Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-18
WHOLESALE FALSEHOOD
ToHN GRAHAM BROOKS, in a lee

ToHN GRAHAM BROOKS, in lee
ture at Chautauqua, N. Y, recently
upon the subject, Money and
Marriage" made the following sweep
ing statement: "The power of money
over men is almost without limit. A
man that has it can buy a beautiful
woman, straight out. Yes, he can buy
two. three; I know not how many he
can buy. Or it may be turned about.
The woman may have the money, and
she can buy man next to the king,
his grace the gartered duke, as she
would a bit of blue ribbon over the
counter. She can buy him as she would
a pound of tea. Or she can buy a lord
and get into society, or a whole shoal
of dapper counts and seedy barons.'
That this is a wholesale SANDER on
the race totally at variance with truth
and an insult to intelligent men and
women is easily proved
"a beautiful woman!" If John Ora
ham Brooks had in mind the creature
whose physical form attracts the liber-
tine, and whose heart is cold as the
blood that supplies it; the rag and a
bone and hank of hair of the poet,
there is a measure of truth in his
sweeping charge. If he saw only the
degenerate thing in mans form, bereft
of all virtues that make a true man
and sold body and soul to idle vaga-
bondage, he had some foundation for
his TRADE, but is the great pulsing
world made up of such people?
What can be said of this mans
knowledge of the history of the race,
in the face of such statements? Some
where, some years ago, a woman took
upon herself, lovingly and dutifully,
the crown and sorrows of maternity,
and a man child was brought into the
world, and his sponsors called him
John Graham Brooks. She was a beau
tiful woman to the son. Could she be
bought with money?
The multtudes of women whose lives
of suffering and self-denial make them
truly beautiful in the sight of God and
man may not be bought with money.
All of good that ever has, does now or
ever shall ennoble the race sprang from
III WHICH VIII SllCCl1ully NOuA LCu
death to fulfill the law. In every walk
of life, from the modest maid with her
pots and pans to the heiress with her
millions, purity of person, heart and
motive marks The race, and this fact
resents the sweeping charge OF the lee
turer.
The homes of all lands, whence
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eminent and civilization, give the lie
direct to this abominable charge.
There were and are sinners among the
angels, saints and sanctified of all ages
including the present, but who will
claim that money viii buy all the vir-
tues in the world? There are and have
been women who have sunk their birth
right of loving homage from good men
in the low qualification of vanities and
disgraced their sex, but who can truth
fully arraign all women because of that
pitiful fact?
There are and have been weak and
sinful men, prone to parasitic lives,
who have lost will power and self
respect in the battle of life and who live
to take advantage of vain womanhood.
Who can truthfully say this of men as
a race? God and humanity love manly
men and womanly women, and a truly
beautiful woman cannot be bought
with money, nor can a manly man be
sold for coin.
The criminal pessimism of Just such
men as John Graham Brooks is born
of lack in themselves Of the virtues
they deny the race, or they would know
that the love of true woman was be-
yond price, and the honor of true
man proof against bribery.
Such i'll considered and unwarranted
attacks on the courage, honor, virtue
and love of beautiful women and honor
able men carry their own antidote, in
that they place their authors outside
the standards they SO vofubly con-
denim.