The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-16

/, business has grown into a monster
land is a mania of an appalling char
lacter and magnitude. In some coun-
ties thirty or forty cases for divorce
lind their way into one court. The
evil grows with the using. and the
devil is having a tremendous time OF
lit from one end of the State to the
other. The monster must be clipped
of his claws. The devil must be
chained. The foul disgrace must
cease. The tremendous evil must be
extinguished. Vote for no candidate
for the legislature who is an enemy of
virtue and the sanctity of the homes.
land the clear and positive law or
| God Bob TAYLOR, ex-governor OF
| Tennessee, an orator ana a VIII OF
many gifts, is an example OF what the
Charlotte presbyterian Standard Wei
calls Progressive Polygamy ne
i and his second wife were divorced not
grounds The plea was incompatlpli-
Iity and they separated under the
laws governing Bob was soon mar
ried again. He has his third Wlie
| now, and two are living. The stand
ara SAYS
E-..7soever shall put away his wife
| and marry another commltteth auulI-
ery." But here was no charge even
| of indebtedness. This is nothing Dul
progressive polygamy, one wife at
| time, but more than one wife llVlnE
and the first the only lawful one, &C
cording to the teachings of Jesus. II
lis needless to say that, whatever nu-
man law may have to say about 1t,
those teachings are the standards
here and should be for Christian peo-
pie everywhere.
l. on N
this winter. The pure, upright. GOD
obeying people should taboo Bob ana
his marital antics. He should not
have the presence of any true nus
band, any faithful wife. any pure
good woman. | agree heartily WIN
what Rev. DR.. McKelway. the able
editor, says:
1.-THE South is still the section that
does not believe in progressive DolVg-
amy, in legaiized adultery. ANY
Presbyterian minister. North now as
we'll as South who would have per-
formed the ceremony for that second
marriage would have been disciplined
by his PreSbytery. according TO recent
admonitions on that subject.
Ex-Governor Taylor shall be taught
that he cannot talk now. to the wives
and daughters of Southern peo-
Men and brethren. in all earnest
ness we speak: We must save our
Southern civilization from this black
plague of easy and respectable di-
yorce, of the swapping of wives and
husbands which is tolerated only in
heather tribes and certain fashionable
American circles.
1.-The thing is not to be tolerated. 1t
must not be borne.
And we ask the women. to whom
the secure foundation of the home
means most of ALL to join in the cru
SADIE which shall give empty houses
to ex-governor Taylor wherever he
shall speak in this Southland of ours.
1t is a case of moral leprosy. There
is no middle ground to take: 1t re-
quires the same power to repeal a
law as it does to create 1t. GOD lald
down the law as to divorce ana II
must stand. and will stand. until it is
repealed by Him, the one law given.
Cowper, a pure English poet, wrote:
1.-THE only amaranthine fioWr on earth
Is Virtue; the only lasting treasure.
Truth"
Nothing can atone for or "conse-
crate a crime" against virtue and high
morality-neither "forid prose. nor
for the one cause God points to, is
sin, naked and deformed, and Shakes
peare tells us that lone sin another
doth provoke" The same greatest of
writer's declares that
"Vice repeated. is like the wandering
wind,
Blows dust in others eyes"
Elect the right kind of legislature.
and the fearful curse that is sweeping
now over North Carolina, like
beson of destruction" will disappear,
and the damning stain and torture
and guilt will be gone.
1t is instructive to examine periods
of production of men of genius. Take.
for instance. the time embraced be-
tween 1870 and 1S00-thirty years say
and see what men lived in it of
genius and rare talents-thoSe who
died and those who were born within
that time: In 1870, that uncommon
genius. Thomas Chatterton. persisted
in H'~ PRIDE In it William Words
worth, great poet. was born. In
1771. Thomas Gray died. and Walter