The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-25

her be as the loving hind and pleasan
roe--Proyerbs 5:1S-19.
This advice was given by a man who
knew what he was talking about He
is credited with having had seven hun
dred wives of his own and he was GER
| tainly qualified to speak on the subject
of matrimony. His advice came from a
| tremendous amount of experience. Solo,
| mons proneness to get married is the
one fact that might cast doubt upon
| his great wisdom.
| But notwithstanding Solomon's ex-
perience and advice, men have been act
ing directly contrary to that advice
down to this very moment. The case of
| the Coreys is by no means unusual. 1t
is simply conspicuous. Many another
| man who has had the helpfulness and
inspiration of a loyal, loving wife in the
struggling years of his career, has base
ly deserted her for another when pros
perity has come to them. Perhaps a
younger and more brilliant charmer
steals his affection from his family, just
as happened in the case that has recent
ly disguised all America.
Solomon does not say what happens
to the man who doesn't take his adj
vice. but the result is usually the same
in all such cases. The man who casts
aside and trampIes under foot the ten
der love of the woman who gave her life
into his keeping in the days of their
youth, will SUI lily reap a harvest of
bitterness and unhappiness. There may
be very few exceptions to the rule, but
even that is doubtful In the very ma
ture of things the man who commits
such an atrocity is a contemplate
scoundrel who is not worthy of the love
of a good woman, and both he and the
adventures who wins him from his
family will in time suffer great disap-
pointment in each other. Such an end
is freely predicted for the Corey Gilman
episode.
Still this Corey case has its useful
ness. 1t has emphasized the baseness of
the man who will treat the wife of his
youth as has the president of the steel
trust-and such cases are by no means
rare-and it has Disguised the world by
the lack of respect for the marriage VOW
that w. E. Corey and his new actress
bride have shown. The minister who
performed the marriage brought down
on his head storm of indignant pro-
tests and he has been dismissed by his
congregation. Already he has repented
his part in the marriage. The press has
severely censured the procedure,
great church has forbidden it's clergy to
sanction such unions the public has had
it's eyes opened and its conscience
aroused on the subject, and reform in
divorce laws may result. The Corey
case has it's lessons. The vulgarity and
where.
In this connection, a recent editorial
utterance of the Chicago Chronicle is of
interest. 1t is especially significant in
view of the fact that the Chronicle is
usually regarded as an organ of wealth.
1t says: 1.-The ordinary vulgarian of the
Pittsburg type-ignorant, illiterate, new
ly enriched-excites ridicule rather than
resentment. When he is breaking the
bank at Monte Carlo or buying cham
payne for the entire population of a
French village or ordering automobiles !
in lots of a dozen. he evokes the same |
Disguised interest that one feels in the |
spectacle of country boy drunk and |
munificent at a cross roads saloon. He |
does not know how to spend his money, |
yet he wants everyone to know that he |
has no end of it. He plays fantastic |
tricks before high heaven and though |
angels may weep mortals laugh at him. |
He is rather a horrible and deterrent |
example of swollen vulgarity than a
menace to decency. But the other type
the wife deserter and Sardanapalian |
prodigal of second nuptials celebrated in
a hotel at midnight with reporters and /
swarming about-this
man affronts the moral sense of the
American people and makes this nation
the jest of a sneering world. Whatever
may be said of European morals with
respect to the marriage relation, it must
be conceded that such a wedding as
hat at the Hotel Gotham early Tues
lay morning would in London or Paris
Dr. Vienna have excited nothing save
disgust. That it was
featured in every American newspaper
confirms the assertion that such mar
'iages with their gross and vulgar con-
,omitants constitute a menace to ma
ional decency and self-respect. For
years and yet other years our legisla-
ion has tended to the creation of mon
Eyed barbarians, enriched by special
privilege, beneficiaries of tariff sched-
lies. Hitherto they have been merely
vulgar and ridiculous. Now they are
immoral and dangerous. Is it
lot about time to consider the advis-
ability of stopping the manufacture OF
hese creatures?'
WILSON'S BREAK"