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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 26 (May 30, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2021
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-05-30
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: J, l I -. p . ' l l PAROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGZEITII UNTRAMMELED LIVES: BREAKING THE WAYI FOR PPUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. vVII.—No. 26.—WhOle N O. 182. NEW YORK, MAY BO; 1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. LOAN ERS’ BANK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .—_._.._— CAPITAL .......... ...... ........... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 .This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advamlae on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. .f Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @' FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. W1LMABTH.«Vice-Prtlsident. JOHN J. OISOO & SON, . . Bankers, N O. 59 “Tall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to _ check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the endof ea...
Show moreJ, l I -. p . ' l l PAROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGZEITII UNTRAMMELED LIVES: BREAKING THE WAYI FOR PPUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. vVII.—No. 26.—WhOle N O. 182. NEW YORK, MAY BO; 1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. LOAN ERS’ BANK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .—_._.._— CAPITAL .......... ...... ........... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 .This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advamlae on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. .f Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @' FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. W1LMABTH.«Vice-Prtlsident. JOHN J. OISOO & SON, . . Bankers, N O. 59 “Tall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to _ check at sight. 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Claflinwill hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood- hull......... Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂin. . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, I/Vhich ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 coo-0000100 T110, Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die ‘.7. . . .. . . . . 25 The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Three of any of the Speeches..................... — 50 SCIENTIFIC, SERIES.——N0. 7. [From the Popular Science Monthlg/.] THE PATHOLOGY OF THE PASSION S. BY FERNAND PAPILLON. Translated from the French, by J. Fitzgerald, A. M. In the former part of this essay we considered the general physiology of the passions; their pathology is no less inter- esting,,and to that we now ask attention. When we reﬂect that the nervous system of the animal life and the system of th.e great sympathetic govern all the vital operations, and that the regularity of these latter is absolutely dependent on the orderly performance /of their functions by the centres wherein are found the prime springs and the fundamental activities of the animal economy, we conceive at once how ‘ countless diseases may arise out of disturbances produced by an abuse or an excess of the passions. Physicians have in all ages reckoned the passions among the predisposing, de- termining, or aggravating causes of the majority of diseases --especially chronic diseases; for it is a peculiarity of the nerve-substance that it is impaired, and that it ‘spreads abroad the consequences of its impairment, only little by little, and by imperceptible degrees. The work of the pas- sions might be compared to the operations by which an army approaches a beleaguered city; they set about overmastering "health and life circumspectly and slowly, but their advance is always sure. A few observations concerning the psycho- logical and physiological disturbances produced by the pas- sions of the moral order, which are the most disastrous in their effects, viz., love, melancholy, hate, anger, etc., will give some idea of the material working of these poisons of the soul. We may regard lo ve as a neurosis of the organs of memory and imagination, in so far as these two faculties are related to the object of love. The memory in particular seems here to acquire an intensity that is truly extraordinary. In illus- tration of this point, Alibert states a fact which he observed at Fahlun. As some laborers were one day at work making a connection between two shafts in a mine, they found the remains of a young man in a complete state of preservation, and impregnated with bituminous substances. “The man’s features were not recognized by any of the workmen. Nothing further was known than that the accident by which he had been buried alive had occurred upward of ﬁfty years before. The people had ceased to make inquiries as to the identity of the body, when a decrepit old woman came up supported on crutches. She approached the mummiﬁed corpse, and in it recognized the body of the man to whom she had been betrothed more than ﬁfty years previously. She threw herself upon the rigid corpse-which was like a bronze statue—wept over it, and manifested intense joy at seeing again the object of her early affection. As for the imagination, it transcends all bounds and loses all character of exactitude. The will is no longer mistress of the vital, acts. Says Romeo, at the tomb of Juliet: “ Here, here will I remain . With worms that are thy chambermaids. Oh, my love! my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty; . . . beauty’s__ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And Death’s pale flag is not advanced there." “ I am drawn towards you,” writes Mdlle. de Lespinasse to M. de Guibert, “by an attraction—by a feeling which 1 abhor, but which has all the power of malediction and fatal- ity.” The English‘ poet Keats, when dying of consumption, writes thus to a friend: “I am in that state wherein a woman, as woman, has no more power over me than a stock or a stone, and yet the thought of leaving N. is something horrible to me. I am ever seeing her form, which is ever disappearing.” “ This latter fact pertains to the history of hallucinations, and this in turn borders on the history of ecstacies, which are so frequent in religious life; so true is it that love, even mystical and divine, if not conﬁned within the bounds of reason, turns to a kind of mania, which, as we shall see,‘ is full of danger for the general functions of the mind. ‘ , Thought draws the sketch of life, but passion adds the coloring of the picture. When this passion is a happy one, I the coloring is brilliant and cheerful, and then life is a bright, vernal season. But oftener thecpassion is a painful one, and the color given by it to life is darksome. Melancholy is one f those passions which throw a gloom over a man’s life." W.OODHULL\& cLArL1n's' wnnxtn. I . . » I i There is one form of melancholy which is plainly a variety of dementia, and which often comes under the notice of the physician. It is characterized by an incurable sadness, an . irresistible’ love of solitude, absolute inaction, and a belief in .a host of imaginary evils that are ever haunting the patient. “ My body is a burning ﬁre,” -wrote a melancholic subject to his medical man; “ my nerves are glowing coals, my blood is boiling oil. Sleep is impossible. _ I endure martyrdom.” ““I am bereft of mind and sensibility,” ‘writes another; “ my senses are gone; I can neither see nor hear anything; I have no ideas; I feel neither pain nor pleasure; all acts, all sensa- tions are alike to me; I am an automaton, incapable of think- ing or feeling or recollecting, of will and of motion.” This form of meloncholia is a disease and not a passion. It is a species of dementia akin to those strange aberrations which go by the name of lycanthropy, lypemania,.etc. The true passional melancholy is that reﬂex, profound, painful feeling of the imperfections of our nature, and of the nothingness of human life, which seizes on certain minds, torturing them, disheartening them, and making their life one long sigh. This feeling is expressed by the gentle poet Virgil when he says, “ Swat lacrimoe rerum ” (everywhere tears). This is the gloomy thought that haunts c the mind of" Hamlet, the hallucinatory despair of Pascal, the heart-rending cry of Ghilde Harold, the grand desolation of Manfred, the inquietude and the agony represented by Albert Durer’s graver and by Feti’s pencil. Melancholy, -so deﬁned, has a place in the depths of the heart of every man . that philosophically contemplates destiny, nor need we seek elsewhere an explanation of the sombre humor which distin- guishes men of this kind, and which is witnessed to by those books wherein they convey to us the history of their souls’ troubles. If such a humor as this had its source in the com- mon ills of life, in its sufferings, its miseries and its decep- tions, we might understand it, perhaps, in the case of such men as Swift, Rousseau, Shelley and Leopardi; but when We meet with it in such favored geniuses as Byron, Goethe, Lamartine and Alfred de Vigny, we are forced to acknowl- edge that, in men of the higher stamp, its cause must be the pain they feel on seeing that they cannot slake their ideal thirst. Such is the melancholy which we may call the philo- sophic. Besides this, there is another form of melancholy which proceeds from better-deﬁned causes, '5. e., from the common griefs and lvexations of life. ;Reverses of fortune, balked ambition and disappointments in love are usually the causes of this kind of sadness, which, being far more active than purely philosophicisadness, often give rise to organic dis-. orders of the most serious kind. Albert Durer succumbed to the vexations caused him by his wife. Kepler died the victim of the afflictions heaped upon him by fate. Disap- pointment in love is one of the most frequent causes of melancholy. This it is Which harassed and tortured Mdlle. de Lespinasse, which troubled and worried the chaste soul of Parmela; it was the death of the beautiful Genoese, Tom- massino Spinola, when she heard of Louis XII.’s illness, and of Lady Caroline Lamb, when she went home after the funeral of Byron. These two women had lived years and years, the one preserving inthe depths of her heart the calm despair of an impossible love, the other the bitter recollec- tion of a love that was spurned; but neither of them could outlive the affliction of seeing the object of her affection taken away bydeath. There are some cases in which the resistance is not of so long duration, and where the ravages of passion are such that the organism becomes dislocated with fearful rapidity. Indeed, it is no rare thing for a phy- sician to be summoned to a patient who is wasting away with sadness and dejection. No organic cause can be discovered to account for the malady; the usual remedies are of no avail; the patient does not mend, and usually keeps the secret of his griefs to himself. Insuch cases the physician should always strive to discover whether there is any passion of the soul which produces this disorder of the functions and makes his remedies of no effect. Usually such a. passion exists. Thus it was that the physician Erasistratus discovered that Antiochus loved his step-mother, Stratonice. Boccaccio like- wise tells of a physician who by chance detected the true cause, previously unknown, of the complaint with whichra certain young man was suffering; whenever ayoung female cousin of the patient entered the room, his pulse beat quicker. It often happens that the melancholic becomes iiiieapable of bearing his afflictions, or of waiting for death to relieve him. This is the origin of suicide. The history of medicine and , literature is full of narratives, real or ﬁctitious, of suicide determined by an unfortunate passion. While we admire. whatiis touching and dramatic in such narratives, we cannot fail to see that suicide is in se a fact of the morbid kind. — Its cause is a total aberration of the instinct of self-preservation; and asthe latter has its seat in a certain part of the brain, we are authorized in locating the cause of suicide in a cere- bral disorganization, brought about more or less rapidly by certain more general changes in the economy. Similar changes are produced sooner or later under the in- ﬂuence of resentment, hate and anger. Resentment" isia secret passion which draws its plans in silence. Hate is taciturn, or ﬁnds utterance only in imprecations. Anger has its crises. Whereas resentment is disquieting, hate painful and anger distressing, revenge is a kind of pleasure. It has been compared to the feel of silk, to indicate at once its im- perious nature and our gratiﬁcation in appeasing it. VVhen anger and the desire of revenge distendthe veins, flush the face,'stiﬁ‘en the arms, brighten the eyes, bewilder the mind and lead it to the commission often of criminal acts, the soul feels a sort of delight, but it is of short duration; and the momentary excitement is followedby a profound depression whose effects, if oftentimes repeated, differ not from those of concentrated resentment or pent-up hate. The man who is given to outburts of anger is sure to experience a rapid change of the organs, in case he does not die in a ﬁt of rage. Death under such circumstances is of frequent occurrence. Sylla, Valentinian, Nerva, Wenceslas and Isabeau of Bavaria, all died in consequence of an access of passion. The medical sadness which broods over Oberman and Rene, the bitter," annals of our own time recount many instances of fatal effects following the violent brain-disturbance caused by anger. The symptoms usuallyjare pulmonary and cerebral congestions. Still such fatal accidents as these are excep- tional; as a rule, the passions of hate and anger deteriorate the constitution by slow degrees, but surely. ’ How, then, do we explain those morbid phenomena which have their origin in misplaced affection, in disappointed am- bition, in hatred or in anger,,and which culminate either in I serious chronic maladies or in death or suicide? They all seem to start from an impairment of the cerebro-spinal cen- tres. The continual excitation of these by fever-present emotions determines a. paralysis of the central nerve-sub- ‘stance, and thus affects its connectionswith the nerves ex- tending out to the various organs. These nerves next degen- erate by degrees, and soon the great functions _are com- promised. The heart and the lungs cease to act with their normal rhythm, the circulation grows irregular and languish- ing. Appetite disappears, the amount of carbonic acid ex- haled decreases, and the hair grows white, vowing to the interruption of the pigmentary secretion. Thisgeneral dis- turbance in nutrition and secretion is attended with a fall of the body’s temperature and anaemia. The ﬂesh dries up and the organism becomes less andless capable of resisting mor- biﬁc inﬂuences. At the same time. in consequence of the reaction of”-all these disturbances On the brain, the psychic faculties become dull or perverted, and the Patient falls into a decline more or less complicated and aggravated by grave symptoms. Under these conditions he dies or makes away with himself. I Two organs, the stomach and the liver, are often affected in a peculiar and characteristic way in the‘ course of this pathological evolution. The modiﬁcations produced in the innervation, under the inﬂuence of cephalic excitement, cause a disturbance of the blood-circulation in the liver. This disturbance is of such a nature that the bile, now secreted in larger quantity, is resorbed into the blood instead of pass- ing into the biliary vesicle. Then appears what we call jaundice or icterus. The skin becomes pale, then yellow, owing to the presence in the blood of the coloring matter of the bile. This change in the liver is usually developed slowly; sometimes, however,*jaundice makes its appearance = suddenly. Villeneuve mentions the case of two youths who brought a discussion to an end by grasping their swords; suddenly one of them turned yellow, and the other, alarmed at this transformation, dropped his weapon. The same author speaks of a priest who became icterical (jaundiced) on seeing a mad dog jump at him. Whatever may be said of these cases, we must reckon painful affections of the soul among the efficient causes of chronic diseases of the liver. . The digestion, says the author of a work published some years ago, is completely subjected to the influence of the moral and intellectual state. When the brain is wearied by the passions, appetite and digestion are almost gone. What- ever causes grief or fright aﬁ"ects the stomach more or less. In times of epidemic, or of civil war, and in all social con- junctures when any extraordinary peril threatens the mass- es, dyspepsia becomes more frequent and assumes a more serious aspect. This affection commonly prevails amid the various symptoms of depression and decline produced by moral suﬁering. The direct pathological consequences of disordered nutrition, whose chief symptom is dyspepsia, are of the most serious nature, and there is no doubt‘ that among them we must reckon cancer. Hence it is that Antoine L n- bois located the cause of cancer in the brain. As a vibrating chord determines ‘v’ibrationin.a neighboring chord, so a passion produces in those who are the witnesses of it a passion or a tendency to a passion of the same kind. The infant by a smile responds instinctively to its mother’s smile, and it is difficult to contemplate attentively the por- , trait of a smiling person, especially if we obsbrve that the face wears a smile, without our own faces assuming a like expression. “We cannot,” says Leon Dumont, “reﬂect on any mode of expression but our countenances will have a. certain tendency to conform itself to it.” A fortviori it will so conform itself when, instead of merely reﬂecting on the expression, we see it. Yawning, hiccoughing and sighingkare as contagious as laughter. All passions, whether good or bad, are contagious. Esqui- grol seems to have been the ﬁrst to discern and characterize moral contagion, which he deﬁnes to be that property of our passions whereby they excite like passions in others who are more or less predisposed to them. The contagion of good example is manifest, and it is certain that the worship of the saints is oneof the wisest and most powerful instrumentalities devised by the'Catholic religion. Unfortunately, depraved passions too have their imitators, and in this case the imita- tion is so prompt, so thorough. and in some sort so'auto- matic, as often to appear irresistible. An able physological physician, M. Prosper Despine, who has bestowedprofound study on this subject, shows, from a very large number of instances, that when a crime surrounded with dramatic cir- cumstances is published abroad, and made matter of general comment, a certain number of similar crimes will be com- mitted soon afterward._ Minds that are notfortiﬁed, by a I strict morality and a good education, against the allurements of such examples, and whose slumbering passions only await the occasion that will stir them up, are spurred on and dc.. cided to act by the bustle and the parade made about the hero of a criminal trial. M. Despine’s statistics on this pain- ful subject are exceedingly curious and conclusive. Now it is some peculiar form of murder, again a new process of poi- soning, anon some original way of disposing of a corpse, that gives occasion to grim plagiarisms, with all’ the circumstances identical. In a word, all criminal aetsproceeding from hate, revenge. and cupidity, always summon forthin certain indi- viduals a spirit of emulation. Hence it were advisable.abso- lutely to forbid the publication, in popular prints, of criminal trials, Whether real or imaginary, and to interdict the per- formance of "plays wherein wickedness and crime are por- trayed for the gratiﬁcation of the spectator’s morbid curi- osity. ; M. Despine’s suggestion with regard to this matter will be approved by physicians and hygienists, who are al 4 . C . I” _i .~*WOODHULLV &j§'{CLAFL’IN’S WEEKLY. May 30, 1874. agreed that writings and plays of a certain class are to be reckoned among the causes which conduct so many wretches to the galleys, the morgue and the mad-house. When we disseminate examples of outrage and disorder, we must not be surprised if we ﬁnd a harvest of crime and insanity. Let us, then, heartily second the suggestion we speak of, and which M. Bouchut authoritatively formulates when he says that, instead of feasting the public with recitals and plays so dangerous to the common weal, we should rather found a moral pest-house, to which should be committed, so soon as ' they make their appearance, those rascalities whose conta- giousness is now beyond question. i Besides the contagion of those passions which end in crime, there is also the contagion of those passionate states which terminate in suicide. Epidemics of suicide are frequent in history. The instance of the young women of Miletus, 1 as told by Plutarch, is familiar. One of them hung herself, and ‘ immediately severalofher companions made away with themselves in the‘ same manner. To stay the progress of this redoubtable frenzy, the order was given to expose the naked bodies of the suicides in the market-place of the city. An ancient historian of Marseilles records an epidemic of suicide which raged among the young women of that place. In 1793 the city of Versailles alone offered the spectacle of 1,300 vol~ untary deaths. In the beginning of the present century a sui- cidal epidemic destroyed large numbers of people in Eng- land, France and Germany, the victims being young persons who had conceived a disgust for life, from the reading of melancholy romances, coupled with precocious over—indu«1- gence in pleasures. A still stranger epidemic is that of in- fanticide, which prevailed in Paris at the beginning of this century, after the newspapers had published the history of the Cornier case. Madame Cornier, under the inﬂuence of infanticidial monomania, had murdered her child under cir- cumstances of such a kind as to make an impression on a certain number of mothers, so that, though excellent women and sincerely attached to their children, they were seized with a desire to get rid of them. They did not yield to the temptation, but the circumstance of their being attacked with such a mania excited much surprise among medical men. It will not be uninteresting if to these curious phenomena We append the facts of nervous contagion to which M. Bouchut called the attention of physicians some years ago. It had long been known, especially since the time of the famous convulsionnaires of the St. Medard Cemetery, that some neuropathic states are multiplied by instinctive imita- tion; but M. Bouchut shows that facts of this kind are far more common than has been supposed, and the work wherein he‘ describes them adds a new and dramatic chapter to the strange history of nervous aberrations. One of the ﬁrst cases given by M. Bouchut is as follows—it was observed at Paris in 1848, in a shop‘ where 400 workwomen were employed : One day one of these workwomen turned pale, lost consciousness, and fell to the ﬂoor, her limbs convulsed, and her jaws set. Within the space of two hours 30 of the women were seized in the same way. On the fourth day 115 were affected, the symptoms in all cases being the same——viz., suffocation, prickling sensation in the limbs, vertigo, dread of sudden death, followed by loss of consciousness in theconvulsions. A similar epidemicwas observed in 1861 among the young girls of the parish of Montmarire, who were preparing for the ﬁrst communion. On the morning of the ﬁrst day of the retmt'te——or preparatory season of religious sec1usion——while at church, three of them became unconscious, and were seized with general convulsions. The following day the same symptoms appeared in three other girls. Still others were attacked on the third day. On the fourth, the communion. day, 32 were seized in the same way. On the ﬁfth, conﬁrma- tiou-day, as the archbishop ‘approached, 15 girls were seized with convulsions, uttered a shriek, and fell to the ﬂoor un- conscious, when the prelate was about to conﬁrm them. _ Thus, in the space of seventy-ﬁve days, 40 girls out of 150 manifested identical nervous disorders. The various hallucinational, ecstatic and spasmodic states, transmitted and multiplied by example, play an important role in medieeval history, particularly among the religious orders. There is the closest analogy between the accounts handed down to us by the writers of those times and the observations of physicians published in our own day. As concerns the question of treatment, we possess hardly any save moral remedies; and the success attending the employ- ment of these shows well the purely nervous character of these singular affections. We read of Boerhaave staying an epidemic of hysterical convulsions in a boarding-school by threatening to burn, with a red-hot iron, any of the girls who should be attacked. Practitioners in our own time adopt analogous processes and artiﬁces to conquer those pas- . sicns which degenerate into morbid states. They strive to inspire the patient with a passion different from that which possesses him, and to ﬁx his attention on subjects discon- nected with those which occupy his mind. 1 ’ This style of physio--this moral therapy-—requires inﬁnitely more tact and discernment than the application of the usual remedies of the pharmacopoeia. Nor is * it in our medical ' schools thatryoung men, who intend {to practice the healing .. art, can learn to diagnose and to treat those maladies wherein the soul wrecks the body. This is a vocation which requires profound ‘personal study and observation, and wherein the student would do well to draw on, a source too much over- looked in our times—-viz., those old authors who treat ques- tions of this kind. The young physician will ﬁ nd equal proﬁt and delight in studying those profound connoisseurs of the human mind, La Chambre, Stahl, Pinel, Hoffmann, Bichat, Tissot, Richerand, Alibert, Georget. From them the student will not only learn how‘ to judge wisely of the passions of others, and of the best means of treating them, but will also get sage counsels for the government of his own. There he will see that thereis nowhere perfect health, save when the ‘passions are well regulated, harmonized and equipoised, and that moral, temperance is as indispensable to a calm and tranquil life a.s,phy_siological temperance. He will seeithat, without going the lengths of stoicism—in.which there is more pride than wisdom, more ostentation than virtue——the noblest and the most desirable state for the mind and body alike is equidistant from all extreme passions—t'. 6., situated in the golden mean. And this conviction that regular living and moderation in material as in emotional life are the secret, not, indeed, of happiness—which is nowhere in this world———but of serenity and security, he will strive to spread abroad/as being the most useful_ precept of the medical art. If it is your desire that your circulatory, respiratory and digestive functions should be discharged properly, normally, if you want your appetite to be good, your sleep sound, your humor equable, avoid all emotions that are over-strong, all pleasures that are too intense, and meet the inevitable sor- rows and the cruel agonies of life with a resigned and ﬁrm soul. Ever have some occupation to employ and divert your mind, and to make it proof against the temptations of want or of desire. Thus will you attain the term of life without. overmuch disquiet and afﬁiction.——Revue des Dem: lV_ToAndes. O INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. 1. Go’ to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who‘ have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is keptback by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have ,. reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. _____.. CAPITAL AND LABOR- T0 THEVVORKING PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE ALL THE WEALTH or THE WORLD—A DECLARATION or INDEPENDENCE or LABOR OVER GAPITAL—A 'I.‘HIR'1‘Y—DAYS’ STRIKE T0 BENE- rrr THE wonxme PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. 1 APRIL, 187 .1 Labor produces everything; money, nothing. Labor is the real capital and money the representative. But see the power of money at interest; for one dollar at compound in- terest would in time buy all the wealth of the world, and without producing anything; and that is the injustice of capital over labor, viz., too high interest. The Boston Trav eler has a reference to this subject. It says: “The gradually increasing rate of interest should make people wary of borrowing money for speculative purposes, and especially of hiring it for the purchase of unproductive property, or in the expectation of obtaining. permanently high rents. It is the high rate; of 1ntcrest_wh1ch every few years causes a general breaking up _of bus1_ne_ss, when prop- erty and products fall In price. This also 1t is which causes wealth gradually but steadily to concentrate into the hands of comparatively a few persons in the community. Take any series of ten,/twenty or_ thirty years, or more, and the longer the series the more positive and conclusive becomes the evi- dence of the fact, and it will be seen that the most proﬁtable business in the world IS the lending of money. The high rate of money, high rents and high taxes must, in the course of a few years, tend to_ such a concentration of wealth as cannot fail to be injurious to society. and will lilti- mately so straiten the debtor classes as to necessitate to a very great extent the process of wiping out old accounts and beginning anew.” There is not a money lender, note shaver nor speculator in or around Wall street who does not fully understand and appreciate the facts set forth in the above extract. .You believe in strikes; now make a grand strike for free- dom from the tyranny and injustice of capital over labor all over the world. I As in 1773 the inhabitants of,New York and Philadelphia returned to England the tea ships, and the people of Boston threw overboard into the harbor 342 chests of tea, which was the beginning of our war for Independence, commence another war for the independence of labor over capital on the next 4th of July in this country and in Europe, or as soon thereafter as possible. , Let all men, women and children strike for a day of rest; a “ Sabbat ” a month long; for it is only by combined effort that great public wrongs are righted and great public beneﬁts secured. . Many of you have labored all your lives like Tslaves for a mere pittance, just enough tolkeep soul and body together, under great sufferings, with not a moment of rest or time for mental improvement, while the favored few, the “masters of the situation,” who have enslaved you, have too much of this world’s goods—not honestly obtained, but through fraud and injustice to the laborer. Now prepare yourselves for a month’s rest in the summer, when you can live cheaply, One or two bushels of corn and beans, properly prepared. will carry anindividual through a summer month. Most 3,11 of you can get that, and the more fortunate must help the un- fortunate. The strong must help the weak. Stand by each other like brothers and sisters. Make this one month the people’s “ Sabbath,” "in it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates ;” for you have been working all your lives for your miserable living, and others have received the beneﬁts of your labors, who were not entitled to them. Strike, not for ten hours or eight hours for a day’s work, or for any particular trade and more wages, but strike alto- gether for co-operation and freedom. Isolated strikes only make your condition worse than it was before, because it in- creases the price of rent, food andclothing, and of every- thing useful, makes much confusion, and beneﬁts no one. “ Strike ” for a month’s freedom from the tyranny of the Church, State, political, ﬁnancial and corporation “rings” that now tyrannize over you. Pay no more monev to the priest, physician or attorney. For the priest knows nothing about the soul, or the physician about the body, or the attorney about justice. Let all these “professions,” non- producers, who live on the earnings of others, “go to grass,” except in cases of emergency. Be your own thinker, your own priest, doctor and lawyer. I Give all these people a month’s rest and timefor reﬂection about the brotherhood and sisterhood of the race. Let the, ministers of the many different religions all over the world quarrel about their dogmas, but not on your money. Let them preach to empty houses and earn their living by hone industry. Money and justice is what you need most, and not their religion. If you can act like brothers andsisters and stand by each other and “do as you would be done by,” it- will be all the religion that you will ever need‘ here or here- after. . It is of but small consequence whata man’s belief is on Sunday, if on Monday, behind the counter, he gives fourteen‘ ounces for a pound of sugar, or sells 190 pounds for a barrel of? ﬂour; or retails a worthless patent medicine, or conceals the- cause of disease in hopes of proﬁting by its effects, or makes. a corner in grain, gold or stocks, or wrings service from the‘ unpaid laborer, oritramples on the feelings of men, or triﬁes with the hearts of women, or lives beyond his income, asking; credit without the ability to pay, or charges exorbitant fees. All such evil deeds, from which society suffers so much, re- sult from the lack in men of one thing which ought to stand over them with a ﬂaming sword to keep them in the way of life-a vigorous sentiment of honesty. But “man’s inhu- manity to man (and woman) makes countless millions mourn.” If Secretary Boutwell was right in estimating the national debts of the world to be about twenty-six billions of dollars, is it not time for the men and women of the producing classes all over the world, who have these debts to pay,/to consider the subject how long they will remain degraded, pauperized laborers, as they are sometimes called——slaves to immense corporations and giant monopolies——before making war against this oppression? Probably the State, municipal railroad and other corporation debts would exceed the na- tional debts of the world, making altogether over ﬁfty bil- lions of dollars of debts for the laboring classes of the world. to pay; for labor produces all the capital of the world, and money nothing, and therefore the laboring men and women I of the world are the paymasters for this tremendous debt. Allowing the population of the world to be about one thou- sand million, this would make a mortgage of about $50 of debt on the head of every man, woman and child in the world to pay the monop oly—the favored few-—the owners of this debt and of these working people——“ the masters of the situation.” Of course, no one can at present foresee how this burthen can be removed from the poor, and so it must always remain a perpetual tax upon the producing classes unless they shake it off by their own efforts. ‘ The people believe in strikes. Let the next 4th of July be the beginning of the world’s strike all over the world by the producing classes of the world for thirty days. Let the farmers keep their products, and refuse to sell any- thing except to consumers. Let mechanics refuse to work for corporations or any one but themselves. Refuse to run the cars and steamboats or the machinery of the factories. Cut down expenses of living. Abstain from all expensive and injurious habits, such as the use of tobacco and liquors, and make store bills as small as possible. Waste no more money on ministers, doctors or lawyers. Turn the churches into school-houses. Let the doctor tell you how to prevent disease, and the lawyer how to prevent disputes. Try this strike for a month and see how it would work. Capital is master to-day, but gently “ turn the tables ” upon the capitalist. Be gentle, and respectful, and loving to him, (as he has been to you ?), but let his railroad trains, steam- boats, factories and stores stand idle for a month, to give him time for reﬁection on “ the situation.” He is too busy now. But give the “nobility,” who live on the poor, time to inquire into the cause of so much misery and starvation all over the world. No wonder some people are so very poor when others are so very rich. Twelve familes own three-fourths of Scotland, and ﬁfteen million acres of land lie waste for deer parks for the amusement of the lords. And who is a lord but a robber of the working man’s hard earnings? A laborer there gets seven or eight shillings a week, and never tastes meat from one ,year’s end to another; and one-third of London are paupers. Who is responsible for this misery and suffering? It rests somewhere. Is it on the Quee, Parliament, gentry or where? And the same questions can beput here in this country. Massachusetts has over 25,000 children between ﬁve and twelve years of age who do not receive the slightest education at home or at school. .\(See Report of Massachu- setts Bureau of Labor.) Who is responsible for this? Who create wealth but the producers? But it is taken from them by taxes on almost everything they use, which will be continued forever unless a bold and concerted action is taken by them to throw off the load, for no one ever ex- pects to see the national debts paid. And so, if a national debt is ablessing in disguise, let the owners of these debts keep them. \ Do no violence, but be careful to vote for men for oﬁice in the future who will legislate for your interests more than for their own as they are now doing in Congress and elsewhere. For how can you expect to have just laws made by men whose interests are opposed to yours? Send workingmen to Congress and your Legislatures. Men.out of your own ranks I who know your wants and needs (for you have many capa,_ ble among you), instead of lawyers and bank oﬁicers as you now do. You have the votes; use them, as the negrodoes “ down South,” and they have sent excellent colored men to Congress, who excel many white members from the North. I )on’t patronize newspaper publishers that are not friendly to your interests. Let them keep their papers and you keep , your money. The large city papers are mostly under the 0011-1301 of capitalists whose interests are the same as other capitalists at present, viz., to keep things as they are, to keep money scarce. Money-rules. and workingmen have no voice and no hearing. I Don’t “love your enemies,” by patronizing them for thirty. days. Let the busy world stand still a month, and have time for reflection on the condition of humanity all over the world. Try to ﬁnd a man——a true man—one who “loves his neighbor as himself,” and will “ do as he would be done by ’” to represent your interests. ' “ God give us men!-a time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands-« Men whom, the lust of oﬂlce does not kill, 5%” May 30,1874. ' ‘ WOODHULI.“ a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. I Men whom the spoils of oﬂice cannot buy, . Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who have honor, men who will not lie, Men who can stand before a demagogue ‘And damn his treacherous ﬁatteries without winking, Tall men, sun-crowned, who live ahove the fog, In public duty and in private thinking, For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selﬁsh strife, lo! freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land and waiting justice sleeps.” The platform of principles of the National Grange is worthy of notice, viz.: to develop higher manhood, toen- hance the comforts and attractions at home, to maintain in- ‘violate the laws, to reduce expenses, individual and co-opera- tive; to buy less and produce more, in order" to make farms self-sustainin g, diversify our crops and sow no more than we can cultivate; to condense the bulk of our exports, selling less in the bushel and more on the hoof and in theﬂeece; to discountenance the credit and mortgage systems; to buy and sell and act together for mutual protection; to avoid litiga- tions as much as possible by arbitration in the grange; to suppress prejudices, unhealthy rivalry and selﬁsh ambition; to dispense with middlemen; to increase in every practica- ble way all facilities for transporting cheaply to the sea- board, or between home-producers and consumers, all the productions of our country. They are not enemies of rail- roads, navigable and irrigating canals; are not enemies of capital, but oppose t.he tyranny of monopolies andlong to see the antagonism between capital vs. labor removed; are opposed to excessive salaries, high rates of interest and ex- orbitant percent-age of proﬁts in trade. The world is dead—ripe for revolution, and the mighty army of the working class must start it. Crimes, corruption and abuses are exploding the old government, Church and social order by spontaneous combustion. Look out for the crash. ~ Good people, workers, producers, stand from under and save yourselves! Come to the front, all ye true-hearted, for labor, reform and reconstruction! Let the common people stand up and join hands. We must rear new institutions in place of the old, crumbling ones. Strike! is the word for every man and every woman. Strike for manhood and woman- hood! Strike for equality and fraternity! Strike for a working aristocracy to supersede the present proud, non- producing, tyrannical aristocracy of wealth! Humanity must hold the supremacy, and money be servant instead of master. Sift the chaff‘ and cookie out of Church and State, and save the wheat for the people’s bread! Please read ‘and circulate, and, if interested, address Dr. B. Franklin Clark, Bunker Hill District,~Boston, Mass. GOLD AS A BASIS FOR MONEY "FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CAPITALISTS, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE WEALTH PRODUCERS. Gold of itself is not money, any more than iron or any other natural product. It becomes money by arbitrary statute, and is only recognized as money when it is properly -stamped with the seal of the constituting authority. The reason why it is recognized as a safe and reliable money ma- iterialis because all civilized as well as barbarous people and countries use it as such and put their stamp, each nation and people severally, upon it, not by indorsement. butby re- stamping it under the provisions of their own authority; it thereby becoming their individual or sovereign money. It grew into use as a medium of exchangeﬁrst as a pledge; it being a scarce and durable metal, it was used fortrinkets, rings, jewels, etc., and these were, among the savage tribes, left as pledges for whatever was wanted by the pledgor, or the article given by the pledges to the pledgor, and to that extent became a circulating medium between two persons- tne pledgor having the privilege of redeeming them within a. given time. This pawning or pledging of jewels, rings and trinkets for necessaries was in time supplemented by giving them right out for what was needed,and thus it became neces- -sary to ﬁx a standard value to metals in the countries where ‘it was used, and so iii the early time the king or ruler of a ‘people put his own seal upon it and made it money. This ﬁnally grew into general use in and among all peoples, and the ‘interchange of commodities by and between different coun- tries, using this money as the medium of exchange, pro- duced the necessity of a uniform—-or nearly so—standard of value, each authority preserving its own stamp or seal. But as commerce increased it was found that this kind of money! was very inconvenient, owing to its great bulk and weight in heavy transactions, while at the same time it was found that there was not enough of it in the different centres or places of exchange to meet the value of exchanges. Thus the paper check, note, promise, came into use from sheer necessity, which paper check, note, promise, being indi- vidual, not governmental, not having the seal of the govern- ment upon it to give it credit, was frequently violated by non-redemption or failure to make it as good as the money. To remedy this evil, the government was asked to step in and puts its seal upon this class of paper promises, and to re- deem this paper promise in gold when the owner demanded, so paper money came into use based upon gold money. But as the commerce of the world increased it was found that there was not gold, dollar for dollar, enough coined by the ‘ several governments of the planet to equal the amount of paper dollars; so gold, being the basis of paper dollars, came to have an enhanced value from its scarcity in the money market, and individuals sought to get possession of it in such quantities as to control the value of even the gov- ..ernment paper dollar, or, in‘ other words, the capitalists of the world “cornered” the gold and thus depreciated the paper promise of the goverments, and to that extent were masters ‘of the governments. \ This latter condition has obtained to such an extent that no government has completecontrol of its money values. The governments seeking to bring their promises to apar value have sold their promises to individual capitalists for what these capitalists pleased to give-—the governments paying or ,p romising to pay principal and interest in gold, of which there ‘italists ten billion dollars, and railroads, States, towns, is not in the world enough to pay the interest. \ Twenty-six governments of the world have within the last ten years, up to 1872, increased their indebtedness to these individual cap- telegraphs, etc., to say nothing of the wealth producers, have become indebted to these capitalists at least ﬁve times as much more as the national governments, until not only do capitalists own the governments of the world, '5. e. control them. but own or control, states, corporations and individ- uals. How? Why, simply because gold. is the basis of money, and that basis is in the hands of a few individuals, every- thing and everybody paying tribute to these gold possessors. I think I have made this clear and stated it fairly; now, what are you going to do about it? Pay the pound of ﬂesh? or will you rise to the dignity of self-government, and make the paper dollar the measure of values arbitrarily based upon the faith and resources of the country? The yard-stick is a measure of length,and thequestion of the material out of which it is made does not not come into its measuring quality. It may be made of wood, paper or iron; no matter, so long as it is an exact and unvarying measure. Money should do the same and would if it stood upon its arbitrary value alone, but standing upon gold, which in and of itself is varying, owing to its commercial value and also to its intrinsic value, it becomes the most ﬂuctuating medium we could select, and especially when it is a basis of money and that basis is controlled by a few. _ The basis as well as the money itself, must (to be uniform and unvarying) be an article, a creature of authority, and that authority the whole people who create it. Mnnox, of Maine. FARMERS, AWAKE! BY A. H. GAGE. What mean those sounds that in the air, Give forth their solemn, earnest Warning? Those tokens of a darkening night The prelude of a doubtful morning. Hear ye the sound—the trumpet peal—_ That o’er the land to-day is swelling? Know ye the wrongs the million feel? The story sad that blast is telling. A tyrant rides o’er this fair land, V And marks for his unjust oppression Each son of toil, whose sturdy arm Creates the home in his possession. That tyrant, with the mighty power Of gold and bonds as his dominion, Rules courts, and dictates laws of trade; Deﬁes the voice of just opinion. Who feeds this pampered lord of wealth, This foul, remorseless, bloated vulture? The sons of toil, rough laboring hands, And brawny arms of agriculture. Awake! to arms! let freemen strike For justice now, for freedom ever; Let lawless sharks and railway lords Know that our will their rings can sever. ‘ Press on the hosts, bear up the ﬂags, Encourage each desponding neighbor; Unswerving battle for the right, Must end in victory for Labor. —1ndust7~iaZ Age, Okicago. amenities. * We extract the following from an address by E. M. Davis before the Radical Club of Philadelphia, as reported in the Philadelphia Inqwo"rer : ' THE PRESIDENTS vnro. The President of the United States is also commander of the army and navy. Some wonder whether his famous veto comes from the soldier or the civilian. We shall. assume it to be written in the spirit of a civilian. We shall not trouble ourselves with his apparent inconsistency; he keeps the party promise which favored resumption, but breaks the personal one, where he said that he “ would not stand in opposition to the will of the people.” He either does not consider the action of Congress an expression of the will of the people, or he disregards his promise. He had a constitutional right to veto the Finance Bill, and it was his duty, as President, to do so if he believes the fol- lowing, which we quote from his message: “I am not abeliever in any artiﬁcial method of making paper money equal to coin when the coin is not owned or held ready to redeem the promises to pay, for paper money is nothing more than promises to pay, and is valuable exactly in proportion to the amount of coin that it can be converted into.” If what the President says means anything, it means that we should have no more paper money in circulation than we have got dollars in hand. Does he believe this? Do his ad- herents? Do those who sustain his action? Let us assume that they do. Apply the doctrine, no more paper than gold, and what becomes of the national bank notes? Eighty dol- lars out of every hundred must be retired. What would be- come of the greenbacks? Sixty out of every hundred must be retired. Can any one estimate the ﬁnancial and social disaster that would ‘follow? We have seven hundred millions of paper money aﬂoat. According to the most re- liable authority, two hundred millions of gold coin isthe largest possible amount we can get into and retain in our vaults. Fivehundred million dollars are to be withdrawn! Let us recall the effect on the productive industry of the country and on the revenue of the General Government of the withdrawal of only forty-four millions of greenbacks, and only four millions a month. Who were the first to cry out, “ Stop contracting”? Those who ,held mortgages on our» land, because interest could not be paid punctually; those who owned real estate, because rent was behind; those who held government bonds, because they saw that if there was L any default in the interest the principal was in danger; those W110 m‘c1ﬁaged the banks, because their securities were daily becoming weaker. , . . - If forty-four millions could produce this result, what would be the effect of the withdrawal of ﬁve hundred millions? The revenue of the government would fall sixty to eighty. per cent. Taxes could not be paid. Repudiation would fol- low; not from indisposition to pay, but from inability. An- archy would reign, and the civilian would be absorbed by the soldier. Shall we again ask the question, Do the President and his supporters mean this? , ‘ We think they do not; but, unfortunately, the gold basis party cannot sustain itself on any other ground. As a. con- sequence, the principle they uphold is not only injurious to the wealth producers of the country, but destructive to them- selves. Are they ready for this? _ Or do they propose to get out of the dilemma by falling back on the old system of issuing from four to ﬁve dollars in paper promises to one dollar gold? If they do would they not be creating some- thing worse than what they call “ greenback lies?” Give it up, ye money monopolists, I or you may ﬁnd yourselves in the position of the slaveholders who claimed too much and lost all. . I SOCIALISTIC. ’ FOURIER, BEECHER, MARRIAGE AND THE COM- . BINED SOCIAL ORDER. A seemingly strange conjunction as to the individuals; but, unlike as they are in nearly all respects, they have, one thing in common——a faculty of perceiving the importance of things slurred over, not only by the mass, but by professed ' thinkers. Beecher could, if touchedwith a. live coal from the right altar, place within reach more than Fourier’s ideal. Fourier considers it requisite that an association, to realize the advantages of the combined order in. any degree, should consist of at least four hundred members, and, if practicable, eighteen hundred; this mainly to afford the requisite variety of character and of, personal relations, to prevent