Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
ENINE and Trotzky, or whoever
4 shall appear for those advanced


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shall appear for those advanced
anarchists at the Marmora con-
ference, will meet congenial spirit
in the ex-Rev. George ID. Heron,
whom President Wilson has appoint
ed to represent the United states,
along with William Allen White, OF
Emporia, Kas.
George was born in Montezuma,
Ind, in 1862, attended a college at
Ripon, Wis, received a ID. ID. degree
from Tabor College, began to preach
in Lake City, Mimi, continued as
pastor of the First Congregational
church in Burlington, and served late
as professor of applied Christianity in
Iowa College. who's Who's" rec
ord, 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 Congrega-
tional Church of Iowa.
The teachings which produced
this untoward effect conform pre-
cisely to the edicts respecting the
martial relationship recently imposed
by Lenine and Trotzky upon the Rus
sian people. George wears no shack
les in love. A few sentences from
his views, to-wit:
People who love each other and
who therefore ought to live with each
other need no laws to bind them to-
gether. 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 possible
| good in the two being kept together
by external law.
Love must be set free and liberty
trusted if noble and beautiful homes
are to spring UP to make the earth a
garden of truth and gladness. There
is a 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.
Lives that are essentially one, CO.
operative in love and truth that
make oneness, need no law of state
or church to bind or TO keep them to-
gether. Upon such the imposition of
force is a destruction and BIAS
phemy. On the other hand, no law
in the universe has a right to keep
together those vitality and essentially
one. 1t is only in freedom that love
can find Its 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 1883
/ he courted Miss Mary Bverhard 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 faith and money. The
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the impressionable widow was get
ting along in years too rapidly to
suit his fancy. Fortunately she had
a daughter of about the right age
named Carrie and Georges heart
went out to Carrie. How Carrie felt
about it nobody could tell, but the old
lady was enchanted and started in
forthwith to clear the way for an ideal
relationship.
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
1t. Dhereupon the widow approach
ed the wife in businesslike way
and offered to buy George for Carrie
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 his wife accepted
She was sick and tired of George
anyway. So she got divorce and
the widow took George and Carrie
away somewhere and hired a minis.
ter to Announce" that they were
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 through a regular
ceremony. Poor Carrie didn't say q
word. She stood it as long as she
could and then UP and died.
4 Meanwhile, the widow bought some
Iland down in Metuchen. NJ J., anG