The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-01
JEALOUSY.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave; the Goals
thereof are Goals of fire, which hath a
most vehement flame.
& OLOMON, i'm the midst Of the most
- passionate love song ever written
stopped long enough to indite the
words just quoted. words which are as
true as truth itself. For jealousy is
the rage of man." he wrote again.
therefore. he win not spare in the day
Of vengeance"
The most unreasOning passion in the
World is jealousy. It blinds those whom
Possesses; it destroys their power Of
nguishing right from wrong; it
IS demon which says: "SIay,
4lay." More crimes are committed
&c. Of Jealousy than for any other
reason. Jealousy has caused
"a r heartache than all the poverty,
an the wars ali the pestlences which
the world has known and borne.
On marble slabs !n Salt Lake un-
dertaking establishment the bodies Of
a man and q woman are lying this
morning. IN life they loved each other.
No man has the right to say they did
not for they were husband and wife.
The hottest OF all human relations with
the possible exception Of that which
exists between mother and child. was
theirs. They had sworn to honor and
cherish each other, 70 bear patiently
each with the other in sickness and in
health. in sorrow and in JOY, through
all their lives.
There is evidence that. for a time
they lived happily together. The man
was all the world to the woman; the
woman was all the world to the man.
And then their horizon became over
cast The devil Of jealousy took posses
sion of the mans heart. With fangs
sharper than the serperts tooth it
gnawed his vitals until his whole being
was consumed. Now come we to the
final act
The man is man no longer, he is jeal-
ousy incarnate. Many. many nights,
perhaps. he has lain awake listening
70 the whispering of the fend xiii,
Kill, kill" On d day when all mems
hearts should be tender. day when
the whole nation is doing honor to the
memory of its heroic dead, this man,
himself brave and faithful soldier, is /
throttled by the devil in his soul. Once.
twice he fires. The woman to whom
he has plighted his sacred troth pitches
forward-dead. Without giving himself
a moment for reflection, the husband
turns the weapon Of death upon him
self. and within a brief space he gasps
out his life.
Together, hand in hand almost, their
spirits have gone 10 the great white
throne, there to be judged according to
the measures they melted on this earth.
no earthly court can pass on their
transgression; the world can only look.
and think. and learn. The man was
wrong. OF course, for no man has the
right to take the life Of another or his
own. The Lord gave, the Lord hath
taken away" Only he who gave has
the right TO take, but it is too late for
all that now with Frank Graves and
mis- wife Anena.
The lesson in the tragedy is a lesson
OF forgiveness. Of charity, Of patience
and forbearance. DesdemOna was as
pure as an angel, but OtheIlo strangled
her TO death because ne thought her a
wanton, And Othello loved Desdemona.
TOO. He listened 10 the tongue Of false
report until the fire in his soul con-
sumed him. Desdemona could have ex-
planned away all the nominating cir
cumstaEces had she been given the op-
portunity. Other women who have
been murdered for the same reason
could have done the same thing.
But jealousy listens not to the voice
of reason. 1t sees stains where sanity
sees only innocence; it scents foulness
where only sweet incense rises. n
husbands would trust their wives and
wives their husbands, if sweethearts
would trust one another as men trust
men, much Of the sin and misery which
> Goth encompass as would be obliter-
ateG>The good God gave human beings
the power Of speech to help them know
one ano8her better. to guide them
safely Through dangerous places, and.
fnaliyf to lead those whom he has
joineq together. hand in hand into the
deepening twilight