The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-01
OF ALL THE SAD WORDS.


The Vinita Journal says, There
ought to be law which would bring
immediate punishment to such "A man
as Denny"
Possibly the editor of the Journal
IS right, and possibly such law would
serve to check indiscriminate wrong
doing and immortality.
And, again. possibly he is wrong,
and possibly all the laws which we
might write into the criminal code Of
this state, all the Legislation with which
We might burden the statute books
Of Oklahoma would not abate the nu-
isance or eliminate the evil
Ii our mind IL not at fault. we think
that We will find one of the strongest
laws ever written specifies the i'm
moral relation Of the sexes as one OF
the great crimes, a crime against de-
cency, crime against society, a crime
against humankind and crime
against God.
In the Ten Commandments" it is
written, in the seventh commandment,
Thou shalt not commit adultery" yet
history. both sacred and .profane
shows us that this law has been set
at naught by the men and women OF
the world almost from the day upon
which species were created down to
the present moment.
History. sacred history, tells US that
the chosen people OF God were far
from being paragons of virtue. that
they were guilty of the grossest OF
immoral excesses The came chron-
iclings advise us that the world con-
tinued TO grow worse until the Mas
ter OF Universe saw fit to wipe out
the greater part of the human race
with the flooding water sent down
from the outraged heavens. Still fur.
ther on sacred history tells Of the de-
strucuon of whole cities on account
of the corruption and immortality OF
the Inhabitants, while II is recorded.
still in the sacred writing, that sins
against nature were committed, while
the sacred ties OF blood were set aside
and disregarded.
And yet this was all done in the face
OF a law which was most stringent.
law which said the guilty should be
either stoned 10 death. or torn limb
from limb. and their fragments fed
10 the bcasts Of the fields and the
birds OF the air.
Eliminating the Bible and reading
from the histories OF more modern
times, reading the stories Of the courts
or France and OF England. Of Italy.
Spain and Portugal. Of Greece in the
days Of its greatest grandeurs, OF Rome
when II was ut the zenith OF its glory,
and We find that no matter II the ma
tion written OF was a nation OF idol
wonshippers. or a nation whose people /.
professed to follow the teachings OF |
the Great God. We find emperurs
sacrificing their thrones for smiles /
from their Cleopatras' lips. We find |
Madams Pompadour ruling courts /
and We find gentle Anne Bolyne's lay /
ing their frail necks upon the heade.
mans block In expiation OF their sins /
against the seventh commandment. and
We find misguided Virginia Lloyds
rushing. seif-sent. in the presence OF
their Maker because they had shut
their ears to the words Of warning
and fluttered. like serpent charmed
birds. into the embraces which spelled
ruin. social ostracism and the loss OF
all that q woman holds dear.
All the laws laid down by Almighty
God. all the legislation enacted by
man cannot eliminate this evil. sin
is something which cannot b. regu-
lated by law or abolished by the courts.
immortality is something which can
not be stopped by man-made laws.
and which has not been stopped by
the laws made by God
II Is only the pure In heart the up
right the innocent, the ones who know
no evil. those who walk only in the
straight anal narrow path with virtuea
blossoms fbwering along its edge who
are free from sin ana who toy no,
with things other than normal. who
refuse to sip Of the sweet Installations
" immortality.
And the very fact that the woman
pays" in all cases. while the man.
although in some few instances is cur.
iemned at the start. later has his Of
snses condoned and his crimes smiled