people tir- ing of each other. The experience of" co—operative domestic organizations seems to sustain this position in some degree. and a common objection to Fourier’s theories, by persons ac- quainted only with their outlines, is, that as even two or three families cannot live_ harmoniously together, how is it ~ to be supposed that two or three hundred families can? The objection, however, was answered, as above, long before it was made. i . Now, how can this difficulty be met? It seems impossible to get four hundredqpeople to come forward at once in the initiative, and sacriﬁce all their prospects in life to what, however demonstrable (1. prion’, is but an experiment ‘consid- ered a posteriori. Beecher, speaking onianother topic, says: “Wedded life is often very poor, because ‘not one in ten thousand is good enough to furnish continually aspects which feed the higher nature.” That is, few persons are sufﬁciently’ varied and multifarious in their mental development not to pail after a few years’ acquaintance. “If,” he continues, “the doctrine of immortality be swept away by the doctrines of annihilation, or if it die because it is alleged there is no evidence of its truth, then might you as well spread the heavens with sackcloth and expect agriculture to continue on earth, as expect life to go on, with all its sweetness and * ::< tudes in the discussion, and men’s minds grow richer,,more ' subtle and reﬁned.” Still more is the range extended, and still more subtle and reﬁned become those minds when a future life transcends discussion and becomes a matter of positive knowledge. Spiritualism unfolds that beauty and variety which, under the shadows of ecclesiasticism and materialism, lies folded up and frozen. Two souls thus unfolded——thus expanding under the sunlight from the summer land—will “furnish continually” to each other “aspects which feed the higher nature;” for, their minds not being “ cribbed, cabined and conﬁned ” by the possibilities of a life which, to most of us, T, is so poor and mean, their aspects of character becomegvery ’ greatly varied as compared with clodhoppers (however rich, fashionable, reﬁned and exclusive), whose highest con- ception of afuture life, if they have any conception at all, is perpetual .psalm-singin g in‘ summer-clothes. ' And if two minds can thus “furnish continually aspects which feed the higher nature ” how much more two hundred? And could «there not be a more harmonious and varied social intercourse among ﬁfty such persons than among four hun- dred, or even eighteen hundred average persons, such as Fourier contemplaited? . More success, so far as the social element is concerned, may then be expected from a comparatively small number 0 cultured Spiritualists, fully recognizing the principle of indi- vidual sovereignty at one’s own cost, than from a large num- ber of the ordinary ‘fraw material,” of which probably most of our experimental co—operative societies have been com- posed. This want of variety and completeness of character in the individual components, combinedwith the small num- ber of socialists in each case, may account for the numerous failures of co-operative social experiments. A certain variety ’ of character seems indispensable to success ;,but whether this variety is attained by mere numbers or by many-sidedness _ in the component individuals, the result, it is believed, will be socially the same. i If the new Community in Chesterﬁeld county, Va., has any experience on this point, let its light shine! ' ‘ ALFRED ‘CRIDGE. THE CHILDREN OF SOCIAL FREEDOM. BY MISS ANNIE E. HIGBY. _ The question is: Are the children of social freedom-—born out of marriage--illegitimate, according to the rules of the Churches-holy and good equally with other children? and is it right to have, them when and where they are well taken careiof? ‘ This is the question the spiritual warfare hinges upon rm Reason gains in range and habi- er . I I , woonnctx. so CLAFLIZN’s WEEKLY. much more than their “temporal welfare that the inquiry “What will become "of the children?” points to: although ~ the latter is a matter to be by no means left out of consider- ation, or to. be attended to without question—the rightfulness of taking a proper care of children having been settled long ago. I will here say that so far as my personal knowledge extends I do not know of even a single child of social free- dom that is not, to say the least, as well taken care of as the children of marriage. _ - Of that other class, who without being free lovers in any sense from principle, but who are seduced or led off from what they believe to be right, having children out of mar- riage while they indorse the principles of marriage, trying to catch the man as a husband who uflees from them, and most probably, in many cases, bearing their children subject to the sexual abuses that prevail in marriage, I think Iecan safely say that‘ by very far the largest number of them would never put hand to the death of their babes, or aban- don them, if it were not for the fear of the persecution and I ostracism‘ of society, but would keep and tend them as lov- ingly and carefully as if they had been married, if they were only properly encouraged and helped to do so, or as well en- couraged and helped as they would have been had they been married. ’ ’ I . am myself‘ the mother of an illegitimate , child. I eschewed‘ marriage because I saw I could not bear-my child in marriage without having it pollutedwith "sexual abuse; and I believe my'child is better, illegitimate, and borne free from sexual abuse, than he would have been borne in mar. riage and subject to it. My child is well taken care of—as well taken care of as a‘ child can be-——only when and where he is subjected to persecution by the sinners who stone him on accoun_t of his being illegitimate. That the regulation of marriage pays not the slightest re-' ‘ gard to these terrible abuses, this seething‘ pool of pollution that is wrapped up in its bosom, like a worm in the fruit, spreading death and destruction throughout it, is too, patent to be disputed. Oh I is it a. little matter? Is it not rather a matter to cause the hearts of the angels to bleed, that the irouiheel of an ignorant custom is upon the necks of these little ones and their mothers, whose starved and defrauded . souls cry out to the gods for the life that is withheld, as hungry children cry for bread? Neither does it care or take cognizance of what sort; of children it gives birth to, provided they are born in marriage. As one of the many illustrations of this I will refer to an article in the New York Herald about the death of the Siamese twins, each one of whom was married, one having six, and the other ﬁve children‘ all deaf-mutes. What a splendid exhibition of respect- able deaf-mutesl Their parents were married and belonged to the Baptist Church, were considered worthy members, the paper stated, showing very plainly . that the religion of which they were worthy members did not care how many deaf—mutes they gave birth to provided they were married, and, I presume, attended to the rules of the ¢hm.ch_ The paper also stated that there was an estrange- moot between the families because one had six and the other only ﬁve——because there was not a dozen of these poor de- formed children! Even if they were not all deaf-mutes, it is one and the same so far as their religion is concerned, since the paper stated it gravely. supposing it to be true. without arousing a thought of comment as regards its rightfulnegg am on g them. , The npposers of the principles of Social Freedom appear to be dividedprincipally into two classes—those who believe in hell-ﬁre and brimstone. and that sexuality is a sinful abomi- nation not to be alluded to in any way by righteous ‘people (except by hunting down with persecution the women who break its ordinances), and who do not seem to have the ﬁrst intelligent idea of what sexual virtue is, their standard being as barbarous and unreasonable as the standard of morality in the old, ancient and barbarous nations where fealt_y to one’s king, might have been considered morality. To be moral was to be loyal to one’s king—to be virtuous is to know A 01115: one’s husband sexually, and to submit to him,,withou¢; wngidering the results springing from such a ruling, or the underlying principles in either case. The other class are those who admit the abuses, but who believe it better to sub-. min to the rulings of “ Vanity Fair ” than to attempt to stem its tide of persecution. They do not believe in Social Free- dom; they think something might be done inside of marriage as a remedy, but so far as they are concerned themselves, they do not intend to meddle with it, do not think it worth Wmeddung with, probably. They think intemperancc worth meddling with, however, and this is a worse evil than intem- .pemnce_ Drunkards beget children by force, and they spend their time trying to reform them.‘ fruitlessly. This class almost, always ﬁnally settles down into—-and it is an argn- ment .1 have very often met with: f.‘Evcn admitting the evils, do you not think it would be better to have your child born in marriage than to subject yourself and your child also to the persecutions of’ society, of the World, on - account of its being born out of marriage?” This often comes from (church, members, who do not seem to sense the fact that they are asking me to sin, in order to escape the persecutions of a, 1-eiigious sect that makes the pretence of being an aid to sal- vation- Or else: “If you think it a,sin to bring children into the world through the usages of marriage, you should‘ not have them at all ;” 03. e., unless you will bring them on to the earth damned by a breakage of nature’s laws, you must; not bring them on at all. ' ' i I To have a beautifully organized child, conceived according "to the laws of nature. and borne without having the womb that carries it subjected to abuse, is one of the best of good works; one that is worth running the gauntlet of all the halls to attain; one that pays at any price that banded igno- rance and error have it in their power to impose. And it is absolutely necessary to the making of a better condition ‘ upon the earth, that we should gain a more intelligent con- trol of the creative organs, that people may not Waste the forces of nature, and worse than ‘waste them, by peopling the 119115 of ignorance, impotence, hatred, perversion, etc., with misformed human organisms. Nature and individuals should do their whole work, the best work possible in the matter, by using the best conditions for it existent among them, and no hoary-headedfdemon. of conservatism to popular igno- rance, or popular misconception, should be allowed to pre- vent them. A Neither would I be willing to wait for that good time com- ing when the community will take care of the children, as it might never come for me,- or for any of us for a long time yet ;\ and I think I would not be satisﬁed to pass through my earth-life withoutbeing a mother, that I might hold to my bosom my babe, my very own, the child that came into life through my own being. Even if that good time were here, I do not think I would be willing to yield my child entirely to its care, as I would rather satisfy my mother’s heart by watching the little blossom unfold beside me ; yet, for the better promotion of its welfare, I would yield it a part of the time; and I would uphold such institution for the sake of those who could not well take care of their children, and for the sake of the little ones, who would thereby be better taken care of. Are the children of social freedom holy and good? and is it right to have them when provision is made for their wel- fare? Because if it is, the question, “What will become of the children, or what does become of the children,” applies equally to all children, those of marriage as well as any other system; and those who are thus anxious can ﬁnd plenty of room for thought and good works without going, as yet, to social freedom to ﬁnd it. The reformers of social freedom are expected to do more than has over yet been done for the promotion of the welfare of their children—all that lies in their power, certainly; ‘and I believe they would do all that ‘lies in their power for the beneﬁt of children, generally, if they were permitted to do so. THE TRUE, FAITH. “ I hadja dream which was not all a dream”-— Methought within my lover’s arms I lay, One happy April day; He clasped me close and closer still, And yielding to his own sweet will, I could not choose but stay. His loving breath fell warm upon my cheek, And fond caress told more than words could speak; He framed a novel creed; And thus in tender accents framed With love’s own ecstacy, exclaimed, “Ah! this is heaven indeed!” If this be heaven, then let me never stray Froinout the limit of its blissful sway; Oh! may I never rovel But live to meet him face to face, Forevermore in his embrace, I Where all of heaven is love. S. M. S. IS IT A MISTAKE OR A DESIGNED MISREPRESEN- TATION ? Our brother, J. M. Peebles, in his interesting “ Letters of Travel” in N o. 20, Banner of Light series, throws a sop to theenemies of social freedom that does injustice to himself by betraying an utter ignorance of our principles or a de- signed misrepresentation of our arguments and statements. We have never cared enough about the allusions in these letters to the fabulous and utterlypunreliable Christian his- tory of persons, places and dates, as conﬁrmed to him and other travelers by interested’ monks and priests, since this is the common failing . of nearly all travelers who are, at least in education, Christians, and feel the truth of Christian fables; but when we come down to passing events of present history, it is not wise to let misrepresentations go unnoticed in popular letters of any writer. In speaking of the pool of Bethesda and the old house-top on which David is said to have stood when he saw the beautiful wife of Uriah bathing, he says: “And this man, after God’s own heart, being touched with the inﬁrmity of ‘ affectional freedom,’ sent mes- sengers and took her.” Now, Brother Peebles either does or he does not know that affectional freedom is not an in- ﬁrmity, nor its advocates inﬁrm, but, on the contrary, as ﬁrm in truth and true principles as the rocky hills of his fa- vorite Palestine. If he does not know it, he should seek the truth which will make him free;/, if he does know it, he should not misrepresent us in such things to tickle the ears of his Christian readers, as he gives them a full share of sops in the other allusions referred to. Brother Peebles either knows or he does not know that social or aﬁectional freedom would not allow a man to take ortouch a woman without her consent and mutual attraction; and that it is the Christian Church and State and the enemies of affectional freedom that allow men to seize, force, abuse, steal, rob and enslave women, as David, God’s most faithful servant, did Uriah’s wife. The advocates of social and aifectional free- dom are trying to correct this wicked, corrupt and abusive practice of social slavery, and it is a shame for men like Brother Peebles to misrepresent them and pander to the popular prejudice of the licentious advocates of woman’s de- graded and enslaved condition by such perversions. Our principles have been so often, so fully and so plainly stated as totally opposed to all such transactions as that of David, that “ he that runs may read, and a man, though a fool, need not err therein.” Hence we ﬁnd it extremely diﬂficult to ex- cuse Brother Peebles even by the slip of the pen. If social freedom had been the law in force, the lustful man, after “ God’s own heart,” would have had to keep his holy hands off the beautiful woman who probably hated him as all pure women do such men ;»but it was the enemies of social free- dom, who then and new force women into subjection to the most brutal treatment, and worse than brutal, for the brutes will not display as much cruel passion as many men who op- pose sociall freedom. Whoever upholds the present social system of tyranny and opposes social freedom, can by it sus- tain the slavery, polygamy and monogamy of the Bible and themost cruel system of sexual barbarity that sends, in our country, annually to premature "graves, thousands of ﬁne, sensitive, delicate, shrinking victims S to the lusts of men; and whoever is opposed to such sacriﬁce must be an advocate of social and alfectional freedom. If it is an inﬁrmity it is , the most liol y and righteous one ever infecting man, and it is tiinetevery man and woman was registered on one side or the other of this great question, so that we may know who are in favor of keeping woman in slavery and subject to the passions of man even to her destruction, and who will help to emancipate and rescue her. It is doubtful whether the principles of social freedom would have admitted of the liberties of the old Jewish Jeho- vah, in the case of the two immaculate conceptions. Cer- tainly not, without a mutual understanding in regard to the‘ protection and care of the offspring which the record does not seem to show._ i The truth is, Jewish and Christian history have always made slaves and prostitutes of woinen without their consent, or after one forced consent is obtained compelled a life-time of slavery without a proper knowledge of the master to whom she submits herself. In the case of the mother and grandmother of Jesus (or, as the Catholics say, of God) it was only a temporary violation of the marriage rights of the owners and sanctiﬁed, because it was God who was the one that did the violating acts and he had the right to do wrong without consulting either the woman or their owners; but men with a. license from priest or magistrate can torture even unto death the female victim, and they do it in thou- sands of instances every year, and if we raise our voice or use our pen against it, we ﬁnd, of course, most of the clergy and most of the libertines and corrupt tyrants, opposing, abus- ing and misrepresenting us. But toﬁnd a man like Bro. Peebles, whom nobody will accuse of belonging to either of these classes, lending his aid to their misrepresentations and pandering to a wicked and false prejudice, is what astonishes us; or would, did we not know his early education and of his recent tra_vels in the Holy Land, among the holy men and enslaved women, by which long journey he got behind in the march of mind in this rapidly advancing country. We are certain that either the abolitionists were wrong and chattel slavery right, or the advocates of social or affec- tional freedom are right and its opponents are wrong, and we are also certain that if truth and righteousness prevail over error and-wickedness, then surely must social freedom triumph and woman be emancipated and have her equal rights with man in every department of life, and especially in the maternal, sexual and affectional relations. N o promise to love where she cannot and where she is decived into the promise, shall make her a slave for life to the sensual lusts ofaworse than brute as many husbands are. Could Mr. Peebles have heard the hundreds of stories of the poor suf- fering victims of sexual tyranny that have so often in recita- tion or reading brought tears to our eyes, he too would, even in the face of all the churches and Mrs. Grundy, have been an advocate of social freedom. We have been so long (30 years) an advocate of those principles and w,oman’s rights, that we are known to thousands of victims who conﬁde in us _.henee we get the terrible histories. WARREN CHASE. COBDEN, Illinois, May 13, 1874. . SPIRITUALISTIC. RECONSTRUCTION OF MAN. FROM A DISCOURSE, Aug. 18, 1872. The constant falling around us of friends and neighbors into the embrace of death cannot fail to arrest attention and lead to the inquiry, “If a man die, shall he live again?” and if yea be the response, the further interrogations of, when ? and where‘? and how? The present happiness or misery of millions is affected by the answers given to these questions A stupid Theology has ever been ready with its absurd answers, however much in conﬂict with the instinctsand teachings of Nature they may be. It is not necessary to de- tail at length, in this place, its gloomy doctrines, but only to dwell fora space on one of them—t0 wit, “ Death and the Resurrectio'n”——better and more truly and philosophically phrased, “ The Fall and Reconstruction of Man”—iiatural and necessary processes in his being, which need not cast gloom nor melancholy apprhension over the journey of life. Man dies__—such is the seeming; the ﬁeshly building has fallen under the pressure of years of decay and inﬁrmity, or of some untoward event in life. But the invisible, imperish- able spiritual being, the man himself in the last analysis, now without the appliances for longer continuance in the earth life, must have reconstruction for an existence in spirit life. Where shall it be? how shall it come to pass? A poet hath told us- Gliding from out the body we have worn Without a jar to break The mystic strain of harmony, that winds With sense-dissolving music through the soul, We are at liberty, at once, in the spirit realm; and, as if by the power of enchant- ment, sheltered in an ediﬁce not the workmanship of hands —a habitation which is from heaven——a structure of God——a. spiritualbody. Herein lies whatsoever there is of mystery’ concerning the Resurrection of the Dead. It is plain, how ever, that whatsoever the process, and by whatsoever name it may be called, it is such resurrection as comes of expulsion from an abode, an uprising and evacuation of domicil——.im- mediate reinstatement elsewhere; such a reconstruction of all the human psychical elements of man’s nature as ﬁts him for residence in the spirit spheres. ~ Another poet who hath deeply drank of the pure Pierian, and besides, been baptized in the waters of ’ Siloa’s brook that ﬂowed Fast by the oracle of God, thus beautifully frames an apostropheof a departing mortal to his spirit in the moments of dissolutionof the companion- ship of his soul and ‘earthly body. /er‘; I’ May 3}), 1874.’ WWOODHULL & CLA,FiLIN’iSl' wnnxrvi" L Jr Listen to his glorious song of entrance into immortality: Vital spark of heavenly ﬂame, Quit, Oh quit, this mortal frame; Trembling, hoping, lingering, ﬂying, T ‘ Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper, angels say, Sister spirit, come away! What is this absorbs me quite, . ’ Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my soul, can this be death? I The world recedes, it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! 0 grave! where is thy victory? 0 death! where is thy sting? N o scripture. perhaps. is so often used in the hearing of the people and so fully relied__on as foundational to that declaration of the Christian Creed, “ I believe in the resur- rection of the body, as I Cor. chap. xv.” It is always read at the, funerals of a. large class of churchmen, leaving the im- pression on the less intelligent and thoughtless hearer, that the spiritless, defunct body, consigned to the earth, is so.wn in some such sense as will warrant the expectation of its springing forth from the ground, at a future period, aspirit- ualized and living one——-and conveying to his mind the idea that the law which governs in the sowing and germination of grains, applies also to the burial of animal bodies and their resurrection, in the case Of men. Nor is there a passage, perhaps in the entire New Testtiment, more mischievously erroneous in its rendering into English. The mind and /meaning of the author are scarcely discernible. But herein he teaches the profound philosophy of man's initial state, and illustrates a law of life and of death which pertains to the whole human race. ' _ Paul likens man to a traveler, this life to a journey, and his animal body to a. tent or tabernacle to shelter him in. his pas— sage. Nature he considers as the chief—in—charge of the grand caravan of Humanity. Her trumpet shall sound the journey ended, and signalize the traveler to quit his tent, and enter and abide in “ a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” , Let the arch-angel blow his blastat the time theology has appointed for his services; but will he be able to startle the dead bodies of the generations of earth ?-—Dr. Horace Dres- ser. TO THE SPIRITUALISTS OF AMERICA GREETING. LOMBARD, Il1., April 12, 1874. Brothers and St'stcrs—We have run the gauntlet and still live. The Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold their Eighth Quarterly and Second Annual Meeting in Chicago, ‘Illinois, at Grow’s Opera House, 517 West Madison ‘ street, commencing on Friday, at 10% o’clOck, A. M., June 12, 1874, and continue over Sunday the 14th, a. three days’ meet- ing. We shall then meet under charter from the State of Illinois. All the members are requested to be present, as business of importance will come before the meeting, also election of oﬁicers for the coming year. There will be reso- lutions of vast importance to Spiritualism to be considered. We cordially invite all Spiritualists,~Mediums and speakers, as well as all others interested in the cause of humanity and truth to be with us at this our second annual meeting. Our platform is free and shall remain so for the discussion of all subjects’ germain‘ to humanity, truth and progress, under strict parliamentary usages. O. J. HOWARD, M. D., President. E. V. WILSON, Sec’y N. 1. Ass. , We also give to the world the following statement, viz. : W'hereas, following our Seventh Quarterly Meeting of the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists, held in Chicago on the 13th, 14th and 15th of March, 1874, grave charges and accusations were made against us personally and collectively as a body, reflecting On our moral character, truthfulness, as well as social standing and position in society; Therefore, we challenge our accusers, who have maligned us through the Religio-Philosophical Journal and other papers, to meet us while in session in J une, 1874, and prove these charges to be true; or. failing to do so, forever after be branded as liars, cowards and villains before the public, for we here deny be- fore the world the truth of said charges and accusations. Truth is mighty and will prevail; though the heavens fall we will stand by our principles——equal rights, a free platform, the discussion of all truth——aiming ever to arrive at the highest. 0. J. HOWARD, M. D., President. E. V. WILSON, Sec’y. To all Whom it may Concern: We, the undersigned Oﬁicers of the First Society of Spirit- ualists in Chicago, Ill.,.state that the charges and accusations made against the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritual- ists, held in our hall (Grow’s Opera House) on the 13th, 14th and 15th of March, 1874, by the Religio-Philosophical J our-nal and other papers published in “ Chicago,” Ill., “are false.” We indorse a free platform and free discussion of all truths or questions, that we may in this way arrive at the highest truth, and have , enrolled our names as members of the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists, together with many of our society. A. H. WILLIAMS. WM. T. J ONES. CHICAGO, I11., April 12, 1874. (All liberal papers please copy.) CCoLI.rNs Enron. J. S. HUNT. WHAT IS IT TO BE A SPIRITUALIST? Is a question which all who profess to be Spiritualists as well as all progressive minds might well ask themselves at the present. hour. Many think, and especially those who have had but limited opportunities to investigate this great and exhaustless 'subjeot,_tha.t to accept and believe in the phenomena of spirit intercourse settles the whole matter, and they rest there; but to thinkers and minds who have dug deep into the subject matter of Spiritualism, by ex- perience and investigation, who have read closely its history . and carefully observed its workings, such a ‘conclusion is entirely superﬁcial. True, the phenomena is the A B C, or the ﬁrst rudiments,’ by which we approach this great subject. But why stop ‘there when the truth, which will inevitably make you free, lies beyond this point? ‘ My object in raising this question is to place Spiritualism on the broad basis upon which it properly belongs, as it is presented to use through its present degree of development. Spiritualism has moved forward in the years of the near past with giant power. It has taken hold of needed reforms and held them painfullynear to human view; it has laid open to our vision the sad condition of humanity, which con- dition is the result of ignorance, so deeply enshrined in our social and religious systems, and it is destined to cause this ‘great country of boasted civilization to tremble‘ to its very centre. It is now/marching upon the enemy’s works—the enemies of truth and freedom. , It is indeed a priceless blessing that the dear departed ones can and do come from the realms of immortal life, and bring us tidings of a better land and words of love, and hope to cheerus on through this material life, the childhood of the soul’s organic existence with matter. But to suppose that this is all for which they come, leads us into a grave mis- take, for the truth-loving and progressive minds of past ages have been struggling for centuries on the spirit side of life, against the dark opposing conditions of ignorance and false teaching, and the extreme materiality through which the human race has groped its way, and under which to a great extent‘it is buried to-day. But thanks to the great in- ﬁnite life and the angels and ministering spirits, the gray light of the morning appears in the East whichbids us hope. Butfor what has this light come? To make us free! yea to strike off the shackles of slavery in all its forms, in order that social, religious, political, mental and physical bondage may be swept from the earth, and that the sun of truth may shine through the clouds of error and drive home its pierc- ing rays direct to every human soul. The watchword of Spiritualism is not “let us have peace,” but let us have truth, lead where it may. Its ‘mission is to accomplish this work; and to be a Spiritualist in the broadest and fullest sense, we must labor to this end. Spiritualigm stands to-day on the broad basis of universal freedom", and freedom is our birthright. . But social freedom requires our ﬁrst attention, because upon the social relations of mankind rests‘ the entire struc- ture. If the foundation of the structure is decayed and rotten, how unwise to attempt to repair its other parts, for, with its foundation thus impaired, it must fall in time. The social question is a fundamental one, and upon it hangs vast consequences for good or ill to the human soul as it passes on through it5 illcaarﬂation with matter. If it starts upon its organic relations with material life, under condi- tions opposed to thelaws of nature, who can compute the amount Of evil and suffering consequent upon such transgressions? Why is h“m3nii'»Y groaning under such b/urdens to-day? Because of ignorance of which slavery is the Offspring; and this is the result of man’s not being able, as a whole, to comprehend and obey those vital laws which have to do with the reproduction of the race as it should be developed, up to those noble proportions of mind and body worthy Of being called men and women_ 13 it not time to awake to this important issue, Or will mankind repose longer under these conditions of living death? The man of Nazareth propounds this question, “ Do men gather grapes of thorns, or ﬁgs of thistles ?” On the other hand, We niay ask how can mankind rise to that elevation which 11; should occupy, while, almost without exception, they dis- regard and ignore nature’s laws, and by this means bind themselves down in suffering, darkness and degm- dation? This load must be removed ere men and women can rise to their noble and rightful estate. Human beings (can we call them all human?) come into this world half made up—yea, ‘many of them less than half made——all be. cause‘ of the disregard of the laws of organic life. We are fully aware that it is in accordance with the laws of pro- gression that man should come up through the lower strata to the higher planes of life, but it is not in accordance with the laws ofprogression that humanity should remain dor- mant and nearly at a standstill in regard to the issues upon which its very existence depends. It is not in harmony with progression that -man and woman should be chained down in slavery, caused by their ignorance ofvthese vitai. laws of life. But what is to be done to raise the human family out 0 this slough of despond? First, know thyself and be thyself; when these points have been gained the sexes will under- stand each other, and be better prepared to come together and fulﬁll the laws and condition on which true propagation depends, and by this means the race will beresoued from its present sad condition. To accomplish this, we must deal with causes and not effects; lay the ax at the root of the tree, and not commence cutting the tree down at the twigs or branches. But, says one, if after we have accomplished the de- sired points as near as practicable, vvhatif then we make mis- takes and become unequally yoked together? What do human beings of ordinary capacity do when theyﬁud they have made a mistake in any of the oiﬁces of life except in the social re- lations? Do they not as a rule make haste tolcorrect the mistake if it can be done? And why not rectify this wrong in our social relations, which of all the errors we commit is the most detrimental to human progress and elevation? . Truly before mankind can arrive at .,a perfect state of man- hood and womanhood, and ﬁll the sphere of a pure and ele- , vated humanity, Nature/’s laws of propagation and organic life must be fully obeyed; freedom must take the place of slavery and truth annihilate error. But what is the duty Ofgthose who have been made free by the truth? There can be but one answer: put your hand and embraces all the elements of human progress. to the plow?of' progression and truth and look back never ; not even to be termed what society calls respectable, or to escape Ostracism from fashionable circles by the scandal- mongers. i i A The same desperatestruggle is going on to-day between truth and error that raged so ﬁercely in the centuries of the dark past, when men and women counted not ‘their lives dear, so that they defended the truth as it came to them - from the great Father and Mother of ‘souls through minis tering angels and mediums. A ’ , Spiritualism, in its broadest and truest sense, comprehends VVhy is Spiritualism so comprehensive and all—embracing? Because’ it comes of , the spirit, and is the expression of the measure- less ages of the past. And its physiology speaks to us of is the philosophy of all philosophies, and embraces all spirit, soul and matter, and truth itself." B. B. HILL. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. OMENS FROM THE OTHER WORLD? i HOW THE OLD FAMILIESJN EUROPE ARE WARNED T0 PRE- PARE FOR THAT BOURNE, ETC. . A mysterious knocking, never heard at any other time, tells the Lords of Bampton that one of their race is bound for the silent land. A stamping by unseen feet on the palace. Modena. A sturgeon forcing its way up the Trent toward Clifton Hall is a sign that the Cliftons of N ottinghamshire will have to put on mourning. For some days before the death of the heir of the Breretons, the trunk of a tree is to be seen ﬂoating on {the lake near the ‘family mansion. Two giant owls perch upon the battlements of Wardour Castle when an Arundel’s last hour has come. If a’ Devonshire Oxenham is about to die, a white-breasted "bird ﬂutters Over the doomed one’s head. ' A local ballad relates how on the burial eve of Margaret, heiress of the brave and generous Sir James Oxenham, a silver-breasted bird ﬂew over the wedding guests just as Sir James rose to acknowledge their congratulations. The next day the bride fell dead at the altar, stabbed by a discarded lover. Howell saw a tombstone in a stonecutte1"s shop in Fleet street, in 1862, inscribed with the names of sundry per- sons, who thereby attested the fact that John Oxenham, Mary, his sister; James, his son, and Elizabeth, his mother, had each and all died with a white-breasted/bird flutter- ing above their beds. A family of Loch Ranza, Ar- ran, know when one of their kin is about to die by an invisible piper playing "a lament, on the hill- side. When death purposes visiting a McLean of Toch- bury, the unwelcome caller is heraldedby the spirit, of as he gallops twice round the old homestead. As a rule, death4announcing phantoms are of the feminine gender. No Lady Holland expects to shufﬁe off this mortal coil until she has seen a shadowy counterfeit presentiment of herself. lic house, have a Benedictine nun to apprise them of a re- distinguished member of the family. , A hairy—armed girl called May Mo-ullach brings the like sad news to the Grants of Grant; the Bodach-am-dun, other- wise the ghost of the hill, performs the oﬂice for the Gra.nts of Rothiemurcus, and most old Highland families boast their ing tells them the head of the house must make room for awful, unearthly scream", she beheld by the light of the moon a female form at the window of. her room, which was too far from the ground for any woman of mortal mould to dishevelled hair, and was "clad in the garb of‘; Old—‘——vLer/Cy Old-- Ireland. After exhibiting herself some time, the interesting spectre shrieked twice and vanished. When Lady Fanshaw 1 told her host what she had, seen he was not at all surprised. “A near relation,” said he, “died last night in this castle. We kept our expectation of the event from you lest it should throw a cloud overthe cheerful reception which was your due. Now, before such an event happens in the family and castle, the female spectre you saw always becomes visible. She is believed to be the spirit of a woman of inferior rank whom one of my ancestors married and whom he afterward caused to be drowned in the moat to expiate the dishonor done to our race.”~All the» Ear Round. ' -—-—-—-—--—>-—¢G>--4%--..._ DISCONTENT--BOTH SIDES. A man in his carriage was riding, along, His gaily dressed wife by his side, In satins and laces she looked like a queen, And he like a. king in his pride. ' Alwood-sawyer stood on the street as they pgggga The carriage and couple he eyed, And ‘said as heworked. with his saw on a log, “ Iwish I was rich and could ride.” The man in the carriage remarked to his wife... . " One thing I would give if I could-- ' ' I W°111,£1.8i:§’;€L.&11 my Wealth for the strength and the health Of the man. who is sawing the wood.” , the living present and casts the horoscope of the future. It C ﬂoor predicts a death in the family of the ducal house of A a. battle-slain ancestor ringing the bells on his fairy bridle , The Middletons of Yorkshire, as becomes an ancient Catho- ' duction in the number of Middletons. A VVeGplI1g,.D10ll1‘l;1:-__: ing, earthly sprite warns the Stanleys of the death of own familiar banshee, whose wailing, screaming and weep- If his heir. Lady Faushaw, visiting the head of an Irish sep - A, in his moated baronial grange, was made aware that banshees I are not peculiar to Scotland. Awakened at midnight by an . reach. 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In liberty for the individual, they seem to think the ultimate is gained—seem to think there is nothing beyond that except individual progress in the sphere of freedom, and their arguments go so far, at least by impli- cation, as to denominate the right which two people have to enter into any organized effort as despotism. “ The W07'd,’? E. H. Heywood, editor, is the organ of this class of reformers. In the number for May there are several articles of this kind, some of which have appearedin the WEEKLY together with answers to the arguments advanced in them.‘ The articles referred to assume that children be- long to parents andthat there is -no right outside of them that can interfere to change their rearing or promote the interests of the former. If this were true, of course any government that should undertake to arrange for the better education of children would be despotic. - Butwhile admitting the conclusion we deny the premises from which it is drawn. The Word does not assert’ that children belong to parents absolutely, but it “proceeds with its arguments just as if it did so assert, and in so arguing, also by implication, denies the right of society to have any- thing to do with them. Had The Word considered the re- plies that have appeared in the WEEKLY upon this point, we donot think it could have consistently permitted the article in question to appear without also printing the reply. This would have been just and fair to all parties. We maintain that children belong to themselves just as all other individ- uals belong to themselves, so then the real thing to be deter- mined before The Word can consistently charge us with des- potism is as to the ownership of the children. If they belong to parents, then The Word is right. Ifthey belong to them- selves,\then_ The Word is wrong. « We hold that there can be no ownership in human ﬂesh, not even in children. They belong neither to parents nor to society, but to themselves. Now the question is as to how these children shall be reared and educated so as to make them the best men and women. It is not a question whether , “not one mother in forty would consent to deliver up her child” or not, but whether the childls interest can be best promoted, subjected to the blindness of ignorant affection, or conducted by‘ an enlightened community. A hundred years ago parents voluntarily began to perceive that they, as a class, were unﬁt to educate their children mentally, and from this recognition our system of public schools originated. According to The Word this system is a despotism‘; according to us it is the truest liberty, because it best prepares children to assume the duties and responsibilities of adult life as free- IIIED. - We say it is barbarous to leave children to the abso A v , lute control of parents. 'wooDH.ULL-as cLAEL1N's WEEKLY . In many cases this control is, even now, outrageously abused, and thousands, aye, millions of children are turned loose into the world to become the pests of society thereby. It is_ then. a question whether children can be better reared by an organized system of society, or, as in past ages, by their parents, and this only. Beyond this pa- rents have neither duty nor right. If this is admitted the other ..points involved" necessarily follow. Society having a direct interest in the condition of children arriving at adult age has the best right to conduct the rearing of them previous to that age; and this becomes specially obvious when it is remem- bered that, in case parents fail to properly rear and educate their young, there is no recourse upon them for their failure neither by children nor society. But if society fail to do its duty in the premises it suffers the natural and inevitable penalty of being composed of undeveloped, uneducated and unproﬁtable members. Therefore, it would be more consist- ent for The Word to refute these positions than to con- tinue to charge usﬂwith advocating despotism. We dorebel against the tyranny of any law that in any manner tends to impair the great natural law of individual sovereignity. But we do not rebel against the so-called ty- ranny of a law that is enacted to provide for any great or little public need. We do not condemn society for abating acpublicnuisance, nor for providing forthe public comfort. We do not condemn public highways, nor the law which provides and maintains them. The people who constitute any community have certain interests in common, and all such should assist to promote those interests, or in the event of not doing so to refrain from making any use of them. If the "intense individualism of amember prevents him from paying a tax to maintain a public street, then let him be consistent . and not use the, street. Let him remove from society into such , places as require no streets. If this principle is so intense as to cause him to resist taxation, and he be robbed of his prop- erty, let him not invoke the power of the law to recover it. We have no objection to such action. We do not believe there is any power to compel any person to pay any tax; but if a person refuse to pay then let him not make use of any- thing that the money paid by others maintains. The Woo“d, in its Free Banking proposition, also seems to ob- ject to our views of a proper circulating medium of exchange. It says : “ You propose to prohibit—or virtually to prohibit—- _ an individual banking, either of issue or deposit.” We are at a loss to conceive how The Word or any of its contributors has obtained such an absurd idea. We defy them to produce a sentence either in our speeches or writings that by any, even far-fetched construction, can be made to mean any such thing. Our demand is that government shall issue money to its citizens, without cost, to whatever extent they need and can secure. ‘We never argued that individuals should not do the same, nor that individuals should be prevented from loaning money at whatever interest to whoever desired to borrow, but such borrowers should ﬁrst have theprivilege of obtaining it free from the Government. Therefore, we do not say‘: “ Here is a branch of business into which you shall not enter,” and to assert that we do is a despotic use of free- dom to which we have a right to object, and to which wedo object most heartilyiland earnestly. If the advocates of free banking want to do a banking busi- ness let them do it freely, but do not ask that free banking shall be protectedin any mannerby law. If persons desire to patronize free banking let them do so at their own risk, ‘not asking the community to protect their deposits or exchanges. We say let everybody bank who wants to do so, and let everybody make use of such banks who will, but do not ask a law eitherto limit or protect its functions and call it “Free Banking,” since it would be legal banking. No I Ours is not the “liberty of bondage.” It is the free- dom of organization. A mass of individuals, unorganized, is ’ not acommunity but a mob, and this is no less true of society than it is of an army; it is no less true of industry, generally, than it is of the postal service specially. Now this service does not compel any one to commit his letters to the mails to be transported to. their destination. Every individual may carry his own letters from Maine to California if he so de- sires, or he may send them by a messenger, but the postal service offers so great inducements over the individual’s means that no one thinks of objecting to it as a despotism. This system could be carried on only as nationally organized. To limit it to states, counties or towns would be to destroy it. So would it be with -a currency. We Want a national money system, and then let whoever will issue and receive individual currency. If The Word can see despotism or any infringement of individual rights lurking in such a proposi- tion it has a sharper perception than we have. If, however, it conﬂict with its ideas of free banking that is anothermatter, but not to be set down as despotism, or to be refuted by the charge that it is despotism. If «organization is despotism, then we have studied nature to no effect. Observing its operations we learn that the highest forms of nature are those that are the most thoroughly organized. The action of individualized elements, or sim- ples, is a low order of development. So is anrorder of so- ciety in which each individual is obliged to provide for all l1is own needs and comforts by his own hands, a low order.» A society where each individual raises his own food, builds his own house, mends his own clothes, boots and shoes, fashions his own plows, rakes, machines,—-his axes, hoes, saws— his pens, ink, paper——his types, presses, paper, and reads the paper after it is printed, alone, is a primitive order. We see nothing desirable in a freedom that would remand us back to such a condition. I I ~ May 30,1874. In the place of this we want complete organization—, organization of the industries—organization in everything in which the interests of individuals are identical, and in which no individual right is forfeited or impaired; but in which every such right is promoted and protected. T0 class . such interests with love, where the interests are purely individual and impossible’ of general organization, is to play with reason and common sense. To say that love between men and women is similar to currency, which people require to exchange commodities with, is a position, at . once so ridiculous and so absurd that we are constrained to doubt the sanity of Whoever assumes it. Love is something that is not public. It belongs speciﬁcally to the individuals who love, and nobody else has any right to interfere, either to dictate or to regulate; -but for the people to construct a general currency, illustrating their faith in themselves as a people, with which to conduct their business arrangements, is so entirely an opposite order from love that the two have no possible relation. To say that an individual shall not utter or receive personal money, would be the same as to say that an individual shall not love, except as the law permit; but we have never either conceived or uttered what would be such a clear and such an unwarantable interference with individual freedom. I For the Nation—not the State——-to provide a better cur- rency than a number of individuals can possible provide; a better system of education and nurseries for children than therecan be found in the isolated household; better trans- portation for individuals and merchandise than can be fur- nished by individuals, and which will prevent the impositions upon justice now so generally true of transportation; a better method of securing the use of land to every one who desires to occupy it and to use -it; but yet to permit anybody who willgto make their ow: money, educate themselves (we deny the right to prevent the education of children or to compel them to suffer from an inability on the part of parents to ‘provide for them); to transport their own letters, freight, and to ride in their own or anybody else’s conveyance; to do all these is not despotism in any sense that we can understand it, or that anybody else can render it. Nor is it any more despotism in the sight of Mr. Heywood than with us. These opinions we have held consistently, we affirm, ever since we had any opinions at all upon these subjects; and we do not conceive that to hold and advocate them now is to “have been dcmoralizcd by some man.” If Mr. Heywood does not believe in organization, let him permit us to do so without the imputation, gratuitously bestowed of demoralization;' and instead of denominating our position as despotic, let him meet argument with argument. In this field we are ever ready to contend for our views, and to yield them when con- vinced of their fallacy; but Mr. Heywood will have to reverse the order of nature and establish the fact that primal elements are a higher order of organization than -a single system which represents all the primal elements, before he can successfully establish his theory of individual sovereignty. Individual sovereignty doesn’t mean that every individual must conquer and maintain an absolute freedom from all other individuals; but true sovereignty means a condition in which the highest interests of all individuals are merged in a common interest and purpose—in which the best interests of each are represented in the brotherhood of all; and not when each person holds every other person at arm’s length, saying: “ Don’t you dare to administer to my comfort or happiness, because by so doing you will interfere with my freedom and make me false to my individual sovereignty.” 2-————>-«O ANTI-USURY. The Anti-Usury Reformers, of whom Edward Palmer is President, held their annual meeting at Masonic Hall, N. Y., on May 10th. As the N. E. Labor League recognizes the ‘movement as a component part of Industrial Reform, one of its sessions was set apart to consider the subject of usury. Opposition to the same is not now unrepresented in foreign countries. All educated Catholics are aware that gusury or interest is and has been from time immemorial condemned by the papacy as “ mortal sin,” and in Great Britain a yearly in- creasing body of Labor Reformers (under the leadership of Mr. James Harvey, of Liverpool, from whom we have just received a work on the subject, for which we tender our thanks) are making rapid headway in converting the members of the Unions and Granges to their anti-usury doctrines. As interest for the use of money is utterly forbidden by Moham- med in the third and thirtieth chapters of the Koran, the money-lending business is monopolized by the Jews and Christians in Turkey, who are the; real opponents of the Turkish nation. It is believed that in every civilized country there are some brave people who are trumpeting before the walls of the modern Jericho, the infamous money system, and what is more important there are many indications in all countries that the walls are commencing to crumble and fall that have so long shielded the oppressors from the just indig- nation of the wealth-producers whom they have so long and so cruelly persecuted. 