Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-07-04
BRANDS FEMINIST
MOVEMENT PERIL
CITIZENSHIP tON.
FERENCE SPEAKER SAYS -
- AID 10 DIVORCE.

feminist movement as one ~ the aid
10 th. lr0wth 81 divorce. eas discuss
ed tonight by the Rev Dr. Edwin
HegIe Dalk. 81 Philadelphia 10 a
sermon before the World Christian
citizenship Conference Boo session
her, The movement. Dr Walk as
serted. bad gone far beyond co."
boundary OF public privilege and had
taken on. 10 some quarters. a rank
lf.I.f aud riot ~ expression which
threafeues the moral aud legal sta
fus OF nations IN part be- said
On. cause that desire 10 present
aF creating that atmosphere co. which
divorce becomes progressively easy
'hs feminist movement Win
much in the modern emancipation ~
someu ! am 10 heartiest agreement
cooking back 10 the status OF women
n Europe iifty years ago. and even
800 America. one sees restrictions and
unnatural limitations under which
tbe5 lived which nov are seen 10 Do
Unnecessary and unjust
We understand nov the defiant
note ~ lbsen ia a Dolls House for
goIcinE the scandinavian Fomans
plea Tor individuality IN the martial
relation Julia Ward Howe. olive
schreiners. Charlotte Perkins CHI
man and score ~ other women
have made clear Nomens rights and
capacity for self direction and equal
legal privileges hut the move
meni has gone far beyond the boun-
Diary Of legitimate claims for self
oppression and public privilege n
has taken on. in some quearicrE. O.
rank license aud riot OF expression
both IN literature and life which
threatens the moral and legal status
of whole nations.
The underlying claim made Dos
this chool Of philosophy s that love
is the sole moral ground 81 marriaE"
That when love dies down or out eth
or party l. morally bound to separate
sNlngs into the ken Of the disap
pointed spouse Marriage is thus
concerned as mother of unfettercd
choice II has not the dignity Of
even legal contract. much less the
sacramental quality sntailing the
idea ~ life long union
That love. exotic love. is the basis
Of the marital relation may be- grant
ed but for II Ia pose a. the sole
moral basis of marriage b. 10 elimiu-
ate the highest aud most spiritual
factors of personality and give en-
couragemeA to selfish emog ional-
ism "hiT turns Ia fresh p'l-iures
whenever alluring personality calls
more LOUDLY than ones present mate
~ the man and woman we're the only
persons concerned in a marriage the
free divorce would be- the logical 50
quel Of free love" but there o. q
third party IN every such situation
which must be- considered and con
suited before the bond can be- safely
broken. T. g. society society or
ganized as the state The dependent
children of such union and The iu
fluence Of such lease hold marriage
upon others must be- considered
Marriage has become Tor a great
part OF society - purely secular nc.
fair. unrelated Ia any way 20 God
religion or divorce Law. n be
lieyed that this secular materalistic
conception OF life would go on ia
creasinr. then any hope OF checking
the divorce evil would perish for
ever But I believe there viii be O.
return 10 the spiritual religious
point Of view on the part OF the
children of the present apostates
from Christ's attitude toward d
yorce
First I'm the order of our con
sideration of remedial reforms rs
placed uniform marriage and diverse
laws. place as the next corrective"
OF the divorce movement q single
standard OF seX-mOrauty Tor men
and women ". in social circles the
roues aud the tainted applicants for
the hands % our daughters we're re-
fused the social recognition they
crave they would quickly mend their
ways perceptibly certificate Civ
on by reputable physician certify
Ing to freedom from yeuereal diseas-
- IL legitimate demand 90 be made
by a father or clergyman who are
requested 20 sanction marriage
As an aid TO the solution of the
divorce problem Chicago has set the
country n good example loo The estab-
lishment OF Court oi Domestic Re.
lations. The question OF publicity iu
divorce procedure has been a1yocat-
I'd az a great detrimeut Boz checking
divorce. but neither publicity nor
cference 20 master can have tho
corrective note which Do lu essential
4 am quite sure that much man
fol infidelity spring out % improp.
lcr housing condition The owners
u these unfit domiciies should Boz
| halted. 4 certain amount 81 in-
struction should be given boys and
Girls concerning sex problems Just
now, however. We are forcing q
knowledge upon youug people that
Is fit only for a ysnereal clinic when
what h needed b. sense Of shame and