The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-21
GHOST STORY WOULD FIX HIM.


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GHOST STORY WOULD FIX HIM.
Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews of the University o.
Nebraska is the latest educated person voluntari,
become sensational In recent lecture he challenged
the hostility of every manageable bachlor and spnste
in the land by saying There no place in society
il the scheme of the universe for unmarried ndivid
uals" meaning of course unmarried individuals of ma
tured years. He further-further than wisdom
of angels would lead them-nd declared nineenths
of the shame and crime of the world are due to un
welded life"
Benjamin. before lecturing should hire somebody to
tell him ghost story that would freeze his blood,
else he should give up ecturing during the tod
get as near as possible to the snowcapped peaks
of the Rockies The surely excited the cells of
his brain
Practically every married knows that is better
to have wife than without one but every married
is not willing to concede that the irrational and
sweeping statement of Chancellor Andrews is true.
Wichita, like every decent mixed community. has some
eminent bachelors who are admitted to honored by
the best society who by actions behavior and
charities have distinct place in the scheme the
And it might be also that they contribute
of their welded fellow citizens do.
To marry woman within certain and definite age
limit made an obligatory duty by either the laws
of God and all know that nature is not too
in insistence such things She contin
ued to endow with great genius many who stead
tasty refused to link their fortunes with
II is only necessary to instance Pythagoras Dogenes
Voltare, Petrarch Herbert Spencer and our Wash
ington Irving, thousand eminent men,
to prove that nature is opposed celbacy That
the world holds nothing against who is slow in
doing that which Schoepenhauer says doubles ones
duties and halves ones rights the of William j.
Bailey the immensely popular favorte for governor Of
Kansas is cited. And pause in reasoning to OBJ
serve right here that if crime anywhere to
remain unmarried it should be in Kansas where oppor
tunity is always ripe to be embraced.
Now that it is proved that nature and the people do
to clinch entire argument put quietus Mr.
Benjamin Andrews by throwing the weight of religion
against him. Christ to be sure encouraged marriage by
doing miracles wedding feast but He says nowhere
that marriage obligatory there is place in
society in the scheme of the universe even in
religion unmarried persons He among his disc
pies unmarried men-and of the most eminent fol
lowers of His teachings-both and women-re-
NAMED forever unmarried It is ordinance of the
Roman Catholic church that its ministers teachers and
leaders shall live life of cebacy What evidence
loes Chancellor Andrews want? No ever assumed
IN argumentative position so untenable as his.
Marriage is entirely matter of taste and man-as
we'll woman-is free agent in its exercise In the
broader enlightenment of the twentieth century
manifest tendency only to strictly regulate
ou to restrict marriages Science approves Of it, and
he interests OF higher civilization demands it But
position of Chancellor E Benjamin Andrews is too alb
urd demand opposition weak to provoke at
ack His argument will fall OF itself lack of found
ton He is simply suffering from the effects of the
weather.