0»-<-——— MAN ON HIS METTLE. The New York Herald is on the war-path. It is after the Fifth avenue butterﬂies with a sledge hammer. This year the annual meeting of the woman suﬁragists has eﬂected one thing—it has unmasked the battery of its opponents. There is no fencingin the article we copy from the New York’ if. ~‘____ g 4' -V——‘: ll’ May 30, 1874. WOODHIULL dc. 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. I I ‘ 9 Herald thereupon. It throws down the gauntlet in behalf of man, admits his tyranny and declares war against the move- ment for the political equality of woman wi.th man. It is a point gained, henceforth the reign of twaddle on thatgsllbject oughtto cease, “as the disagreeable fellows who hold the reins of power mean to keep them in spite of Miss Anthony and her noisy legions.” Hear it, ye women of the Union, and tremble I The Apostles of W0man’s Rights held their annual meet- ing yesterday (May 14) at Irving Hall, and it will be seen from an account published in another column that their pro- ceedings were marked by unusual enthusiasm. The tireless Susan still urges on her petticoated legions to struggle against the domination of the brute man, and under the leadership of this female Caesar the Amazons threaten to become a danger to the State. The cotton umbrella 0f..the oratorical lady shines in the vanguard of the woman s move- ment like the oriﬂamme of Navarre, and whenever that awful piece of cotton waves, tyrant man trembles. The most serious part of the bu.iness is_ that the leg1011S We 110 longer recruited from the female printers and the somewhat repellant ladies with the cropped wigs, but the services of the young and dashing belles of the Fifth Avenue have been enlisted. It will puzzle tne male kind to find out the ‘griev- ances of, the latter class, unless, indeed, they may think of executing a change of front and becoming useful as well as ornamental. Perhaps they have taken pity on their husbands and pap-as, and want to have the right_to earn some of the silk dresses they look so well in. If this be part of the pro- gramme we do not doubt that it would prove quite accept- able to the tyrants. Indeed, we think a_good many reforms of this nature would be necessary before extending the much desired suffrage to the ladies. We have alread)’ V00 many politicians, and patriotic persons are‘ endeavoring to ﬁnd some means of reducing this class withinreasonable limits. Under these circumstances the irruption of the ladies into the political arena would be viewed with alarm by the cornmuniiy, as calculated to turn every household into a miniature Arkansas. Two Governors in_ one State have proved disturbing enough, but the establishment of divided sovereignity in the home circle would Eproduce uni- versal anarchy. For these good reasons the umbrella of the ' woman suffragists will be for sometime to come waved in vain, as the disagreeable fellows who hold the reins of power , mean to keep them in spite of Miss Anthony and her noisy ‘legions. The WEEKLY can afford to set aside unanswered the low vulgarity and aristocratic assumption which permeates this article. The old copy says “variety is charming,” and we would advise our contemporary to remember the same, and lay the “cotton umbrella” aside in its future lucubrations, f or it is quite worn out with the double duty it has been com- pelled to perform in the above paragraph. As to the “ fe- male printers aiid the ladies with cropped wigs” their servi- ces in the cause appear to displease quite as much as those of “the dashing belles of Fifth avenue.” The former are in- sulted because they are poor, and the latter rated because they are rich. There is no consolation for tbe Herald. It wiiices under the double inﬁictioii like the soldier who was flogged by his friend “Sam.” Said the ﬂogger, “tell me where to strike and I’ll obey you.” When undergoing the punishment the sufferer naturally exclaimed “ higher ! higher l—lowei‘ 1 lower !”——until he exhausted the patience of his friend, who replied angrily, “ Confound you, Sam, there’s no pleasing you !” The same appears to be the melan- choly case of our contemporary. ' But there are some unpalatable truths in the above article which merit attention. The ﬁnancial slavery of the “ dash- ing belles of Fifth avenue” is one of them. The beggarly money discriininatioiis between the sexes in our industrial institutions, patrons of industry, granges, labor leagues. etc., are the messes of pottage that are offered to woman for her birthright. Robbed and wronged in every way as she is, we hold that it is her duty to utterly repudiate all such distinc- tions, apparently in her favor but operating to enslave her. True, there are periods in the life of woman, viz. : cliild— bearing, nursing, etc., when she needs assistance. Were we an enlightened people we should appreciate the fact and pay our debts to her under such circumstances with far greater readiness than we pay the public bondholder, feeling that she conferred and did not receive honor in accepting the assist- ance of the State. Napoleon the Great appreciated the truth of the above statement. VVhen Madame de Stael asked him who was the worthiest woman in France, he answered: “She, madame, who has given to her country the largest number of children!” The conclusion is obvious that she also ought to be the best rewarded and the most honored. But the gist of the article lies in its conclusion. There the fact is fully revealed that fools and twaddlers so long have striven to hide. There the admission and assertion of the power of man over woman is declared and paraded. If the bible be correct the position is justiﬁable. Women have far greater,i'iglits now thanwere granted to them under the laws of Moses, and they, we are told, are emanations from an un- changeable God. VVc disbelieve the statement and advise all women who are disiatisfied with their present positions to shut their bibles and keep them shut before they ask for more freedom than they at present possess. The positions that women hold under Christianity and Mohammedanism may be legitimately traced to the rulings of the J ewisli God in the Old Testament. In the New Testament these immaculate (1?) . laws are somewhat ameliorated it is true, but the apostle Paul, who commanded women _‘ ‘ to keep silence in the churches” would not be likely to act as a chairman were he called upon to preside at a meeting for the political enfran— chisement of the sex, much less would the bachelor who or- dered all wives to “submit themselves to theirhusbands ” be willingto endorse the greater demand for woman’s individual and social liberty. ' . As a human and fallible history of the Jews we do not ﬁnd fault with the Bible. 'As a legislator of A. M. 2,250, accord.- ing to the Mosaic record, we respectMoses. As a singularly democratic community we honor the Jews of ‘his time. But the world ‘is three thousand years older thaniit was then, and the condition of woman is the gauge of its advancement in civilization. Among slaves or savages, as the Jews were in the time of Moses, she is under the rule of force. To those women who are satisﬁed with the position woman holds on earth in the Bible, for she has no representation in Heaven in that book, we would submit that silence and obedience are their manifest duties. Their political and social chains are manufactured out of theological iron, and as Cliristians, they haveno right to demand emancipation. To those who think differently, and they are already very numerous, we extend a hearty welcome, for they are ﬁt to ﬁght the battle for their freedom, in which that of man is also included. , It is thus that the movement for the emancipation of woman enters into the domain of spiritualism. There are reformers suffrage by women would at present be detrimental to the best interests of the nation. Unless the latter are theologi- cally as well as politically, free they declare it would simply be conferring a plurality of votes on the clergy. The power of woman backed by the churches, though used illegally, has been exhibited in the west in the temperance or abstinence crusade. What might it effect, when organized, as it would be by the Protest-antclergy, at the polls? ’ Already the New York. Witness, the only religious daily in the city, has run up the ﬂag of “suffrage for Women.” It is easy to perceive why it has done so. justice and right, and in it the motto of the WEEKLY is that of the ancient Romans'—jia25 jiostilict, ruat cazlum. Q-r—<<—.._ VOX POPULI, VOX DEI. We rejoice to know that the masses of the people are more merciful than that small section of humanity terming itself “Society ;” and, we believe more truthful and more pure also. They are unwilling in the West to condemn a young woman who is charged with sacriﬁcing her child for her character. The WEEKLY does not desire to defend crime, more especially acrime so general among people married and unmarried, as child (or foetus) murder ; but, at the same time it honors a judge that gives , to sucha victim prisoner, the beneﬁt of every doubt, and a community ‘brave enough to applaud so honorable an action. The trial of Maggie Oleson on charge of infanticide came off in the Circuit Court on Monday. The circumstances which led to her arrest are doubtless fresh in the minds of our readers as full particulars of -the affair together with the detailed confession of the girl were published at the time, only a few weeks since. It will be remembered that the in- fant was found on the railroad track with its head nearly severed from the body. VVhat interest there was manifested in the case was a sort of genersl feeling of sympathy for the girl under the circumstances. The outspoken coiidemiiation was heaped upon her seducer more than upon the girl her- self. H. B. Jackson and C. W. Felkerhad volunteered to __act in the defense. The main witneases examined were Drs. Gordon and Blodgett who made a postmortem examination of the Child when found. The main issue turned upon the question whether the child was alive or not when born, and to these conclusions both sides, in their showing to the jury, were obliged, in a great degree, to place their case almost wholly upon medical authority on this point. The girl having confessed to the cutting of the child’s throat, this point was dropped out of the thread of testimony almost entirely. .Both these physicians testified that, from the tests made by them, ‘it was their opinion the child was alive when born. Their main authority for this opinion was from the fact that the lungs were fully inﬂated and ﬂoated lightly on water. After these gentlemen had testiﬁed, the judge interrupted proceeding by citing the district attorney to voluminous authorities, recording that this was no infallible test, and that chiidren have been known to have been born dead and yet have their lungs fully inflated, stat- ing that, under these circumstances, it was impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the child was born alive. The judge ordered the jury to enter averdict of ac- quittal and the prisoner was dicharged. Under the peculiar circumstances the verdict meets with the general approval of the people. The man Hans Jansen, the seducer of the girl, it is believed has gone back to Denmark.—Da.2'ly N orth- west, Oshkosh,’ Wis. ' ' It is not to be wondered at that our Western brethren and sisters cannot appreciate the justice of condemning awoman to moral death for an‘ act, which in a man, is looked upon rather as a credit than otherwise. It is not lobe wondered at that they will weigh the terrible inducement that society forces upon a young woman under such circumstances, to posed victims who are not worse than thousands, probably‘ hundreds of thousands, of their adult fellow countrymen and countrywomen. It is no use for the public to deny the charge. The proof is extant in the daily advertisements of many of the principal papers of our cities, and Dr. Allen, but a few years ago sanctioned it by asserting that on its account, the native population of Massachusetts had ceased, to increase; Coroner Lankester of London, Great Britain, estimated that, in that city, there were twelve thousand such ‘murders per annum, and a correspondent of the N. Y. World, surmised that more than double that number, were so slaugh tered every year in New York. Copulation, if it be a crime when willingly entered into,- is the lightest of sexual crimes. The WEEKLY does not con- demn it, but strikes at the degrading sexual bestialities of the age whose name is legion. It knows why Society, mam- mon-ruled, has sacriﬁced woman to man’slust from time im- memorial; that she is not immolated at the shrine of chastity, but at the shrine of the dollar. The civil law takes no note of what is termed fornication when the parties committing it are agreeod. No priesthood in our country dares to dis- criminate between male and female guilt (as they might term it) in such cases. Society alone, saturated itself through and. I through with sexual monstrosities of an inﬁnitely worse char- acter, elevates the ﬁnger of Escorn and damns the female “anarchy. This is denied. who assert that the admission and the exercise the right of Nevertheless, the cause is thecause of . commit so awful a crime, and cover with their sympathy ex- . only. It is woman who murders her weaker sister, instead of comforting her. It is even yet with such a victim as Oliver Goldsmith so pithily described it. The trembling and heart- broken Qlivia is brought to her home to meet the scorn of female society, and there is no priest now that dares thunder in its ears——“ The kindness of heaven is promised to the penitent, and let ours be directed ‘by its example.” i T This is an argument, however, addressed to those calling themselves Christians. . For ourselves,.we take higher ground. We deny the claim of the ‘public to sit in judgment over such leases in which it is not directly injured. We assume-not to judge’ another, and will not submit to judgment ourselves until we have injured another. What man asserts for him- self we claim forwoman. The world says this will introduce , Anarchy in social affairs is rain- pant now. When a city like New York anda country like France cease to increase matters cannot be much worse than they are without annihilating the races; mankind. A But, says Society, it willintroduce promiscuity!‘ “'VVe answer-—do you intend to be promiscuous? No, not us that attend churches, but others. A Ah, dear Society, trouble not yourself about others. What little sexual virility and purity there is in the world lies with those others; _Do you ask why? Because their labor has defended them from the meaner vices, that’s why; and, whether you believe it or not, with them lies the power in the near future. 3 A It is for this latter reason the WEEKLY republishes and re- joices in the above decision. It honors the humanity of the judge who dared interpose his power to shield the defenseless. and to limit that Shylock——society—to its exact pound of“ flesh. We rejoice also to recognize the sound common sense of our Western fellow—ci°tizens, and are gladindeed to re-record the fact that “under the peculiar circumstances the verdict (not guilty) meets with the general approval of the people.” o-<————-— EYANGELICAL DRESS REFORM. What is majesty deprived of its externals? Every one same reply would probably be equally truthful (though not so humorous) were we to inquire, what is religion deprived of its externals? Verily were our modern priests stripped of their extra trappings they would appear only like jordi, ‘nary mortals. Silence the music of the churches» and stop the chantings of the sweet (opera) singers of Israel, and many of our costly cathedrals would be half depopulated. We do not complain of these things, we like costly dresses ; and do notybelieve that a clergyman can properly give the benedic. tion in a coat. For this reason we take pleasure in laying mass, of May 13th. ‘ “ In your issue of the 2d inst. is a short paragraph on ,‘ Dress Reform’ among Church-going Christians,’ 1 have a suggestion to offer. Let some ladies who stand high in the fashionable World, ladies of education, reﬁnement and taste, contrive a church costume. Letit be elegant. neat, plain-- that is, with little trimming——and so artistic that it can never look ugly or outre. The shape—the cut+—is the important thing. It matters little what the material or color may be. First, it would do away in part with that extravagance in dress among the worshipers which makes a. plainly-clad Christian feel out of place in our congregations. Second‘, the costume, continuing ever the same, would be familiar to our eyes, and so would never, seem old-fashioned. E And ladies who have not the means or the wish to follow all the ‘changes of fashion could adopt it as their usual dress and not attract attention on the score of being odd or antiquated in appearance. Will not the ladies see to this matter?” There is no doubt tliat if some “ high and fashionable Christian ladies” would start this movement it would prove a success ; and, in addition to what the writer says, it would go far to draw a broad line between saints and sinners outside the churches. As regards the precise shape and ﬁnish of j the garments required that could easily be arranged, but no two denominations ought to permit their peoples to dress alike. We should require, of course, Episcopal milliners, and Presbyterian tailors ; also, a depot for the sale of ready- made garments for Methodists. In the case of our Mormon neighbors, propriety would demand that the husbands of that many-wived people should not be permitted by Con- gress to unduly limit the longitude of their wives” dresses, as they might be tempted from motives of economy. IAI- together, we look at the suggestion ‘ contained in the above letter as excellent, and hope with the writer that the most pious and devout ladies will take an interest in the matter. ____...._._...._¢o+.._4_____..__. A WORD IN SEASON. ' When a newspaper desires to hold forth, it is the easiest thing in the world for it to ﬁnd a text. - Here we have one to hand fairly copied from the “ Drag/’s Doing/s”——we would go farther back for its source, but cannot : “An Iowa Judge has decided that it is more of a sin to steal a horse, than to elope with another man’s wife ; because there are eight millions of women in the United States, and only three millions of horses.” If our system of political economy be right, the above decision is ‘correct. Measured by their money value babies are the most worthless drugs in our country, and next to them come women; men are more valuable but still not comparable with horses, at least, in time of peace. Even in time of war_ Congress ﬁxed the value of male United States Citizens at three hundred dollars per head. As Mr. Bonner holds. Dexter at one-‘hun- dred thousand dollars, it is evident that that noble animal is‘ worthiabout three hundred and thirty—tliree able bodied men :w'itho[ uppythrown in} As to woman, who shallassert knows the correct answer to that question is, “ a jest.” The , before our readers the following letter from the N. Y. Wu: , The advantage of such a church costume would be two—fold.‘ _1oi T S woonisiuhr. ax 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. May i se;=’51is7’4.- ‘ ‘E that the Long Island farmer was wrong who depreciatingly compared his deceased par_tne1' to a cow. “Yes” said he, “my poor wife has gone, and though she was nothing to me but ha bill of expense, I would rather have lost the best cow in my yard. " ' > But our readers may say that human beings are not prop- erty, and so object to the above comparisons. I Then, we ask what is the meaning of “ another man’s wife,” in our text ? What is “ a wife” in law ? A “femme coiwe9'te,?’ alias, ‘ “ a covered or hidden woman.” What is she if she outlives her husband ? \ “A relict,”‘ that -is, “ ao relinquished or broken piece.” Does not that word. also tinge of property ? Come to the grave, what do we ﬁnd there. Here lies. John Smith etc., etc.; then below, also Mary, relict of the above etc., etc. Did Mary die ﬁrst her case would not be bettered ; then the document could run, sacred to Mary, wife of John Smith, etc. But where is the‘ monument that has, under such an inscription, Also John, relict of the above, etc. ? Nowhere ! John is always, under all circumstances, a round and sound unit, never an addendum to any other individual. What is the just inference but that women are property? Verily the Iowa Judge is right in this instance also. The WEEKLY would do wrong to palliateithe present posi- tion of woman. Its duty is to hold up the facts of her case in order to justify the discontent that at present exists in one- half of the people of this great country. As to the “ tit quoque” argument Society uses in order to shield itself from just exposi- tions, all right-thinking women, and men too, are beginning to sicken at the folly of such a defense. Furthermore, the pres- sent position of woman, and the consequent fearful social and sexual conditions of humanity are not chargeable to Social Re- formers, but to the tyranny of man operating through priest- hoods and legislatures. Like the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s play, the WEEKLY, in its animadversions and warnings, / - “Makes not—but foresees I” and the people are beginning to realize that its statements are public beneﬁts, as its constantly increasing subscription listvery satisfactorily proves. Nothing can more painfully prove the necessity for its existence, than the statements in the text above quoted, neither will the work of the WEEKLY be accomplished until a woman, or even a baby, is more val- uable than a horse, although there may be in our country, as the Iowa Judge says, “ eight millions of women and only three millions of horses.” ‘ -—-————>-<o>—+—-———-- IPAST AND PRESENT CHRISTIANITY. It would be as well for those who profess to be Christians to conform slightly to the doctrines of the great Nazarene. It is not ﬁtting in a bishop to be butting against the teach‘ ings of his God, like the little red bull of New Jersey dashed against the locomotive. ~ Who ever heard of Jesus commend- ing his follewers for their acquisition of money ? No one ! Who, but the bishop of Minnesota, does not know that He condemned wealth and those who possessed it i? The only privilege He gave I to rich converts was the privilege of transferring their stock, but they had to do it. “ Sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.” ' “The Bishop of Minnesota, at his late visit to the Indian mission at White Earth, under the Indian clergyman. En- megahbowk, conﬁrmed twelve Indians. The hospital for the Indians is full of patients. In his address the Bishop said: “ When I ﬁrst came among you, fourteen years ago, there was not in God’s universe a more hopeless race than the Chippewas. I see before me now single Indians who own more property than the whole band of Chippewas then pos- seased.”,". There are four candidates for orders among the Chippewas; one is the son of the Head Chief, one is the son of the Head Medicine Man, and a third is the son of the In- dian clergyman, the Rev. J. ‘J’. Enmegahbowk.” _ 2 Verily, the times are wonderfully changed from A. D. 30. As the great dramatist says : l “The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges I” And nothing proves the truth of that statement more than the present condition of the churches. All the vitality of thefaith, founded by the great Jewish Medium has departed from them. Like the prodigal son, they seem to have squan- dered, their spiritual heritage, and are now only kept alive by illegal stimulants, and munching the husks of ceremonies. 4. S611 311, ‘be poor, and follow me,” was the order of the day in J udea ; but, as the Bishop of Minnesota puts it, the word of command in our country is, “Join the church and get rich 3” I __..._.._....._...+g.-—4—-—--—--—- ‘ ‘ MISCELLANEOUS. THE ZAPOCYNUM CARNJEUM. ' [From the N. Y. World]. ‘ DoYLEsrowN, Bucks County, Pa., May 8. Sir-——]. have read the very singular and frightfully graphic account of “The Man-eating Tree,” published in a recent nﬁmber of the World, ‘with much interest, but, you will ex- cuts me for saying, with some little skepticism. While the disclosure; 0; science are often more strange than the wildest imaginations, of the romancer, it is but seldom that they enter into such ghastly regions as that into which your cor- respondent leads us. lYet no one’ knows -better than the ‘student of science how very far removed is the unlikely or the incredible from the impossible, and how rash it is because a statement seems’ strange and startling to denounce it as untrue ; andcertain recent observations of my QWD (Which I hajdgno intention of making public in their present imper- fect state until I saw the letter above referred to) give me an special, reasonfor at ‘least suspending my judgment The gag“, ﬁg which I, allude are as follows: = ‘ gather more"thl ‘n. a year age I received’ '=frg‘)m Dr. Frays- sinet, o f Paris, a small parcel of seed, which had been sent him by the lamented Carne. These seeds were all of known genera of plants (though some unquestionably of new species) and had been collected by that traveler in his journey to Laos and Mekong. To them all Dr. Frayssinet had attached labels, copied from Carne’s, except to one-small packet con- taining three seeds to which he said he could ﬁnd no label. They were of a dark coffee color, oval, ﬂattened, slightly compressed at the—_edges, with longitudinal black ridges con- verging at the apex. As there were so few, I did not exam- ine their internal structure. I planted them in a very light sandy soil in a well-warmed conservatory about the end of April, 1873, but it was not until October that I perceived any signs of germination, when a pale green sprout, made its appearance, with two seed-leaves, showing that the plant was a dicotyledon. On my examining the two other seeds I found that they had rotted. The plant grew but slowly, but ﬁnally developed a few leaves very like those of passiﬂora, with the difference however, that each lobe terminated in a small green hook or abortive tendril, formed by a prolongation of ' the midrib. Like passiﬂora, it had a small cup-shaped gland near the base of each leaf, secreting a limpid ﬂuid. The growth of the plant was so slow, and its whole appear- ance so sickly, that, remembering that its habitat was prob- ably the hot, seething swamps of Mekong, 1 determined to increase the heat and moisture, which resulted in avery marked improvement. VVith the details of its growth I need not trouble you; I ﬁnally placed it in a closed case, gave it more heat than any other of my tropical plants would bear, made for it a highly nitrogenized soil—-what I might almost call a putrid soil-—and allowed the sunlight to which it was exposed to pass through violet glass. The plant was thus at all times surrounded with awarm mist. The result was quite satisfactory. The leaves assumed a dark green, small rough patches like warts began to stud their upper surface, and the hooks at the end of the leaf—lobes lengthened into tendrils like those of the clematis. The plant grew so rapidly that I had to add a second story to the case. A ring of ﬁlaments or rather processes made its appearance around the stalk about ﬁve inches from the ground, grew in from two to three days to about an inch in length, and then dropped off, leaving a zone of’triangular scars. But in the meantime another similar ring had been formed just above, which in its turn fell off, so that this curious ruff or fringe kept advancing up the stem. A similar ‘phenomenon on a I smaller scale was presented by the larger branches, of which there were three. The leaves, I must mention, showed a marked aﬁinity for the sunlight, always maintaining them- selves in a position as nearly as possible at right angles to the solar rays, drooping when the sun was clouded ‘even for a few minutes, and almost immediately after sunset closing by folding themselves up along the midrib of the central lobe, so that the opposed lateral lobes resembled the ﬁngers of two hands placed palm to palm. ' As you may suppose, I waitedwith curiosity for its ﬂower- ing, but this function it seemed to accomplish with great difficulty, owing, I surmise, to the want of sufficient sun- light. However, after several buds had partly developed and then dropped off, it succeeded in producing, last month, three perfect ﬂowers. These were of what is called the per- sonata type, of which the common snap-dragon is a. familiar example; though they did not very closely resemble the snap-dragon, and I could only give a correct idea of it by a drawing. It had the mask-like form from which the name of the type is derived; but the upper part was longer in pro- portion, more elongated backward, and more like a grotesque head; and the labellum, or jaw, was protruding, but ﬁrmly closed. The general color is greenish-yellow, with small, brown, ﬂat warts, something like those on the stem. The mouth, or rather the margin of closure, is set with sharp, whiteprocesses that interlock. The labellum, or jaw, does not spring separately from the calyx, nor does it merge into the rest of the corolla; it is attached to the corolla proper as a sort of appendage, in a way which I shall presently explain. V .. From between the closed lips of the ﬂower hang out seven slender appendages of a dark red color, which I shall venture to call tentacles‘. These I was at ﬁrst inclined to consider altered stamens. They are about an inch long and terminate in a blunt end. While observing the ﬂower closely I noticed a slight, apparently spontaneous, movement in one of these, which was presently repeated by another. Having often ob- served the movements of the stamens of hedysarumiand her- beris and the closure of mimosa and dionaea, I thought that this was something of the same kind, and was about touching one of the tentacles with a needle when, to my great sur- prise, the tentacle erected itself, a slender ﬁlament darted from its point and twined round the needle for about a second, then uncoiled itself and vanished. This ex- periment I repeated several times, always with the same re- sult, except that in each case a different tentacle came into activity: nor did the ﬁrst show any irritability until the concave side ran an exquisitely ﬁne thread in which I could distinguish no structure. When the ﬁlament was protruded the ﬁlament was thrown into a. sudden spiral, thus grasping whatever it touched. When this ‘ act had been . repeated several times the motion grew weaker and slower,-and I was able to distinguish minute corpuscles moving about with great rapidity in the spiral -vessels like those seen in the sting of the nettle. ' The mode in which the tentacle sprang up from its base I could not discover. To get at their bases I had to remove the labellum or jaw to which they were attached, and this operation seemed to paralyze them. The corolla proper or vexillum contained seven stamens grouped around a pistil, which stood a little above them on an ovary. At the base of each stamen sprang a tentacle and passed down over the labellum to which they were attached for about a. quarter of an inch on the interior surface. The cavity was of a pale,, dull red, specked with white, and set with a number of short’ hairs resembling in structure the sting of a nettle7though knowing what some of the tropical nettles are, I did not ven- ture to test their stinging powers on my own person. Each of the white specks had a central oriﬁce large enough to ad- mit the passage of a ﬁne bristle. The anthers were covered with masses of a. viscous pollen like that of the orchids. The ﬂy, I may mention, lay in the cavity covered with pollen and quite dead. , ~ The mechanism of the jaw which I next examined is curious. It depends from the proper corolla by a ﬁne, thin, elastic mem- brane. It is strengthened and kept in shape by a structure somewhat resembling that of the “keel” of papilionaceous ﬂowers (such as the pea), except that this stiffening rib is bifurcated. Imagine the clavicles (or “ merrythought ” of a chicken to be curved up much more than they are, and taper- ing toward the point into ﬁne threads. and it will give some idea of this contrivance, which supports and gives ‘shape to the under and front surface of the jaw. At the point of bifurcation is a little vertical plate resembling that at the end of the merrythought, except that it is quite ﬂat above and cut into a deep notch below. The articulation is effected in this wayé From near the base of each side of the proper corolla runs a strong tense ﬁbre, crossing to the base of the other side, the two being united at the point of de- cussation, making a sort of bridge, like thiszlxj. The notch that I have described in the frame of the labellum ﬁts over the centre of this bridge, so as to allow free motion upward and downward to the jaw, to which it serves as a hinge. From the base of the pistil, and just above this, springs a ﬁrm tooth-like process, projecting over this hinge; and on the under surface of this _process are two prominonces, like tiny brown cushions, resting on the hinge, one before the fulcrum and one behind. Havingmastered the simple mechanism of the arrange- ment so far, I became convinced that in these two cushions must lie the moving power; but my removal of the lip seemed to have paralyzed the ﬂower, and I could not stimu- late them to any activity until I bethought myself of elec- tricity. On directing a very slight current to the stigma of the pistil I was gratiﬁed to see the front cushion ijsuddenly shrink quite ﬂat, While the other was prodigiously distended, when as suddenlythe action was reversed—the front cushion swelled and the rear one shrank. On increasing the strength of the current, this curious systole and dyastole was repeated with great rapidity. Now it was clear that, as the cushions rested on the hinge I have described, one before and one be- hind the fulcrum, these alternate contractions and expan- sions must throw the jaw up and down. I repeated this ex- periment on an uninjured ﬂower with perfect success; the jaw opened and shut with quick, strong snaps, and when the current was increased the whole ﬂower was singularly con- vulsed, presenting a grotesque resemblance to a small writh- ing face. Unfortunately I carried these experiments too far, and destroyed the vitality of this second ﬂower; so, having but one perfect ﬂower left, I was constrained to post- pone further investigation. It will be seen that the two cushions I have spoken of are a true erectile tissue. Under the microscope they show a spongy mass of compressed hexagonal cells mingled with spiral vessels, and it is evident that the sudden injection of I some ﬂuid into one, and its simultaneous withdrawal from the other, produced the mechanical action. It is worth. notice that these singular organs are immediately connected with the organs of reproduction——the tentacles with the stamens and the erectile cushions with the pistil; so that there seems to be in this ﬂower only a modiﬁcation and ex- altation (favored by a more highly-‘organized mechanical ap- paratus) of the phenomena observed in the barbery and other plants where the period of fructiﬁcation is accompanied with the development of new and almost animal powers. My sur- mise at present is that since the viscidity of the pollen and has to avail itself of the services of insects to accomplish this to the ﬂower. As before, the tentacle arose, the ﬁlament function. But the insect, even if attached to this ﬂower, can- darted out. plucked off‘ the pellet, and, to my inexpressible not enter the closed mouth. So by the apparatus we have astonishment, instantly curled itself back and deposited it in seen the ﬂower catches the insect and imprisons it until in its the jaws of the ﬂower which opened to receive it and closed efforts to escape it has carried the pollen upon the stigma. 11p0I1 it. the ﬁlament drawing itself back more slowly. I Whether the death of the insect invariably follows, and if so _ next tried a small living ﬂy, which was disposed of in the whether it is due to any poisonous qualities of theipollen, or - same manner. . "to the nettle-like hairs of the corolla 1 cannot now say. Itrust So remarkable a phenomenon sent me at once to my micro- that if the buds which the plant now has develop, I shall be scope, and, after considerable diiﬁculty, owing to the irrita- able to place seeds in the hands of several distinguished bility of the tentacles, I succeeded in attaching one by a little botanists, and that next year we shall have a full account of isinglass to the glass slide without injuring it or detaching it this singular plant. from the ﬂower. I then discovered that the ﬁlament was in reality the prolongation of the tentacle, which in repose was introverted like the ﬁnger of ahglove, dartingout when ex- cited like the glove-ﬁnger blown into. It was perfectly trans- parent, and by the use of a higher power I was able to make out something of its structure. Along its under or convex side ran a longitudinal series of long, anastomosing cells, re- It is with diﬂidence that I attempt to ﬁxlthe place of this plant’ in the vegetable kingdom; my opinion is that it be. longs toihe family of apocynaceae. and most nearly resembles the genus vahea. Should it prove to be, as I think, a new genus, I trust that the leaders of science will commemorate in it the name of Carrie. sembling the ordinary spiral vessels, and on the upper or7 there was a. violent rush of ﬂuid into these cells, distending and elongating them, while as the upper side remained rigid the elevation of the pistil render the ﬂower, like that of the - other six had successively acted. I new rolled\a small pellet orchids, incapable of self-fertilization, it, like the orchids, of paper, ﬁxed it on the point of the needle and presented it Before closingthis too long communication, Ilwi11 mentimy I \z May —2o,,1's74. v V woonHUI.L a ChAFLIN’S WEEKLY. c j 11 that your correspondent has fallen into the‘ error of many botanists in supposing that the dimieea inuscipula, or Venus’s ﬂy—trap, nourishes itself upon . the insects that it catches. Dr. R. Murdock. of Baltimore, has made this plant the object of careful investigation, whose resul.ts were embodied in a paper read before the Maryland Academy of Sciences, in which he showed that the death of the ﬂy involved the death of the leaf. From the body of the insect sprang a fungussor mildew which attacked the leaf and caused it to wither and drop from the stem. I It will be seen that the phenomena here described fall very far hort of those described by your correspondent——at least they are on ‘a much smaller scale. But if his carnivorous tree be merely the production of a lively imagination, it is certainly a curious coincidence that at the same time certain very real analogous phenomena were in process of; study by a modest and prosaic observer of nature. I am, very respectfully, yours, VW. MERCIER.‘ HARWICH, Mass., 1874. EDITORS on THE WEEKLY: Well, we are in the midst of revolution——revolution social- ly, and perhaps ﬁnancially; but as agitation tends to puriﬁ- cation, we may expect good to come at last. ., Few understand the breadth and ‘scope of this Social ques- tion. Those who do must expect to perform pioneer work, . and bear the taunts of an unthinking people. All innovations are jealously suspected, especially by those whose crafts are in danger; but let the probe go deep, for , superﬁcialities never will do in times like these. Man cannot really put together what Gr0d has put asun- der, nor can he put asunder what God has put together. Penalties surely follow violation of natural law, as is veri- ﬁed in tens of thousands of instances of ill-advised, unhappy connubialities. Shall we connive at and continue these things? I say, no! a thousand times, no! About four years ago my wife passed into the realms of spirit life; and, although my nature is eminently social, I am leading a single, lonely life—not daring to venture within the clutches of the law, lest in myweak judgment I might make a mistake, and saddle upon my domestic relationship a scourge instead of a blessing. The Congregational clergyman who saida few words at the Spiritualists’ camp meeting last summer was complained of by some of his Church members therefor: and he is now at loggerheads with the Church, being too liberal for them. They can’t get clear of him, however, because the disaffected members are in the minority; and -so he continues stirring them up. ‘Last Sunday, in his pulpit, he spoke of Mrs. Woodhull with respect. He has commenced to think, and, being a great lover of nature, he cannot feed longer on husks. B. F. R. __...__..... MAZEPPA, May 9, 1874. Dear Mrs. Woodhull—“ Brave, beloved Victoria, who shall yet be victorious,” were the prophetic words uttered by Mrs. Waisbrooker here in her eulogy and championship of the work to which you are both devoted. Yes, the Age’s ener- getic editress has beenin Mazeopa and given us two lectures, from the eﬁects of which the conservatives and free lusters will not soon recover, and which ﬁlled the radicals with a hungering for more from the same fountain.~ Church mem- bers, ministers‘ widows, and all were out to hear. “ Pure ” men, who boast of fallen sisters (?) “coming in unto them” through bedroom windows,in the absenceof their wives,went home saying they did not want their wives and daughters to hear and read such stuff as Our Age contains and its. editress speaks. Ah, no, she held a chalice to their lips until they drank to the bitter dregs. Mrs. Waisbrooker deserv es success, by virtue of the right which she advocates, and earnestness of purpose, combined with rare eloquence and oratory. Come again, sister Lois, your kingdom shall be the whole world, and more beyond, if but you can send your voice so far. Mrs. Dr. Lont, who heard her at Lake City tells me she outrivalled herself in her masterly eloquence on the evening in which she spoke there. She speaks soul-stirring, conscience-convincing truths. I am going to Red VV'ing next week, to make it my home. I’ve been told there is no liberal element there: but I shall carry enough with me to seed the ground; "and I pledge’ myself that the ﬁrst liberal mind I come across who does not take your paper or the Age shall be invited to do so. I join with your friends here in many kind wishes for your success, and am, yours respectfully, MRs. M. I. WASHBURN. .____... 5. MAX ADELER ON CREMATION. I hardly think, -upon the whole, that I am in favor of ore- mation. The process seems to me to be so frightfully waste- ful. At the same time, I am ready to admit that the dead might beused much more proﬁtably than they are now. If a man must be buried, let him be planted where he will make something grow. I remember that Casselbeny, of Vineland, N. J ., once laid his grandmother near his grapevine, and by carefully watering her twice a day, be secured a crop of ﬁf- teen bushels of black Hamburgs. The subject came up in the agricultural society subsequently, and there was a ques- tion whether a grandmother was the only female relative that could be efﬁcaciously used, and whether it should be a paternal or a maternal grandmother. Casselbeny explained that he had known a maiden aunt or a second cousinto do equally well; and he had his step- father among the roots of his mammoth‘ gooseberry bush, with every prospect of a superb crop. ,Very particular in- quiries were made by several members concerning the avail- ability of mothers-in-law improving the asparagus bed; he took the ﬁrst prize for asparagus at eight county fairs. Then the meeting suddenly adj ourned, and ﬁfteen mothers-in-la in Vineland died during the succeeding week. And then there is the skeleton. The Esquimaux ‘make skates out of the collar-bones of their departed friends; and I remember Hufnagle, of Mauch Chunk, having lost his leg by a railroad accident, took out ‘the bone, and had it made upinto aclarionet, with which heiused to go around sere- nading a woman who refused to love him. — He always played in a minor key. and they say up. at Mauch Chunk that he whistled the most heartrending music out of that bone. When old Mackintosh, of Darby, died, his widow had his framework taken out, and shepworked the whole of it up into knife-handles and trouser-buttons, which she gave to her second husband when they were married. The hottest kind of water never hurt those knife-handles, nnd the sus-. pender that wouldn’t_ stay buttoned on those buttons was ad- ,mitted to be just no suspender at all. But7I admit that there is. something disagreeable about this form of utilization,,and therefore I rather incline to favor theplan of turning inanimate remains into illuminating gas by consuming them in a retort. This, I understand, is prac- ticable, and it would be, I should think, inexpressibly con- soling to a man to sit and read the paper comfortably every evening by the light of his deceased uncle, and to have the satisfactionof knowing that the said relative had been run through a meter at so much a thousand feet. , It would be beautiful to illuminate the parlor with a .de- parted hired girl, or to turn off your h,alf—brother before going to bed.‘ And think what splendid gas a Congressman would make. We might have a law appropriating dead. Con- gressmen to the Light—House Board for use on the /coast. This class of persons then would have the consolation of knowing that they would be much more useful after death than they are during life. i i JESUS CHRIST ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. BY w. E. JAMIESON. According to the New Testament, Jesus Christ repudiated marriage. “ The children of this world marry and are given in marriage; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and‘ the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.” _ In that passage reference is -made to two classes—the mar- rying class and anti-marrying. Those who marry and are given in marriage are, by implication, unworthy. Bachelors and maids only will be admitted to kingdom come! Jesus had no expectation of converting mankind to celi- bacy, for he said “ Allmen cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.” This was in answer to a ques- tion from his disciples, after he had spoken about the infelici- ties of married life. They sagely (as the Shakers would say) remarked,“ If the case of the man be so with‘his wife, at is not good to marry.” M _, Jesus replied to them thus: “There are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb—[Begging Mr. Comstock’s pardon for quoting this passage]-—and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men; and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.” N ow, my Christian brethren, here is a chance for you! Jesus coldly adds, “ He that is ‘able to receive it, let him receive it.” As there has been, considerable confession through the WEEKLY, 1 am now ready to “ ’fess ” that I am inadequate to the heavenly situa- tion! I am in favor of marriage. If Imust miss either heaven or marriage, let heaven go! But the disciples let their wives go for heaven’s sake. Heaven has mademany cowards. . The teachings of Jesus 'Christ on the question of divorce are nonsensical. According to him if a divorced woman marries she is guilty of adultery, be she ever so pure: 7 “And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”—Mark x: 12. He said a husbandwho puts away his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery: “Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another committeth adultery against her.-”—Mark x: 11. » He says that the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery! N o allowance is made if the man should be ignorant of the fact that she had been divorced: “ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrteth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.” Whewl Is not that a beautiful law! There it is, without exception or qualiﬁcation. “Go to,” ye ministers, build a spiritual ‘signiﬁcation. It is odious as it stands, and will spices. In the time of Moses, “ Grod’s ” law was in favor of V“ easy divorce,” more easy than divorce in the State of. Indiana or the city of Chicago. Alla man had to do was to write his wife a bill of divorcement, give it in her hand, and send her out of his house if she found no favor in his eyes, t’. e., if he had found some uncleanness in her. But notwithstanding her uncleanness the law declares, “she may go and be another man’s wife.” If the latter _husband hate her he is allowed to serve her as her former husband did——send her tramping! The former husband, however, is forbidden to take her again, even if the latter one dies. The plan evi- dently was to pass her around, on condition that she must have a new “ affinity” at each change. If the woman under the old code had had an equal chance to rid herself of a. bus- band in whom she had found “some uncleanness ” (a drunken sot, for instance), on which account »it could scarcely be expected that he would ﬁnd “ favor” in the eyes of a reﬁned, pure-hearted woman, the law would have been just to all parties. As it is, it proves to be one-sided, unfair to the woman. I Jesus Christ disavowed any intention of destroying the Mosaic law, yet he proposed one which he manifestly in- tended for soft-hearted people. “For. the hardness of your hearts he (Moses) wrote you this precept.” ‘ According to Jesus Christ’s law of divorce, a man and woman who enter into the marriage state must remain in it during lifel If a blunder is made at the start, there is no remedy for it unless one of “the parties commits adultery or fornication. Such a law would compel a woman to suffer any amount of brutal treatment from a husband. He may make a slave of her, physically and mentally, and there is no \ probably smell ‘badly when embalmed swith allegorical 1 ‘redress, according to the stringent and unjust law of divorce as laid down in the New Testament. N 0, release for her; no hope save when her body is wrapp ed in the quiet grave and her spirit is freed from her merciless tormentor. , And what shall we say of some men who are legally bound. to termagants? The marriage law of Jesus Christ compel , them to live together and hate it out on that line if it takes lifetime. / . This is the glorious law which the ministers profess to .b-. so anxious to have carried out to the veryletter!‘ . It does appear as if Jesus Christ was determined to do what he could to abolish the marriage institution by making it burdensome; in the meantime holding up before the . peoplethe advantages of celibacy, wishing them to become eunuchs. for the sake of gaining heaven. This idea is incor- porated, too, in what is called the “Lord’s Prayer.” After death “ they /neither marry nor are given in marriage ;_. but are as the angels which are in heaven.” “ Our Father which it is in heaven.” Inrheaven there is no marrying; and if that/prayer had been answered there would have been no marriages on earth; and, unless children were born out of depopulated ages ago, and nothing but a wilderness,*in place of villages and cities, would have been the practical result of the “Nazarene’s” teaching about marriage. Christians for generations repeating the “Lord’s Prayer,” “as in tioning against marriage. Fortunate for the race that there is no efficacy in prayer! V it THE DEGENERACY on THE PRESS.-We have heard much. said about the degeneracy of the press, and we ‘have strenu- upon the San Francisco News Letter, and we took off our armor and resolved to battle no more for the sanctity of the profession to which we have devoted our life. Since Satur. day night a lonely and unprotected female has been in our city, quietly attending to her own business, seeking subscrip- tions for WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY, as paper that boasts not so much of literature as of a general interest to mankind, and a paper which professes to speak the truth. Miss Tennie C. Claﬂin, the lady in question, is modest and retiring, presses no one to open his pocket-book, but when subscriptions are offered she, as in duty bound, accepts them. Yet with all this modesty of manner, illustrated by a beauty that is proverbial, we want our readersto look at the horrors of a man who knows not the blessings in store for him. Here are the terrible apprehensions of the San Francisco editor: land. passengers was a false alarm, yet it is threatened that this fearful female contemplates a descent upon California. In what have we offended, that heaven should choose a set of long line of them, ranging from the wickedness of our pet hyenas to thestupidity of the breeched Clark. And now the C1aﬂi.n ‘comes to cap the climax. 