he looks into the faces of his
wife and babes, would exchange places
with this apostle of social freedom.
"The example of this man would
ilolOly NC N1tlOII dllcIlulOll IL IL were
not typical of something that is of more
significance.
Rev. Mr.. Gilmore said that as all apos-
tie of socialism he has given set back
to serious consideration of it's tenets by
the public. The pastor made clear, how
ever, that he expected little from the
shallow socialism as advocated by men
of the calibre of Prof. Heron. Heron
and men of his like dream of mere eco
nomic, material regeneration of soci-
ety-One in which there shall be COM
munity of property. They do not pro-
vide for curing the evils in the nature
of men, their selfshness, laziness and
lack of principle All these evils must
be corrected before there can be true
communism. But you cannot expect
strict demands for these moral sides of
men like Heron. 1t is from men like
Prof. R. 7. Ely of Madison and G Graham
Taylor of Chicago, "whose large and
balanced views and principles will be
carried out by thousands of young men
who share their views and are filled
with those mems spirit" -Winconsin
State Journal.