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abolished divorce for the single rea-
son that it had come to the. conclu-
sion that there was as little help for
adultery as for DEATH" (p. $50
With the Transformation of the
means of production into collective
property the homogeneous family
ceases to be the economic unit of So
cfety. The private household chang
es to social industry. The care and
education of the children become a
public matter; society cares equally
for all children, legal or illegal. This
removes the care about the 'conse-
quence' which now forms the essen
tial factor-moral and economic
hindering girl to surrender uncon-
ditionally to the beloved man. VIII
not this be sufficient cause for gra-
dual rise Of a more unconventional
intercourse of the sexes and more
lenient public opinion regarding vir
gin honor and female shame" (p.
22).
THE Origin of the Family" is a
popular classic among American So
cialists. The book advocates free
love from cover to cover. It is evil
dent that in place of the present
form of marriage and the family, So
cialists would substitute marriage
founded on sex fondness and termin-
ated at the will of either party. I'm
der Socialism, children would be the
offspring, not of true marriage, but
of free love. and would be reared like
foundlings in Communal schools. So
cialists have no respect for marriage
or for the family.
Bax, a noted English Socialist au-
thority, in his Religion of Social
ism" Up. 140), says:
I'VE defy any human being to
point to single reality. good or bad,
in the composition of the family. It
has the merits of being the most per-
feet specimen of the complete sham
that history has preserved to the
world"
No Reason for Marriage.
Let us turn for a moment to the
Encyclopedia of Social Reform"
edited by w. D. P. Bliss, Socialist
and ex-minister.
We find. on page 1885 of that En-
cyclopedia, the following quotation
from Deville. a leading French So
cialist authority:
"Deville says: Marriage is regu-
lation of property. When property
Is transformed and only after that
transformation marriage will lose its
reason for existence and boys and
girls may freely and without censure
listen to the wants and promptings
of their nature. There will be no
room for prostitution or marriage,
which is nothing more than prostitu-
ton before the mayor"
Here are brief extracts from the
writings of eminent Socialist author
tiles: g.
Ferri says:
1.-THE monogamic marriage hides,
beneath its pail of forgetfulness, the
tortures of hunger and servile labor,
and permanently enervates the ener-
gy of the individual, and to this ex-
tent performs function to the rul-
ing Glass;
Bebel, in his Woman" says:
I'VE must ascertain which form
of marriage is the more moral
marriage founded on the bourgeois
idea of property. or marriage
founded on the free untrammeled
choice of love, such as is only pos
sible in Socialistic Society.
Now, let us hear from Paul La
Fargue, another French Socialist,
and the son-in-law of Karl Marx. La
Fargue says:
"The family! Here is another sac
red pillar of society. Don't they
praise it. Everybody, captains of
finance an dindustry. preachers and
political leaders, they have nothing
else in view. as they often repeat,
than to conserve it-develop it and
make it more beautiful. {.
Freed from the marital yoke and
from the oppression of male morality
woman will be able to develop freely
her physica land intellectual facul-
ties; she will regain her great role
as initiator. which she performed in
the primitive life of humanity, and
which is conserved in the myths and
legends of the primitive religion. -
New York Call. July 10, 1900
Modern American Opinions.
1 have now quoted from the great
est European Socialist authorities.
There are many others almost as
eminent but it is unnecessary to re-
fer to them. l have quoted from
MARKHAM Socialists exclusively and
American Socialists are MARKHAM to
the core. The Socialists of Germany,
France. Italy, England and the Uni
ted States are all Of the same breed.
I shall now turn to the files of the
New York Call FOR raal l1n.to.data