0, Lord! keep her off, if she is not too much for thee. Are we not a city of churches, parsons and prayers? Do we not use thy name long, loud and frequently? Have we not done away with the City Han Commission, and are we not, going to shut up the whisky shops at twelve? Are we not ﬁghting the devil and all his works during all of our leisure hours? and wilt thou there- fore persecute us with a Claﬂin? Send us rather a default. ing treasurer, a thieving Congressman, or any other one whose ways are not altogether past ﬁnding out, but not an- other woman. 0, Lord! if thou lovest us, not another we. man! We have several batches of the article which we are ready to deliver into thy hands, whenever it shall please thee to call for them; but we can’t recommend them. 0, Lord!- we have not yet sunk so low.’ We scorn a lie.” One smile from the serene countenance of Miss Claﬂin be any one rather than the editor of the News Letter when the frail form of the fair Tennie appears in his sanctum. Cremation would be as the balm of Gilead compared to what he will have to undergo. Won’t Tennie scorch him,» though! _—Salt Lake Paper. AN“'INOREDULOUS READER. Emrrons OEETHE WEEKLY: I see you have published a tree story from the World Now, the VVorld for the last two or three years has at periods three columns long, and that tree story bears the same ear marks. ‘ ‘ I am glad it was given in your paper, if it should be the ‘means of calling forth a warm rebuke from you. To write a hoax or literary joke so elaborately without giving some clue whereby ordinary readers may detect the falsity of the story is to my mind very reprehensible. * - J ASPER. [We do not arrogate to ourselves any greater powers of discernment than our “ordinary readers” possess. We admire a well told story, and are willing to submit such to our readers, conﬁdent of their ability togdetect any “hoax” hidden in the'well—rounded periods. . If our correspondent has discovered an imposture, we think it “reprehensible "’ to “ hide his light under a bushel,” and we request forour readers that he let it sliinethrough ourdcolumns for their beneﬁt.—EDs.] 4 ‘ ,NOT IMPossIBLE.—The question was put some time’ since to a candidate for installation in ——-—r, Conn., by an excenen brother, “ Could not God have changed Pharaoh’s heart F” The answer was shrewd but evasive. “ I insist upon 3;"; un. equivocal answer,” cried the questioner; “ Could not God‘ have changed Pharaoh’s heart ‘B’? After thinking a moment, the answer came: “If he had neglected everything else and given his whole attention to it, I don’t know but he m1ghun__‘_ , Boston Indus, ‘ I I art in heaven * *‘ ‘ * thywill be done in earth, as V, wedlock, where would we have been. The beautiful earth A heaven so in earth,” have not realized that they were peti-‘S I’ ously scouted the infatuation; but yesterday our eyes fell . “Although the name of the Claﬂin woman among the over- J wicked women to be our especial scourge ? We have had a, ought to wither that dreadful inﬁdel. We would prefer to ' I of three to six months apart published hoaxes one, two and ‘ .- .\ . a, synthetic evidence. ‘discovering such causes and following them through their 3 as we are, and then our Columbuses will be followed by a ' sand. But who shall lead. the way in this discovery? The ' through, though he enter aharbor without dock or proper 12 t 1 . wooDHULL J5 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. "' May 30,/18474. 4‘. NECESSARY IMMORTALITY. BY ROBERT G. EccLEs. Our leading paradox——man is at once mortal and immortal v——now comes in for investigation; No subject has stood the battle for so many ages, and to-day it is waged with as much vigor as one hundred generations ago. If either side is wrong it has stood the test most bra.vely,.an,d still stands forth undaunted. Materialism has always intrenched itself in crude realism, while the bulwarks of Spiritualism have / been wild idealism. ,‘ The former has held up as its data‘in- disputable facts, while the latter has attempted to dive into and explainvby the inscrutable- Every Immortalist, from Socrates and Plato downto Berkley and Butler, in following the line of argument they chose, has attempted the impos- sible. Bridging the hiatus of the unknowable with a petitia principit they succeeded‘ in leading themselves and dupes through the mazy.intricacies of the most specious sophisms. ’Bewilderment instead of conviction was the result. Be- ginning with an assumption of immortality and passing around their metaphysical circle, we cannot wonder that they always landed safely on the same rock. Cato, after having perused “Plato on Immortality,” is made by’ Shakes- peare to say: ' “ It must be so, ‘ Plato thou reasoneth well. (Laying his hand on his sword.) Thus am I doubly armed; My death and life, _ . My bane and antidote.” ’ The copy read by Cato must have been entirely different from that now extant, or he could not have arisen from its reading so conﬁdent of a. hereafter. No more glaring or transparent a begging of the question was ever written. It is well calculated to make a believer in immortality who reads it arise doubting the doctrine. ’ ‘Aftera most thorough and elaborate search through our whole Spiritual literature for evidence of necessary immor- tality, we ﬁnd it as barren as that of Antiquity,’ Paganism or Christianity. Indeed they have given us but a re-hash of the gray-headed, hackneyed sophisms of theologians and crazy metaphysicians. True, we ﬁnd amid a mountain of trash a few grains of analytic evidence through mediumship. Where the pneumatic hypothesis is the only rem cause as- signable, this will do. No better evidence, of its kind, could be given. As long, however. as the hereafter stands forth unexplainable, mysterious or miraculous, how can we expect man’s attention to be diverted that way? How do we gain an existence hereafter? This is a perfectly legitimate ques- tion to ask. Until answered satisfactorily we need not hope tohave men follow very far what to them is a mere “ Will- 0’..th3-wisp.” Once or twice being humbugged, as John Tyndall was, will settle them for life on the question of me- diumship. Tell a man that Baron Munchausen threw his hatchet up "to the moon, and if he will take pains to go to Cambridge Observatory and look through the telescope at that body he may see it. Failing the ﬁrst, or ﬁftieth time, you tell him to look on or go to Amherst and try there, as you are sure he will see it, if patient, for you did. Could you expect him to take your advice, or persist for any length of time in follow- ing your directions when feeling conscious all the time that he was making a fool of himself. This is exactly the idea M-aterialists have of a future life. If the /hatchet really was there some necessary mechanical means, generally unknown, carried it up. Convince this man of’ the existence of such means and he will improve every opportunity to try and gain What can we do for men who look upon our belief as (a mere Munchausen story? What have we done for them? So far we have evaded their interroga- tions, or treated them to ﬁne-spun sophisms. “Show us,” they say, “that immortality is a logical necessity-—that we must live——and weshall then take pains to gain a veriﬁcation by mediumship.” ' _ ‘ Future life must be the result of necessity. It can no more be a miracle than the motion of the tides. It must stand forth a purely physical fact—an effect of pre-directing causes. This being the case, what is there to hinder us in sequence to the goal? Once discovered, it will stand forth impregnable to every assault of the foe. At ﬁrst it may scarcely convin‘ce——only surprise—and afterward become triumphant. This is the history of new truths. We tell our opponents that the next world is as real and purely objective as this. Where is our proof? An ipse dimit will only satisfy those who, like young robins, with open mouth, gulp everything put therein and cry for more. Give men the unbroken chain of successive causation that must exist if you would convince. Enter the ﬁeld of science and prove a spirit world inhabited by entities as real, as tangible 1-ace prepared for such a truth. It will do more to convert the world to Spiritualism than all ‘ the mediums that ever‘ lived. Mediumship too will be prized at its true worth, for there will grow up an army of Crookes, Higginses and Wal- laces in the ranks of science, glad to investigate, though fail- ing nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of every thou- task will be a perilous one, for he must stand alone. Never yet has it been accomplished, although the names of those who have attempted it are legion. One thing he can do- steer clear of the rocks and shoals on which his predecessors and contemporaries were stranded or wrecked; and if by the chart of their failures he is fortunate enough to pilot safely mooring, let him cry-“ Eureka.” Seeing the other shore and pointing the way, he has done his work. Those that follow after will do theremainder. L The following are some of the .most common sophisms of Imlmortalistsz ’ 1 I ; _ connection in’ this between premise and conclusion? Is the soul a primate atom of inert matter? 2. “I am, therefore I must continue to be.” An apple is, therefore as such it must continue to be. ‘ 3. “The eye cannot see, the optic nerves cannot see, the brain cannot see‘, therefore the soul, behind all these, must see.” This is Butler’s argument from subjective conscious- ness, ‘and is applied to all ﬁve of our senses. 7 Suppose we run it back to the soul. How does it change ether waves to sight? Is there something behind this again that sees in- stead of the soul? Run it back, thus, inﬁnitely, and you will ﬁnd as much reason for believingthat sight is an inexplicable function of the brain as of the soul. This is the region of the unknowable, the most fruitful ﬁeld of U metaphysical sophistry. . 4. “We desire immortality, therefore we have avcapacity to enjoy it.” Yes’; we sometimes desire a good dinner, but do not always get it. Our desire of immortality is to live with the change called death, a desire we know cannot be gratiﬁed. 5. “(All progression cannot be for nothing. Minds like Newton, Mill or Euler could not have been designed but for a day.” How do you know "nature has any design? If she has, how do you know that the very thing you dislike so is not her design? She does not ask you what she pleases to do. You must assume a miracle-working God, with hopes and desires like your own, to make an evidence of this. Cold, stern fate spurns such logic. C 6. “Intuition tells me Ilam immortal.” Intuition has not been so kind by others, since it has left them’ with the gravest doubts. May not this thing you call intuition be merely an hereditary instinct,the outgrowth of superstition among your progenitors, photographed upon you by generations of blind faith? Indeed, upon psychological considerations, it must be so. ’ ' 7. “If false it could not have been universally believed by every nation , and in every age.” It has not been believed by every nation in every age. Some nations have never dreamed of it. Others, superﬁcially noting the wonders of Atavism, have taught the doctrine of progressive metamphsychosis or re-incarnation, followed at last by annihilation. This is but a compromise with pure materialism. Indeed, had it been as universally believed as claimed, instead of sustaining it we would have an at prion’ presumption of its being false. All discovery, all increase of knowledge goes to show that the earlyideas of the race are, as a rule, untrue-—especially if universally accepted. Growing adaptations and growing powers of mind ever demand continuous modiﬁcations of the beliefs of our savage forefathers. The history of every sci- ence furnishes evidence of this. Their interpretations of meteorological, biological and psychological facts were all wrong. It was a universal belief with them that the earth was ﬂat and stationary, but who would now dare to bring this forward to oppose the doctrine that the earth is a globe. Nothing but sophistn heaped on sophism has obtained in this ﬁeld of thought. It is a wonder the whole human family is not steeped in the blankest kind of Materialism. That wonder will increase when we ﬁnd the Materialist in his crude realism has fortiﬁed himself with facts, while his oppo- nents have met him with fancies. The Materialist, so far, has been logical according to his data, while the Spiritualist lacks every fact in logic when you move from denied phe- nomena. But for the occasional evidence of angel ministra- tion, the ship of Splritualism would have foundered long ago, being most unseaworthy. There is but one convincing channel of proof to this as all other sciences. That channel is evolution. This is the key to every fact in the universe man can ever gain. If evolu- tion does not open wide the gates of Heaven for man to enter mentally and really, nothing ever can. Destiny has closed the door against everything else in the shape of knowledge. As evolution is incessant change of every factor, immortality will be found the same. The soul, the mind, the conscious- ness itself must change, be metamorphosed, by the hand of alike, as through insensible modiﬁcations it must pass, will be its formula. No other immortality can exist. _But in this let us see what we have to prove before we can sustain our- selves. We must show that a perfect correspondence‘ be- tween ourselves and the ever-changing balance of our envi- ronment obtains. Show that we have an eﬂicient power of change within to balance every change without. Show that everything without that can effect it has an answering change Within. When this is done the most skeptical must bend. To accomplish it we need not, like so many before us, at- tempt the impossible by calling up the inscrutable. We must deal only with evidences from relationships subsisting between the subjective and objective, the only real fount of knowledge from which we can draw. Metaphysical specula- tion is of two kinds—-that which reasons from the data of relationship, through successive parts of the same to the unseen parts of a like kind, and that which ignores relation- ship as untrustworthy objectivity, dealing exclusively, or nearly so, with subjective idealism. The former is the'sci- entiﬁc process of to—day, the latter the wild vagaries of a man trying to lift himself to the roof of the house by his boot- straps—the useless reasoning process of crazy monks of a few centuries ago, and, we are sorry to say, still practiced by some otherwise bal.anced minds among our contemporaries. Although at ﬁrst sight every evidence in the objective world seems to be against us. pointing. as our senses seem to tell us, to changes in our environment to which we have no answering internal action, and hence resulting in death or complete dissolution. But here we begin by confronting our opponents with the fact that all the evidence of our crude senses are as much against this world’s being a globe as against the possibility of a balance in this. All facts of re- lationship which we have to arrive at by induction are illu- sory in their character: and since this is a fact of that type, it, too, must be illusory, as we will ﬁnd by the sequel. We propose, then, in a series 6: lectures such as we have already delivered in many towns of Mi_ssouri, Kansas, Iowa, 1. “Man must be immortal because matter is.” Where is the Time, at every movement of her turning dial. Never twice ‘ WEEKLY the evidence that immortality is a necessity; or, in other words, that our conscious existence cannot cease. We have wandered into a ﬁeld hitherto unexplored, and become the pioneers of the -thought. So far as we know, it is en- tirely new to the world, but the facts upon which it is based are the discoveries of such men as Spencer, Tyndall. Helm‘ holtz, Secchi, Darwin, Wallace, Thompson, Joule, Fresnel. Young, Bouchepour, Senarmont, Regnault, Eranhaufer, etc. Were the readers of the WEEKLY all familiar with the works- of these men, I might state the facts without evidence, and so go immediately to my task; but as this is not the case. We must give evidence of their generalizations as well as our own. In our next we will brieﬂy indicate the direction we shall travel, and respectfully solicit the earnest attention Of all thinkers interested in the subject to follow us carefully‘ and withhold judgment till the whole matter is laid before them. The following lines were suggested by reading an annony- mous letter addressed to Father Beeson, in which the writer refused to give notice in his church of a lecture in behalf of the Indians, unless he could have a satisfactory reason why the Indians who had received a Christan education, neglect- ed Christianity, and why so many of them turned back 1:0 Paganism, signed, A PASTOR: Will ye, Christians, trouble borrow, Kill the Indians one and all; Just because they feel no sorrow, Nor believe in Adam’s fall? Can you rob them of their country, ' ‘ And their mines and forests claim? And yet pray for God’s great mercy, Through your Christian Saviour’s name? And because they cannot cherish Your pet creed or noted schism; Will you let them starve and perish As condemned and unforgiven? Did the Christ of love and beauty In his life such action take? Oh. ye hypocritic teachers Learn to love—or fear and quake. Leave your ﬂock like the good shepherd, Seeking for the one lost sheep; In the wilderness you’ll ﬁnd him. Drowsy shepherd-wake from sleep, Leave the ninety and the nine, , Help the one that needs salvation, Or when e’re you leave this clime You’ll get what you have taught-damnation. LITTLE FRANK. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN MICHIGAN. JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section one of article seven of the Constitution, in relation to the qualiﬁcation of electors. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatzbes of the Sta.-te of ]lIz'cht'gan, That at the eltction when the amended constitution shall be submitted to the electors of this State for adoption or rejection, there shall be submitted to such electors the following propositions, to be substituted in case of adoption, for so much of section 1 of article 7 as precedes the proviso therein, in the present constitution of this State as it now stands and substituted for section 1, article 7, in said amended constitution, if the latter is adopted, to wit: Section 1. In all elections, every person of the age of twenty~one years, who shall have resided in this State three months, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote, ten days next preceding an election, belong- ing to either of the following classes shall be an elector and entitled to vote: First——Every citizen of the United States; Second--Every inhabitant of this State who shall have re- sided in the United States two years and six months, and declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an election; Third——Every inhabitant residing in this State on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-ﬁve. ‘ Said preposition shall be separately submitted to the elec- tors of this State, for their adoption or rejection, in form following. to wit: A separate ballot may be given by every person having the right to vote, to be deposited in a separate box. Upon the the ballots given for said proposition shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words “ Woman’s Suffrage,——Yes ;” and upon the ballots given against the ‘adoption thereof in like manner, the._words “ VVoman Suffrage,—-No.” T 1 If, at said election, a majority of the votes given upon said proposition shall contain the words “ Woman Suﬁrage,—- Yes,” then said proposition shall be substituted for so much of section 1 of article 7’ as precedes the proviso therein in the present Constitution of this State as it now,stands, or sub- stituted for section 1 of article 7 in said amended constitu- tion, if the latter is adopted.——O-ur Age. Battle Creek, Mich. Approved March 23, 1874. BOTH the Port Huron (Mich.) papers have declared em- phatically for ‘Woman Suffrage. The C0'mme'rcial, two weeks ago, took that position, and on Monday the Times followed suit. It says: i “ For ourselves, we are obliged, with other voters of Michi- gan, to choose one side or the other; we must place ourselves in the ranks with those who represent the progress of the age as we read the signs of the times. And, in advocating Woman Suffrage, we do it, ﬁrst, because we believe it will be of great advantage to the women themselves; second, be- cause we believe it will advance the general political good of“ the State and Nation. “ Woman's advancement from the position of a menials Ohio and Pennsylvania, to present to the readers of the land’ slave among barbarous tribes to that of her present posi $<‘ . Q May 30, 1874. 3 ’woonnU\L’L as c'L«ArLIN*s WEEKLY. A I . , I 13~ \ T; / l tion among civilized nations, has kept even pace with the ‘ advancement of civilization, and it wi1l.not stop short of giving her equal political rights and equal responsibilities with man. And with such rights and responsibilities will comea better mental and physical development, more inde- pendence of position and character, awider sphere of oppor- tunity and of usefulness, and a higher standard of living and of virtue. Politics need not take woman out of her particu- lar sphere of duty in domestic life, but political duty and power will make her more independent and better able to support herself under all the circumstances to which fortune or misfortune may bring her." DAWN. _ In a previous article in a March number of the WEEKLY, I gave a brief outline of a plan for a community; and, at this present time, I am able to "submit to those who are looking for a practical realization of this movement, some facts that will. satisfy them that we mean something more than talk. Before proceeding with a description of our plans and lo- cation, I wish to say a word in reply to an oft-repeated ob- jection raised against the practicability of establishing suc- cessful communistic societies. It is said that there are not a suﬁicient number of ‘ individuals divested of selﬁshness to enable them to surrender up their individual aspirations to the welfare of the community. This I esteem as among the smallest objections. Every incentive in the present order of society contributes to the development of selﬁshness. He who would make life a success, as society is now organized, Lmust do so by sacriﬁcing true manhood and promoting selﬁsh- ness. The man who would give you his cloak after you had stolen his coat, is a failure, and such as he would be the poorest possible material with which to commence a com- munal home. To provide for the necessities and comforts of life and secure the greatest amount of life’s choicest blessings, are‘ among our highest aspirations; and any one who knows ~ anything of the advantages to be derived from a union of effort in communistic life, ought to appreciate the fact that our individual interests would be promoted in such a life. There are two governing principles that surround us and mould our destiny through life; one is in conformity to natural law, the other in obedience to artiﬁcial law. If the latter is in conﬂict with the former——as it inevitably is in the present order of society—we shall encounter great diﬁiculties in establishing a permanent and lasting order of society; in fact it is impossible, since it is only a question of time when natural law will supersede all human expedients. Remove thos'e outward restraints that are at war with natural law, and you have taken the initiatory step toward the establish- ment of a true order of society. It is always more diﬂicult to reverse the order of nature by the use of artiﬁcial expedi- ents, than it is to allow the inherent forces of nature to assert themselves. The human family is, by nature, good, and we are made bad by false surroundings. Remove those surroundings and permit the people to come together in the fraternal relati-)ns——brotherhood of the race—nature has de- creed, and all seeming objections that have their origin in the unbalanced condition of the mind who raises them will soon pass away. In a community, the in- centive that ﬁnds expression in‘ this competitive struggle in the building up of selﬁshness by sacriﬁcing the sacred rights of those around us will express itself in the performance of noble deeds that will be productive of the real good of those associated with us. There is no compen- sating power on earth that is so beautiful and grand as that which comes in response to the performance of noble‘ deeds to others, and as soon as our bodily wants are provided for, as they will readily be in community life, deeds of kindness toward each other will become the ruling incentives of our lives. In a true order of society each individual will be placed upon his honor, and competition will only ﬁnd ex- pression in noble deeds that alone make men and women beautiful and grand. It at once overthrows the present in- centive to greatness that rests entirely upon a special basis, and admits of the free development of the human soul to a position of grandeur and beauty to which humanity has never attained on earth. There are but two or three fundamental principles that must be kept inviolate in order to insure suc- cess in a movement of this character. First, absolute free- dom must be recognized to the extent that it pertains to individual rights, without infringing in any way upon the superior welfare of the community; second, equal rights and privileges, with perfect industrial equality, must be kept inviolate, except in cases of physical inability. Tolsecure a practical realization of these fundamental principles, the angel world, at whose instance this movement has been inaugurated, will call together those principally who have had suﬂicient experience in the follies and inconsisten- cies of the present order of society to secure the triumph of the above principles under all circumstances. We do not in- tend to urge any one to join us. Those who are best ﬁtted to enter into this movement will be induced to make applica- tion. The required number (forty families) will make application in a few weeks. Already we have a number of good families pledged. I am not permitted to give the exact location that we have ﬁxed upon for the work. We have secured 1,000 acres’ of the very best land in the most genial climate and location in New England, part of which is under cultivation with orchards and nursery. It is on one of the greatest commercial thoroughfares, centrally situated between the great Eastern markets. Apples, pears and plums, together with all the small fruits, grow to the greatest perfection. The land contains a large amount of valuable timber whichcan be used for manufacturing purposes. The whole property is estimated to be worth $75,000; and the present owner offers to contribute about $45,000 to the enterprise, and join us with-his family. . " ' The territory is amply suﬁicient to furnish industrial em- ployment for one hundred families, yet we only wish forty families, or a. sufficient number to organize ﬁve groups, to begin with, and the amount of means that we desire to ob- . for the movement. tain through those who join us is $100,000, as this amount is thought to be sufﬁcient to construct ﬁve commodious resi- dences for the groups, and aid in carrying us through the two ﬁrst years that will be mostly occupied in laying theifounda- tion for future operations. A I In my next communication I will give particulars in re- gard to our location. and all whogtwish to join us can corres- pond with me, as I hold myself ready to answer questions and receive applications for membership. Observe the fol- lowing suggestions in writing us: Give the number of mem- bers’ of the family and the amount that you can subscribe '7 Send photographs, and do not omit stamps to secure an answer. Read our previous article so as to get a deﬁnite understanding of the nature of our mode of organization; and if your knowledge, of the true relations that we sustain toward each other and the duty we owe to the generation that is to follow‘ us is sufficiently advanced I have no doubt that you will not only feel it a duty but a privilege to be among the ﬁrst to aid in establishing a true order of society on earth. Address, Omro, Wis. JOHN WILLCOX. SAINTS. The Church, of all stripes or sects, has its saints—men and women who are supposed to outrank ordinary mortals; but with the majority of them I am not satisﬁed. The Catholics have a long list, the Protestants a shorter one——a few common to both—but Catholic or Protestant I care not to adopt them. When I scan the characters of the Old Testament worthies, so honored by the Church, there is nothing to com- mend them to my sense of right, morals or religion. Most of them, if living now and conducting themselves as they are recorded to have done, would ‘ﬁnd themselves in States prisons without any hope of a pardon. Take David and Solomon, for instance, the two great lights; I need not re- view their records, for they are familiar to all, but leave the same as reorded in “Holy Writ,” as the samplar of that religion which calls one the wisest man, and the other the man after God’s own heart. Comment is unnecessary. If I am to have saints I want them made of better stuff. Then there are the New Testament saints. Of most of them it can safely be said they have no record of any special account, or one which should cause us of this generation to exalt them into patterns to imitate and follow. Most of them were a hum-drum set of fellows, except Peter and Paul. Peter lied most lustily and swore most sturdily, nevertheless the Catholic Church makes him the basic rock of its founda- tion. His moral obliquities pass as nothing. Paul, another saint, whose philosophy is the very essence of Christianity, as embodied in the major creeds of Christendom, has been a stumbling-stone for near nineteen centuries. His dogmas, which superseded the pure teachings of Christ, have been a pall, enveloping all Christian nations, and to-day are an in- cubus on the world’s progress, the butresses of a theological system behind which the sectarists and creedists are en- trenched to withstand the onslaughts of those who would uplift humanity and welcome the democracy of souls. So Iinaight go on, analyzing the roll of saints, and ﬁnd but precious little wheat in the sifting. I recollect reading some forty years ago, a small work entitled, “The Forty Chris- tians,” a work which ought to be reprinted and circulated in these days. It was a succinct sketch of forty Christians selected from history, twenty of whom fell under the ban of the Church, were anathematized, some even being put to death. Noble souls all, who believed a little more than the creed, or not quite so much, and were therefore cast out. The other twenty stood well in the Church, and do now; if not exalted to a saintly niche they are well up toward it. They were persecutors and monsters of iniquity, yet are shining lights among Christians, the kind of stock from which saints are made. * This being so, is it any wonder that morals are at a low ebb? that corruption has worm-eaten the public service? that moral delinquencies are so common in places of ﬁduci- ary trust? With such a roll of saints what better can be expected? It is a patent fact that nearly all the great rascals of this era of the War of the Rebellion have been great Christians; many, pillars in the Young Men’s Christian As- sociation, who, if it had not been for their cloth and piety, would now be looking through‘ prison bars. VVhen I make up my roll of saints I shall not go back to that semi-barbaric, nomadic people, the Jews, nor to J udea, nor to Christian Rome, nor the period anterior to that eclipse of the human intellect, known as the Dark Ages—an. eclipse generically Christian, and only passing off when new forces and agencies came into play. When Christian Europe was under a cloud, enveloped in a darkness so thick that it could be felt, the Mohammedan nation shone resplendent. There the intellectwas stimulated and the arts and sciences were cultivated. Most important elements of civilization were brought from the Mohammedans when the Crusaders re- turned from their fanatical forays to rescue Jerusalem from the Moslem inﬁdels. An infusion of these new elements, coupled with the inﬂuence of the printing press, broke the spell of ignorance and superstition, the outcome of the Church. The press became a mighty factor of civilization in spite of ecclesiasticism, for that, at the outset, as with all great movements and inventions, met with opposition from the dominant religion. It cannot be said that this opposition has come from Catholics exclusively. Protestantism has always vainly striven against the innovating new, whatever it might be. The world hasfadvanced in spite of the Church, and those who have contributed to /this result are the real saints——those men and women who have promulgated the evangels of progress. Civilization is a/many-hued stream, whose waters, blending to give it an impetus, have steadily ﬂowed on, diffusing themselves over the world, causing a vigorous growth of the germinal principles of liberty and rationalism. Honor to the brave souls who have deﬁed ob- loquy and reproach, and at the peril of life even in numer- ous cases maintained the unequal contest and came of con- querors. , 1 Space will not permit me to attempt to give a list of the Saints of Progress. I will mentiona few, however, who , impressed themselves on their age, and “left foot-prints on the sands of time,” which have been waymarks to guidexna-» tions and peoples in their grand march to a higher and better life. There was Mary Woolstoncraft, whose “Rights of Women ” was a Gospel which is now beginning to be appre- ciated, and is yet to bless her sex and the world.‘ There was Thomas Paine, whose “ Age of Reason” and Rights of Man ” made priestcraft and kingcraft tremble in their ancestral halls, whose inﬂuences are still unspent, and will not cease to be felt until the victory bewon. There was Abner Knee- land, whostruck valiant blows for freedom, and manfully plead for the enthronement of reason. The church sought to break him down and check the progress of free‘ thought ‘he had provoked by consigning him to a dungeon. Vain attempt. Rationalism only marched more valiantly forward. There was Frances Wright, too, whose brave words forty years ago summoned Church and State to judgment, and bade the people’ to rise into the region of reason and mental independence; who proclaimed with fervid ‘eloquence the great truth of the equality of the sexes, and in her person demonstrated the falsity of the prevailing philosophy—- the Fox family, who ﬁrst heard and translated the evangel from the spirit world, and became John the Baptists to the new dispensation in which we are living, when the human ' mind is stirred and human aspirations rise as never before. These, and such as these, are the Saints of Progress. , One of these days the world will appreciate them; and those other Saints, which Christianity has exalted, will fade out into for- getfulness, or be remembered only as warnings. WILLIAM Fosrna, JR. PROVIDENCE, May 12. 1874. ’ I VICTORIA C. WOODHULL IN WAUKEGAN, ILL. Dear Vi'ctor7Za——The sage nor the prophet would be compe- tent to perform the task of reporting the effect of your labors at Waukegan. But when the glorious future crowns thee the savior of humanity, not through whose blood souls are to be born again, but by Whose grand mission human beings will be rightly born, then may be told the effect of thy brave and faithful work. In your lecture here you said: “Mothers, go tell your children that Victoria loves them, and wants them to grow up pure-minded men and women ;” and so my little ones and their mother have wreathed your photograph in evergreens and ﬂowers; they are better children for gaz- ing upon your radiant face; and when I am weary one look at thy spirit-lit eyes refreshes and gladdens my heart and bids me toil on for truth’s sake. ‘ Here, as elsewhere,‘ those who attended your lecture to curse came away to bless you; and your opposers acknowl- edge your audience to be composed of the best people of the place. Your lecture is the topic of conversation on the street, in places of business, and at the ﬁreside; those who attended speaking respectfully of Victoria C. Woodhull, and defending ‘her against the opposition. _ A One gentleman of inﬂuential mind, who has considered it himself converted. He, like your friends, is rejoiced that in your lecture, “ The True and False Socially,” you so plainly show that your object is to bring men and women into a condition in which love shall be the only consideration in conjugal relations, and the proper generation of children the noble aimyof father and motherhood. How much longer will it be denied that freedom, the only natural element for the unfoldment of any department of being, is necessary to insure this result? ’ Who does not know that the “ naked truth ” must be fear- lessly spoken to arouse slaves to a. sense of freedom? , In closing my hasty letter, allow me to say that our brave sister Wadsworth sends her love, and that she and the noble Wadsworth brothers, who so lately were leading minds in the Methodist Church, are gloriﬁed more than my feeble pen can portray, and have earned our lasting gratitude in their zeal and persevering ‘eﬁforts to procure your services in the beautiful little city of Waukegan. Thine in love, Sana BAILEY. CLIPPINGS. “ WIFE, wife! what has become of the grapes?” “ I suppose my dear, the hens picked them oﬁ,” was the reply. “ Hens hens! some two-legged hens, I guess,” said the husband, with some impetuosity; to which she calmly replied, “My dear, did you ever see any other kind?” Ar a weekly meeting, a most exemplary deacon submitted a report of the destitute widows who stood in need of assist- ance from the congregation. “ Are you sure, deacon,” said, another brother, “ that you have embraced all the widows ?” “He said he believed he had. “ YOU never saw such a happy lot of people as we had here yesterday,” saida landlady in Indiana to a newly-arrived guest; “ there were thirteen couples of them.” What! thirteen couples just married?” “ Oh, no, sir; thirteen couples just divorced.” , ‘ . “ OH, Mary, my heart is breaking,” said an Aberdeen lover to his Highland Mary. “ Is it, indeed? So much the better for you,” was her quiet reply. “ Why, my idol?” “ Be- cause, Mr. Mcsmith; when it’s broken out and out, you can sell the pieces for gun-ﬂints.” I I “MA, has auntie got bees in her mouth?” Ma.——°‘ Why do you ask such a. question?” ‘ “ ’Cause that leetle man with a heap 0’ hair on his face cotched hold of her and said he was going to take the honey from her lips, and she said, ‘ Well, make haste.’ ” V THE-Evangelical clergy of the Church of England do not seem to have heard, or, if they have heard, to appreciate the shrewdness and wit of Dr. John Ritchie’s reply to one who « disapproved of his going up and down the country and re- sorting to agitation. “Agitatioul" said John; “what good in the world was ever done without agitation? We cannot make butter evenwithout it 3*’: ‘ , Christian all through-which subordinated woman and prac- \ tically made her a cipher in the activities of life. There was «I his duty to oppose your theories, honestly acknowledged ' l’_1»4i ‘ WOUOIDHULLU &: CL.AFLI_N’S tWEEKLY. L May 30, 1874. ' AH SAM says the rights of property are not duly regarded in Sacramento. He paid $300 for a countrywoman. Ah Lin coveted her, and, not having coin to purchase, meanly, married her “American fashion.” Ah Sam consequently ‘ raised the devil—-jerking six-shooters and things on Ah Lin. The case was taken before the Police Court, when the Judge \ of that iniquitous institution basely land fraudulently de- cided that Ah Lin had the best right to the Celestial damsel. Ah Sam is out $300, hence his poor opinion of American law. THE lawyers of Indianapolis are torturing their brains over an extraordinary problem. Some years ago a lady of that city was married, and four months thereafter separated from her husband, was divorced and re-married in a month, and four months thereafter gave birth to a child by her ﬁrst hus- band. Quite recently the second husband procured a di-_ vorce, and the custody of the 1 child was awarded to him. N Ow comes the ﬁrst husband and claims the child. Who is ' entitled to its possession? MRS. VAN COTT says that at one of her prayer meetings a negro brother prayed: “ Oh Lord, send dy angel to pin de wings on Sister Bancot’s heels, dat she may ﬂy troo ide world preachin’ de everlastin’ Gospel.” And one added, “ Lord’! give wings on her shoulders, too, or the preachingwill not have effect, for she’ll ﬂy upside dOwn.” THE Tennessee negroes in convention assembled have re- ' solved that “it is their duty as men to arrange for the per- fect development of posterity.” COMMENT. Good ‘for the negro ;‘ white folks know how to develop everything—-except their own people, at present, like Topsey ,“they’re growed.” And the WEEKLY is condemned by the unthinking for intimating that they might easily be “ growed” better. A -———-———>-49+-<——-—-— BUSINESS EDITORIALS. , THE GREAT SENSATION: A Full and Reliable History of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Including Comprehensive and Interesting Biographical Sketches of Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Victo- ria C. Woodhull, Tennie O. Claﬂin and Colonel Blood; , giving Facts and Incidents in the Lives of each never be- ’fore published. Bv Leon Oliver. The Book is Illustrated with Portraits of all the Characters. 4 The prominent position occupied by the parties involved in this greatest scandal of/the nineteenth century, has given to it an almost world-wide notoriety, and the partial and frag- mentary reports of it which have been published have doubt- less done injustice to some, if not all the parties involved in it, and have only served to whet the appetite of the reading ‘public with a desire to have the whole story truthfully and impartially told. This the author has done, and in such a manner as not to shock or be offensive to the most fastidious reader, nor to do injustice to any of the dramatis personoe. We wish it to be distinctly understood that this work is not compiled from unreliable sources, nor has it been hastily gotten up, but it is written by one who has for years been personally acquainted with the interested parties, who has been “ behind the scenes” and knowswhereof he writes, and who has had better facilities for the work undertaken than any man living, and he is also one well and popularly known, to the public by his writings Over a nom de plume. In this work he gives facts, and lets light in where hitherto there has been darkness and confusion. The whole story is not only graphically but truthfully told, and the book is one ‘ of the most interesting ever offered to the American public. The sketch of Henry Ward Beecher has been submitted to several of the ablest journalists and authors in the West, and is unanimously declared by them to be the best and most entertaining ever written of this foremost clergyman of the age. He has been the subject for several biographical writers, but the author in this portrays him in an entirely new, nove and unhackneyed style. I In addition to the biographies mentioned, there is a very entertaining sketch of Henry C. Bowen, who was the ﬁrst to circulate the, story of Mr. Beecher’s moral delinquencies. There is also included in the work copious extracts from the writings and speeches of Woodhull and Claﬂin, giving an epitome of . their views and theories upon their favorite topics-free love, social freedom, etc.,——and a description of the Social Utopia, to the establishment of which they have pledged “ their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.” Also what Mr. Beecher has to say about the scandal, and the opinions of Theodore Tilton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, , Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan B. Anthony and other noted characters respecting it, and the comments of many of the leading men and journals of the country upon this engross- ing topic. 7 The biographical sketches are concise, yet comprehensive; written in a free, chatty and racy style, and are enlivened by characteristic and entertaining incidents and anecdotes never before published, and are of themselves worth more than the price of -the entire work. The’ book is printed from beautiful new type and upon superior paper, in one large octavo-volume of about 400 pages. ‘ No expense or pains have been spared to make this book one of real merit and value, creditablealike to the author, artist and publishers. It is bound in ﬁne English muslin, library style, with gilt back and sides. Price $2 50. in best English cloth: Gilt back and sides, 33. All cash orders for this book, addressed to the WEEKLY, P O. Box 3791, will be promply ﬁlled. —_:.....- CAUTIoN.——Heavy penalties are-attached to photographing or otherwise copying, selling, or offering for sale, copies from our steel-plate engravings, “ The Dawning Light,” “ The O1-phanﬂs Rescue,” “Life’s Morning and Evening,” etc. Any one furnishing us with information of such violation of copy- right law and our moral rights will receive our ‘thanks and be rewarded. For circulars, prices and club rates, address at 28 School street, Boston, Mass., R. H. -Curran st 00. 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All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which every person in the world will be a member. Criticism and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $31.50 six months; or 10c. single copy, to be had of any N ewsdealer in the world, who can order it from the following General Agents: The American News Co., New York City; The New York News Co., New York City; I The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ; The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago. 111- Sample copies, mailed on application, free. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL AND TENNIE C. CLAFLIN, Ed- itors and Proprietors. COL. J . H. BLOOD, Managing Editor. 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M. ,, Elmira---: ------ -- 5°33 .. 1‘ Hornellsville ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,, 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville .......... .. 17.45 “ “ Buifalo .................. .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ Bulfalo -.- ---- --. -------- -- 1- E"’1"'9-’5'- Ar Sugpengion Bridge _ _ _ , _ , _ ,_ 1,00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . .. P‘.‘ M. ——-9 5 ———.. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. ‘1.10 A. M. 1.35 P. M. LV 511396151031 Budge ' - ' ' " ‘ g. ' 0 P’ “- Ar St Catherines . V 135 “ 2,00 “ Ar St. Cathermes . . . . . . . . . .. 2-00 10.12 “ H Ha'm31t0n_____::::::::’:':::: 2,45 “ 2.55 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 :‘ 11.20 a Harrisburg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 3,53 “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 33;: *1 ..-. “ London ................... .. 5.35 A. M. 5.55 “ I-0130011 ----- - -‘ - - - - - - - - - -- 5- ,, 2-35 3 m- “ Chatham 0 7.55 “ 8.12 “ “ Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8-12 . 5.00 “ st Detroit ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 9_40 N 10,00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 10-00 “ 7.00 ‘ Lv Detroit’. ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 9_4o “ 10,10 “ Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.10 “ 8.10 ' Ar Wayne ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 10,21 “ “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ---. - 8-55 “ u Ypsilanﬁ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 10,45 “ 11.25 x», M, “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “ cc Ann Arbo} ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 11,00 “ 11,43 “ “ Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11-43 " 9-50 “‘ “ Jackson...::::::::::::::::::12.15 P. M. 1-00 A- M- “ Ja°kS°11 ---------- 1-0° 0- “- 1‘-3° “» “ Marshall .................. .. 1.15 ~‘ “ Marshall --------------- -- 12-50 1»-m » “ Battle Creek _ , . _ ,, 2.03 »“ 0 AIR “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .. A118 1.95 V" cs Kalamazoo ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 2,55 6‘ Lung, i “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. 2.35 " as Niles ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 432 r_ M_ 4,40 A, My “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4-40 A- M. 5-00 “ NeWg,,',.jE;,;g, """"" 5 25 u “ New Buifalo...- ........ .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan ciéir .......... ” 5.45 H 5.45 “ “ Michigan City --------- -. 5-45 “ 0-25 " at Calumet . ' ' . . ' I I I I ' ' " '7'_'18 “ 7_47 “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ 8.00 “ «cmgo::::::::::'::::::::: 800 u 3.00 ~- ~ ou1cago...- ............. .. 8.00 “ 8.45 ~ A1, Milwaukee ____ NP”. L M_ 11_50 ,4“ M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a. in Ar Prairie du Chem . _ . ' _ _ _ _ . _ __ 3.55 p_ M_ Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . ‘ 8.55 p. m _ A,. La 01.0359 _ _ _ _ . ' _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ I __ 150 P_ M_ 7 05 A M, Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a. m, Ar St. Paul .................. .. 6.15 P. M. * Ar St Paul ------ ----- -- 7-00 A- 11- Ar St. Louis ................. .. 8.15 A. M. Ar gt-dl-101115 -------------- -- 17- 11- _....____ Ar eaia . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . .. . A.M. . . Arszrra --------------- 3:38 1 .......... .. 1. “ Galveston”.'.:::::::::::;:::: 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10-00 “ -.--. Ar Bismarck ................ .. 11.00 1-. M. Ar Bismarck...” 12-01 P M- -- “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5-00 A. M. C91“mb“S"' " 630 ‘ “ Little Rock ............... .. 7.30 P. M. Little Rock ------------ -- A1. Burlington ________________ __ 3_50 A, M. A‘? Burlington ............ . . 7.00 P. M. . “ Omaha .................... .. 11.00 1-. 11. ~ ,, Omaha---e ------------ -- 7-45 A- 11- “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ,, Cheyenne - - ' - ' - ' - ' - ' ' ' ' P;, M‘ "" “ O den . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0gden"". ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " * 530 "" “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .; “ S3-11F1‘31101S0° ------- _, 8-30 “ . 1. H; _ _ . _ _ . _ 5_4 _ . Ar Galesburg ............. .. 4.45 P. M. Aiéiiiil’-“.”?. 11.1% ‘um “Q111n<=et>'----. ..... .. . 9.45 “ .- “ St. Joseph‘.:..........'.'... 10.00 “ “ Sh J0SéPl1-------- 8-10 A- M “ Kansas City .. 10.40 1». M. “ Kansas City” .. 9.25 “ “ Atchison....'...: ......... .. 11.00 “ “ Atchlson---« -.115-17 “ «~- ‘' Leavenworth. . . .. . .. . . .1 12.10 “ " LeaV9nW°1'th -40Vn°°n- "~- 1; Dem,e,_._ ~ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ’ . _ _ mm L ,,L “ Denver . . . . . .. .... ' I Through Sleeping Car Arrangements 9.15 A. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-05-30_07_26
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-05-30_07_26
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 01 (June 6, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2022
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-06-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 3.: C-,ur_....-‘M PRUOGRESS I FREE THOUGHT! UN ». ' 9 BREAKING THE WA ..._.4\_._.——_ Vol. VIII.—No. 1.-:YVh0le No. 183. A _ NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 1874. Y FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONSQ. PRICE TEN CENTEY LOANERS’ BANK . OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .——.-—»-— CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 ‘ Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ‘ ’ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. f FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CU1't RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTII, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO’ & SON, Bankers, , N O. .59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. ‘ ’ ' I ’ * Interest allowed on...
