Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-13
Sacramento Editor Plays Men and wo-
men Who Run Amuck Throughout
Land With Frenzied Fads.
IN NAME OF REFORM, PROGRESS
is ASKED ITO STEP BACKWARD
hortHaired Women and Long Haired
Men Make Air Resound With Their
clamorous Appeals.
O. K. Mcc1ATcHY, sAoRAMnNro.

O. X. McCLATCHY, SACRAMENTO.
This good old earth has passed
through the Stone age, the Iron age,
the Bronze age, the alleged Golden age,
and now is "in the midst of the Spasm
age.
The world is in the throes of gen.
eral hysteria, of dementia universal.
Men and women are running amuck
with frenzied fads. In the name of
humanity, "reforms" are demanded
that are inhumRn. In the name of re.
form, progress is asked to step back.
ward. In the name of progress, women
strive to strip from womanhood her
brightest jewels, And in the name Of
womanhood, denatured males and ad.
vanced females seek to recreate woman
after new pattern of sexual athletic
ism but sexless idealism.
Verify, the old whirtgig of Time is
spinning around so rapidly and so diz.
zily to the accompanying corybantis
antics of the bowling dervishes of the
New Idea, that sanity herself wears a
troubled air when surrounded by in.
sanity.
By legislation, in the twinkhng of aa
eye, in the taking Of breath--as the
years have gone and the years that are
to be counted--we arc told we will AL
be washed clean not only from the sins
that stain, but even from the peccadil.
loes that annoy.
Mankind and womankind are to bo
purified on earth for the everlasting
life in Heaven. No longer will there
be any need of purgatorial hereafter
.Recleansed by statute and made
white again through the blessed grace
of the brothers and sisters Of the new
dispensation, there will be no grosscr
parts to be strained in the fiery sieys
Of eternity's middle state.
White as the breath of Jack Frost, and
chaste as the icicle that curdled by the
frost from purest snow and hangs on
dams temple. Woman will wander
through this world-not marrying and
being given in marriage-but joyous
and radiant creature, the star-eyed god
dess of her own will, her love as freq
as the air, and scorning those shameful
fetters with which inhuman custom 50
long had bound her.
AS for man-weak, pitiful mamie
will arise, by the help of freed woman,
TO tread the mountain paths Of love and
liberty whereon today an inhuman and
grossly slavish world martyrs
Maury Diggs,
But all along the road of the new ST..
Vitus dance reformatory movements
hating at this sub-station or at that
and wondering when they will 90
farther-are vast hordes of men and
women-obsessed if not possessed crea.
lures who, like the Pied Piper of Ham,
lin, pipe away on their fads and expect
the whole world to follow and dance t1
their music
The very air is clamorous with their
hysterical appeals,
They seek, everywhere for legislation
to prevent everybody else from doing
that which they do not care themselves
to do.
Nothing appalls them. Nothing
daunts them. Nothing confuses or con.
founds them, Statistics and science
they have taken into their camp-and,
like gypsies with stolen children, have
disfigured them to make them paus
for their own.
With flaming banners, blaring trump.
cts, and the shrieks Of thousands OF
frenzied voices, they have rushed in
not only where Christ forbore to tread
they even have misinterpreted the
Book and msrcad the Life to use as
weapon Scriptural boomerang
Some Of them 90 even so far as TO