Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-13

| AS"VA0 anu SNOAH thV idnip VI experience
and in their arrogance will demand that
those who have been in the light must
follow them into the darkness.
Young girls-just fresh (and still
fresh) from know-all institutions cs
theoretical infallibility-become presi.
dents of Mothers clubs; dogmatically
ten mothers and grandmothers who
have borne, and nursed and reared fine
specimens of manhood and womanhood,
that their method was almost criminal;
and insist that young mothers shall rear
their infants on the truly scientific
principles mapped out by long g-haired
men incapable of becoming fathers, anil
enthusiastically endorsed by short
haired women who never took the first
step toward motherhood.
No wonder good old.fashioned
grandmother told one of these lights Of
the new science of motherhood that she
had better go out and get record before
she presumed to instruct those who
had had experience as well as theory.
Although David danced before ark,
and the sight evidently was pleasan.
in the eyes of the Almighty, there be
those who consider all dancing AN
abomination before the Lord, and who
would have all mankind and all woman.
kind debarred therefrom.
And even some municipal legislators
can be found who will darken reason
with prohibitory ordinances-or ordinances
which die in dishonor or live to be dis.
regarded and laughed at
Love was born with this world, Love
has been accepted as the herald and the
companion of marriage.
When heretofore two young souls
gave themselves unto each other until
death should them part, they were sup.
posed to be united in that alone which
makes life worth the living-in that
alone which connects birth and death
with its bridge of roses-which, stretch.
ing from time to eternity, haloes the
one and sanctifies the other love--love,
twinborn upon infant lips and in the
conseerated soul of the glorified mother
love, aureoled by humanity and ae.
coladed by divinity itself-love, that
stands tiptoe upon the mountain top Of
Heaven s highest hope-love, that trust
and faith tell us will yet abide some
where forever and forever when the
stars are quenched aud this brave
world has gone down in darkness and
in gloom.
But times have changed. Cupid is
to be banished. Science and medicine,
and the higher culture are to preside
over the marriage ceremony. Loves
rainbow archery, with golden arrows
tipped with myrrh and frankincense, is
to be discarded, and spectacled faddisni
will be the dominant genius-while the
emblems of the marriage license will
be stetbescope an tape measure.
Marriage no longer is to be cere.
mony Of the heart, but rather one con.
ditioned upon the regularity Of the
bowels. Heigh, hol No wonder the
naked little boy shivers, and weeps, and
will not be comforted.
An in this Spasm age the czars Of
faddism TINT demands eugenic mar.
riages or none, and university.approved
and scentificallynursed babies, are to
the front declaring that wet damnntion
turks in every drop Of wine; that an
atom of beer contains the concentrated
essence of l0QUO poinsonous devils;
that the winegrape vines shall be torn
up, or used only to make grape juice
for the Bryans Of this earth.
From the olden and the golden days,
told in Judean story and chqnted in
Judean song, the sunshine Of life, aul
hope, and joy, and love, and radiant
happiness has come from out the grapo
that is pressed.
Its heart.warming juice has been
blessed by the Almighty that gave, and
by the Savior who used.
But today we are told that, because
some abuse, none shall use; that, be.
cause numbers like 1t not, none shall
have; that the wine that the Almighty
sanctified in the Holy of HOLES and
that Christ made and drank at the well.
ding fents at Cana shall be banished
forever from California, tho Golden
State, no more famous by reason Of her
gold than because Of the fruit Of her
vines.
And watching and waiting for the rc.
suit Of this demanded prohibition arc
the yegeterans-the yegeterians who
have proved TO their own satisfaction
that all meat is poison, and that it is
crime FOR governments to permit man.
kind to be fed thereon.
Thor pamphlets show that about all
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