Show more3.: C-,ur_....-‘M PRUOGRESS I FREE THOUGHT! UN ». ' 9 BREAKING THE WA ..._.4\_._.——_ Vol. VIII.—No. 1.-:YVh0le No. 183. A _ NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 1874. Y FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONSQ. PRICE TEN CENTEY LOANERS’ BANK . OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .——.-—»-— CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 ‘ Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ‘ ’ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. f FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CU1't RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTII, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO’ & SON, Bankers, , N O. .59 Wall St., New York. 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N0'.[‘ICE.—-Owing to our books having been lost through the rascality of enemies, we are compelled to ask members to send names and P. 0. addresses again. Let no one write desiring reply without inclosing tamps for postage. Send stamp for catalogue, circulars, etc. F. FLETCHER, CLINTON, MASS,‘ D. W. HULL I Has rearranged the notes for a Series of Twelve Lec- tures on Spiritualism, the evidences being drawn from the Bible. He shows that the church, the gospel and Christianity were founded not on morals, ethics or dogmas, but the intercourse of spiritual beings with the inhabitants of the earth. The whole ﬁeld of Bible evidences is thoroughly canvanssed in these lectures. The following are the subjects of the Lectures: ~ ' 1. Spiritualismand Inﬁdelity, _' _ 2. Spiritualism a Test of Christianity. 3. Trial of the Spirits. S ’ _ 4. Spiritualism of the Church (Ancient and Modern). 5. Angel Ministry. ‘ 6. What Good will Spiritualism do? 7. The Resurrection of Jesus-—only a Spiritual Re. surrection. 8. The Temple of Spiritualism., « x 9. Tuletary Deities (Human Spirits, ‘Jehovah one of them, Dark Circles in Bible Times). . Pro ression in Religion. .» Bibi cal Objections. , . The _Devil. Will give the entire Course or as many as desired, or speak on any subject desired by the audience. A discussion wished in every community. W111 not be I-J-I—l-I4 IQ}-4-3 ~ restricted in what he says. Satisfaction .wai-ranted, Address D. W. HULL, 148 W t W h’ t . t Chicago, 111.; or 871 Washingto:i?st.,%i>s]tbIi,o11U§sg?et’ MTHE Western Rural, AGRICULTURAL FAMILY WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WEST. H. N. F. LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor, WITH AN Able and Practical Eclttort'otl Staﬁ”, ANDAN EFFICIENT CORPS OF SPECIAL AND VOLUN- TARY CONTRIBUTORS. TERMS: SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS. A PLUCKY PUBLISHER. -A _ [From the Chicago Daily Sun, Nov. 30, 1871.] “ One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. 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Claﬂin. . . . . . . . 2. 00 The Principles of Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which ‘B . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 25 The Elixir of Life ; or, Why do we Die ?. . . . . . . . . 25 The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Ethics of SexualEquality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 25 Three of any of the Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. _ 50 SCIENTIFIC SERIES.-—No. 7’. [From ‘IIa7~pe7~’s Magazine for April 1872.] THE SOCIAL PALACE AT GUISE. The Social Palace is the term used by its builder to desig- nate the structure he has reared at Guise, France, forthe habitation of the nine hundred workmen who earn their daily bread by“ labor in his foundry; and, as will be seen, this term is most ﬁtly used. All over the civilized world the material questions of life and social organization are press ing for solution, and this not only for the poor but also for the rich. As the best practical solution of the relations of capital and labor, the Social Palace comes to us ﬁtly from France, now unhappily suffering from the pains inherent in the birth of a new social and political order; and by it, in the future as in the past, France will lead in the inaugura- tion of the increasing happiness of a social system based upon liberty and sympathetic human love. - ' M. Godin, the owner and builder of the Social Palace-or the Familistere, as he also named -it, for the purpose of ex- pressing in its title the fact that it was an abode where the love and sympathetic interest of the members for each other (which, alas! are too frequently simply a tradition in the ordinary household) should. make its inmates really a family —has recently published a work entitled “Solutions So- ciales,” giving» an account of its organization, and justly claiming by its title that it contains a solution of the social questions which are exciting such attention among all civil- ized nations. For making this practical test of solving the problem concerning the relations between labor and capital M. Godin was peculiarly suited both by his natural charac- ter and his experience of life. The son of a working-man, he early in life served his apprenticeship to manual labor, and by the rough usage which this implies learned the condi- tion and needs of those who earn their bread by the actual sweat of their bodies. Even from his childhood he has been possessed with the conviction that the recognition of labor as the basis of social organization was needed, in order to intro- duce the new order of human relations, in which justice, honesty and mutual sympathy should regulate our collective, as well as our individual actions. To quote his own words: “ When, at the age of eight to ten, I was seated on a bench in a village school, where a hundred and forty other children were crowded together in a stifling atmosphere, passing the days in receiving the master-’s ferule instead of a proﬁtable and regular system of instruction, I often reflected upon the insufficiency and imperfection of the methods of teaching applied to us. Frequently I said to myself, If I was a teacher I would teach the pupils better than they are taught here; and I asked myself whether I should devote myself to teach- ing. Soon, however, another thought came to me: No, I shall devote myself to learning the manual arts, for by these I shall have a great example to set the world in the sphere to which I shall devote myself. This persistent idea, at so early an age, is at least a singular fact, especially when considered in connection with the excessive timidity which then ,I dis- played in all my actions, and the extreme difficulties which my frail and delicate temperament offered to my “engaging in such labor as I saw carried on before me. Despite this, how- ever, at the age of eleven and a half, under the control of the idea that the practice of the manual .\ arts should lead. mete play an important part, I commenced to work in iron in my father’s workshop, and to take a part greater than ‘my strength would permit in the agricultural work carried on by my relations.” During his apprenticeship, and while making, as a jour- neyman,.the customary tour through France, his attention was directed to the unsatisfactory condition of industry, the inadequate justice /of the wages system, and the want of harmony in the social relations of the various classes in the communities through which he passed. It was the time, in the early half of this century, when the study of social ques- tions began to interest the thinkers of France, and the un- easy consciousness of a want of adjustment between the internal and external conditions of the body politic, between A the education of labor and its social and political recogni- tion, was seeking expression both in literature and in action. Witli an active interest in all questions of social develop- ment, M. Godin examined carefully all the new theories as they were presented,‘ but found none of them satisfactory until he became acquainted‘ with that of industrial associa- tion as proposed by Fourier. Here alone he found a theory which was universal in its application, and proceeded upon the strictly scientiﬁc method of studying human nature, and from the facts thus gathered deduced the laws of socia1vha'r-‘- requires for its practical application a preternaturally de- voted and unselﬁsh set of men. It does not demand the re- form of human nature, any more than musical harmony re- quires the destruction of the differences and discordsj of the musical notes of the scale, or that they shall all bereduced to a dull uniformity of quality and sound, even though the standard selected should. be that of the sweetest and most musical. As all the natural systems of science are merely with which they deal, so Fourier, in histheory of associa- tion, laid the basis ,of a real social science, and M. Grodin, in the Familistere, has made the first practical applicationi of its fundamental principles. Having commenced a new industry in France—that of re- placing the use of sheet iron in stoves by the use of cast iron —M. Godin thus laid the foundation of the large industry which now is carried on at the Familistere. V€’ith the in- , creased success of his business, and the necessity thus cre- ated for employing other men to aid in carrying on its pro- cesses, the opportunity was afforded him for continuinghi/s study of the relations of capital and labor from the stand- point of the capitalist. In this position, however, no less than in that of a workman, he brought to the study of his duties the same love of justice and the enlarged human sym- pathy which aregso characteristicof his course of life, while the wealth which his business foresight and enterprise brought him now afforded him better means and opportunities for the study of social questions, and for making practical at- tempts for their solution. - The abolition of the discontented quarrels which lead to strikes and lock-outs he effectually brought about in his own case by an exhibition of the spirit of human sympathy, and the simple recognition of the ne- cessity and advantage in this human relation, as in every other, of a conference between the two parties at interest, in which mutual good sense and fairness should be brought to bear upon the question in dispute. He had not needed this, however, to convince him that human nature was the same, whether living in a hovel or a palace, or that the question of development is one simply of conditions; and he soon saw that it was n_eccssary to supply these conditions. The antag- onism of the present social relations of labor and capital is no more to be removed by a reduction of the hours of labor, or an increase in wages, than that of the political relations which arose between the colonies and the mother country was to be settled by the removal of the hated tax on tea. ' It was a ques- tion of principle, of political freedom and equality, in the one case, and it is in the other a question of social freedom and equality. In, our political relations the world has risen from the isolation of the savage horde, to whom each stranger is .a natural enemy, to the sentiment of national sympathy, and the conviction of the universal brotherhood of man. Modern civilization has also in our social relations com- menced to realize the necessity for supplementing the isola- tion of individual effort by the support of the collective aid of society. Our public-school system is an evidence of this; our boards of health, our police, our insurance methods, the joint—stock principle applied to industrial pursuits, are each of them evidences that in an imperfect and tentative way society is inevitably but unconsciously tending in this direc- tion. But while the isolation necessarily inherent in our methods of domestic life continues, it is manifestly impossi- ble that industry should obtain the culture which comes alone from social sympathy and friendly association with our fel- 1ow—men. The tenement-house system has kept pace with the growth ‘of the public school, and its inﬂuences upon the young are of necessity greater than those of the school, since the child is brought more intimately into relation with them, and since he is subjected to their injurious inﬂuences more hours of the day. are passed, from their cradles to their graves, without any opportunity of sleeping or living in a ‘well-ventilated or decently furnished room,who have never sat down to a well- cooked or properly. served meal,‘who have never enjoyed an hour’s social intercourse surrounded with the conditions of culture and reﬁnement which the wealth their toil produces has prepared for, others—the thought of this cannot but be present to the hearts and minds of every one who recognizes the fact of our common humanity, and is aware how he him- self is the result of conditions. S Aware of this, M. Godin felt the necessity of building a house which, in its construction, should foster the spirit of social sympathy,~while its arrangements should interfere in no .way with the domestic privacy of its inmates; and which also, by its air, its decoration and its character, should im- tion of industry, to which the lives of those for whom it was erected were devoted. It was no improved tenement-house which he wanted, and still less was he desirous‘ of erecting a set of model workmen’s.homes, where the narrownessof the garden patch. the smallness of the rooms, the crowded and conﬁned arrangement of the ‘whole interior, should suggest constantly to those ‘who dwelt in them the narrowness of their own fortunes, and the pittance of enjoyment with which the present constitution of society insists upon their remain- ing contented, and happy. It was well enough for such men as Napoleon III. to bid for the ‘admiration of the pseudo- liberality of his time by designing and erecting such model houses for industry at Mulhouse and elsewhere. It was a part of the sham statesmanship which characterized the whole imperial regime. Nor did M. Godin wish to erect a vast structure, which, from a feeling of sentimental philan- thropy, tempered with a desire for personal notoriety, should be a charity to those who were fortunate or unfortunate enough to live in it, to be admired and wondered at by the thoughtless, somewhat as the luxurious stables which other men, whose taste leads them to take greater interest in the well—being of their horses than in that of their fellow-men, have erected from their superﬂuous wealth. This was to be a social palace, and as it was to inauguratea new era. of social life, there was but little architectural precedent by Whi0h ‘Q0 mony. The theory of association is no ideal scheme which i formulae to express the constant relation of the phenomena - The thought of the thousandsof human beings whose lives‘ press upon every one who entered it the dignity of the voca-" be aided in planning its constructionp Though M. Gsodin; himself is far from claiming that in the Familistere he has attained all that it is possible to attain in the newera of social architecture, yet he deserves great credit for what he has. done; and so just was the method he used in the study of j the problem which he sought to solve, that though thefuture will unquestionably see extensions and enlargementsmade upon it, yet they must be made in accordance with the prin- ciples which hehas here first practically realized. . A The plot of ground occupied by the Familistere an.d its de- pendencies consists of about eighteen acres, and, as will be ' seen from the general plan, is divided into two parts by the ' river Oise, which ﬂows in a winding course through the grounds. The Familistere is upon one side of the stream, and the buildings of the foundry upon the other. Connec- tion between them is had by a bridge. The general plan of the Familistere comprises three chief buildings united to- gether. The structure was built in this form from the force of circumstances. The increase of M. Grodin’s manufacturing operations having attracted a large number of workmen to the town of Guise, it became necessary to provide some place .V for them to live, and as the idea of the Familstere was‘neW, and experiment alone could show whether it would be a suc- cess or not, a ﬁrst building was erected, and afterward the .other as additions. As M. Godin says: “To create a. lodging for from 1,200 to 1,500 persons is a. daring experiment; I had not the means to construct at once: so vast a house, and it seemed to me enough to try at ﬁrst with a building large enough to accommodate a third of this " number. The plan -of uniting a seriesof parallelograms to- gether afforded an opportunity for realizing a unity of design, which could be realized by successive constructions, and would allow me at the same time to try an experiment which was too new not to afford in practice suggestions which would be of importance in the ﬁnal developments of the work I Wished to undertake.” « Each of these three‘ buildings incloses a central court, which is covered at the roof with glass, and each of them is four stories high. A gallery for each story runs around the central courts, and from these access is had to the various apartments. The stairways are placed in the corners of the buildings. The Ecentral building measures 195 feet front by .120 deep. The interior court measures 135 feet by 60. The other two buildings measure—the one upon the left 150 feet _. by 114, with an interior court 54 feet by 90; the other, on the right, 162 feet by 150. The courts are paved with cement, and upon each ﬂoor there are communications connecting the three buildings, so that the circulation through the entire palace is ample and easy. A cellar extends under the entire structure; that part which is under the dwel.ling portions is’ subdivided into compartments for the individual use of the residents, that under the interior courts is used for keeping the wines, vegetables and other stores for the consumption of thepopulation of the Familistere. The entire structure is built of brick, and the division walls run from thefoundation to the roof, as a protection from the spread of ﬁre, in case‘ such an accident should occur. These walls are placed at regular distances of thirty feet. During the winter the en-_ trance doors to the palace are put up, turning upon pivots in the middle, so that the smallest child can easily open them. They are also provided with a spring which closesthem after the entrance of any one. During the summer these doors are removed, so as to give free passage to the air. The stair- cases placed at the corners ef the buildings are semicircular with the intention of furnishing an easy passage to chil- dren, who can more readily ascend the small end, while grown people prefer the broader portion of the stops. The galleries at each story, 3 about the ’ central courts, are four feet wide. Their balustrades are three feet high, and are placed near enough together to prevent any child from passing his head between them, while their height pre- vents him also from climbing over them. iiillxperience has shown that this width of these galleries is suﬁilcient for the circulation, while they do not extend so far into the court as to interfere with the light from the glass roof at the top of the court in the lower stories of the building. These galleries afford an admirable stand-point from which to overlook the court, the children playing there, or, on occasion of the fetes, the proceedings which are carried on below. From the gal- leries access is had to the apartments by means of a passage, which serves as an entrance to two _ apartments. The apartments are so arranged that a single room. or a lodging of two rooms, or as many more as may be desired, can be - had. This allows the families to extend and contract their ' quarters with their own extension and contraction. In its construction it was necessary to provide lodgings‘ which should be afforded at‘ prices not higher‘ than workmen could obtain elsewhere in the town such accommodations as are generally afforded to labor. It was not to be expected that the workmen were to be induced to occupy better accommo- dations, at higher prices‘, on account of their superior advan- tages. The question with labor is of necessity simply one of 1 price, and a very small advance in rent makes a serious dimi- nution in the pittance of wages. At the same time, however, by a judicious use of his mate- rials, by such a comprehension of the problem he had to I solve as was gained only by the patient study of years, guided by a large-heartedlove of his kind, and by making full use — of the economies which are attained by operating at whole- sale, M. Grodin has succeeded in producing a. building of which he speaks, with modest truthfulness, as follows: “ It can be readily understood that whatever may be the simplicity of its architectural execution, yet the result has been an ediﬁce which is remarkable by itsimportance. Even though we notice some planning in its construction, though the facades are studied for effect and the architecture is care- ful, yet none the less we ﬁnd that it is not one of those habi- tations which proclaim the ‘poverty and suffering of their inmates,_but that it is a remarkable palace, in which the workman’s lodging is completely transformed, where his life is provided with entirely different conditions, where re- sources of every kind oﬁer him the conditions for Well-being 44 I I woonHULI.a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. i f , 1. i_ - which it is impossible to realize in any other way for the working-classes. “The Social Palace is, then, not only a better shelter than the isolated house of the workman, it is also an instrument for his well-being, his individual dignity and progress. It is precisely because it affords him the right conditions for the full development of his physical life, that it opens to the ‘world anew horizon for our moral life; if it were not so, it would miss the end for which it was designed.” A The accommodations afforded ‘by the Familistere, if they were arranged 9. our villages usually are, would spread 'the population, which is now brought together in a sympathetic union, over a space a mile or two square. Byit some ﬁfteen, hundred persons are enabled to see each other, to visit, attend «. their domestic duties, meet in public, or purchase their sup- plies, without going from undercover, and regardless of ‘the condition of .the weather. Not only is the time thus saved, and the convenience of living thus gained, most desirable, but the general industrial spirit of the whole establishment is constantly exciting to activity,‘since each member sees constantly all around him the evidences that his labor is directly productive, and productive for his own beneﬁt. For the children, too, the schools are near at hand, and the "parents can constantly oversee their progress in their classes and their behavior at play among their companions. This facility of social communication, with the spirit which ac- tuates it, renders the Social Palace peculiarly eﬂicacious in raising the moral and intellectual standard of the people, the necessary leisure being thus gained for the cultivation of - social intercourse, for reading, and” for culture of every kind. In the lower story of the Familistere are the shops of 7 various kinds necessary to supply the wants of the inhabit- . ants. These are attended, managed, and the accounts are kept by persons from among the inhabitants of the Familis-, ere who have shown a natural aptitude and an attraction to this work. The supplies are bought at wholesale, and sold at a small proﬁt, sufﬁcient to pay the ex- penses, and a little more, which is used also as a part of . the general wealth for the beneﬁt of all. By this means the oppression of commerce, which weighs with exceptional force upon the poor, is done away with. In our present sys- tem he who has the least money is forced to pay the most for everything he buys, and suffers more than any one else from adulteration. Each time that bulk is broken in the passage of industrial products from the hands of the pro- ducer to those of the consumer expense is incurred, and a further opportunity offered for adulteration; and to these additions to the cost of what they consume the poor are forced to submit from their very poverty. Economy to the poor is thus rendered doubly impossible; individually they have not the money with which to be economical. To many people economy is supposed to consist in not spending money; but, in fact, the very essence of economy is spend- ing money, and spending it judiciously. From the exercise of this the poor are debarred——ﬁrst, by their want of the money to’ spend, and, secondly, by the lack of the conditions to spend judiciously what little money they have. In the Familistere, however, by its organization, the quality of the supplies offered for sale is assured, the dealing is of necessity honest, andthe poor have the facilities for spending their pittance as judiciously as the rich. 4 Nor is this all. The shops for the sale of various goods- shoes, millinery, hosiery, cloths, and so on—keep constantly under the eyes of each one of the population the sight of useful articles, and suggest the proﬁtable employment of the wages for the good of the family. Hence it results that, however poor the inmates may be~and ‘the Familistere has received very many such—the children are never squalid. There is a public sentiment of emulation concerning the ap- pearance of the children; they are all well dressed. The parents, seeing them gathered together four or ﬁve times a day, and marching in procession to their classes, cannot escape a feeling of mortiﬁcation if their own children appear ragged or neglected in comparison with the others. The fault is theirs, and they cannot avoid being sensible of it and remedying it, even though at the cost of personal priva- tions. /' Thus for the children a sure escape is organized from the misery and mortiﬁcation which children are so constantly forced to suffer by an unfavorable comparison with their companions, and the culture of contentment and happiness, instead of that of privation and suffering, is secured to them from their earliest infancy. In fact, from their birth the Familistere has organized the conditions for the comfort and development of its children. In the ﬁrst place, it adopts all its orphans, and their support until they are old enough to earn their own living is assumed by the collective wealth of the association. In this way the care and anxiety for the future is removed from the parents, and the mistaken econ- omy which sacriﬁces the present for a possible future con- tingency is no longer necessary. ' The education of the children commences from the cradle. There is nothing to prevent any mother from keeping her child in her own apartment, if she chooses to do so, but the Familistere provides for it so much better conditions for comfort and happiness that there is no danger of any one’s refusing to allow her child to enjoy them. , - Spacious buildings have been built for the accommo- dation of the children during, the various phases of their education; andvagainst the material’ conditions thus ” secured, and the intelligent methods used for the regular development, both moral and physical, of the children, with- - out regard to the ‘pecuniary condition of their parents, no one, however wealthy he may be, can hope to successfully contend. The course of education is divided into seven « classes, each of which has its own set of teachers and direc- tors, together with its own accommodations and its own i appliances. '; First, there is the nursery for the babies, from birth until about the age of twenty-six to twenty-eight months. Sec- ond, the pouponnat, for children who can walk, up to those gfonr years of age. Third, the bambinat, for children from four to six. Fourth, the primary school. or third class, for pupils from six to eight. Fifth, the second class, for pupils from eight to ten. Sixth, the ﬁrst class, for pupils from ten to thirteen. Seventh, the upper course, for pupils who have shown themselves ﬁtted for it by their intelligence and ap- plication. Finally, there 'is a system of apprenticeship, where the young begin to take part in productive industry, and aretaught gratuitously the various arts which are car- ried on in the Familistere. According to his inclination, the apprentice can devote himself to any special branch of employment, and is paid for the value of the work he does. An account is kept of the expenses of this educational organization of the Familistere, and they are carried to the general expenses, which are met from the proﬁts of the in- dustry carried on. The average number of children in the various departments reaches about 320, and the expense is about 20,000 francs——$4,000—a year. In the nursery "there is an average of about forty babies, and its cost is about $2,000, making an average of $50 a year for each child, or less than 20 cents a day. The pouponnat contains an average of about forty children, and its cost is about $160 a year, or $4 yearly for each child. The bambinat has an average of about eighty children, and costs $400 a year, or $5 for each child. The third class costs, for an average of forty-ﬁve pupils, $280 a year, or a little over $6 for each pupil. The second class, for an average of sixty-ﬁve pupils, costs $460 a year, or $7 for each pupil.‘ The ﬁrst class, for an average of ﬁfty-ﬁve pupils, costs $440, or an average of $8 for each Lpupil. The upper class costs about $200 a year. In these estimates, made up from the accounts, are com- prised the food and _all other necessary supplies for the children, from their entrance into the nursery to their en- trance to the pouponnat. For the other divisions of their education it comprises all the appliances necessary for their instruction. The course of education is the same for both sexes. The boys and girls are separated in their seats in the schools, but they participate _in the same exercises, under the direction of the same teachers, the details varying only aci cording to the aptitudes ofeach sex. The children, how- ever, pass their lives with the same freedom of association whichprevails among theboys and girls of any family. The method of instruction used in the Familistere is that of reasoning andpersuasion. The object is to realize, as far as possible, the theory of teaching by attraction. The chief difﬁculty has been to ﬁnd the teachers--persons who, im- pressed with the utility and importance of their function, should be enthusiastic in their work, and at the same time conscious of its demands, be zealous in preparing them- selves, and constant in increasingtheir own culture. In this respect the Familistere suffers with all society. In the last report of the Massachusetts Board of Education great stress is laid upon the necessity of more normal schools for the in- struction of teachers. The new spirit of the age has made it manifest that in our theories and practice of education we are now suffering from the evils incident to all periods of transition. The new is only in process of preparation for replacing the old. The teachers, as all persons occupied in the Familistere, are chosen from among the inhabitants. Those who display a special attraction and aptitude for this occupation are em- ployed in it. Though all the results desired are not yet attained, yet such success has been reached, and such a spirit developed, as justiﬁes a conﬁdence that time will complete the work which has been so successfully begun. The con- ception of the education afforded the children in the Fa- milistere is that it should be integral; but for the organization of the methods, and for obtaining the conditions necessary for securing this completely, time and experience are still needed. In order, however, to supplement as far as possible the instruction of the schools, the persons employed in the industrialpursuits give instruction in mechanics, geometry, lineal design, vocal and instrumental music, and other branches to the pupils. I-Iere, where the process of education has been so organized that the public spirit of the parents as well as that of the pupils themselves is secured as a support for the instructors, the necessity for using no other methods of government than purely moral ones has been most triumphantly demon- strated. All corporeal punishment is abolished, and the only penalty used is depriving the refractory of their pleas- ures. 'Rewards, decorations, distinctions, complimentary grades and the publicity given to these, together with an organized system of recreations, are the only methods used for stimulating the enthusiasm and friendly emulation of the pupils. The decorations are given the children once a week, according to their progress; and, in deciding this, a child’s record is compared not only with that of his classmates, but with itself. Besides this, a friendly emulation between the classes is organized, and on the ﬁrst Sunday of each month the collective honors thus gained are awarded. This cere- i mony takes place in the large court of honor of the», Familistere, in the presence of ' the councils and the committees of awards and before the eyes of the as- sembled population. Medals worn with scarfs of vari- ous colors, according to the section which wears them, are the signs of distinction. In every class, the division, either boys or girls, which has obtained the greatest number of recompenses for its work duringthe previous week or month, has the right to precede the other divisions in marching to their class-rooms for the succeeding period. After each recess the classes deﬁle in this order: A bell calls all the children together, and each child takes his rank in the pro- cession according to his merit. Banners of various devices mark the various studies to which the sections are devoted, and thus before the eyes of their parents each child is made to declare the position which he owes to his own exertions. During the summer the children are instructed in the gar- dens of the Familistere, under the direction of the head gar- dener, in the cultivation of fruits and ﬂowers, and also in a respect for the labor of others. The groups of boys and girls elect from among themselves leaders and sub-leaders,,whose duty it is to see that the orders of the head-gardener are carried out and the groups do not injure the plantations. June 6, 1874. These elections are made every week. In order to encourage this spirit of industry, the chlldren are paid for the work they perform and according to the skill they display. The gardens of the Familistere are an important adjunct in the education of the children. They are open to them all the is specially laid out in winding walks, lawns and other land- scape eifects, is used for promenades of the classes, and the privilege of enjoying it iskeenly appreciated by the children. The theatre is also one of the means used by the Familis- tere to stimulate the friendly emulation of the children,‘and constitutes one of the higher branches of general instruction and cultivation. Here the general lessons are received, declamations are held and entertainments given, which form an amusement for the whole population. Those pupils who distinguish themselves by their excellence in reading and by the oliteness of their manners, are chosen to form companies of actors and actresses who have the honor of presenting plays. The theatre is provided with scenery and a wardrobe for their use. Here the most intelligent pupils have the op- portunity of learning to speak well in public, to improve their carriage and general case of deportment. By the play S. which are carefully selected or composed especially for them, they are given lessons in history, in science, in true social morality, which, as they have learned them in the happiest circumstances of their youth. they never forget. The Familistere has also two yearly festivals, in which all the population and visitors from the town of Guise take part. These festivals are held in honor of labor and of child- hood. The first rewards the labor of those engaged in its in- dustry, and of those employed in the service of the Familis- tere; the second rewards the labors and the progress made by the children. The ﬁrst of these is held in May, the second in September, and in both of them the children are given the ﬁrst seats, either to witness the prizes awarded to their fathers and mothers, or those received by themselves for their merits. These festivals are held in the grand court of the central building, which is decorated with trophies and emblems of industrial pursuits for the ﬁrst, and with those of education for the second, while the galleries are festooned with garlands of ﬂowers and foliage. During the festival of childhood the works of the pupils are exposed to the public, and all the classes, from the infants to the most advanced pupils, are publicly rewarded with the prizes they have progress during the year. These prizes are such as are suita- ble to the recipients, and consist of books, boxes of paints, mathematical instruments, musical instruments and other various, useful and desirable objects. The recipients are also crowned with wreaths of silvered or gilt laurel leaves. The smaller children are presented with the toys and playthings which are so sadly missed, as a general rule, by the children of the poor. Thus the gratiﬁcation of all the moral and physical wants of the children is provided for as far as possi- ble by the organization of the Familistere, and the attrac- tion to pleasure, which is so strong in children, is made use of as one of the best means for exciting them to industry, in- order to thus obtain the right to use the playthings or the materials for their moral and physical development. ‘ To those of us who have experienced in our own isolated households the entire destruction of the usual orderly quiet of domestic life, which is caused by the advent of a baby, or who have in our boarding—houses and summer resorts passed ‘ a wretched existence from the disorganizing presence of numerous babies, the account of the nursery and pouponnat of the Familistere scenes like some fairy story of impossible results. Is it not impossible that an infant should be intro- duced into a house without causing it to become immediately a sort of museum of napkins, or without occupying the at- tention of all the adult members of the household from sun- rise round again to sunrise ‘I Nor is this the worst feature of the isolated home to those who feel conscious of the respon- sibility which naturally devolves upon the parents of a child. In our isolated condition of living it is absolutely im- possible to provide the conditions requisite for a child’s hap- piness. Our necessities as social beings for the association with our kind are at no period of life more peremptory in their demands than in infancy. Nature imposes upon a child an imperious desire to obtain control of its faculties by their exercise, and as the majority of these are such as can- not be called into action except by association with our kind, its lonely condition is a source of continued unhappiness for an infant. It is uneasy, it knows not why. Nor can the pres- ence of adults, or even of children of an older age, take the place of those of its own age. As a rule, it is evident that crying is not the expression of happiness upon the part of an infant, and every one of us knows how universally infants protest‘ against their lonely condition in the isolated family ;by crying. ‘ V In the Familistere, where some forty infants are together, {the universal testimony of all the visitors who have Written ‘of their visits is that there is no crying, and that there is less difficulty in organizing the conditions for the happiness of these forty infants in each other’s company than there is in securing the same for a single one in an isolated home. The success which has attended the arrangements for the young children in the Familistere is [so marked that it will be interesting to quote somewhat at length M. Godin’s de- ’ scription of it. The nursery will accommodate ﬁfty infants besides the nurses’ beds, and is provided with ample closets, a kitchen, water-closets, baths and other ofﬁces. It is warmed, lighted all night, supplied with water and well ventilated. « The infants sleep in beds of a peculiar construction, which have been found to be the best, by the Familistere after numerous ex- periments. The cradles consist of a stout iron wire bent into the form of an oval. ‘This is supported upon an iron stand at the head and foot. The support at the head is ex- tended and bent over to uphold the curtain to the bed. ‘To the oval wire a thick cloth is laced which thus forms the bed. Upon this cloth is spread three or four inches of, bran and upon a cloth covering this the child sleeps. This bran mat- tress is not penetrated by wet. When the child wakes 1311 time for playing and walking, while a reserved portion, which — gained by their good conduct, their industry and their ‘ --4 \ ,' June é%,.187rl. ewpocuncim. a C_I.AFl..lliiS wsssgtst A . ~ ’ dampened bran is easily removed as a small cake, and fresh bran put in its place. Experience has shown that upon this simple bed, which is so easily kept sweet, the child does not suffer from cold in winter nor from heat in summer. The children in the Familistere are never rocked to sleep. Their education commences from the ﬁrst. They are taught to -go to sleep, and it is ,“a pleasure,” writes M. Godin, “to see them put to bed awake, like grown persons, and go to sleep without crying, and wake up in the same way. The suppression of rocking is another conquest over the errors of routine. “ In the Familistere neither abandonment, want of clean- liness, inanition, poverty, nor indigestion are any longer the causes of that mortality among young children to which society closes its eyes. In the palace the child receives all the attention demanded by its age. The halls of the nursery and the pouponnat are in the building itself, near to the home of each one, always open to the child and the mother, while night and day good nurses watch with a tender care over all the children in the cradles as soon as their affairs call the mothers away. The child is in the conditions suited to its age, in the society of its kind, free from that loneliness which is so often for children separatedfrom their natural companions a torment which they seek to escape by cries and tears. Forty infants in the nursery of the Familistere are less tiresome and annoying than ‘a single one in an iso-‘ lated home.” The education of the children begins even from their ten- derest age. Much of it, of course, results from the well- organized arrangement of the rooms, from the material cares. with which they are surrounded, the general cleanliness in which they are placed, and especially the choice of the nurses, for it is the maternal sentiment which is the best auxiliary of early education, when this sentiment is directed by science and reason. The exercises of the children at this early age are not numerous. They consist in waiting without crying whenthey awake until their turn comes to be attended to: to eat in their turn without trying_ to take the food of their neighbors; to eat alone like grown people so as to become grown themselves; to stand up bravely in the little gallery in which they are taught to walk, and to pass their comrades without knocking them over or falling themselves; to go to the water-closets and use them skillfully, induced thereto by the example of the larger children of the pouponnat; to ee the little babies play and listen to their songs; to admire the birds in the aviary and talk with the parrot; to call the squirrel and make him turn in his cage; to walk on the balco- nies and the lawns, guiding by the hand the little friends who essay their powers; to lie down and roll about on the lawns; to talk with their young friends; to obey the nurses; to go to sleep without crying- These are the results which the Familistere obtains with- out constraint from the young children living in company with their kind by conﬁcling their education to intelligent and affectionate Women, in whom the love of good and of infancy’ is the chief quality. The infants remain in the nursery until, having learned to walk, they eagerly demand to go into the pouponnat, and take part in the exercise of the next grade of children. This takes place at about the age of twenty-six to twenty-eight months. The children then return to their parents for their meals and to sleep, but come every day to the pouponnat, making the journeyalone if they can, or, if not, being brought by some comrade or one of their parents. The pouponnat is the necessary complement of the nur- sery, as a guarantee that the children do not lose the super- vision which they still need before they are able to attend the schools. It has also a most happy effect upon the nursery. Children are imitative by nature, but the child is attracted to imitate not the actions of adults—-these are beyond his comprehension-—but the actions of children a little more advanced. The pouponnat is thus a strong stim- ulant to the nursery, as it in turn is stimulated by the bam- binat. The exercises in the pouponnat are as follows: Gather- ing upon the benches for the ﬁrst lesson; inspecting the cleanness of the hands and face; singing; marching; ﬁrst lessons of good fellowship about what is good and bad, upon what is due to others; lunch, with lessons in eating prop- erly; gymnastic exercises while singing; walks in the gar- den and on the lawn; moral and instructive stories by the teachers, illustrated by pictures; ﬁrst knowledge of letters; singing the alphabet; singing the numbers from 1 to 100, as they are pointed out by the monitors; drawing upon their slates; object lessons; playing in the garden without injur- ing anything; selecting the monitors for their merit‘; recep- tion of the week’s recompenses, ribbons, bonbons, toys, etc.; from ‘time to time sights of ﬁne, dolls which open their eyes, run out the tongue, move the hands, and other surprises promised in advance; as exceptional recompenses, and at rare intervals, if all the children are very good and attentive to the directions of the teachers, a represenation of a puppet- show; exhibition ,of images, artiﬁcial and living animals. These means for amusing and exciting the attention of the children are varied according, to the intelligence and devo- tion of the teachers, so as to produce the best results. The building for the bambinat; in connection with that for the theatre, lies in front of the central por- tion of the Familistere. The central building contains the theatre, serving also as a hall for conferences anda general gathering of the children. It contains also the hall for the orchestra, which serves for the meetings of various committees and societies. The building on the right contains the rooms for the bambinat and the third class. That on the left contains the rooms for thegsecond and ﬁrst classes.’ The system of education commenced in the bambinat can be most succintly described as that of object teaching. ‘To enter fully into a description of its methods would occupy too much space. It will be enough to mention for those in- terested in the matter that the works of Madame Marie Pape-Oarpentier have been used as the source from which suggestions have been gathered for its methods, and for the training of its teachers, who are selected from among the residents of the 13‘am‘iliste_re. Froebe1’s works have also been used for suggesting some of the exercises, and the works of other writers have been placed under contribution. In the schools the methods of education thus admirably begun are continued.‘ The educational advantages of the Familistere are all gratuitous, their expense being paid from the general fund, the only individual charge being a ﬁne inﬂicted upon such parents as do not send their children to the schools. ' The service of the Familistere is performed by those en- gaged regularly for this purpose, and paid for it. Scrupu- lous neatness and propriety are the rule for all the public portions of the building. Within their own apartments the lodgers are free. The Familistere requires nothing from them but the payment of their rent, and is not deceived in believing that the general spirit of order which pervades the entire institution will inﬂuence all its inmates. As the ser- vice is not thus individual, the persons who perform it being dependent upon no one, but relying upon the collective in- terest alone, all sentiment of servility in their function is destroyed, and their proper performance of their work is a title to general consideration, since all labortand all evi- dence of skill are held in great honor by the inhabitants of the,Social Palace. ‘ Besides the material advantages which the arrangement of the Familistere offers to its inhabitants, its theatre and library, its gardens and groves, its choral society and or- chestra, its fetes and other entertainments, all concur in aﬁording such opportunities for social culture as are not ‘within the reach even cf the rich in the ordinary conditions of isolated life. ~ The onlyrule and regulation of the Familistere is liberty. and this is the principle of its organization. Neither the families nor the individuals are subjected to any other rules than those written in their own natures. Hence they na- turally seek the good, because the new habitation corres- ponds to the desires of them all, and each one respects the common good with which his own well-being is so intimately connected. I Frequent infractions of this natural rule in any one particular would be simply an indication that the ma- terial conditions were imperfect in that particular, and it would be necessary only to reform these, and thus suppress the undesirable effects by suppressing their cause. Since the foundation of the Familistere, though it contains 900 persons, and their meetings and circulation are perfectly free, there has been but one single case which required the intervention of the police. When any act is performed by one of the inhabitants which is injurious to the order of the building in any way, a. notice is sent to the lodging of the culprit by the administration, or a written mention of it is posted publicly,’ but without the mention of any one’s name. If there is a repetition of the offense‘, or if it is one of suffi- cient gravity, the notice posted contains the name of the perpetrator, together with the imposition of a ﬁne, for the beneﬁt of the general fund. The notice is allowed to remain posted a length of time proportionate to the gravity of the offense. The councils elected by the votes of all the in- habitants, both men and women, united together form a council of criticism, and give the weight of their authority to the rebuke by signing the notice. In cases where the necessity arises this council can exclude the offender by demanding that he be dismissed. The industrial and other interests of the Familistere are organized as follows : An administrative commission is charged with their direction. This body is elected by the inhabitants, and consists of the persons most ﬁtted to direct the operations. It meets once a week to discuss the interests of the industry carried on, and another time to regulate the provisioning and all other matters which come naturally be- fore it. This commission controls and oversees the operations of the palace by means of sub-committees, but puts the execu- tive part of its duties in the hands of an oﬁicer entitled the Economist. He buy the provisions and necessary supplies of all kinds, and, with the aid of those attached to the vari- ous shops and branches of the service, sees that the quality and quantity are honestly delivered. Each shop and each branch of the service keeps its own books, and is carried on independently of every other. Each of these has an account with the Economist, who charges each with the supplies ob- tained from him, with the rent of the premises it occupies, the wages it pays its clerks, the interest upon the capital it employs, depreciation of its material, for its insurance, its portion of thegeneral expenses, and so on, /and credits it with its sales and deliveries. Every day the total of the operations of each of the stores and branches of the service is carried ‘to its respective credit, and these accounts are balanced by proﬁts or by losses in each balance-sheet, as they have been conducted well or 111 during the week. This gives an opportunity, when it is judged best, to make a partial balance, so as to discover-,the condition of any par- ticular branch of the service without waiting for the regular taking of stock. ' ' The various duties of the diiferent branches of the service requirewfor their performance from seventy to eighty persons. The duty of the administrative commission is limited to the material control of the palace, to directing the employees of the service, and also to following the commercial and ﬁnan- cial course of its operations. The various societies formed by the members of the Familistere among themselves man- age their own affairs by the committees they elect. The ad- ministrative commission interferes with them in no other way than to advise when asked concerning the investment of their funds or concerning similar matters. The industrial interests of the Familistere are managed by committees chosen by the workmen engaged in them. These commit- ‘ teespropose rules which are discussed and acted upon in the general assembly of the members of each society. The same method is used in the workshops, the societies, the corpora- tions and the committees, and thus are considered all matters’ of education, prevention and aid, hygiene, the protection against ﬁre, music, the theatre, the festivals, picnics, the club, the library, the claims of labor, etc. The election of these committees leads consequently to frequent voting I "the question, “ Does it pay?” twelve women, elected from among the women, by universal suffrage, forms a peculiar social feature in the Social Palace. In voting for the members of these councils every one is con- sidered an elector, who, having left school. can earn his or’ her own support; or when this qualiﬁcation is wanting, the age of sixteen is ﬁxed as the limit. The functions of these councils‘ are principally suggestive and observing, though. they are not in any way limited. For the most part the 1 I council of men is occupied with questions concerning improv- ing the work, organizing methods of prevision, division, or in arranging the festivals. That of the women considers chieﬂy the domestic functions, the quality of the supplies, the gen- eral neatness and healthfulness, the care taken with the chil- dren, the wash and bathing houses, and all the improvements which can be introduced into domestic labor and life. These councils unite when occasion arises’; they use thelrinﬂuence concerningmeasures seen to be useful; they give their ad- vice concerning the operations of the Familistere, industrial or ﬁnancial; the state of the accounts is .made known to them, and the general disbursements made for the beneﬁt of the population. , From the minutes of their meetings the ad- , ministrative commission takes suggestions for action. They I are also the arbiters in important matters of order; they pro- nounce uponinfractions made upon habits of fraternity, and. in any way endangering the good order of the Familistere. They also see to the encouragements given to merit of all kinds, in the workshops or the domestic service; they call attention to zeal, or its want, displayed by any of the func- tionaries. Thus they have a great moral inﬂuence in main- taining the regular working of the administration, and in guarding the general interests of the community. . ' The spirit which controls all of the operations, which inau- gurated the movement, and has carried it through to its present successful condition, despite the doubt and incredu- lity of all those outside of its inﬂuence and manywithin its shelter, is that of 7M. Grodin himself. But he sees, more clearly perhaps than any one else, how incomplete is a social. s organization in which the stability of such an enterprize, en- hancing as it does the well-being and the future of over a thousand human beings, is made dependent upon the frail tenure of a single individual’s life, or the continuance of his interest in it. His object, therefore, in the beginning, was to make it an association: but this he has been unable to do . V legally. The laws of France, like those of this country, do ' not recognize the possibility of such human relations. As it has been succinctly stated, the position of the law upon this point may be thus summed up: “ What is everybody’s is no- body’s, and what is nobody’s belongs to the‘ state.” Now, however, that association has been shown to be a most prac- tical necessity, the law will tardily recognize the fact as soon as the public conscience demands it, as it demanded recently the recognition of the futility of all the legal bulwarks A of chattel slavery. It is gratifying, however, to know that in the building up of this enterprise Grodin has had the hearty co-operation of his children. The family live themselves in the Familistere. M. Godin’s son has been his chief aid in the enterprise, and his daughter is one of the chief promoters of its educational spirit, taking a. practical ‘part in its admira- ble organization. ~ With a conﬁdence in human nature. M. Godin, though obliged legally to remain the owner of the capital represent- T . ed in the Familistere, haseplaced the control of its affairs in the population, who elect those who carry on its operations, and the result has shown how quickly men demonstrate, where the only law is liberty, that human nature is inherently good, and learn to seek their own happiness in that of others. Admirably as the Familistere appears in an examination of its social, its moral and its educational inﬂuence upon labor, it oﬁ'ers in this practical age a no less satisfactory answer to This will appear in a very brief statement: The first build- ing erected was the left wing. The foundation of this was T I marked out in April, 1859; it was ﬁnished in 1800. but not completely inhabited - until 1861. The other portions were commenced in 1862 and occupied in 1865. The cost of the land was about $10,000. The left wing cost $60,000. The de- pendencies erected in 1860 cost $10,000. The central buildings cost $80,000. The constructions for the children, built in 1866, cost $8,000; the schools and theatre, built in 1869, cost $25,000. The baths and wash-houses, built in 1870, cost $7,000. This makes a total for the buildings of $200,000. To this must be added about as much more for the, furniture and other ’ material, making the capital invested say $400,000? As the Familistere was built for the accommodation of workmen, its rents had to be made as low as those prevailing elsewhere. The rates charged vary from about three to ﬁve cents a day for each chamber, according to the location and the floor. Fromthe rent the gross income is about $8,000. From this about $2,000 is deducted for the general expenses —gas, repairs,;etc.