The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-18

authorization by the state OF the XIII = 4
ing of undesirables. He seems to have
no fear that the state might begin
by authorizing the police to kin g
b. s.
Mr. Shaw said in an easy, offhand
way: at is most obvious to every |
body that before we can begin to
breed the human race with the view
to its Improvement we must go fur
ther in the direction of political revo
luton than the most extreme Social
list now ventures TO suggest publicly. |
1t is evident that we need the entire
abolition of property and marriage, as
now understood, as n preliminary step.
do not see any way out of that"
1t would be perfectly fair to ask
Mr.. Shaw to be n little more explicit
as to the eve" who want these things
done. How many Of you are there?
I'VE" might consist only of Mr. Shaw
and some friend of his who had no
property and never wished to have
any, no wife and no prospects of get
ting one. Such trifles as the aboll'
tion of property and marriage would
not appear particularly radical to a
man In that kind of position and he
might get together and say 1--WE" the
people of England-as in the famous
petition of the three Tooley street
tailors But Mr.. Shaw himself has
wife and some property, IL nothing
more than copyrights in several sue
cessful plays and books. 1t is sale
that he is a good husband and a
good business man, then why should
he he opposed to the acquisition of
wives and other valuable chattels by
men who are able to take care OF
personal property?
Briefly attrlbuting the existence OF
poverty, ignorance and .idleness TO
property, Mr.. Shaw added:
Let us only get rid of property ard
we shall get rid of all that" But sup
pose everybody should give his or her
property to the state, what would hap.
pen? Property would not be abolished
only the present form of holding it
everybody would try to get the best
of the state. 1t would be an enormous
trust with the stockholders always at
the mercy of the directors. No mat
ter how frequently they were changed
it would be hard to prevent them
from graftingTin one way or another.
When Mr.. Shaw concentrated his
remarks on the marriage question no
spoke with his usual sarcastic humor.
"It was the experience of almost
Everybody regarding marriage" he
said that instead of people finding
themselves in a great community OF
marriageable persons of their own age
there were only about three persons
within their reach and they did not
like any of them. They We're driven
into q marriage which hardly ever
represented their natural impulse. II
is we'll for Mr.. Shaw that he lives Ia
England instead of the United States
What would the American girl say,
and do, to man who asserted that
she had only three chances to gel
: married, only three men to pick and
choose from? She would scornfully
and sardonically repudiate the Sian
( derous statement ana reckon up Tho
number of her engagement rings b!
1.-THE score. The insulting limitation Il
three eligibles would convulse her witt
: stormy and irrepresslble laughter
The. idea! An Englisn girl might b,
satisfied with three chances, but tn
: fair daughters of this glorious republi
r would regard that number as no bet
ter than Hobson's choice.
Mr.. Shaw wants to turn the worl,
r into q stock farm and had the auda
city to put the following Hypothetical
VASE oNppoSo
abolished, whole community mad
intermarriageable and a department
og engenics established. This depart
ment in making experiments nigh
, introduce q man to a woman and tel
him he is TO marry her. The ma
: might object that she had a bad tenn
per and he therefore did not wish t
live with her. The department woul
reply that her temper was the Yer
= reason we wish you to marry her. w
e think that crossing her temper wit
u your temperament would produce
highly desirable temperament.
seems to me that to meet cases o