The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-22
WHAT U. S. SENDS
William Allen Whites Partner
Is a Free Love Delegate.
George Harvey Says Choice
PleaSeS Lenine-TrOtzky.
KICKED OUT OF MINISTRY
Writings Show That His Love
Has No Shackles.
Widow Bought George for Her
Daughter From His Wife.
(From George Harvey's Weekly J


archists at the Marmora conference, |
will meet congenial spirit in the !
ex-Rev. George D. Heron, whom |
President Wilson has appointed to rep
resent the United States. along with
William Allen White of Emporia, Kan.
George was born in Montezuma,
Ind, in 1862, attended a college at
Ripon, Wis, received a D. D. degree
from Tabor college, began to preach
in Lake City. Mimi, continued as
pastor of the First Congregational
church in Burlington, and served later
as professor of applied Christianity
in Iowa college.
Expelled For Teaching.
'Whos Who" record, prepared by
himself, informs us that he resigned
owing to opposition of trustees to his
teachings" AS a matter of fact, he
was expelled by both the college and
the Congressional church of Iowa.
The teachings" which produced
this untoward effect conform precisely
to the edicts respecting the marital
relationship recently imposed by Len
inc and Trotzky upon the Russian peo-
pie. George wears no shackles in
love. A few sentences from his pub
lished works will indicate his views,
to-wit:
People who love each other and who
therefore ought to live with each other
need no laws to bind them together
The coercive family. will pass away with
the coercive economic system. Even when
love exists on the part of one and not on
the part of the other there can be no posi-
pie good IN the two being kept together by
Love must be set free and liberty trusted
If noble and beautiful homes are to spring
up to make the earth u garden of truth and
gladness. There is new world coming
whose way can be made ready only by
those who will throw away their good
| names and accept. perhaps, everlasting dis
grace as the price of their protest.
Easy Come, Easy Go.
Lives that are essentially one, co-opera-
ness, need no law of state or church to
bind or to keep them together. Upon such
and bisspRemS on the Is Other SapS 0o
law in the universe has a right to keep to-
| gether those vitality and essentially one. 1t
| own, or truth blossom in the soul or other
| than a slave individually unfold.
| 1t must be said for George that he
| practiced what he preached. In 1899
| he courted Miss Mary Everhard of
Ripon, married her in the regular way
| and lived with her seventeen years
Then he fell in with Mrs. E. D. Rand,
a Wisconsin widow, who had both
Iaitn ana money. The combination
| attracted George, but the impression
| able widow was getting along in years
| too rapidly to suit his fancy For
tunately she had a daughter of abous
| the right age named Carrie and
| Georges heart went out to her. How
1 Carrie felt about it, nobody could tell,
| but the old lady was enchanted ana
| started in forthwith to clear the way
for an ideal relationship.
She Would Buy George.
| For some reason or other George
regarded his legalized wife as an OBJ
stacle and for some other reason or
| other he did not care personally to
! undertake the task of removing it.
| Whereupon the widow approached the
| wife in a businesslike way and offered
to buy George for Carrie. There was
some haggling over the price, no two
| being able to agree as to what he was
| really worth, but finally the widow
| fixed the upset at $4,000 and the
| wife accepted. She was sick and tired
| of George anyway. So she got a d.
| vorce and the widow took George ana
| Carrie away somewhere and hired a
| man and wife. 1t was not according
| to Hoyle, but neither was George nor
| the widow for that matter, and George
| said he felt just the same as if he had
| gone thru a regular ceremony. Poor
Carrie didn't say a word. She stood it
| as long rs she could and then up and
died.
A Free Love Colony.
Meanwhile, the widow bought some
| land down in Metuchen, n. J., and
George started a free-for-all love COL
ony for those who had money, but re-
cruits had barely begun to arrive
when the neighboring farmers wives
handed pitchforks to the hired men
and told them to get busy. George
saw them coming and didn't stop run
ming till he got to italy, where, having
left the widow at home, he could de-
| velop his socialistic theories in peace
and quiet.
He is now a full blown information
| alist and a budding Bolshevik. We
quote from his more recent published
| utterances:
1 am myself but an humble and unim-
portant follower of the international So
system which at present dooms the peoples
| of all nations to slavery, misery and by
pocrisy.
| The church has wrought mainly by brute
authority. That which atheism to
Jesus has thru the centuries been the
Of Christianity has done its work and now
ought to disappear from the service of life.
The Socialist will at last crown Jesus with
| n human glory which shall spiritually
| transfigure man. 1t is not Jesus that we
ought to follow, but the highest truths of
our souls.
/ Can Only End Civilization.
have no expectation that the present
| kind of civilization can be amended-it eau
only be ended. The new system that shall
| POSED to have earned and afterward what
he needs can no longer be called party
| or sectional term. All kinds of socialism
mean the organization of world in which
every man shall be born with equal in
| heritance.
| What shall become of God and gods. of
temples. creeds and faiths in the morn
! ing of Socialism? 1t seems to me that the
/ effect of the Socialistic idea possessing the
| world would be to change the entire atti-
| tude of human life rega riding the future.
| Professionalism stands-tho 1t doesn' t
| stand very well today-by keeping man i'll
an attitude of fear toward the unknown.
Can you find me any representative
| Protestant Christian in the city of New
| York today who would not think civiliza-
ton would fall into chaos if men were to
take seriously the things that they profess
| in their churches: Protestant Christianity
believes today a thousand times more in
the devil than in goodness.
There is not a bit of spiritual difference
between the Standard Oil combination and