—leaving about $6,000 income from" this source. This is about three per cent. upon- the capital em- ployed in the building. It would evidently be easy to in- crease the rent by seeking its population among another class of persons, but this was not the object of the enterprise. From the commerce carried on in supplying the population, after paying for expenses about $3,000,. and for salaries to ’ those who are engaged about $5,000, there remains a proﬁt of about $9,000 a year; of this a reserve fund of $2,000 is yearly - put by, leaving $7,000, which, with the $6,000, makes $13,000 a, year, or six per cent. upon the capitalinvested in the build- ing. The daily experience also of the Familistere shows that with the skill which comes only from experience these re-1 sults can be greatly improved. _ In this country there are most probably now in operation a thousand industrial enterprises employing capitals larger than that which has produced the Familistere. Among those who control the use of. this wealth, produced by labor, who: Will be the ﬁrst to imitate this use of it? -————--.——s~—-vo+-<—————........ ' MRS. PARTINGTON moved this spring to a house on a rail- . road, and she :likes it very much. “It is so pleasant and sociable,” she says, “ when Ike is off to see to see the cars, A council of twelve men, elected from among the men, and forty times a day Pass Pro and conhefcre herd windows.” woonnuti. a o“LA’rLiN/vs wnnfxtr. June 6, 1874. SOCIALISTIC. . N O T E S. BY 0. r. s. {MORMON MARRIAGES. The editor of one of our Liberal (?) Journals recommends , legislation against polygamy in Utah. In the same issue of his paper he makes record of the public testimony of Brig- ham’s nineteenth wife, which is simply a corroboration of what we have so often been reliably assured, viz., that the Mormon’ wives are held under their yoke by worship of the Bible, as expounded by their prophet. Against what, then, shall the legislative battery be aimed ?———the Bible, their blind devotion to it, or the system which is its natural outcome? If legislation against the Bible would be deemed religious persecution, legal interference with conscientious imitation of the patriarchal lives which it records must be equally so. a , Has matrimonial felicity come“ to be such a very drug in the ‘ home market that we must needs export to Utah at the bayonet’s point? I would venture to suggest, as a milder method, that the sympathizers with the sad-eyed wives of Salt Lake City contribute to a Marital Relief Fund, to be usedin transporting a few hundred couples of such sweetly wedded, monogamists as would like to do. missionary work, and as could give satisfactory evidence that their conjugal happiness was of such remarkable endurance as to be likely to outlast the trip, to settle among the sad ones as living expo-I nents of monogamic faithfulness and bliss. But, ironyaside, such a fund might do mostibeneﬁcent and much-needed work byway of aiding those who want to be released from wedlock, in ﬁnding homes and furnishing them employment until they become accustomed to standing on their feet, in the dignity of self-supportingwomanhood. If such a fund be raised, I en-' treat that no odious distinction be made between the sufferers of the monogamic system, with its tearful wives and outraged magdalens, and the victims of theipolvgamic one. Let al be helped as they desire and need, in escaping from the m_is_ eries of marriage; and, more than all. let a knowledge of the laws of adaptation, of physiologic function, and psychologic powerbe so widely disseminated, and so easily available, as that discordant mating of the sexes shall become as r-areas it now is universal. When humanity wearies of its constantly defeated effort to legislate itself into happiness, and turns its attention to the discovery and dissemination of principles, the glad morn- ing of the better era will begin to dawn; but while it ﬁnds cruciﬁxion of its teachers more agreeable than patient and ‘unprejudiced hearing of theirstatements, it will doubtless hold to the delusion that it can vote things right. MARRIAGE AMONG FRIENDS. I notice the WEEKLY has quoted the venerable Lucretia Mott as saying that, “VVhen our young folksimate they trouble neither the priest nor the magistrate.” Seeing that the statementof that fact unaccompanied by a statement of further facts behind it would mislead people to suppose that there is more personal freedom enjoyed by the members of the Society of Friends in the matter of mating than in most religious sects, while the reverse is absolutely true, and knowing that neither Mrs. Mott nor the editors of the WEEKLY would be willing to mislead the public in any matter, and especially in the serious one involving the best interests of the race, it seems right to make some further statement. I When young friends wish to mate, they are required to- announce such intention in meeting one month previous to the ﬁnal ceremony. Having thus laid their case open‘ for discussion and consideration for one month, and no reason appearing why they should not proceed, they are at liberty to recite before witnesses the stereotyped pledges of faithful- ness and constancy, the woman “promising to be unto him a faithful and affectionate wife until death do separate us,” and the man making equal promise. The marriage certiﬁcate is then read aloud and ‘signed by the wedding couple, the parents and other witnesses and friends. The certiﬁcateis ‘ so formal and so full of legal technicalities, that I never heard one read without a shudder at its painful resemblance to a, deed‘ or bill of sale, and think there can be no rea- sonable doubt that the original intent of all marriage ceremonies and documents was to put the parties in as abso- lute possession ofeach other as law could do it; and I am sure no Friend will question but that this is accomplished as thoroughly by the Friends’ legal compact as by any other; the simple fact that the parties recite the ceremony instead of having the priest or magistrate doit for them, is the only favorable thing, while the end accomplished, viz., legal joint ownership, is the same everywhere. Friends are far more illiberal than any other religious sect with which I am acquainted. “ Marrying out of meeting,” as it is familarly called, andlwhich being interpreted means marrying a person of, different religious faith and church "membership, or one with none of either, is a most serious bl-eachcof “discipline,” for which the offender becomes liable to dismissal from the sect. rRorHINeHAM’s APOLOGY for the social evil, as quoted b y the Word, is the worst "E1i"iii‘§ ' I ever heard from so intelligent a source. I confess I can ﬁnd no words adequate to my anger when piétism non- chalantly consigns to the ﬁres of aliving hell the “ saviors ” of its own neck and heels! « I I . The old theologic dogma of atonement was a baby one of perfect innocence and sweetness in comparison with this which he would fain have us accept. No, no, Mr. F.,'we will “ not scorn ”.‘the Magdalen. but we do scorn with utter loathing the bad teaching which would keep her what she is, “ bearing the sins which but for her we might commit.” I am glad to believe that you willasometime blush to ;call that virtue which can be bought at such a price. some more human method must be discovered for rescuing our literary men from the consuming ﬁerceness of their passional ﬁres than this fearful holocaust of virgins. Any schoolboy . shames to’ think of shufﬂing thelconsequences of his dis. In one respect the . obedience on*his‘,innocent playfellows; and the loss of this innate sense of justice is the greatest any man can suffer. AVINELAND, May 7, 1874. JESUS CHRIST AND THE FREE-LOVE WOMAN. WHAT Is Now COMMZONL1’ CALLED “ LICENTIOUSNESS ”‘JEsUs ' CALIJED “Lovn.” “And one of the Pharisees desired him (Jesus) that he would eat with him. And hewent into the Pharisee’s house andsat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the‘ city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of oint- ment, and stood at his feet behind himiweeping. and began to washhis feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now, when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he, spake (within himself), saying, ‘This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, for she is a sinner.’ And Jesus, answering, said unto him, ‘Simon, I have somewhat to sayunto thee.’ And he saith, ‘ Master, say on.’ ‘ There was a certain creditor which had two debtors; the one owed ﬁve hundred pence, and the other ﬁfty; and when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave t-hem both. -Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most?’ Simon an- swered and said unto him, ‘I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.’ And he said unto him, ‘Thou hast rightly judged.’ ” *-‘ ‘ “ And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, ‘Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house; thqu gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman, since the /time I came in, hath ‘not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore, I say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven her; for she loved, much.‘ but to Whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.’ “And he said unto her, ‘Thy sins are forgiven. Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.”’ (Luke vii., 36 and following.) i a ' The incident related above is no parable, but a narrative recording an actual occurrence in the life of the most famous and radical social reformer known in history—the inspired Nazarene. Might not many of our modern social reformers learnla lesson of mercy and charitable feeling from this A touching and beautiful episode. I refer now to the habit of making always and continuallya vague but invidious dis- tinction between loce and lust when referring to the sexual conduct of other people, whether males or females. We are prone to regard in others as lust that which we would esteem in ourselves to be love. We are too apt to conjugate the verb “to love’’ after this fashion: First person, I love, second person, thou lustest; third person, they lust. First person plural, wélocc ; second person, you lust; third person, they lust. , But how noble and tender is the language of Jesus when, in speaking of an outcast woman, “ a sinner,” a Magdalen, a “free lover.” He did not denounce her as a lustful being, nor a prostitute, nor beastly. On the contrary, he spoke of certain manifestations or practices as Love, which many mo- dern “ reformers ” are in the habit of ﬂippantly branding as “lust,” as though there could be no love outside of legal mar- riage and no lust within its pale. “For she loved much.” “Thy sins are forgiven.” “Go in peace.” Dare any bogus “ Christian ” who proudly “ wor- ships ” (?) or prays or preaches in any modern temple exhibit any such benevolent and humane temper and tender con- sideration toward an erring woman in the present day? Surely this is a practical and a vital question, and one which “ practical Christians ” (if there be any such thing, and I do not believe there is) cannot safely ignore. “Except your righteousness (rightness, justice, equity, probity) shall ex- ceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” “By their fruits ye shall know them.”—(Jesus.) “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tink- ling cymba .” “ And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I’ give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it proﬁteth me nothing. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity.”—(Paul.) T “To whom little is forgiven the same loveth little.” In this saying‘Jesus‘ recognized the truth that ardent, sympa- thetic, loving, amative natures require and crave more to satisfy or appease their conjugal demands than do individ- uals of a cold and impassive temperament. We must not think to “ measure everybody’s corn in our ha1f—bushel.” A great “sinner,” sexually, is to ‘be forgiven for the reason that they are great lovers; “ they love much.” ‘ PERTH AMBOY, N. . EMORY FLETCHER BOYD. V THE SHAKERS SEE IT. K [From the Shaker and iS’7zakeres5.]- There is great confusion in society at the present time; and many minds are bewildered by the commotion. There is a disintegrating power at work; monogamy is being super- seded, in a degree, by polygamy and incest: Infanticide is practiced to an alarming extent, and foundling hospitals are crowded with the innocent offspring of guilty parents. It has been stated that there are thirty thousand female prostitutes in the” city of New York at the present time. How many male prostitutes must there needs be to support those women? They are not supported a by vagrants; for many of them dwell in splendid palaces and live in luxury. Who, wewould ask. are their supporters, if not ‘men of wealth and station. who cover themselves with a cloak of re- spectability, while their associates of the opposite sexaareaa ~c marked and consigned to infamy and disgrace? But these “ respectable” hypocrites——whited sepulchres——are the more dangerous to society because their true character is unknown. —Rioth Webster. * A I THE HOLBROOK DIVORCE CASE. Boston society is now agitated over the disclosures made by Mrs. Zebiah M. G. Holbrook, formerly the wife of Charles C. Holbrook, for many years aconspicuous Boston merchant, in a little pamphlet, entitled, “The Mistake of a Life; or, The. Other Side of the Holbrook Divorce Case.” There has long been a suspicion that this divorce was “a put-up job,” and that it was only “ by ways that are dark and tricks that are vain ” that Mr. Holbrook’s attorneys and detectives secured him his divorce. If I-Iolbrook “was of ~ such an overbearing temper that the misplacement of a knot in his cravat was sufficient to bring down upon her the weight of his wrath and petty tyrannies,” Mrs. Holbrook, apart from pecuniary considerations, was for- tunate in being divorced from him, even if the mode of getting rid of him were not to her liking. , Mrs. I-Iolbrook was an early convert , to Spiritualism, but since her divorce has found, or thinks she has found, rest and peace in the Roman Catholic Church. At one time she was an Episcopalian; and she having to ‘submit to a severe sur- gical operation for a cancer, her then husband requested the prayers of the congregation in her behalf. “ lt advertised his business and ﬂattered his egregious vanity,” the pamphlet says, “ but did not in the least soften his heart.” For while this unhappy wife was under the surgeon’s knife, and while the prayerswere making for her recovery, the heartless hus- band, hatlcss and coatless, sat in his pear tree, regaling him- self with the fruit! The pamphlet will prove an admirable disenchanter to such as still worshipaathe divinity of marriage as it now is. The divorce case itself is a famous one, and in it, in one way or another, many of the ablest lawyers of Boston were engaged —Rufus Choate, Gen. Butler, Judge Thomas, Judge Cowley, E. D. Sohier and Gr. A. Somerby. When men and women are left to form and dissolve their love relations according to their own will and pleasure, such scandals will cease. R. C. . _Ho ’ SPIRITUALISTIC. ADAM AND HIS FALL. FROM A DISCOURSE, AUGUST 18, 1872. The passage of Scripture before us (I. Cor. xv. chap), in its truer translation (just now read) inspires other and better and more cheerful views than those held by the churches. It is the same appealed to by them, but with how little con- solatory assurance! Besides, as printed for the people, in the authorizedlﬂversion, and as interpreted by theology, it is a m-ighty prop to sustain the story of the fall of man. The idea concerning the fall of. man, as taught by the pul- pit and as generally accepted, is that of an apostasy, by which was brought upon the race a diathesis of soul, a moral taint. whose inevitable consequence was death, both physical and spiritual. But such fall is fabulous, having no foundation in philosophy nor in historical fact. The extent of the mischief which such a doctrine has reached cannot easily be meas- ured; it is world-wide. Poetry has embraced the myth, and lent its charms and mighty powers to affirm the theological fancies. _ The storied statement received as foundational for the fal 1 hath this averrnent—that Deity, in the concluding process of creation, made a man, manufacturing him mechanically from the dust of the ground; and that independently, it would seem, of the laws of generation and of growth, to which his progeny has ever been subject, over-stepped the stages of infancy and adolescence. which in all subsequent ages seem, of necessity, to have obtained in the life of man; that he also madeawoman, manufacturing her out of a rib taken from the previously made man, having caused a profound sleep to fall upon him that he might not suffer pain from the'cruel incision; that when these human fabrics were completed, he placed the original pair in a beautiful paradise—the Garden of Eden—and that he there forbade them to eat of the fruit of a certain tree therein; but, disobedient to the behest, they did eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree, and thereby enkindled the Creator’s wrath, which eventuated in their expulsion from Eden, in their own mortality, besides the entailment of death upon their posterity. Thus, in epitome, runs the story of man’s creation, ‘ Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, ‘whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. \ Truly, aﬁne ﬁction this for poet’s ﬂights of fancy! Let his genius revel in such imaginings. Let his lyre thrill our souls. Let him sing enchantingly of Paradise lost. We can listen to the sad tale of temptation and the ruin of a race; but we cannot concede the claims of Christendom to infallible faith, when it rests on old-time legends and anomalous alle- gories concerning the genesis and the fall of man. The dogma derived from the mythical origin of a first man andﬁrst ‘sinner. whose name the historian calls Adam, how- ever absurd, is important in the Christian economy of grace and scheme of redemption—im;>ortant because if neither Nature nor what is called Revelation demonstrates any such geneology or line of descent of the human family as that claimed for it in theology, but that, on the contrary, they plainly prove that the Adam of Scripture history and Christian polemics is not signiﬁcant of speciﬁc personality, or of a single individual man, but signiﬁcant of the whole embodied humanity—signiﬁcant, generically and collectively,’ ofthe entire race of man, being a substantive word convey- ing the idea of multitude likelzlnthrogoos in the Greek, I-Iomo in the Roman, Mankind in the English, etc., what then becomes of the ancestral attainder, dating back to the guilt andcondemnation for the crime of the Garden and the . expulsion from its paradise? Indeed, what then becomes of the fall of Adam, the inheritance of his depravity by his . :,_., 1 -3 ,-5;..-/_2;L V June 6, 1874. woonnnm. _& 0LAFl‘.IN’S WEEKLY: 3‘ I I ' ~ '3 \ -4:’ ‘ / 2-,." I A descendants, that provocative of sin, which necessitated a vicarious atonement by the sacriﬁcial shedding of human blood to remove the judicial taint, but notgtill centuries had gone by and millions upon millions of the children of Adam had gone to perdition! . v New, neither Nature nor even Scripture reveals the fact of aﬁrst man; the record relied on for such supposition and belief aﬁiirms that God said, “Let us make man”—not a _man; and further, that God. said, “And let them have do- minion,” etc., not let him have dominion, in the singular number. How lacking isthe Old Testament in proper ma- terial forithe items of a ﬁrst man and his fall, in the struc- ture of the religious creeds! Nor does the New Testament, aside from the fraudulent interpolations, erroneous translations and false interpreta- tions, in this behalf, afford anything to” sustain the pulpit teachings concerning the fall of man and his redemption from the penalty thereby incurred. Witness the foregoing defects found in the common version of the Scripture trans- lated for this occasion. I To support the story of a ﬁrst man, the father of the race, Adam by name, who brought upon his family, by an act of his own disobedience, sure destruc- tion-——and the ﬁction of a second man, Christ by appellation, dual of divinity and humanity, the redeemer of the race, suﬂering death to atone for the great transgression—resort has been had to a convenient amendment of the Apostle’s statement! A By a comparison of the Greek text, asfound in the Codex: Vaticartus, with King James’ version, it will be seen that the reader of that version is imposed upon and cheated by the use of the word “ man ” in the 45th verse, and the word “Lord” in the 47th verse, words forged and found in the Greek Testament in common use. Without these interpo- lated words, anthropos and kurios, what becomes of these important dogmas of the church, viz., the sin of the ﬁrst mart, Adam; and the imputed righteousness of the second man, the Lord ? In soft theological parlance, this variation in the reading is characterized as interpolation; in legal phraseology it is pronounced forgery; in temporal matters, it is punish- able by restricted locomotion for a period of years in the Penitentiary. Whosoever is familiar with the church teach- ings concerning) the fall—-to wit., inherited sin, redemption by vicarious atonement, etc.—will readily see why those words are found in the Greek testaments now used in our colleges and by our clergy, and why they are wanting in the ancient copy. " _ , Thus it is seen that neither the legendary creature of Deity by whom‘ sin was introduced into the world, yclept Adam; nor that historical personage, the spiritually An- ointed One, called the Christ, by whom, as it is preached, the consequences of sin have been counteracted, was in the mind of\I’aul when he wrote concerning so-called Death and Resurrection——words of misnomer for man’s fall and Re- construction. Paul meant to affirm, and he did affirm, only this—that the Adam, or the human family, is both animal and spiritual, having earthly bodies, for the uses of this life, which family he calls the ﬁrst Adam; also having a spiritual element, which will be developed in spiritual bodies on entrance into the next life; which spiritual element or body, he calls the last Adam—the second man-—after his spiritual reconstruc- tion is ﬁnished, and he hath become a celestial; thus showing man to be dual in his nature. and_ making plain his proposi- tion contained in the 47th verse. Thus, it is conceived, is afforded a sensible solution of the question of man’s fall and redemptio n—the mystery of death and resurrection: terms familiar and common among the majority of Christians, and suggestive to them of that poetic embodiment of their theology- In Adan1’s fall We sinned all. ——Dr. Horace Dresser. [From the Pioneer of Progress, London, 0. 13.] POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE. In the light of positive knowledge ignorance would be dis- sipated, and in proportion as ignoranceiis dissipated from the minds of mankind, so will all the evils and miseries that at present curse it vanish also. Let us, then, pray for the light; let us search for the truth; let us apply that truth to the solution of all the problems of existence; and by so searching and applying it we shall build up a fairer and nobler life, draw nearer to our Father and our friends, and call down high and noble aspirations from the higher and the nobler life; and those friends of thine who once walked with thee in the ways of mortal life, who once shared all thy trials and troubles, who wereionce men and women even as you are to-day, they from their happy homes will draw near, join in the glad chorus of awakened humanity, and the divine ' song of universal love, ﬂowing upward and onward, shall be borne through the inﬁnite space to the glad heart of the great eternal cause; and that eternal cause, in its inner joy realizing the destiny of its children. shall send forward the ' mighty roll of inspiration that shall lift humanity onward and upward, bringing in the greatest and grandest day the world has ever seen, linking humanity in the bonds of fra- ternal love, calling forth every aspiration of the soul, devel- oping every noble attribute, and then a resurrected human- ity shall take the place of this one, and perfect order, brotherly love and holy inﬂuences shall hallow every rela- tionship; and crime and all the incongruities of human life, all the excesses and diseases that aﬁflict society, shall be known no more; every noxious thing shall be removed, and humanity, glowing in the divine inspiration, bound together by mutual bonds, shall live and grow in truth, justice and love forever and forever.—Tt‘en Sim T/ée. , —-———-——>—<G>——<—-T: \ RELEVANT THOUGHTS. Is it less reasonable to assume that formation of forms began with the most simple in character and construction, and if constructed of matter consisting of two differing ele- ments, that it must have had a beginning, than to conceive that evolution had no beginning in the construction of forms in view of the fact of the existence of the exceedingly com- plex forms that now exist? I . Can any rational mind conceive of a gradual development ‘of higher forms out of lower, or higher succeeding lower of even the most simple character, without taking a step back to inquire whether or not matter was active at a point just previous to suchf beginning, and yet unproductive of the same immediately succeeding results? \ Is it possible that any other conception of a starting point can be considered more reasonable than the suggested one that alternate periods of rest and activity have transpired in all of the past, the former of which was the primal period, in ’ View of the fact asserted in favor of the evolution theory, that higher forms and conditions grew out of lower, and were ‘constituted of unorganized matter? . Can the evolution of forms be believed to have commenced with the ﬁrst combination of two. elements (known now to exist, and of course without a beginning) without knowing that if the organization of forms implies activity of matter per se or applied, that the non-organization of matter_ im- plies immobility? ‘ ‘ l g If these questions are not close and transparent enough, let us try the spiritual microscope (or try it alone, if you please),a little further, to ﬁnd, if possible, the sanctum sanc- torum of the cause of activity and the constructive power in matter. V . L If the statement of ideas is repetitive, it is because the Writer desires to present his views in different forms, so that even the more careless thinker may be impressed therewith. STEUBEN, Huron Co., 0., May 21, 1874. ' L S. TI-IE NASBYTLETTIERS. THE WOMEN 013‘ THE CORNERS MAKE A RAID’ON BASCOM— THE TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Toledo Blade 1 ‘ A CONFEDRIT X ROADS : . (Wich is in the State uv Kentucky) % d April 6, 1874. The cyclone, whose wrath we hoped hed bin spent in futile endeavors, hez ﬁnally smote us, and we are sufferin under the blow. The wimmin uv the Corners riz in their mite on Friday. The sun rose brite and smilin from the eastern horizon—- the frost wuz all out uv the ground, and the day wuz warm and blamy. Deekin Pogram came down the road barefoot and hilarious. “ It’s Warm enuff,” sed the_old innocent, “ to go without shoes! Thank heaven, I shel not hev that ex- pense on me for seven long months.” The Corners alluz rejoices when,its citizens kinleave off shoes in the spring. Bascom turned away and wept. ‘ “ Why do yoo weep ?” sed Pogram. “ Ef I don’t hev to buy shoes you will hev jist that much more for linker for me.” I “-Alars!” shreekt.Bascom, “ can’t you see that the warm weather wich enable yoo to come without shoes, also enables the wimmin to walk these streets without shoes? And hezen’t Pollock and Bigler and them cusses bin incitin em to rage, and hevn’t they been a bilin in agony to get at me, but wuz provedenshly prevented by the weather? They’ll be here to—day’shoor, and then—” . ‘ And Bascom bowed his head and wept agin. ’ Wat Bascom prognosticated did reely occur. At ten o’clock precisely a delegashen of Wimmin headed by Lucindy Gravitt ﬁled around the corner and approached the grocery. We stood on the porch in an agony of feer. “They are comin,” said L eckin Pogram, tremblin ez the he hed ager, “ ez terrible ez a army with banisters.” “ Can’t we fool em out uv this?” sed Bascom. “Wood that we cood!” said Issaker, “but I doubt it. A Lucindy is a running this thing and she’s akoot. Yoo can’t play any vermifuge on her.” “ Subterfuge, yoo fool,” sed I. “ In sich a time ez this, be correct watever you are.” Slowly they approached. Bascom turned pale, and leevin the porch took his posishen behind the bar. “ Here,” sed he, “ I_will endoor the shock. Here where I hev lived and had my bein will I die.” The enemy came on, until the hed uv the purcesshin reeched the porch. Lucindy bore a banner on which wuz written, “Liz Bascom hez stockins—we hevn’t. Death to Bascom!” and pokin it in my face ez she past me, she marched with the tread uv a grenadeer into the room, and took up her posishen in front uv the bar, where she looked Bascom square in the face. “ The regler thing,” sed Lucindy, “ ez I hev heerd, is for the wimmin to pray. Kin yoo pray, Mrs. Pogram ?” in our house?” “Kin yoo pray, Mrs. McPelter?”‘ “ Nary.” - ‘ -“ And ther can’t none uv uz. The fact is that we wuzn’t brot up to it. I don’t bleeve thcre’s a woman within four ' miles uv Basco-rn’s—onless it’s a new corner—who kin, but it don’t matter. I hev been looking at Bascom for ﬁve minutes and I don’t bleeve prayer wood hev any effect onto him. Its works we want here—works with him, works 1” And that infooriated wom‘an, pullin her sleeves back, dis- playing an arm wich a long course uv splittin wood and hoein , taters and whalin Issaker had made ez muskeler ez a black- smith’s, uttered her war—whoop: “ Remember. gentle sisters, Liz Bascom hez stockins and we haint none-—our husbands sell corn wich we grow to pay Bascom for likker! More ‘stockins and less likker.” A With this ejackelashun, she sprang over the low counter and throttled Bascom, bearing him to the ﬂoor. “Now, sweet sisters,” sed she, “ while my frail and fadin strength lasts I will hold this man uv Belial safely—-lie stil yoo broot——be it-yoor work to go for them bottles and bar- rels !g Go for em—Bascom’s wife hez stockins 1” . A dozen uv em drawd. axe helves from under their apers and kep us off, while the rest went inside the bar and rolled out the barrels and jugs and split em. open. /The precious “Nary,” replied Mrs. P. .“ Sich a thing wuz never heerd ﬂooid ran "out on the floor and disappeared betwixt the cracks thereof forever. We cood do nothin’ but look on and weep. v ‘I I . Finally, when the last barrel was bustid and the last bottle broken, Lucindy let Bascom up, and the percession, wild with, excitement, marched out uv the place and dispersed. It wuz a pitiful site! Them empty barrels wuz mute wit- nesses uv our w’oe—them broken bottles hed each a tale of distress to tell. There wuz an aromauv likker risin from the floor and that wuz all. But who cood live on an aroma? “ Thank heaven!” sed I, “ we hev that reserve in the stable left. We kin live on that till yoogit a noo stock in.” ' “No yoo can’t,’/’ replied Bascom, his voice broken with emoshun. “N o yoo can’t. That barrel wuz in‘ among the rest, and is gone with the rest.” , “ Why, oh why, did yoo do that?” I asked. “Kin yoo, ask me af_ter the nite yoo attempted to steal it?” said he. “I’d sooner trust it with the wimmin than with yoo. Dooplicity meets its own reward.‘ Hed you played fair yoo wood hev had a barrel to go on. E2 it is, there ain’t a drop in the Corners, and none kin be hed from Louisville for six days.” ' l p ' At this Deekin Pogram dropped a stave wich he hed bin lickin and fell faintin to the floor. Isaaker Gavitt, Elder Pennibacker and Captain McPelter turned ‘away sorrow- fully. V in agony, feelin that Bascom must hev a privit bottle some‘- where. , “Yes,” sed he; “I relent. I pervided for this catastro- phy. I bored a hole in the ﬂoo, here, where it is the lowest. Under that hole, infthe cellar, Iput a tub. Go down and bring up a wash-basin full and revive him.” Droppin the old man’s head, I ran. There wuz three inches in the tub. Fillin two quart bottles which I found there, and puttin them in my pockets, I hastened up with the wash- basin full and held it to his nose. He drew along breath, and fastened his lips to the edge. He swallered! he wuz saved! . -We are yet without likker. The Corners is ez dry ez a lime-kiln. I hid my two bottles where they cant ‘ﬁnd em, and four times a day I go and take a modrit nip. But they cant last long even yoosed ez sparinly ez I do. . Dcekin Pog- ram is askin me evry day uv my opinyun uv the hereafter, and the rest uv em would leave the Corners of they hed any earthly way uv gittin out. Bascom has ordered a new in- voice, but Hevin knows when it will come. Ez I hev but a pint left, may the day be not far distant. -Curses on Pollock and Bigler, who did this thing. i i PETROLEUM V. NASBY, A (Wich wuz Postmaster). -. TO HENRI ROCHEFORT. Representative soul of sister France, Americawelcoines thee! Although her Ruling sentinels--protecting shell—may I Fail to recognize thv mission here, or, If so recognizing, fail t’ appreciate, ller yet unorganized soul-cules will ’.l‘hy advent hail with joy, as harbinger Of love‘s unbridled reign, accompanied By peace and plenty for the race of man. That all do what they must—impelled by pow’r Unseen but not iinfelt-—Would seem selilevident, When men in stations of authority Will banish to seclusion those who need - It most, though motive for such action be Far different from the love of him cast out. Seclusion is the outcast’s boon-oft sought By Weary brain the mind to recup’rate, By prophets for recruitment of the soul. Whatever by seclusion thou hast gained Will doubtless prove for Freed_om‘s beneﬁt. Hence welcome to the shore where F1-eedom’s hosts Are marshalling for battle. Nevermore May they be scattered by dissentions on ’ Minor points of diff’rence. Let tolerance Prevail for all opinions, charity , For all designs deemed ill or actions vile- So easily to be misunderstood. What vilcr criminal e’er Walked the earth, As measured by the time’s morality In which he lived, than he who even now Is worshiped as a god by such as then Reviled him most ? In worshiping his name I-lis god-like charity they overlook, And love for all mankind. “ Let him the ﬁrst Stone cast whose self is guiltless ” meaneth much, When carried to its sequence logical. \ Are those all guiltless who control the State, Administer law, hang women—-by such law Unrecognized as peers of jury-men Who render verdict for the hangin'g—-leave ‘ Children unprovided for, to starve or Steal, whose parents by misfortune or the State’s revenge are rendered helpless; those who For selﬁsh interest most do legislate, And through such legislation holdtheir pow’r? My brother soul! the few perceive what all In time must know: mankind a unit is In embryo, whose vital forces now? ‘ Converging toward their central sun of love, Whosepwarmth abounds, are casting o1i:"their old’ And worn-out garments, needed only for » Protection in the cold extremes of their- Divergence. In love’s pure light the naked / Truth needs no apology. Welcome home! ’I.‘RIcNTON. N- ‘If: MSY534, 1873-} T ‘ V . ExcELsIo‘n. A NEG-R0 in a religious gathering prayed earnestly that he’ and his colored brethren might be preserved from what he called his “upsettinf sin.” “Brudder.” said one of his friends, at the close of the meeting, “you ain’t got d'e hang der,” replied the other, “-if dat’s so it’s so. Butl was a-pray. in’ Providence to save us from de sin of intoxication; amiﬁf dat ain’t an upsettin’ sin, I dunno what a.n1.’E ‘ ‘ I e / ‘Aint there suthin to revive the good old man?” I shriekt , of dat ar word. 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The ne- cessity that produced the ﬁrst reduction is made only more demanding by its achievement, for the second; and thus the human mind, outwrought by human strength, goes on con- quering and to conquer. Shall it not ultimately reduce the subtle elements, not yet mastered, to complete subserviency, so that it may be said, truthfully, that man has become their master; and the powers of the material world do yield obedi- ence to his mandates; he hath«to command and they to obey? Across the continent in eight days—-New York, Chicago, lOmaha, Ogden, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and the vast expanse for which they stand representative—united by a common and mutual interest. Who shall dare affirm that an event so auspicious as this, that unites the two conﬁnes of a vast ocean-bound continent in commercial unity, shall not be the beginning of that still more humanitarian unity that shall eventually usher in the common brotherhood of at least the American ’ race? Not any person in whom the basic principles of human existence have had birth can traverse this route and not feel that humanity is rapidly becoming one in purpose and interest.” This interest will of course be first material; but a common interchange of material in- terests leadsto common methods of thought and‘ forms/ of life. Hence it is that commercial intercourse, carried-on intimatetely between two widely different classes, or even races, of people, gradually moulds them into one ‘people, What is true in this relation of two different peoples, will be true ultimately with the whole world. Indeed, the primary foundation for this unity is already Plaid. As a sequence to the completion of this trans-conti- Inental line of travel a regular line of steamships has been es- tablished to Japan, China and Australia, whilefrom each of these countries there are other regular lines plying to London and thence to New York,'thus completing the earth’s circuit. So much a matter of fact has this become that tickets are now sold in all the principal cities of the world for the tour round the globe, either» eastward or westward. The trip can be made in three months. The distance by the route that steamships are compelled totake is, via. Japan and China, twenty—three thousand ﬁve hundred and seventy—eight miles; 1 cost of ticket $1,105 ; via New Zealand and Australia, twenty seven thousand ﬁveghundred and sixty-four miles; cost of ticket, $965. These prices include ﬁrst-class passage and every necessity of the trip, excepting sleeping cars and meals while on then‘-ailroad portions of the route.‘ T .§W00—DHULL a CLAFI..I,N’S wEn:KI.r; June 6, 1874. It is just about the right time of the year now to start 011 this trip from the eastern portions of the United States, so as‘ to complete thejourney a_cross the plains bcforethe intense heat of summer is upon that locality. Itis no worse there, however, than railroad /travel is in general between New York and Omaha during the summer months. In fact there is the relief of strong southerly winds to break the direct effects of the heat in mid-day, while, when the ascent of the mountains is begun,a deliglitful coolness is experienced that is entirely wanting anywhere eastward of there. Between New York and Cheyenne the traveler has a choice among several routes. The most southerly is by the Balti- more and Ohio to Cincinnati; the Ohio and Mississippi to St. Louis; or by the Pennsylvania Central and its connections to St. Louis‘; or the Eric and the Atlantic and Great Western and the Ohio and Mississippi to St. Louis and thence by the Kansas Paciﬁc and Denver Paciﬁc, to Cheyenne. Few persons, however, will choose the route by the Kansas Pa- ciﬁc who start from the vicinity of New York, unless they wish to visit some point upon the route, incidentally to the trip. Most will prefer the more northern "and really the most direct route by Chicago. Even by this city there is op- portunity. for choice among several routes, but they who go westward of Omaha, either upon business or for pleasure, desire to make the trip to that city by the route that oifers the most inducements in case, comfort and elegance. As be- tween the Pennsylvania Central and the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, and the Erie by suspension bridge and Detroit to Chicago, there is little if any choice. So far as these matters are concerned both routes are noted for their regularity of time, for their elegant equipages and sumptuous eating houses at well regulated distances. The Erie, however, pre- sents the advantage of more capacious through drawing room and sleeping coaches. The Pullman cars on this route, which are ru11 from New York to Chicago,are models of elegance and comfort, being widerlby a foot or so than those that run on any other route. This is amatter of no small moment, espe- cially when more than two persons are to occupy a “ sec- tion. ” This route is rapidly growing in favor with the public, but the larger portion of travel still adheres to the route by Pittsburgli. - For those going west from Chicago, however, (and it is for such that we are now writing), there is avery evident advan- ’ tage in the Erie and Michigan Central route, since by this passengers arrive in Chicago at the same depot from which they depart over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy for Omaha. The Pennsylvania Central arrives in the St. Louis depot in Chicago, from which there must be a transfer of a mile to reach this favorite route to Omaha. This transfer consumes the hour until the departure of the train on the “ 0., B. & Q.,”_which otherwise could be devoted to break- fast. The only other route to Chicago arriving in the same depot from which a westward train for Omaha departs is the Lake Shore route. Persons using this road would naturally use the Rock Island to Omaha; but the objections to the Lake Shore route to Chicago are of such magnitude as to preclude its use by travelers who can reach any other route; while much the same arguments hold against the Rock Island and Paciﬁc to Omaha. Those who manage these routes give more attention to manipulating their stocks for speculative purposes than they do to managing their roads for the accom- modation of travel, while all of the roads in which Mr. Joy is interested are managed to accommodate the public. The Michigan Central, of which he is Presidient, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, including the Burlington and Mis- souri River Road to Omaha, of which he is a director, are really the best managed and equipped roads in the country, while their western and southwestern connections, which his genius has conceived and his ability is constructing, are rap- idly making all that vast country west of the Mississippi river and south of the Union Paciﬁc railroad, tributary to this popular route eastward. For the south and west, east of the Mississippi river, the Pennsylvania Central has the un- doubted supremacy; but for the great west, and especially the trans-continental business, the route in which the Michi- gan Central and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy form the connecting links, will, for popular reasons, retain its hold upon the public heart. . . — We speak thus particularly of these several routes because they form the important connections in that great system of international communication which is ultimately to produce such general and beneﬁcial results to the human race. They are parts of the chain by which the whole world is to be bound,ﬁrst in commercial and afterward in general interests, which will lead up to the possibility of organizing all the nations, peo- ples and races, in one human family, and thus make possible the prophecy of all past ages. Indeed, by no other methods can the peoples of the world be made as one people. Chris- tianity, so called, can never eifect it. As a means of regen- erating the world and carrying it forward to the results that Christ is said to have desired, the commercial interests that make railroads and steamships a necessity are a thousand times more potent than all the priests the world ever pro- duced. Religion alone is impotent for progress. The reli- gion that has cursed the world has‘ invariably stood in the path of progress, and has transferred the very idea of a uni- versal brotherhood from earth to a future life, and then made it impossible there by dividing that life into heaven and hell, with about ninety-nine one hundredths of the people in the latter forever wailing over their failure in earth life. But, thank God, this religion is fast losing its hold upon, the hearts of men and women, and they are coming it; know that scientiﬁc and commercial progress are prime factors in that evolution of humanity through which alone the millennium can be in- troduced upon eartli. A In this sense, telegraph, railroads and steamships are mightier prophetslof a real advancement to the time when the kingdom of ha.ppiness—~heaven——shall be established on earth than churches could be were they multiplied in number ten fold and did their congregations include every living per- son. Churchianity might be made a mighty engine of civili- zation. The very things which, ‘if the priests would do, would forever establish the church in the world, they are afraid to do lest they shall lose their power over the people, and through this failure the power they might otherwise create and hold will pass to other and more worthy hands. The failure of modern Christianity to adhere to the principles said to have been laid down by Christ will ultima'tely prove its destruction» and consign‘ it to the past, where so many other systems that have made the same failure have already gone. A remarkable exempliﬁcation of this is about to occur among the Mormons in Utah, of which further mention will be made at another time, as the-record of transcontinental travel westward from Cheyenne shall appear. at which place we are supposed to have arrived in this article. To this point the matters of interest pertain almost wholly to the relations which railroads bear to general civilization. Westward from this point there are many local things that are of suﬁicient interest to form a part of any account that might be made of a trans—conti11ental trip, and such will be the subject of our next number. 9 STILL MORE EVIDENCE. Every day we are more and more surprised at the almost astonishing rapidity with which the public mind is being called to the vital issues involved in the Social Problem. There is scarcely an issue of any paper of any importance, daily or weekly, that does not contain, in some form, some important statement or argument relative to the absorbing question of the social condition, while the magazines are replete with able, if not exhaustive, articles touching the matter. The Popular Science Monllily is doing an immense work in this direction, and the Galaxy and Harpefs are little if any behind it. All of these magazines are becoming a necessity, almost, to all persons who are deeply interested- or actively engaged in reform movements. It is very gratifying to us to see all this ; to know that the public, which reads publications of the high order of liter- ature which isrepresented by these monthlies, demands the discussion of these things. If there were no demand for these subjects they would not be found occupying so large a part of the limited space of these publications. Their conductors cater to the tastes of their readers, and they seem instinctively to realize that the great social question is the paramount one for the near future. gWe do not think it is egotistic for us to feel that the WEEKLY has done much to create this demand in the public. Three years ago no such articles as are "now constantly ap- pearing would have engaged the attention of the reading public; and it is seriously to be questioned if they would have been tolerated had they been presented. Nobody will be found so foolish as to pretend to assume that there has not been a very remarkable change in public sentiment upon the social question, nor that it is not the chief topic of gen- eral conversation, where, but two years ago, it was almost unknown. This revolution, almost, has been brought about by the persistent discussions that have been maintained in the WEEKLY. People who have read it have begun to think upon the subject; while those who write begin to learn that they may safely present their ideas regarding it to the world, and publishers to ﬁnd that they may print any, even a bald, consideration of the facts involved and be sustained by the public. In Harperh, for May, there are two very important arti- cles——not important particularly on account of any new ‘ theory advanced, or for any argument upon old ones, but, highly so, because theycall attention’ to a certain class of facts that necessarily lead up to the theory and science of the social relations, to which the question of freedom in love is the ﬁrst step in the advance from present enslavement. Sex- ual freedom is the ﬁrst necessity, since nothing less than this will -give to woman the control cf her maternal func tions; while the facts that are presented in these two arti cles in Harpevis are true because the women, the mothers of them, by whom they exist, were not sexually enfranchised. One of these articles 1S entitled, “ The Skeleton in Modern Society,” and occupies nearly ten pages of the magazine. While we cannot reproduce it so that the reader may fully estimate its value, we propose to select sentences and para- graphs that will indicate its general tenor: “ This story of Méry is a horrible romance, yet, frightful as it is, this description of means used to destroy death is no more shocking than the plain‘ truth as to the prevalent means of bringing death into the world even in this boasted nineteenth century. * * * * We have learned how to take from wounds their sting and from pain its anguish, yet * men and women murder themselves and their children as -never before; and while suicide undoubtedly increases in all civilized countries, many of the conspicuous habits and indulgences of our modern society may be justly called the chronic type of the self-murder of which the actual suicide is the acute form.” ., . j,‘ The §1:eleton_is as heir-loom is ourigreat harass iamily. .T1Jl.1l.Q6, 1874. wconnnttc oLAFLiN’s3;wE_EKL-€r. . I 9 We all cover it up as well as we can with ﬂesh and clothing, but there it is, the framework of this mortal coil, and to this complexion it must come at last. * * * * In all things a certain order appears, and crime, like death, has its periods and laws. * * * Sickness and mortality are closely related to human folly and transgression, while intel- ligence and virtue are sure in the long run to prolong life.’ \ There has been a decided increase in the average length of life in civilized nations. In France, between 1771 and 1868, it had increased by twelve or thirteen years. In Greneya mortality has gone down in three centuries from one in every twenty-two to one in every forty-two. In London and Liverpool the death rates were one in twenty and one in twenty-eight; afterward the rates stood one in forty-ﬁve for - London and one in thirty-eightfor Liverpool.” From all this, and much more that is said that is similar, it would appear that the length of life is gradually increas- ing, and consequently that the virtue of the race is continu- ally ascending higher in the scale. But before this should be assumed as decided, there are several facts that should be given their proper application and weight. It will be found that the countries in which the estimates are made are those in which, there has been a very large decrease of death ‘in wars, and that the periods estimated upon are those ‘in‘7 which wars have decreased most rapidly. A century ago almost the whole of Europe was in continual strife, while for the last half century it has entirely changed. f Since the “ Allies” overwhelmed Bonaparte in 1814 war in Europe has been the exception and not the rule. It is true there have been large standing armies all the time, but the,mor- tality is small in time of peace compared to time of war, waged as it is in Europe; and it is precisely in this time that the death rate is shown apparently to have decreased. The fallaciousness of this showing will become evident, at least in a large degree, when it is considered that the causes of mortality have almost entirely changed within the last century. Formerly these causes were largely of the sort known as accidental, and not based in a generally deteriorated condition of health. Now the causes of almost all the mor- tality are in a low standard of health. A people may be ro- bust physically and their death rate be much larger than an- other people whose standard of health is much lower. Therefore, the death rate may decrease in fact while the real condition of the people may at the same time be greatly de- generated. Not anybody who will stop to think for a mo- ment can be deceived by any statistical facts into the belief that the standard of general physical health is anythingias high now as it was a century since. And it is for the reason that it is not, that the statistics,which show a decrease in the death rate, while true in fact, are really untrue in regard to the deductions which they premise. _ The writer of the article in question evidently holds the same view, since, after presenting a large number of statisti- cal facts seemingly to establish an increased degree of health, he says: “ Oettingen, whose elaborate work deserves great respect, thinks that modern writers tend to overestimate the decrease of the death rate in recent years, and quotes leading writers to show that great mistakes have been made in the statistics of former centuries by false calculations of the relation be- tween births and deaths; and also by mistake as to the mor- tality among children, and also by overlooking the factvof the decreased number of children born of marriage in recent years——a fact which does not allow us to regard the absolute diminution as a compamtzhw diminution. Thus it would not do to say that fewer children, comparatively, died in France in the -latter years’ of the period between 1816 and 1855, merely because fewer I died in proportion to the number of families, since within that period, the number of legitimate. children to a family fell twenty-ﬁve per cent. Oettingen thinks that on the whole the average duration of life remains the same. i I He maintains that in Prussia the rate of mortality aﬁirmed by Siissmilch so long ago——1 to 36——prevails now, and that in England, since 1850, in spite of all sanitary meas- ures, the ratcjs higher than ‘for the previous term—-1838 to 1844. The explanation of this seeming paradox is to be found, undoubtedly, in the fact that everyblessing has its attendant evil, and that our enlightened scientiﬁc age has a dark shadow ofvdcpmeim , an increasiitg corruption and reckless- ness that seem to bear the character of achronic self-murder, and to neutralize the advantages of our progress.” Now this seems to fully sustain our theory, that while the causes of death have been revolutionized the death rate itself remains about the same—that while deaths from accident and exposure have greatly decreased, other causes of mortality have been developed that have nearly if not quite offset this gain. What are these causes, and where are they to be found? Evidently in the “ dark shadow of depravity,” “increasing corruption” and in “ a chronic self-murder,” of whichOettin- gen speaks. Andqthese are the points to which we desire to call the especial attention of our readers, since they have their foundation and beginning in the sexual relations of the race. People live in these relations so that their acts bear the character of “ chronic self-murder.” Nothing could be more true! “A shadowlof dark depravity” has settled over these relations, and the foul miasms that are exhaled, because the sunlight of truth is -shut out or held in abeyanee by Christian bigotry and intolerance, are every day adding to its darkness and thick impenetrability. If anyone doubts, this let him or her so among the aged A women and ask them about the women of their youthful days, and then contrast their picture of them with the sad spectacle which womanhood presents to—day. And then, if the causes are not self—evident, askthe scientiﬁc physiologist why women are so changed from what‘ they were formerly, and hewill tell you, if hetclls you the truth as he knows it, that they are so because of their unnatural sexual conditions which are maintained so universally, into which their heart and desire do not enter. Trace the causes of every diseased woman’s condition back to their foundation and it will bring you to false sexual conditions; to a time when she wasthe victim of undesired sexual commerce, or when she resorted to unnatural methods to destroy the natural results of what, at the time, was desired commerce. I These things are too patent to be longer ignored. It is more than folly to attempt to ignore them. It is a crime ap- proximating nearly to willful murder to permit these condi- tions to continue to augment in number and force. It is saying, virtually, to the coming ages of the earth: If you are peopled at all it shall be by a race of beings deformed pliysi- cally, idiotic intellectually, and degraded below the brute morally. I Nor _will this be so much the crime of man as of woman. So far as he is concerned “in the-.ﬁrst instance” the relations are natural. They are desired by him, and are naturally consummated, and if the results to him ceased with the completion of the act he would be unharmed and blameless; but he suffers, secondarily, to the same extent that woman suffers, primarily, since the evil eﬁects of unde- sired and unconsuminated intercourse upon womanare re- flected upon man, and the shadow cast brings back to him the just results of an unnatural act to which he may have been, ignorantly, an innocent party.‘ So, with him, even though he may be innocent so far as each individual act is concerned, he cannot afford to remain in ignorance of the conditions which precede the act and make it right or wrong as they indicate or forbid it. - Q But it is different with woman. She is guilty in the ﬁrst instance. She knows before the act is performed whether it is right or whether it is wrong. She has the conditions present in herself which make it whichever it is, and not only this, but also, notwithstanding the slavery of marriage and sup- port, the power to prevent it if wrong. For there is no wo- man living who is absolutely compelled to submit to nude- sired sexual commerce, or if so compelled once who has not the power of self-protection. It is because we_ know too well how much of the misery from which the race suffers is caused by the failure of wo- man to assert and maintain her sexual independence that we are so persistent in urging her to emancipate herself from this degrading and soul and body destroying servitude. Nothing that could come from her rebellion would possibly be so much to be deplored as is that which follows from maintaining her present condition. Woman’s sexual free- ‘ I hide my time.’ This post-mortem pursuit of the Queen has thrown the whole royal family into consternation. The royal family being tinged with superstition, vague notions of ghosts and midnight spectres gaunt and ghastly disturb their royal repose.” The above is a grave charge to bring against the Queen of Great Britain. Alas,’ for the poor girl I “ Done to death by slanderous tongues!" . “ Or in more exprestive language ’f ‘murdered by so- ciety—that’s the word. VVhen will the young, ‘the; true and the tender rise in rebellion against the witheredold harridans that, in the fashionable _world, generally rulein \ such cases? When will woman rise to the real ‘dignity of her sex, by asserting, her individual sovereignty, and by re- fusing to be measured by one foolish rule, which, were it not constantly broken, the world would soon be depopulated. Until then cases like the one that has been narrated must and do occur‘ daily, though /-they may not be found, as this is, in the newspapers. - - I . WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Our neglect of enforcing strict and exact truthfulness in these matters of trade may be said to have been the means , of inducing the unwary to commit fraud, and may rightfully be charged with having created crimes. It is certain the future historian will largely attribute the defalcations of our public men and money dealers and the degeneracy of the present time to the ‘many opportunities that have been aﬁorded (by our laxity in our application of our just laws) to fraudulent operators in such business transactions. The very currency wevhave. used has been the means of intro- ducing moral corruption and disseminating it through the masses of the community. The old Spanish coin and its quarter cent division, for Whichwe had no representative, was a proliﬁc parent of peculation. Previous to the Rebel- lion the retail tradesman was often, non-contentwith the just proﬁts of his traﬁic, but on many occasions added to of money. Of course such openings for fraud were only afforded him by the heedless, the ignorant or the innocent. In all cases such impositions naturally operated to degrade his moral nature by destroying his self-respect. To the statesman or legislator the injury done to his neighbor was a minor evil in comparison with the crime and its consequences, committed against himself and his country in thus lowering the moral tone of society. Our neglecting to establish, when we had the power, the wise constitutional laws with regard to the currency, viz., “that no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything except gold and silver a tender in payment for debts,” has not been without ill results in this particular. The London —Times asserted, at the time the West ‘suffered from the free bank currency, that it cost an Englishman less to exchange dom and the maintainance of her sexual purity can decrease the death rate, and elevate the standard of general health. I , ‘ Think of this, so-called and self-styled virtuous women, before shrinking from those who are urging rebellion from present slavery upon you. Think of this before denouncing those who are striving to save the race fromsinking into physical, mental and moral decay, and beware lest yourselves ‘be found to be the really unvirtuous ones of our day-—lest you be in reality the worst prostitutes of this age, and so to be denominated by your children, now prattling about your knees, whom you are permitting to grow up in utter ignor- ance of sexual science and of their sexual functions. It is upon the women of the world that the redemption, the salvation, rather, of the race depends. It is Eve who is now wilfully damning the world. It must be her seed that shall bruise the serpent’s head——the head of sin——wliich, as the head of hu- manity, is to-day leading it onward to destruction through the gross perversion and prostitution of its sexual instincts. MORAL MURDER. Under the present ruling of societyit is a very easy matter to morally murder a woman. It can be and often’ is accom- plished with a word, a shrug, or even‘ with a glance. Alas! how often have young, loving and beautiful girls been so slaughtered‘? Is the WEEKLY to blame for striking at a system which immolates yearly its thousands of such victims? Is it to blame for asserting for women the same personal rights that are now established for man only? Is it wrong in the WEEKLY to hold up to the scorn and contempt of all right thinking people the present partial rulings‘ of society in sexual matters, and to aﬁirm that their injustice is only equalled by their impertinence? ‘ The above thoughts were suggested by the following item which is taken from the columns of the N. Y. Sunday Demo- crat of May 23: “The Qountess of London has died with athreat against Queen Yictoria on her quivering lips. ‘Dead or alive,’ she gasped» I yvlll be revenged on Victoria.’ The Countess had a. young sister, who, some years ago, was one of Victoria’s maids of honor. The Queen had hearkened to gossip and scandal impeaching the integrity of the sister of the Coun- tess. and ﬁnally banished her from the royal household. The falsity of the scandal was shown, but not until after the lady’s death. The Countess blamed the Queen for her sister's un- timely fate, and determined to avenge the wrong. In the will of the Countess, which has recently been opened, was a clause directing her right hand to be out 0E and buried in a spot selected several years ago by herself and overlooking one of the Queen’s country seats. A monument is to -be erected over the buried hand. surmounted by a gigantic skeleton hand of marble, pointing to the Queen’s castle, ._...._..,....-;...., .,..._.»......,a......~... ....,..~..-.-,.....~..... . .- ,... ...-..,..., \,,__ HW11 in large letters on the monument will be the motto ; Turkish or Austrian money into English than it cost a citizen of Iowa or Illinois to purchaselthe bills of the banks ‘of the cities of New York or Boston. Manufacturers often took their ﬁrst step in wrong-doing by the facilities aﬁ‘oi.ded for such practices by the use of an indefinite currency. Why should amanager pay his men in money at par when he ' could realize twenty, ﬁfty or a hundred dollars by paying them with money at one per cent. discount? After a month why not advance upon this and make twice as much by using money still more discreditable? The laborer, who received such in wages, did not purchase theinecessaries of his existence at less cost in consequence. Who could blame the butcher or grocer for charging more for his Wares when he knew the money he was going to receive in return was not bankable and of less valuethan its face? These thoughts are not foreign to the subject under consideration, for it is ' certain if the general medium of exchange be not of an as. sured value and capable of exact division, those of all 8 other commodities will also be unsettled and insecure. As with our money operations so with our wholesale and‘ retail trade transactions. In the former, close and some- times short measure is the rule rather than the exception. It is true this is generally calculated on by the larger pur- chaser, so that fraud, when committed, does not enure to the beneﬁt of the factor. In our markets, baskets of un. known and unrecognized capacities usurp the places of legal and standard measures. These, as in the case of the Jersey peach baskets, are sometimes built on bases so small that one wonders whether it be possible for them to stand alone, or whether it be not a physical necessity to disposeof them only in groups. As a natural result of the permission of such innovations in the regular markets, it'may be asserted with truth that the weather itself is scarcely more variable than the quantity supplied by most hawkers and peddlers as a quart of as a bushel. From a loaf "of bread to a ton of coal the public have little or no protection. against individual dishonesty and rapacity in the law. There may be an in. operative edict upon the subject, which “ Like to an o’ergrown lion in a cave, Now goes not out forprey,” » but of real, active, living, public ‘protection there is no'ne_ In most civilized countries not onlythe quantities but also the prices of the strict necessities of existence are carefully deﬁned and guarded. In Paris the price of bread is super- vised by the Government, and sometimes it is supplied to the people at a loss, which is made good to the bakers out of the public funds. In’ London, the weightof the loaf is,- ﬁxed, and the price regulated by law to rise and fall in exact proportion to the value of flour in the principal market. I For a merchant of that city to send out coals without also Gm/ins inlet -and iieishn iii 9r _ur-W hit. raises Wﬁuldp \" them evil gains acquired by superior craft in the exchange ‘ x 10 . WOODHULL & cLA‘FLIN5s WEEKLY. subject him to a ﬁne of. not less than sixty pounds sterling. It is the duty of the police to take note of all such offenses . and bring-delinquents to justice, and, as they also are held sharply to their work by the detective force, such infractions of the law are almost certain to be exposed and punished whenever and wherever committed in that city. , The best interests ofsociety demand that, with us, these matters shall be inquired into and their present irregularities rectiﬁed. The power to originate and legalize standard weights and measures is rightfully» limited to Congress by the Constitution. The people, therefore, have here a right most solemnly guaranteed which oughtto be secured. N to vessel or package containing an unrecognized quantity ought to be permitted to be offered for sale in our markets or stores. From the cubic feet in a cord of wood to the half grainiin an apothecary’s pill the public have a just claim to protec- tion in this particular. To enforce such a regulation would not be difficult; it would injure no one, the price remaining under charge of the sellers. It would protect the true man and force even the knave to act rightly. It is hardly possible to compute the beneﬁcial effects which might be expected to ﬂow from a strict adherence to justice in all such trade regu- lations. Righteousness requires to be inculcated by proper action, as well as to be proclaimed from the platform. The compulsion of close attention to our appointed standard of weights and measures would originate a moral sanitary re- form of the ﬁrst magnitude. It would also certainly operate as a protection to the just manufacturer or tradesman him- self, who is now oftentimes unwillingly forced into actions of doubtful integrity as measures of self-defense against villainy. Looked at in any aspect it can be perceived (and would prove) to be a sure corner stone, right ‘capable of ‘sup- porting a higher stage of civilization. A The scales of justice should be like C2esar’s wife——above suspicion. All doubtful balances ought to be condemed. It is not only necessary that the buyer receives his due weight but he has a right to be assured by ocular demonstra- tion that he obtains it. For this reason all balances or steel- yards ought to be exposed in full view of the purchaser. Of course it is absolutely proper that they should be strictly accurate. It is usual in London for retail tradesmen to make contracts with balance-makers in order to secure and preserve this result. For a stipulated sum,, usually paid semi-annually, the latter parties agree to furnish the weights, scales, etc., used by the former, and to attend to and guar- antee their correctness ; in such instances they are usually examined every three months. It is requisite to be thus particular, for juries are annually appointed in every‘ borough, having care and — supervision of such matters. Each jury consists of twenty-four, of which eight form a quorum. They meet, without public notice, whenever and wherever in the borough they please to appoint, and then, preceded by the police or beadle, visit whatever shops or stores they choose to select. If they ﬁnd any delinquents they have power to condemn them on the spot and to order their false or incorrect weights, balances or measures to be destroyed. This is usually performed after calling upon all bystanders to hear the crime and witness the punishment‘ before the doors of the parties offending. These juries have considerable power, and can ﬁne’ to a certain extent. As a necessary result of such speedy justice, offenders are rarely found and public morality is secured. As instruments, the scales and balances should be implements capable of easy and-exact rectiﬁcation,,though not liable to serious deterio- ration by constant use. The best kind are those that most simply indicate to the purchaser their own truthfulness. It is hardly proper to select (or refer to) an umpire whose power is hidden and whose decrees may be inaccurate, though, at the same time, incapable of ready detection and exposition. The circular dial spring balance is open to these objections: It is questionable whether it would bear the test of public approbation. The buyer certainly has the best right to pass judgment upon it, for the seller even! to assist in doing so would be somewhat indelicate. To the superﬁcial a critique on such matters as weights and measures may appear trivial, but justice and morality, which are involved in the question, are not triﬁes,'but the most important organs of national existence. It is stated , by the Turks that when their prophet Mahomet visited the .- seventh heaven and stood in the presence of the Deity he found Allah employed in settling a dispute which had arisen between two sparrows for the possession of a grain of rice. The prophet is said to have smiled on beholding his Deity, Allah, engaged in such an operation. On being re- buked for his levity before so august a presence, Mahomet replied, “He could not avoid being amused at beholding the Lord of the Universe so earnestly engaged in arranging so miserable an affair.” “A ‘grain of rice,” replied the Deity, “ is to the hungry birds as valuable and important as .a necklace‘ of pearls to a woman or a crown to a monarch ; icut in this case, not only the possession ofit hangs upon my decision, but my attribute of justice.” Our Christian brethren will also do well to remember that possibly the only inanimate objects for which it has pleased their God to igxpress his peculiar dislike or gratiﬁcation are those which are treated of in this article,’ for their Bible says that “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.” ' - . ——-——--—->-—+o+—««———-—-——- PHoroeRAPns——PRrcns RnDUonD.——We can now furnish photographs of Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Col. J. H. Blood for ﬁfty cents each, or three for one dollar. send. for them for yourselves and friends. VIVE LA COMMUNE! ‘ For four long dreary years the above cry boomed over the Atlantic to us almost weekly, from the bloody shambles of Satory. For four long weary years the best and noblest of Frenchmen there met their fates and sealed their patriotism with their lives. One after another, like a long line of he- roes, they hailed death with the above words. . “And, self forgetful to the last, In words of cheer and bugle glow Their breath upon the darkness passed.” No, not upon the darkness, but upon the bright clysium be- yond the grave, wl1_ich their undying devotion to their coun- try so well merited. ~ Such is and ever has been the opinion of the WEEKLY of the Communists of France. It holds to the same belief now, for it knows well that the Commune (like Lazarus) “is not dead, but sleepeth. ” It maintains now as it did in the stormy period after the surrender, when Frcnclnnen were frcemen, the rights of v the Parisians to rule Paris, which was refused by the Versailles traitors who surrendered their country to the Germans. It defends now, as it did then, the wisdom and justice of annihilating the worship of Mars by the de- struction of the Column in the Place Vendome; and lastly it asserts now as it did then that the execution of Archbishop Darboy and the priests was due to the obstinacy of Adolf Thiers, who thrice refused to accept them in exchange for Blanqui, a leader of the Communists. We have been led into the above reflections by reading in the New York Herald, of May 22d, that Henri Rochefort, the Communist, who was ever the steady foe of imperialism when Napoleon the Third was in power in France, having made good his escape from the penal colony to which he was expatriated, has arrived safely in San Francisco. The paper quoted adds, in a short leader upon the subject, that “he will probably seize the opportunity of his presence in Amer- ica to explain the aim and objects of the Communal struggle, which have been so much misunderstood and so much mis- represented indthis country.” In the name of the Commune we accept this tardy “admission of ignorance” thus made by that paper, consoling ourselves with the reﬁection that the WEEKLY, in conjunction. with the ;S’pz'm'2f of the Times and the New York Stcmdard, were not among the tory presses that degraded the republicanism of our country on that most melancholy occasion, which may well be termed the second and more fatal surrender of the city of Paris. man; fur‘ \ KING ALCOHODS MALAKOFF. Potentates rarely admire the virtues of a community, but they love their vices. Napoleon the First said he made nothing out of the virtues of the French nation, but their one yice of brandy drinking paid into his treasury six millions of Napolcons per annum. The tax on malt in Great Britain pays into the royal exchequer forty—ﬁve millions of dollars yearly, and were Congress to withdraw the external and in- ternal duties on wines, spirits and tobacco, Uncle Sam would ﬁnd himself soon without sufﬁcicnt means to carry on the government. The amount of loss that would accrue may be guessed at from the following statistics which are taken from the Eeenmg Post of New York: Statistics showing the amount of m oney spent in the United States for intoxicating liquors during the year 1870, as taken from official record: Imported and ‘domestic distilled and spirituous liquors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..- . . . . . . .$1,344,000,000 Brewed and fermented liquors. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 123,000,000 Imported wines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15,000,000 Domestic wines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,48’7,000,000 -The women crusaders may learn from the above the power of the fee that they are ﬁghting." They may also be able to account for the defections or palliations of the/Catholic and Protestant clergy on the subject called temperance, and why such clerical potentates as Archbishop Purcell and H. W. Beecher are not quite such geese as to be sound on the total- abstinence goose. The WEEKLY is no friend to intemper- ance of any kind whatever in reprinting the above statement, but is simply desirous of preventing any further addition to the sufferings of woman. It does not likeito hear of wo- men being hauled off to prison en masse, as they have been at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and does not honor the men, whether they were clergymen or laymen, who incited them to the work and left them in the lurch on that occasion. In ‘all probability, however, they were modern Christians, in which case they will assist them with their prayers rather than their persons. In the time of the great Nazarene, we are told, that the disciples could cast out one kind of devils, but that there was another lot, more stubborn, which would only come out with prayer and fasting. The women crusa- ders have tried the latter on King Alcohol, and some say without effect. There is yet another method which the WEEKLY would respectfully suggest, which, in this republic, is probably more potent than either, viz.: the ballot. But, alas! truth compels us to add that,'in order to be consistent, before demanding even their civil and political freedom, it will be necessary for women to dispense with the services of their theological instructors and discard their bibles. True, there are many of what maybe termed the very liberal clergy who advocate the movement for woman suff- rage, but they do so in spite of the doctrines on the subject of woman contained in the book on which they profess to‘ -base their faiths. The head of the Roman Church, who is more modest than Henry Ward Beecher, and who, though he claims to be infallible, does not take upon himself the June 6, I874. duty of manufacturing a creed for his followers like the latter gpotentate, in a late ecyclical letter declared his opinion on the attempts made to enlarge the sphere of woman’s rights and-jduties, he said such efforts onlytended “ to deprive wo- man of her native modesty, to exhibit her in public, to turn her aside from domestic life and its duties, and to puff her up with false and vain knowledge,”——and, there is no doubt above positions. We do not aﬂirm that he does not need enlightenment upon the subject. We believe that, if woman suffrage is carried in Michigan or Iowa, a dispensation would soon be granted enabling Catholic womenlto drop their bal- lots in the boxes, for the glory of God and the advancement ‘ of the faith. We believe that Pio Nono will be more tractable than Sir John Falstaff, who declared that he would not give a reason, under compulsion, if reasons (raisins) were as plenty as blackberries; and furthermore, that, as in the case of Galileo versus Joshua, he will gracefully yield to the ne- cessity of the time and permit the debris of St. Peter’s to be carried over the social Niagara, which is destined eventually to renovate the face of modern civilization. The above reflections are partially indorsed by the actions of the late annual meeting of the Woman Suffrage Conven- tion in Irving Hall, New York. The pious element was not in force there. It was of the earth, earthy. The only cleric who harrangued the meeting was that very independent Christian, if he be a-Christian, the Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, and the mention of the bible appeared to be a tabood subject with the sisterhood. The WEEKLY is not the only press .,which recognizes that the game of pious cant is almost played out among sensible women on the question of Woman’s Rights. The unfortunate New York IV£me3s, the only religious daily published in this city, ra.n up the flag of woman suffrage (for temperance purposes) in alcading article which appeared in it about two days previous to the convention. It sums up the character of the meeting in the following melancholy whine: I We see that though the anniversary meetings of the VVom an Suffrage Association have kept clear of the Woodhull—Claﬂin element, they have some ef the most prominent opponents of evangelical Christianity among them. To take a part in these meetings is not therefore the way to obtain the beati- tude promised in the ﬁrst verse of the Book of Psalms. The fact is, the weakest thing about woman suffrage has been some of its advocates. What the editors and proprietors of this paper or the sub- scribers to its doctrines had done that they should be thus inferentially anathematized, because the Witness had made a mistake, like the peace of God, passes. all understanding and, therefore, we dismiss it with the contempt it merits. As for the ﬁrst chap. in the book of Psalms, which discusses the subject of man only, we think it impolite if not insulting to refer women to it. Like the Witness we noticed with sor- row the lack of the male element on the platform and in the attendance. Inour opinion man has as great, if not greater, interest in the full enfranchisement of woman than woman herself, and we abhor any division of the sexes on the sub- ject. We look upon the movement as a battle between civ- ilization and liberty against barbarism and tyranny, and trust that soon cheering accounts from Michigan and Iowa will prove that our Western brethren will cheerfully uphold the hands of their mothers, sisters and wives, nor leave thorn. to ﬁght alone the battle for their freedom. As to the clergy and their aids, we can trust them, as in the case of the anti- slavery crusade, to come over from the other side after the victory has been won, ‘to celebrate it with 256 cleums and sing hosammhs upon the occasion. mag; r wr HOW ABOUT CZESAR ? . This very important question is asked by a correspondent of the New York Hcmld of May 25th in the following com- munication from Washin gton : “ I am saddened by the reports of the terror which ﬁlls the hearts of many of the poor women clerks who have families depending on them. They who have ‘friends at court’ are advised to appeal to them; but it happens that those who have no such inﬂuence to rely on are not only the most needy, but usually the most deserving, the very best clerks. obliged to ‘work out their own salvation with fear and trem- a strict inquiry could be made, and the names of such em- ployees as have other means of support should be stricken from the rolls, there would be more humanity. if not justice, in these dismissals. A friend suggests that all women who are in the departments through ‘ improper influences ’ should be at once dismissed to save the others. But that is clearly impracticable. Another says: ‘All women about whom there is a breath of scandal should beobliged to walk the plank. - Women in office should be like C2esar’s wife——abovu suspicion.’ But how about Caesar? How silent anddesolate the enforcement of such a rigid code of morals would render yonder marble halls! I trust there would be a quorum.” It is all very well for “Ca3sar’s wife ’e’ to be above sus- picion, but it must be admitted that she has a difficult role to play unless “Caesar” is above suspicion himself. When will the world understand that the promiscuity of C2esar’s wife is, collectively, the natural result of the promiscuity of Cmsar? That, in sexual matters, the one sex is the exact counterpart-of the other; that the old motto‘ of this State, New York, can be written with truth over each of the above parties in all such aﬁairs, 'viz., “Alium sad idem.” True, the superior tact of woman, engendered by, four thousand (if not more) years of man’s tyranny, and what the poet Burns calls - U . “Her better art 0’ hiding,” than her mate, but to suppose that a balance of what society might call “superior virtue” exists on either side is to sup- that both the Old and New Testament sustain him in the ‘ bling.’ They are industrious, circumspect and reliable. If » enables herto cover her tracks neater in sexual transactions \ Ax HE §E_.l‘-1°l:3slS*S.*e+:'r\‘s5':"L1.omc+nmn $1 . June 6,i1S74. w.00,DHU'LiL & cLA’rLIiN=s‘W;EnRLY. I ‘11 pose an impossibility, Mrs. Grundy herself to the contrary notwithstanding. ( . This is the real state of the case, and now we can attend to the question before us, which is: How about Caesar? If we ask Custom, weshall ﬁnd that he has a right to do just as he pleas es in sexual matters; that whether as labors‘: ' farmer, mechanic, shopman, clerk or clergyman he is on tlf“ free list. ‘ This is especially the case in the last instance. Neither States nor churches, bosses nor congregations, con- sider themselves in power to regulate Czesar’s affairs in such particulars. If we ask Law we shall ﬁnd that Caesar is everywhere and his wife nowhere, or nearly so. If he wrongs another Caesar by seducing his wife he pays the damage to the other Caesar in money, and the female Pharisees not unfrequently pity him. “ Poor fellow; that woman was an artful hussy to lead him astray.” No, there is no lifelong social damna- tion for him; Cmsar is expected to err in such matters; it is, to him, rather creditable than otherwise. . ‘ If wexput the question to the church where shall we ﬁnd in the Bible the judgment of the man “ taken in adultery, in the very act?” Nowhere. The Pharisees didn’t bring him when they brought Mrs. Caesar before the Nazarene. Heis not told by Paul to shut up in church, or to submit to his wife. Oh no! Quite diﬂ’erent. True, in the letter the crime of prostitution is the same in both sexes in the Bible, but where is the clergyman that dares to place the male prostitute who purchases crime (for love cannot be bought or sold) with the female prostitute who sells it; yet it is not too much to assert that the former is even lower than the latter in most instances, for it is assuredly less wicked to sell crime for bread than to buy it for pleasure. So much in answer to the question, How about Caesar? 0 WE respectlully call the attention of our readers to the admirable description (copied from IJa7’pc1"s Jllcgazme) of Goudin’s celebrated."establishment at Guise. It certainly ' presents results well worthy of the careful study of all in- dustrial and social reformers, more especially because it can truly be said of it now, that it is no longer a speculation but an assured success. -———————~>-40»-<-——¥.._. ERRATA. For the word “ physiology ” in the last paragraph of B. B. Hill’s article on the 7th page of our last issue, please read “philosophy.” 9r-4 MISCELLANEOUS. THE NATIONAL DEBT. V PAY 0R REPUDIATE-WHICH? This caption isthe index of the public pulse beat. A debt of over two thousand millions of dollars, payable, interest and principal, in gold, hangs likean incubus around the neck of our industries; and the wealth producers, who, through the suspension of our industries, are now, for the ﬁrst time since thecreation of our national debt, making important in- quiries as to the possibility of the payment thereof, in man- ner and form as our traitorous and purchased national , legislators have stipulated shall be done. Seeing that it is absolutely impossible to carry out the contract of our national Congress, which contract was conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity, and has gone out from its birth speaking lies, they now begin to turn to the consideration of the justice of the debt itself, to say nothing about the injustice of the con- tract as to the manner of payment, which must be unjust as well as illegal, because impossible of fulﬁllment. We have- not and cannot get the gold to pay the interest and principal of our debt; therefore the consideration of the debt, and the manner and circumstances of its creation, are being canvassed ‘ all over the country, and we hear from all parts the query as to the justice of the debt itself. Let us look at it from an impartial and truthfulbasis. How was the debt created, and why created at all? The lat- ter query we will answer ﬁrst: A Our nation was assailed by enemies from within, urged on by enemies from without, who have always sought to destroy the integrity and independence of our government. Armed bodies of men, with all the paraphernalia of war, attacked us in our weakest points, and separated nearly one-half of our territory of States, as well as one-third of our people, from allegiance to our government, and therefore it was found necessary to have, for the defense of our liberties and our country, men by the million and money .by the billion. I How to raise the.’men was a question of easy solution; be- cause all that the Government had to do was to make its call upon the States for their quota, and the several States, each in its sovereign capacity, must furnish the men or join the enemy’s side. The patriotic heart of the people held the States of the North and West to their allegiance to the Union, and put each her quota in, even though in some cases under compulsion by a draft—-as witness New York city, which was forcedto ﬁll its quota under the pressure of fourteen thousandlUnion bayonets, marshaled into form under General Butler. Thus the men were forthcoming; for the Government laid its powerful hand upon the able- bodied of the country, with the demand of “Your moneyor your life,” and 2,670,578 of them responded with their lives for the salvation of the Union, leaving dead on the ﬁeld of battle, and its concomitants, 500,000 of their number, to say nothing of the cripples, «wrecks and ruined constitutions scattered all over the country, to beg, ‘grind organs, and starve, in the midst of bloated bondholders and aristocrats, who staid at home during the nation’s peril, and grew rich out of the soldiers’ blood and death. But how was it in raising the billions of money? Did the Government lay. its powerful hand upon the accumulated wealth of the nation, which was individual propertyas much, and no more, in time of distress of the nation, than the able- bodied men were and are? Did the Government sayto the representatives of wealth “ You must .respond with one- tenth or one-half of your wealth, that the other nine-tenths or one—half may be preserved to you under the protection of the Union.” Did the Government say, “ We will take your property for the purposes of War defense, and when the nation is saved and we are at peace we will restore to you dollar for dollar in kind; or as good as we have, for all that "we thus appropriate? “ Not a bit of it.” VVhat did the government do? It went down on its knees, aye, its belly, to the bankers and capitalists of the world, in the nationand out of the nation, and beseeched them to take our securities at any price, as low as forty cents on the dollar, promising to pay the interest in gold, and in nearly one-half of our securities the principal also, and the highest rate of interest a nation ever agreed to pay, our government was ready to promise and pledge. But this was not enough for the rapa- cious usurers. As soon as our nation had conquered a peace, enriching during the war a class of foreign usurers as well as our own robbers, they set to work to make the national debt payable, all interest and principal, in gold; thus adding to their already ill-gotten wealth an * increase which must necessarily come out of the wealth-producing classes. Allthesesquestions are being canvassed now, and not a few of these wealth-producers have cut the gordian knot by repudiation. Shall this be the ﬁnale? or shall we pay this pound of ﬂesh in national currency (greenbacks) and there- by force the capitalists of the country to invest their money in the useful industries, giving employ to all and enriching all? Tell me, ye wealth, producers and payers of the na- tional debt, which or if either it shall be? MADOX, of Maine. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 1874. To THE En1'rons,0r* THE WEEKLY: ‘ We hear that Mrs. VVoodhull is at Salt Lake on her way here, and we are waiting for her arrival with pleasant an- ticipations of the good that will follow her labors. We of the extreme wing will try to reciprocate her services to the cause here to the extent of our ability. No doubt she will have to contend against the adverse inﬂuence of some “purists” and some fearful souls that have not yet mastered either themselves or the Principles of Social Freedom.. But the results will be a clearer deﬁni- tion of the issues stimulating the more progressive minds to bolder utterances that will win more converts than will fall from the ranks. There are many sappers and miners in the ﬁeld of social neform besides H. W. Beecher. They are the unconscious allies of the bolder, party now storminglthe citadel. We can only perceive our work in its collective results, but cannot measure individual efforts. I ﬁnd no one as sanguine as I am, but when I note‘ how much I have done without noise in one year, with but a small expenditure of power?-uniting those that have never met by the chords of a common purpose, and that thousands are doing more than I——I have no doubt that the end is near. As large as the job is that you have undertaken, the number and power of your visible and invisible constituents warrant the at- tempt; but Imust not imitate the parsons in their talk to _God by telling you what you already know. I inclose our community circular that__we desire to get before the friends at once. We do not forget the demands made upon your columns by the selﬁsh and‘ impracticable, but as the WEEKLY is our organ and our interests are iden- tical we depend upon its aid in all good works. In this effort we are not moved by the narrow views that have inﬂuenced most if not all previous attempts to establish communities. We seek relief from the burdens that have’ grown too heavy as a means—not as an end——to conserve our new wasted energies, not alone for our little band but for mankind. ‘ We would found a. retreat in which the faithful, by direct contact with the source of power, will grow mighty from which to sally forth with an irresistible force until our en- larging boundaries include all mankind; in which to develop men and women as leaders when society shall require their experience in arranging the details of a reconstructed nation. Some may object that our platform is too broad, but it is no broader than is our conﬁdence in the ability of those who will be attracted to us to organize upon it, and in our capa- city to harmonize conﬁicting interests byistrict adherence to the principles laid down. * Certainly no State has such varied and natural attractions and resources, so many external conditions for a rapid and easy growth of communal homes as exists in California. ~ Yours truly, J osnrn H. SWAIN. LETTER FROM. PARKER PILLSBURY.’ READ AT THE DEDICATION OF COSMIAN HALL, FLORENCE, . MASS. EARLVILLE, I1l., March 2, 1874. My Dear Mr. Connor—With my sincerest thanks for your invitation to assist at the dedication of Cosmian Hall, let me send also my hearty congratulations on its completion, and the auspicious prospects under which it presents its fair, ﬁne form and beautiful proportions to the World. , Its name, “ Cosmian Hall,” is most admirably chosen. May it ever be true to its baptismal name and vows. A hundred years ago, Fanueil Hall was given a new name: “ The Cradle of Liberty.” But I have seen it profaned into barracks for Massachusetts soldiers called down to Boston to protect the slave hunter in seizing his human prey from under its very eaves-dropping and from the base of Bunker Hill. But even "such sacrilege pales into innocence before the more frightful blasphemy against the name‘ of Theodore Parker, in closing the doors of a sanctuary consecrated to his memory, against the advocates of the holiest enterprise ever committed to mortal beings as was lately seen! . What 10113 lustrations will yet be demanded to cleanse cration! Let Cosmian Hall ever and forever be preserved} from such! . C , - » Again thanking you, dear Mr. Connor, for your kindly in- V1§3l71011, extended in behalf of yourself and Executive Com- mittee, which invitation distance compels me to decline, I am ever, and I trust forever and ever, Your friend and elder brother, PARKER PfLLsBURY.gﬁ MARRIAGE. BY MRS. H. F. M. BROWN. , The New York newspapers have recently made mention of an atrocious assault upon, a young Irish girl, who was g0iI|E-1’ through New York, to her home in”Providence_. The H1f1D’S. 01‘ the Villain’s, name is Higgins‘. He was identiﬁed by his victim, arrested and tried. Frightened at the prospect of a twenty years’? sentence for his offense, he offered to marry her. And, strange as it may seem, the girl was ad- vised, urged, to accept the fellow for life. And why? Did she love him? N 0. Did he love her? Of course not. But then the girl was poor, ignorant, and with but few friends. -Tom Higgins knows the world; “he belongs to a good family,” and, can support a wife, so the papers say. True, he has defamed and defrauded one whose good name is her sole stock in trade. So, to escape the penalty of his crime, he says: I have inﬁicted upon you agblow, because you were in my power. The law is against me’, and twenty years’ im- prisonment“ ‘will be meted out to me, unless you give me legal power to insult and abuse you all the days of your mortal life.” , ’ “ seled to accept it. Her advisers were ministers, magistrates, Christians! What did the poor distracted child of Erin answer! Here is what she said: “ I would not marry him if a. court-house full of people told me to.” Theodore Tilton wisely remarked, “ N 0 wonder this was the girl’s reply; but what is to be thought of the men who would urge her to give singular ideas as to womanhood and its saifctities when they against it.” Glory, honor, praise,‘and. power be unto the girl who scorned the paftry bribe. Let her name be written liance of souls marriage? Do they know anything of the’ holiness of heart unions? aught of the sacredness of mar- riage? Do they know that the marriage of convenience is productive of nameless evils, of unwritten wrongs? Drunk- ennessx and vagabondism, in high and low places, are the legitimate fruit of ill-assorted,”loveless unions. The govern- ment swindlers are, in nine cases out of ten, children of parents who were defrauded in love, and. bankrupt in affec- tions‘. is it then any wonder‘ that most of these very men regard womanhood as the cheapest of commodities, and hug to their hearts the heathen dogmawhich covers a multitude of sins ?———Common Sense, San Francisco. ». A WRITER in a San Francisco paper, concerning University matters, thus refers to the lady students at Berkeley, Cali- fornia State University: “A visitor at the debates of the several societies at Berkeley is struck with the entire ab- sence of the lady students, of whom there are thirty on the University register. The young gentlemen don’t take kindly to them. They are most conservative young villains on the traditions, for which there can be found no greater sticklers anywhere than the students of our State University, which has none of its own. There has been a great increase of this nonsense since President Gilman has taken charge. Previous to his coming even the terms Freshman, Sopho- more, etc., were scarcely known and never officially recog- nized. Now, however, they have their place in the published Register, and give countenance to all the other Eastern col- lege technicalities, slang, strong class-feeling and the rest of it. As the girls, naturally, cannot indulge in this sort of thing, they are a ﬁfth wheel. On more than one occasion the feeling of opposition has manifested itself on the part ‘of the young men; in anything but a gentlemaly way. It is not a matter of concealment that a number of the Faculty look with disfavor upon thegirls being there, and at best they have but a cool welcome. In the University at Berkeley, as well as elsewhere, however, the weaker vessel is proving a capacity for holding knowledge that is bad for time-honored and sanctiﬁed dogmas. The records show that the girls stand quite as well as the boys; Even in mathematics and logic-—those \ two peculiarly masculine studies—the young women hold their own very creditably. Co-educationists have a strong card in our University. ‘THE ladies are with the Rev. Florence McCarthy,vthe de- posed Baptist clergyman of Chicago, and are giving daily lunches in behalf of his new church which is to be called the Amity. Mr. McCarthy is charged withsaying. that a man ought; to have more than one wife; but he is persecuted. and that’s enough" for the lambs of his lateﬂock. \ A COLORED Mississippi legislator lately proposed a bill to make each member of the legislature, present and future, a bona ﬁde attorney and "counsellor-at—1a_.w. His reasoning was direct: “ For,” said he, “if we know enough to make the laws, why don’tWe practice um?” Sure enough, whynot? A . SERMONIZER made these remarks on the following soul- saving que/stion: “ My brethren, a man cannot afford to lose his soul. He’s. got but one and he can’t get another. If a man loses his horse he can get another; if he loses his wife he can get another; if,he loses his child he can get another but "if he loses his soul, good-by, John.” both those Boston sanctuaries from such pollution and dese- \ frankly offers the girl his hand. In plain English, the fellow ‘ The girl listened to the base proposition. She was coun- - herself for life to such a dastardly villain? Men must have suggest such a method of condoning the grossest offense‘ among the immortals. , But, what of men who call the misal- , woman question. The presence of girls is against college is I E W00?5DH.'Ui.L e ci.ssx.xs»s wsssss. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. _ INTERESTING ERPERIMENTS ON THE SUBJECT. Professor Sundstrom, of Upsal, to whom the Arctic ex-\ plorer, Professor Nordenskiold, sent a portion of his collec- tions ofisupposed meteoric dust gathered from ﬁelds of new fallen snow in Finland and Lapland, has made some very remarkable experiments with these singular micro- scopic substances. His;_experiments, if they will bear the test 1 of repetition, go far to settle the vexed problem of the origin of life, so far,: at least, as our planet is concerned. It appears that, having received about ﬁfteen grammes of the so-called meteoric dust, he divided it into six equal portions, and com- bined two parts each with sea water, with pond water and with common forest leaf mold. One series of these three parts (all adjusted so as to be constantly under microscopic inspection) he subjected to a concentrated actinic inﬂuence; the other series he left simply in the common light. At the end of twenty-four;hours there were signs of organic changes upon the surface of all the metallic scales exposed to actin- 'ism, but there was no change at ﬁrst in those put in common light, and only after a' week did any growth appear in con- nection with the scales in sea water, which then, indeed, de- veloped some feeble appearances of cells, but these soon perished, the condition being apparently unfavorable. Under the actinic process, however,.ﬁrst in the sea water, then in ‘the fresh water and lastly in the soil, ‘there was a distinct production, evolution of monera, precisely similar in each case, the only initial difference being the rapidity of the evolution. Dr. Sundstrom intensiﬁed the actine inﬂuence, and the process of development went on before his eyes with wonderful rapidity. He had already produced Amoebae, taking in the sea water the condition of sponges of the Halisarca type, in the fresh water the form of Algae, not un- like Spirogyrae, and in the mold a type resembling that of the fungoid Spathulea, when an undue desire to precipitate results was fatal to the further progress of this most interest- ing experiment. Wishing to try the eﬁect of electricity, he applied the battery and destroyed his productions instantly. The loss in weight of the metallic scale after the experiment was only 1,684 grammes.-——N. Y. Telegram. -9 IN THE COLD SHADE. BY HENRY W. SUTTON. When spring through thrush and cuckoo cries, The root that in some cavern lies, To cold and darknessrthrall, ' But dimly hears her call. With sick shoots-pallid, piteons hopes, Wan, idiot ﬁngers-how it gropes; Lost for defect of light, A scandal to the sight. Such are the minds unfed, untaught, Not blooming in the light of thought; Poor, sickly growths that shame E’en vegetation’s name What‘. suffer human souls to dwell Thus dark in ignorance’s cell? Oh, give them to the light ! ' Teach them, it is their right 1 4 Of knowledge all men must be heirs, Her pathway should be thoroughfares: Free as the woodland wild To every human child. Whatever can by man be known, Common as grass-seed should be sown; Oh, stint not ! let it fall ' 1 Free, free——for all, for all 1 CREMATION. Cremation, which may now be /regarded as one of the established agitations of England, was ﬁrst proposed In that country by a woman——Mrs. Rose M. Crawshay. This lady comes of an old family of Cxfordsihire, Wh81_'5 her ancestorshave long enjoyed magisterial position. She IS the wife of the famous iron king of Wales, Robert Craw- shay, Esq., who recently sold his iron establishment at Merthyr Tydﬁl for one and a quarter millions sterling. His wealth may now be estimated at about three millions ster- ling. Mrs. Crawshay therefore occupies a position of some advantage for the aid of movements in which she is inter- ested. She resides in amagniﬁcent castle, which has long been known for its grand hospitality to men of advanced opinions. There have been entertained the Lyells, Groves, Huxleys and other scientiﬁc notabilities, and when Mr. Emerson was in that country he was entertained there. Mrs. Crawshay is an active heretic in religious matters, and a sore trouble to the bishops, rectors and vicars of her region by reason of her fondness for writing and printing pamphlets calculated to unsettle people’s minds on important subjects. Moreover, she is the president of the School Board of Merthyr, and joins with the Unitarian preacher there (elected by her inﬂuence) in successfully resisting the efforts of the clergy to carry their educational schemes. It was this extraordinary lady who began the agitation in favor of “ euthanasia,” and it is she, as I have said, who started the latter discussion by’ Putting 0.“-ta 111019 than 3 799-1‘ 3&0: 3 pamphlet in favor. of burning the bodies of the dead. Having m_et Sir Henry Thompson at a dinner in London, where she resides with her family for a part of every season, she inter- ested him in the subject, and the result was the celebrated paper in the Contemporary Remlerw, ‘which has been trans- lated into all European languages. A society to promote “cremation” has now been formed, in which Sir Henry Thompson and Mrs. Crawshay are the leading officers, and which is gaining new and able adherents every day. Yes- terday the organ of the government~—the Standarol——had an editorial in its favor, and intimates that permission may soonbe given for the furnace,’ as in Dresden and Leipzig. It is remarkable that the project has met with so little re- ligious opposition. Jilven the Catholics have offered no im- - , ,.,...‘. .. ., T _ ._.... ._ ... .. ._ .. yl<44‘/7.ﬁ‘1-\"f~"¢/Ivvv".':5‘f£y\‘v2/gV7‘~‘< portant resistance. The Bishop of Manchester has gone so far as topreach in favor of it. He argued to his hearers that it was not at all necessary to the “resurrection of the b0dY ” that one’s dust should all be kept together until the Judgmellt D337; when that day arrived God could recal the atoms together from the four quarters of the world. Never- theless, it Was fortunate for the Bishop’s eloquence that 110b0dY Can speak out in meeting to reply; for he might have been puzzled to answer the question what would be done in case two individuals should be found at the last day to have diedwith the saméfbit of dust in their organization. If the 351195 Of A .20 ﬂoating after his decease till they get into an apple and are eaten by B, wholin turn dies with the said ashes in his bones, is Gabricl’s trump to awaken the world to the painful spectacle of A and Bacon- tending for the possession of the material necessary for their completeness, and which was owned by each ofthem at death ?——M. D. Conway to Cincinwzati Commercial. v ‘ [From the San Francisc0VBuZleL‘in.] THE TREE THAT DESTROYS MALARIA.. The eucalyptus alobulus or Australian gum tree, is favora- blyknown to all residents of California, where, probably, not less than 1,000,000 trees are planted. In this city, in front of handsome residences, you will ﬁnd it with its mag- niﬁcent drooping branch es making an effective and graceful shade tree. In Oakland the broad avenues are lined with them; eucalyptus forests are planted inpthe country sur- rounding Oakland. and, in fact, in every county of this State where the cold winter will permit it to live, the euca- lyptus will be found growing. The wonderful properties of this tree have only ‘within the past few years been discovered and appreciated. It isijustly claimed that when the tree ﬂourishes in low, marshy and feverish districts all miasma will cease. It destroys the malarial element in any atmosphere where it grows, and is a great absorbent of moisture. draining the subsoil almost as thoroughly as a regular system of piping. , I The eucalyptus is an evergreen, and is found in its nativ country (Tasmania) in boundless forests, both on the. hill-side and in the lowlands, under extremes of climate, both as to heat and cold, ranging from 130 deg. to 20 deg. Fahrenheit. Whether it will endure a greater degree of cold we think has as yet been undetermined. It is, however, worthy a trial. Its remarkably rapid growth is a matter of much surprise, attaining, as it does, a maximum height of about 300 feet. with a circumference of from thirty to ﬁfty feet. For timber and fuel it is exceedingly useful, being hard and easily Worked, and very serviceable for such purposes as the keels of vessels, bridges, etc., where strength and durability are essential. It is estimated that from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 in value of this timber is exported annually from Australia. The leaves of this tree are of a dark-bluish color, about ten inches long, an inch wide, thin and oddly twisted. They ex- hale a strong camphor-like odor, quite agreeable and pleasant, which, with the large absorption of water by the roots, cause the beneﬁcial inﬂuence of the tree. It bears a small white ﬂower, having no odor. * In consequence of its anti-febrile qualities, the English Government has planted nit extensively in the East Indies and Africa, in the fever districts, with the most satisfactory results. In France, Cuba, Spain, Mexico and many other places where malaria, fever, ague and other pestilential dis- eases prevailed, the eucalypti have also been planted. The wonderful properties of this tree have been discussed by ‘many scientiﬁc institutions in Europe. In the Academy of Sciences in this city its medical and anti-miasmatic qualities have received considerable attention. Dr. Pigne Dupuytren testiﬁed before that academy of the virtues of the eucalyptus, and stated that he and Dr. D’Olivera had tested it in" the French hospital. In the garden surrounding this hospital a large number of the trees are planted for sanitary purposes. It had been found efficacious in the treatment of affections of the larynx and of mucous membrane in general. Experi- ments, carefully made, have proved that in a medical prepa- ration it cures cases of intermittent fever against which qui- nine alone proves powerless. It is also valuable as a disin- fectant. In Algeria its cultivation was undertaken on a large scale. Some 13,000 eucalypti were planted in an extremely pestilen- tial and unhealthy section, where fever prevailed to a great extent every year. During the fourth year of their growth, at the time when the fever season used to set in, not a single case of fever occurred, yet the trees were only nine feet high. Since thenthis place is reported free from its unwel- come visitations. In the vicinity of Constantinople, another fever spot, marshy and sickly, the whole ground was dried up by 14,000 of these trees. In Cuba, marsh diseases are rapidly disappearing upon the introduction of this tree. A railway station in the department of the Var, France, was so pestilential that the officials could not remain there longer than a year. Forty of these trees were planted, and the un- healthy condition of the place was changed. Two miles from Haywards, in this State, the Surveyor- Greneral planted two groves of the eucalyptus, one of about ninety acres and the other seventy acres, the whole com- prising about 150,000 trees. They are now only about ﬁve years old, yet many of the trees are forty to ﬁfty feet high, the whole making a most extensive and beautiful forest, for fuel and timber purposes, being worth thousands of dollars. a / EXTRACT FROM A LONDON LETTER. 7 BEDFORD Rom), Clapham Risa? . London, S. W., England. * I * Strikes are rampant. The 40,000 coal miners who were “ out of work” in the Durham district a few days ago are being employed again. Their “ masters” are now allow- ing them to live by labor. How godlikel But there are yet thousands of miners in other districts standing idle, because their lords will not permit them to labor except on condition of paying an increased taxrfor the right to labor. The “lock-out? of farm laborers-—fro'm. labor-continues. . dune 6, 1374. The farmers-hirers of farmers—-have formed a union to sup- press unionism as a vile, unjust and indefensible thing! But the result will be good, as all results must be. The farmers’ not against labor. The Czar is expected to be here next week. He is really a kingly, man, so far as his heart is concerned. I hope no Polish refugee will attempt to assassinate him. ~ Although the International, as an ‘organized society, is re- duced /to a fragment of a skeleton, yet our teachings are bearing fruit, even in the House of Commons. This is plainly indicated in many ways to an observer who is able to read more than is written by pen and ink. ' ' Your depletionists have, it appears, defeated the inﬂation- ists; and the price of ‘money rose accordinglv—-—or the price of labor fell, as the meaning is the same. If money is money ——that is, unadulterated. genuine, truthful and trustworthy“ then the cheaper it is the dearer or better remunerated is labor, except the labor of usury. Of course your American gold and silver coins are not your money now; they are but (uncurrent) metal mortgages. You have again fought and won, and have well earned more real reward than is typiﬁed by a crown of laurel; but you have to ﬁght on, as others have done, for means to con- tinue th’e’good‘,work. The mere word-pray-ers would have you ﬁght without means, or would become possessed of the means without purpose or ability to use them for public good. You are too brave to waste much time by the way in re- turning the snarls of ours; and all who dare do their best can trust you, now and henceforward. I remain, yours fraternally, WM. IIARRISON RILEY. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., May 10, 1874. Sister, Victoria-—Your plane of social development is so far in advance of that of the masses that even our foggy scientists and fossil physicists——would-be great~—tremble with apprehensions as to the fate of the social world! Sci- ence is yet in its foetal stage——its_would--be devotees, in their _ caterpillar phase of progress. ’Tis well, indeed, that America, the child of the Orient, has produced a specimen of genus homo sufﬁciently ably organized with all the elements of consummate human na- ture, to be able to dare the consequences of probing the loathsome, festering ulcer that morbid ignorance has so long and so successfully fastened upon the vitals of our social system. So poisonous has been some of the ulcerous dis- charges that they hurled the prober into jail, before courts, made her victim of a thousand slanders and of Christian hatred. I - But with these subside the froth and scum, and soon will be seen a beautiful, and a better state——society reformed! At a late seance held at Brother Carter’s, of this town, the Planchette drew diagonally across each other two hands, and wrote: “These hands will deliver you from bondage through your friend Victoria.” The communication and illustration indicate that you have spiritual friends, and that your social-theory position is in- dorsed by them. — Your friends are increasing in numbers, despite the feeble, abusive efforts of your envious detractors. Fraternally, R. T. Looxwoon. REVOLUTION-—NOT REFORMATION. » VINLAN1), Wis., May 17, 1874. LaLlies~ Your paper, with reference to this community is “ a stranger in a strange land,” but I hope such a stranger as will in every wound drop healing. I have always laughed at the efforts at Reformation because I have observed that all reformatory measures ignore organic conditions; and conditions remaining the same, the same fruits will follow as uniformly as the same formulas in science evolve the same results. Reformation is addressed to existing institutions. It ﬁnds expression in the garden in the gardener’s nursing a deceased plant while the sextons, the worms, claim the corpse. It ﬁnds expression on many a stock farm. The shepherd nurses deformities of health, and forever reaps its legitimate fruit, deformity. It ﬁnds its expression in na- tions. That hell—begotten phrase, “ The union as it was, the constitution as it is,” was the only answer Reformation gave when the voice of the African spirit called from the chains of slavery. Revolution on the contrary ignores unions un- adaptative and sacriﬁces institutions no matter how petted for the good of the future.’ It instructs man to heed the fruits of labor, not the empty farce of a belief. It instructs the shepherd in the principles of germination rather than in the art of -embalming. It instructs the moralist in the Christ of recompense rather than in the Christ of obliteration or forgiveness. There is no hope in Reformation, for it ignores organic conditions and consequently must prove abortive. , . R. R. L. ~ A NEW BOOK. writers of the day, has been for some time engaged in col- lecting materials for a detailed account of the Communistic Societies now existing in the United States. For this pur- pose he has been visiting and personally examining all of these societies———no slight undertaking, as they are scattered from Maine to Oregon. He proposes, we understand, to give an account of the religious creeds and practices, the peculiar ' social customs and ‘regulations, the history and present num- bers, conditions and industries of each society. The subject is novel and attractive, and in Mr. Nordhoff’s hands, the facts collected by him ought to be so presented as to be not only of interest to the reader for amusement, but of value to the student of social science for their practical bearing and illustration of the possibilities and difficulties of a com- munity Of goods, a subject which is now widely agitated among workingmen here and in Europe. Such a work as Mr. N ordhoff will undoubtedly write, will be of great value in the discussion of these important questions.-Oneonta Herald and Democrat. union will, ultimately, be arrayed against landlordism, and Mr. Charles N ordhoff, one of the most sensible and useful ‘ June 6] 1874.) .W0iODHU,LL~ J5 cLA.sLIN’s WEEKLY). 13‘ BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND. In the WEEKLY of March 28, you quote” from the Oneida Circular of March 9, this very especial daub from the pen of J. H. Noyes himself: “When a man discovers that the religious traditions, creeds, customs and forms in which he has sought the kernel, are but the shell furnishing no satis- factory nourishment to his soul, let him consider before he starts for some other quarter in quest of food that there are two ways by which he may get clear of the shell——a right way and a wrong one. The right way is to penetrate inward to- ward the kernel, '5. 6., to hold on to the Bible, andwith. its guidance advance out of traditions, and forms, into the teachings of God, and spiritual life.” My object in this writing is to call attention to such veritable bosh, and to the actual insecurity of following such advice. It is not difficult forme to understand. that this remarkable feeling of rever- ence for the Bible grows out of an educated superstition for in ages past no child has ever been allowed to whisper a doubt in regard to the sacredness of this volume, and hence, speaking in common parlance, it has had the same eﬁect upon the learned as unlearned. And this effect upon all may be illustrated in the responses of the good old lady, who upon being asked if she believed all that was found in the Bible, replied in the aﬂirmative; wheniher questioner asked, “ Do you believe that the whale (great ﬁsh) swallowed J onah? ” She replied as if feeling hurt at the bare mention of a possibility that she should doubt it: “ VVhy, la yes, and if it had been put in the Bible that Jonah swallowed the whale, I should have believed it just as soon.” Well, there are recitals in the Bible that are just as much a tax on human credulity as this story inverted, would be. The whole foundation for her belief was that this Bible———like every other book, itself a compound of types, ink and paper, its , web and woof spun through human brains, collected from the wild dreams of men inscribed in scripts, authoritatively drummed together, and mechanically fast-ened—was the word of God, and that this story was inserted with its other babble, and therefore divine. - I do not wish to be tedious, yet I want to be thorough: at least enough to be understood. The minister, who after giving out for his text, “ the world, theﬁﬂesh and the devil,” in order to secure the attention and keep up the patience of his audience, said “he should go hurriedly through the world, touch lightly upon the ﬂesh, and hasten to the devil as fast as possible.” Without caring to take this direction I will be as brief as doing justice to the subject will permit, Qgln Genesis ﬁrst chapter fromthe 14th to the 19th verses inclusive. we read: “ And God said let there be lights in the ﬁrrmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and seasons, and for days and years. And let them be for lights in the ﬁrmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, a11d it was so. And God made two great lights, the greater to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the ﬁrmament of the heaven to give light » upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night. And to divide the light from the darkness: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” It will be noted that the earth was regarded by this writer as the grand substratum of being, the only inhabited portion of the uni- verse, aI1d that all other material creations (as sun, moo11 and stars) were made for its especial use and convenience. That the earth was stationary, and that what he calls “the ﬁrmament of the heaven” was a something tangible, and solid like a plastered wall overhead in a room, and that the setting of the stars in this ﬁrmament “to give light upon the earth,” was analagous to the setting of gems or brilliants to sparkle in a coronet. That these days were none of our accommodating and indeﬁnite /geological periods, as impos- sible of measurement as a strip of rubber with a roguish boy pulling at each end, but literally days of about twenty- four hours each, made up of “the evening and morning” constituting a day, as we now, in our reckoning, take a day and night for a day, is evident. For it is transparent that this narrative was not written with any regard to the consistency or plausibility of what it said, but simply as setting forth the importance of some capable ‘ God. And had this been written of myself and the writer knew no better, I should have looked upon it as a weak per- formance, and if he did know better, as a malicious one. For there was never any such god nor any such way of creation. There had been three “ evening and mornings” (each even- ing and morning constituting a day), and the exploits of each set down to the credit of its especial day; as, for instance, on the third day there was grass, herb, tree and fruit; And on the fourth day he created the sun, moon and stars “ to give light upon the earth.” Yet there had been three evenings and mornings before the great lights were made, “ to divide the light from the darkness.” What distinction there could be between an eveningand morning the three ﬁrst days is not exactly clear. It is only about three hundred years since it has been an accepted fact that the earth turned on its own axis, or made its annual circuit around the sun. What it was about the three days before the sun was made there is no telling. If we make a diagram or a circle denoting the size of the sun by comparison‘, whose diameter is 887,000 miles, while our earth is less than 8,000, and its volume nearly one and a. half million times less than the sun, and then place the earth in the centre of this circle, with the moon at its present re- lative distance, say 289,000 miles, then subtracting this from the radius, or half diameter of the circle, 443,500 miles, we shall ﬁnd that the distance from the earth to the moon would » be but little more than half-way from the centre of the sun to the circle denoting its size or circumference. This looks as if the sun was made for the especial use of this earth! But this is not all. “He made the stars also to give light upon the earth.” Maider, or Maidler, a German astronomer, who made careful and critical observations, with annotations. for over thirty years, and came to the very reasonable conclusion ,9 that Alcyone, the brightest star in the cluster (familiarly called the “seven stars,” was the pivotal centre of the Milky Way, or, as I would prefer to say, our stellar universe, in which I should include all -we can see by aided or unaided sight. This supposed central star (for if it is not this it-is some other of equal magnitude) is rated at some twelve thousand times the volume of our sun, and would make near seventeen billions of worlds the size of ours. To me, what the Bible says of our creation, is making a. light dinner of very small potatoes. And the accepting it in anything it says, as a guide to truth, is simply monstrous, since it would be the stultiﬁcation of every reasonable thought of my being. It is conceded that while our moon is making its circuit around the earth that our earth is making another circuit around the sun, carrying its satellite with it. So the sun with its attendant family of planets is moving in beautiful and harmonious precision with other suns and systems around this (to them) common centre, itself being but one of unuttered millions of just such centres to, very similar stellar universes, careering on in the circuitless realm of be- ing forever. For the position in what we call” space we occupy but for the moment, leaving the next instant, when we shall be nearer to it than ever again.’ In making one circuit around Alcyone it is justly supposed thatwe take over eighteen millions of years. Now, taking the simple consideration of facts in regard to being, as our unpledged souls tell us that they must be, it looks’ like a very cheap /way of getting rid of these thinking natures to ignore their use, and trust the Bible to guide us with safety even across the streets, much less out of the entangling mazes of creeds, itself being the proliﬁc source of all creeds throughout the civilized world. thing more than a joke, it would be cruel did we not know better than to follow it. V ‘ How absolutely wanting in adaptation is the Bible or any other abstract guide to direct man inward out of creeds and traditions to spiritual life. As well think of footing it all the way to China. Man’s essential being isiispirit, and nothing else; although for the time enshrouded in a shell. But for these abstract guides and the subtle influences that cheat man into trusting them, he would have never drifted so‘ strangely from his inner spirit nature, since spirit sub- stance alone constitutes his actual self. While the outer covering, in its adaptation, belongs to this mode of being, the inward spirit personality belongs to another. And to live in spirituality is to ﬁnd familiar association there. We should pity a poor old blind dog who persisted in bark- ing up a tree for a coon, day by day, when it was known that a coon had never been in the neighborhood of it. Yet man will persist in looking into abstractions to ﬁnd his spirit soul. What does Mr. Noyes mean by inward and spirituality that can only be found by a paper and ink guide-board? The religious world to-day of all shades of belief, including those of Mr. Noyes himself, are equally sanguine of having penetrated inward and found the kernel by the teachings of the same God, and yet are irreconcilably antipodal to‘ each other. If the inward is not in each soul personal to itself, where the possessor has more interest than any abstraction can have, existence has no meaning. When I can eat an orange for the essential beneﬁt of another, I can telljust what would please them and just when they were pleased quite as well as themselves could, since pleasure is that which is felt, not seen. And a heaven being eternally made up of ﬁne feelings, it can never be difficult to name its local-‘ ity in the absence of all landmarks. For if it should be out- side of myself it could be of no use to me. The feeling of melting sweetness and dissolving love within me will ever constitute my heaven. I resign all claim to any other. And I should as soon think of footing it all the way to China as of taking any abstract guide ‘-,,to ﬁnd this ,heaven. The de- sign in keeping before the race such rules or guide is to un- possession. If I cannot tell best when beauty pleases me and odors delight me, when love entrances me and happi- ness ﬁlls me, and when momentary or perpetual satisfactions make life all my heart can ask, my existence is without sig- niﬁcance to me. That knowledge which is so familianwith outside rules, to point to the inmost of the personal soul, is justly suspicious; indeed, it cannot be trusted. The bird can build her nest, lay her eggs, hatch her young and rear them without any abstract guide. But man, so less with all his intellect than birds by instinct governed, must have some guide or arbitrary control to ﬁnd his own spirit- life. Mr. Noyes speaks of “the teachings of God.” What does he mean by it? Must it have this on its own claims and because it came mysteriously aforetime from the unseen? Let modern extravagances from the same source explain. Besides, what is meant by an inﬁnite God, a personality everywhere present, where centre and’ circumference are always equal? How much more than useless such a greatness, it to attend to only one thing at a time as in every other case. E. WHEELER. AUBURN, N. Y., May 8, 1874. MRS. WOODHULL AT SALT LAKE. EXTRACTS FROM THE CITY PRESS. MRS. WOODHULL’S LECTURE.—-The theatre was crammed last, evening, 'the audience embracing the most cultivated, learned and reﬁned members of the best society, of both sexes, and from among the professions. The career of this lady is one of the most remarkable of this or any other age, from curiosity to see her as to hear her speak that she draws such large audiences wherever she lectures. Mrs. Woodhull, on her appearance, was greeted with a. round of applause, which was repeated frequently during the lecture, as she made some telling hit or hold assertion. ,At ﬁrst she ap- pearedmodest, though not timid, reading from manuscript a severe censure on, the government, the dishonest course of its oiﬁcials, and the politics of the nation, sparing neither po- litical party. But, ﬁnally, becoming ‘warmed up in her sub- ject, she cast aside the manuscript, and, throwing (her whole If such teaching were intended for any- . balance the human soul and throw man out of his own i since the very conditions that constitute personality conﬁne ‘ and her fame has become _so great that it is perhaps as much, spirit into what she was saying, poured intothe ears of her spell-bound audience such a torrent of more than womanly eloquence as few had ever heard from the tongue of either‘ man or woman. . Leaving her subject—-“ Reformation Revo- lution; Which ?”-—she—referred to thesocial question,and told some plain truths, in plain language, though not immodest. Mrs. Woodhull has such an unenviable newspaper notoriety that her,every expression is watched to see if it cannot be tortured into a bad meaning; but those who went to the theatre last evening expecting to hear words unwomanly fall from her lips were disappointed. Her lecture was charac- terized throughoutrwith an earnestness of purpose highly commendablew-Salt Lake Daily Herald, May 13, 1874. Miss. WOODHULL’S SECOND LECTURE.-The lecture of Mrs. Woodhull at the Institute last eveningwas well attended by a mixed assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. The subject of her lecture was—-“ Tried as by Fire; or, The True and the False, Socially.” The subject——the marital and sexual rela- tions—is one seldom treated on in so plain and open a man- ner to a promiscuous audience of males and females, but she thoroughly understood. What she said was highly appreci- ated, and frequently elicited loud applause, both for the elo- The intense activity of Mrs. Woodhull’s brain, and the tragic strength and wonderful ﬂuency with which she is endowed, are remarkable; while the amount of information and facts she has picked up are still more so. She is evidently in ear- nest in the promulgation of her reform ideas. ‘ ——-Salt Lake Daily Herald, May 14, 1874. FREE LovE LECTURE.-—-An immense audience gathered to hear Mrs. Woodhull last evening. Hundreds were unable to obtain seats.—~Salt Lake Daily Tribune. THE BREAK OF THE DAM. BY J. 1). Wrought by~the busy hands of men , ,\ ‘ The dams stretch strong between the hills Above the villages where stand Artizan’s cottage and rich men’s mills. Round go the wheels in merry play, The stream leaps ﬂashing on its way. Surnmeﬁs rains and winter’s snows Quietly fall by night and day; Sunlight dances and nightly stars Smile on the stream in its merry play. Turnthe wheels and ‘coil the hands; VVork the spindles and run the bands. Turn the wheels and toil the hands, For life is sweet and labor all That bread can give to mother and wife And the child that plays ’neath the deadly wall. For the wall is crumbling day by day, ‘ As the stream runs by in its merry play. Behind that wall oficrumbling stonc An angry, sullen demon lies, Watching the peaceful vale below With bated breath and hungry eyes. Gnawing the stones all silently, Waiting the day that shall sethim free. Ah, woe for the hearts that, loving life, Are doomed to live the living death Of cheerlesslabor and ceaseless toil, Andscarce for sorrow can spare a breath! Turn the spindles and run the bands, There’s rest indeath for the weary hands. The mill-owner dwells in lordly ease; Gathers his gold, from danger far; In valleys beneath that waiting death The homes of the humble workmen are. Work away for money doled; The poor must die lest the rich want gold. Since was builded that deadly wall Five and twenty years have flown With poor still poor and rich still rich; Opens wide the ghastly stone; « I The demon is loose, with tiger leap Bounds on his prey in helpless sleep. And some were dreaming of happy days Of childhood, or days that were yet to come; Oflife that should not be hopeless toil From morn till night~—-and of dying, some. But such a death! One dreadful cry ' Of despairing, nightmare agony. And then ’mid whirling timbers tossed, Olutching for aid with helpless hands, Hurled in maddening circles round ' In tumbling waters and choking sands~ And the rich whose wall has broken down Are quietly sleeping in Boston town. Three vil1ages—that was all went down; Two hundred lives or so were lost; A thousand broken hearts are left—- Some crazed. They should have counted the cost Of wanting bread when the rich need gold — And it costs to ‘rebuild a wall too old! Ah, well I to us all disaster comes, And many a rotten wall is built Above the builders of rotten walls, Of reckless greed or shameless guilt. And the mills of ' God grind slowly on lqlrom age to age, till their work is done. i ‘ -—T/Le Grapmc. CLlPPiNGS. A'W_AGr calls bigamy “ Utah-lising ” the female sex. THE article chieﬂy sold at fancy fairs is—.-the visitor. A CANDIDATE at the last English election took for his motto: “Civil and religious liberty, and no popery.” As that is the kind of religious freedom prctestants appreciate, he was elected. I SAID the Rev. Robert Ingersoll in his ‘ sermon on Sunday last: “ Had such men as Robert Oollyer and John Stuart Mill been present at the burning of Servetus they would have extinguished the ﬂa-mes with their tears.’ Had used such language as not to offend, while she made herself. quent manner of the delivery and the sentiments expressed. . I married again : . 1z4 WOODHULL & CLA"FLI1§I’S WEEKLY. or June 6, 1874. ‘ 0 .' I ‘I the Presbytery of Chicago been there they would have quietly turned their backs, solemnly divided their coat tails, , and warmed themselves.” If the liev. Robert persists in s-uch irreverence he wi-ll bring up some day in a place where he will see the Chicago Presbytery comfortably “Warming themselves ” at a safe distance from the heat of his special location.-\——Cht'cago Times. ' Two INsCRIPTIoNS.—-The Northern Border says that a’ graveyard near Bangor has a monument with the following inscriptions, the ﬁrst verse of which was written by the wife before her death, and the second by the husband after he " “ Weep not for me, my dearest dear, I am not dead, but sleeping here; Repent, my love, before you die, For you must come and sleep with I.” “I will not weep, my dearest life, For I have got another wife.” I cannot come and sleep with thee, For I must go and sleep with she.” , MRS. VICTORIA WOODHULL has been lecturing in Salt Lake City upon her social theories, and the Mormons are delighted with her.-—N. Y. Sun. 9 BUSINESS EDITORIALS. THE GREAT SENSATION : A Full and Reliable History of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Including Comprehensive and Interesting Biographical Sketches of Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Victo- / ria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬁin and Colonel Blood; giving Facts and Incidents in the Lives of each never be- fore published. By Leon Oliver. The Book is Illustrated with Portraits of all the Characters. ’ The prominent position occupied by the parties involved in this greatest scandal of the nineteenth century, has given to it an almost world-wide notoriety, and the partial and frag- mentary reports of it Which have been published have doubt- less done injustice to some, if not all the parties involved in it, and have only served to whet the appetite of the reading public with a desire to have the whole story truthfully and impartially told. This the author has done, and in such a manner as not to‘ shock or be oﬁensive to the most fastidious reader, nor to do injustice to any of the dramatis personw. We wish it to be distinctly understood that this work is not compiled from unreliable sources, nor has it been hastily gotten up, but it is written by one who has for years been personally acquainted with the interested parties, who has been “ behind the scenes” and knows whereof he writes, and who has had better facilities for the work undertaken than any man living, and he is also one well and popularly known to the public by his writings Over a nom de plume. In this work he gives facts, and lets light in where hitherto there has been darkness and confusion. The whole story is not only graphically but truthfully told, and the book is one of the most interesting ever Offered to the American public. The sketch of Henry Ward Beecher has been submitted to several of the ablest journalists and authors in the West, and is unanimously declared by them to be the best and most entertaining ever written of this foremost clergyman of the age. He has been the subject for several biographical writers, but the author in this portrays him in an entirely new, nove and unhackneyed style. - V In addition to the biographies mentioned, there is a very entertaining sketch of Henry C. Bowen, who was the ﬁrst to circulate the story of Mr. Beecher’s moral delinquencies. There is also included in the work copious extracts-from the writings and speeches" of Woodhull and Claﬂin, giving an epitome of their views and theories upon their favorite topics—-free love, social freedom, etc.,——and a description of the Social Utopia, to the establishment of which they have pledged “ their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.” - Also what Mr. Beecher has to say about the scandal, and the opinions of Theodore Tilton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan B. Anthony and other noted characters respecting it, and the comments of many of the leading men and journals of the country upon this engross- ing topic. ‘ ’ The biographical sketches are concise, yet comprehensive; writtenin a free, chatty and racy style, and are enlivened by characteristic and entertaining incidents and anecdotes never before published, and are of themselves worth more than the price of the entire work. I The book is printed from beautiful new type and upon superior paper, in one large octavo volume of about 400 pages. N O expenseor pains have been spared to make this book one of real merit and value, creditable alike to the author, artist and publishers. It is bound in ﬁne English muslin, library - style, with gilt back and sides. Price S? 50. in best English cloth. _ Gilt back and sides, $63. All cash orders for this book, addressed to the WEEKLY, P 0. Box 3791, will be promply ﬁlled. ~ .‘..__.._ DR. R. FELLOWS. This truly gifted healer, who hasgained such a wide popu- larity in the last few years, is now permanently located at Vineland, N. 2}‘. For those who are unable to visit the Doctor in person it would be well to send $1‘ for his Magnetized Pellets. We could ﬁll columns with accounts of cures per- formed through the agency of these Pellets. The attention of the afflicted who swallow bottle‘ after bottle of poisonous drugs without experiencing relief is called to these simple, but efficacious remedies. DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD Will lecture in Putnam, Conn., during June. Woiild like to make other engagements. Address for June, Putnam, Conn. Permanent address, Greenwich Village, Mass. THAT. staunch and able advocate of Freedom,’ Our Age, Battle Creek, Mich., will be sent, ten numbers for 25c., to ‘trial subscribers. Send for it; youiwill get twice your money’s worth.” PROCEEDINGS or THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SPIRITUALISTS. 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR OE LIEE; OR, WHY‘ DO WE DEE‘: 8vo, pp. 24. An ORATION delivered before the above-named CONVENTION, at GROw’S OPERA HOUSE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, September 18‘, 1873. ' The above “Report of the Proceedings’ of the Tenth An- nual Convention of the American Associationof Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said and done at the above convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from hehands of the able reporter employed, by the convention. The orations of the-members, on both sides, discussing the question of “Free Love,” or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. ~ " In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit the generous testimony of Judge Edmund'S. 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THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, and general information may be obtained at the Companl oﬂicc, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. - , Condensed Time Tabile. , g ' , Witiwttﬂihﬂflii Ewiti, 5 5 Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great VVe-sterri R, R’s \ n sTAT1oNs. ’ Express. sTATIoNs. Express. Lv 23d Street, N. Y. . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A M. 10.45 A. M. Ev 23d Street, N.‘ Y . . . . . . .. (-1.45 1:.‘ M " Chamberl-s street, _' _ _ 8_40 “ 10.45 “ ‘: Chainbers street. . . . . . . 7.00 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersey City.... .. 7.20 “ Susquehanna . . . . . . ..l 3.40 P. M. 8.12 P. M. “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . . . . .. ‘.‘ M. / “ Binghampton ............. .. 4.40 -“ 9.20 “ Birgighampton .......... .- 3-35 “ Elmira ................... .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M. “ E1mira.;._. ............ 5.35 1: “ ornellsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ 1.50 ,“ “ ornellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ . “ Buﬁalo _ , _ , _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ , . , _ , ._ 12.05 A. M 8.10 “ “ Bu‘ alo .' . . . . . ., . . . . 11.45 - Ewpreyg, Ar Suspension Bridge.‘ . . . . 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P“ M —---——_..... Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A. M. 1.35 P. M. ‘LV Suspension Bridge . . . . .. .35 “ 9.50 p. in, , Ar st_ Gatherings _ . . _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 1_35 “ 2.00 “ Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00 10.12 “ I “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.45 “ 2.55 ‘ “ Hamllton . . . . . . . . . . 2-55 “ 11.20 “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.53 ,“ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.53 " ..-. “ London _ _ . _ _ _ . _ 1 _ _ _ , _ H 5,35 ,A.‘1\1. 5.55 “ “ LOI1d0I1.- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 8 m. ‘ “ Chatham ............... 7.55 “ 8.12 “ “ Chatham ........... 8-12 “ 5-00 “ -‘ Detroit _ _ , _ , , _ _ _ _ , , _ , _ _ , _ , __ 9,40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ Lv Detroit , _ , _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 9,40 “ 10.10 “ |Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.10 “ 8.10‘ ‘ Ar Wayne , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ __ 1o_21 “ “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. V 8.55 “ “ Ypsilanti ................ .. 10.45 “ 11.25 P. M. “ Ypsilanti .............. -. 11-25 “ ,9-27 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.43 “ 9.50 F‘ “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1.00 A. M. “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1-00 A M 13-'30 “ “ MarSha11_ _ _ ._ 1, _ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.50 p. in,’ “ Battle Creek . -1-25 “ “ Kalamazoo.. . 9-35 “ ' “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . - 5-00 “‘ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25 “ “ New Buifalot . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . _ . _ , . , .. 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 6.25 “ « Calumet .................. .. 7.18 “ 7.47 “ “ Calumet ---------------- -- W “ 8-00 “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 “ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . ..., . (‘Iii A. M311-50 A. M, A1’ Mi1Wa11kb‘°e - - - - - - - - - - - - -. 11-50 A M Ar Prairie (111 Chem _ _ _ _ _ _ , , _ _ __ [565 1-, M, _ Ar Prairie du Clieiii . . . . . . .. « 8.55 p, m_ Ar La Q,-0550 , _ , _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ , __ _ ,11_50 P M_ 7.05 A, M, Ar LaCrosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M 7.05 a 111 ’ Ar St. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.15 P. M. AI‘ St. Paul . . . . . . .... . . . . . .. 7-00 A M- Ar St. Louis ................. .. 8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis .............. .. 8-15 P- M. - Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 P.' M Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A;‘ M . N penjson , _ _ , V _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ goo “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Galveston. .............. .. 10.45 “ _Ga1veston...l..... 10-00 -..- Ar Iﬁislnal-ck ' _ _ _ _ . _ ' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ P :M_ AI‘ Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. P M. u... “ olumbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 A M. “ C?111mbl,1S ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 0-30 " H Lime Rock ‘ _ . _ _ ' l __ _ . _ _ _ _ _' 730”? M_ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . .. . . . .. Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._. 8.50 A 111- A1‘ B111‘1iDgt°11 - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 7-00 1’ M .- -- 0 “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P M- “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M. . ‘ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..,12.50 P. M. -‘ gde , _ _ _ _ , _ __ “ Ogden...._ . . . . . . . . . . . .. , 5.30 “ “ San Francisco, _ _ __ “ San Francisco . . . . . . . .. 8.30 " Ar Galcsburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . 6.40 A. M AI‘ Gitlesbllrg - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 4-45 P M -- “ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ . “ uincey . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .45 " .. “ St. Joseph ................ .. 10.00 “ “ St. Joseph ............. .. 8-10 A. at .. . "‘ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.40 P. M. “ Kililfta-'5. Clty - - - - - - - - - - - -- 9-25 “ “ Atchison .................. .. 11.00 “ “ Atchlson . . . . - . . . . . 11.17 “ ¢- Leavenworth ________ _ _ _ _ __ 12_1o u " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. “ Denver. _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 AIM. “ DGIIVGI‘ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- .---- -- Through Sleepir1g'Car Arrangements‘. ' ‘ 0.15 A. M.—-—Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pulln_ria_n’s Drawi_ng-Room Cars and connectintr at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following day in time to take the merning trains from there. 7.20 P. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-06-06_08_01
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-06-06_08_01
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 02 (June 13, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2023
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-06-13
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 1 ~ ~ . I A LIVES»! PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAM \ g A ' BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.‘ Vol. VIII.——No. 2.—\'7VhOle N O. 184. NEVV YORK, JUNE18, 1874. TI-I. 4”“ W’? LOAN ERS’ BANK THE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) r n R u ’ Continental Life Building, THE GREAT 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL. . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @" FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, NO. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the r...
Show more1 ~ ~ . I A LIVES»! PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAM \ g A ' BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.‘ Vol. VIII.——No. 2.—\'7VhOle N O. 184. NEVV YORK, JUNE18, 1874. TI-I. 4”“ W’? LOAN ERS’ BANK THE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) r n R u ’ Continental Life Building, THE GREAT 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL. . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TION-S, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @" FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, NO. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent; per annum, credited at the end of each month. - ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. The Most Dangerous Man in America! The Independent Tract Society solicit orders forthe above startling Tract—a real bombshell, at the rate of 75 cents per hundred, or 50 cents per half hundred. Working-men and women, send for itl Let a million copies be sownl INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Clinton, Mass, or Rochester. N. Y. I N0'.l‘ICE.—-Owing to our books having been lost through the rascality of enemies, we are compelled to ask members to send names and P. 0. addresses again. Let no one write desiring reply Without inclosing tamps for postage. Send stamp for catalogue, circulars, etc. F. FLETCHER, CLINTON, MASS, D. W. HULL Has “rearranged the notes for a Series of Twelve Lec- tures on Spiritualism, the evidences being drawn from the Bible. He shows that ‘the church, the gospel and Christianity were founded not on morals, ethics or dogmas, but the intercourse of spiritual beings with the inhabitants of the earth. The whole ﬁeld of Bible evidences is thoroughly canvanssed in these lectures. The following are the subjects of the Lectures: ‘ 1. Spiritualism and Inﬁdelity. 2. Spiritualism a Test of Christianity. 3. Trial of the Spirits. 4. spiritualism of the Church (Ancient and Modern). 5. Angel Ministry. _ ‘ _ What Good will Spiritualism do? The Resurrection of J esus-—only a Spiritual Re. surrection. _ The Temple of Spiritualism. _ _ Tuletary Deities (Human Spirits, Jehovah one of them, Dark Circles in Bible Times). , . Pro ession in Religion. . 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Mr. Lewis lost by the ﬁre one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at No.’407 West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his"‘busi-ness, and from which point he has already issued the first number (since the ﬁre) of the Western Rural, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storm. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” The La/rges ~ Young People.” THE Young Foks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. ‘ TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1 in Cl/ubs of Four or More. 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Claﬂin. . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Elixir of Life; or,’ Why do‘ we Die ?. . . . . . . . . 25 The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Three of any of the Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 SOCIALISTIC. 0 (From the Galaxy for April, 1874.) WOMEN AS WOMEN. It is a. conceit of Plato that with every soul is born an anti- type; that the two are incessantly seeking one another on earth; that only from their conjunction springs perfect love. This would virtually withhold from love fruition and fructi- ﬁoation; for the chances would be immeasurably against the desiring and desired union. The thought, however, is sym- bolically and comprehensively correct. Each distinctive soul needs for enjoyment and expansion, if not a correlative, at least a correlation, which may be found in different individ- uals and conditions. Sympathy is not limited to pairs: it inheres in kinds; may be discovered in many in varying de- grees. Every soul has its antitypes all over the world; every anti- type has its souls. It is the fatuity of romance to imagine that any one man is intended for any one woman; or that the happiness of any woman rests, in the beginning, upon any particular man. There are numberless mistakes in cre- ation, though no blunders so egregious as this. The law of sex is, that “Like looks for like in unlikeness.” Likeness exists in classes, and unlikeness in sex. Men and women of the same class—spiritual, not social———are generally adapted to each other; but they must take‘ time, and exercise discretion in their choice. In marriage—meaning integral intimacy- classes may not be crossed with impunity, any more than races. By the ﬁner beings, under normal inﬂuences, classes are not apt to be wittingly crossed. But the great mass can- not be ﬁne; they are driven by circumstance, by inner yearning and outward need; they are urged in the direction where fortune has fewest frowns. The superior minority are misled by hope, vanity, imagination; class helping instead of hindering their errors, and rendering their disappoint- ment bitterer to bear. Wedlock, whether in the same or in separate classes,.is always a most important and solemn experiment: its conse- quences for good or ill are incalculable; it reaches inﬁnite. It is likely to found a race, to begin a world. Centuries hence may be affected by it; the happiness of millions may depend upon its adjustment. With a deeper than theological signiﬁcance, it should be a sacrament, and all the gods should be invoked to give it benison. Man’s part is, relatively. of minor moment. After creating its miseries, he can escape them. Woman must receive and sustain the brunt. He marries, she is married. He binds, she is bound. Is it strange she feels so much concern for her coupling; for every cere- mony, in troth, of a connubial character? Has she been for- tunate. she wishes to witness or to learn of equal good for- tune to her sisters. Has she been robbed of her just due, she longs to know that others have been fairly dealt with in the game of hearts. It is inexplicable that the gravest relation of life should be entered into with the least consideration. We treat matrimony as a joke, as it often proves; but it is a very ghastly one. As if prescient of its sadness, we make merry over its beginning, lest we shall have no pretext for after- rejoicing. Would it not be wise to defer public observance of nuptials until they were ascertained to be something be- sides form? Music, ﬂowers, display and revelry are unpleas- antly remembered when they are preludes to distressing divorce, legal or spiritual, or to shallow inockeries of con- tentment. The advertisement of gladness should come after substantial cause therefor. They would be prudent who should hold weddings in strict privacy, and, ten years later, bid friends to a feast of demonstration. Then there could be no misgivings, no shadows crouching under the radiance, no suggested discords between the bars of melody, as there are when fate is challenged with sounding cymbals. It is not the custom to dance or junket at funerals, which are not half so sober of import as hymeneal rites. At the one, the end has been attained: regret, trouble, anxiety, suffering have spent their force; the rest is peace and silence. At the other, solicitude should be overﬂowing: the begin- ning is pregnant; dread responsibilities are slipping their leashes to hunt down doom. The bride feels this; the weight of assumption is upon her. Her hope is fringed with fear. She smiles bravely. Her breast is haunted with awe of the unknown. She wants the light, the sparkle, the gayety, for assurance against presentiments that refuse to be allayed. She avows herself happy; but it is an uneasy, tumultuous happiness, which can hardly recognize itself. The skeleton at the nuptial feast is the sage who thinks, analyzes, compares. forecasts. “May you be happy! ”- is all % WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S VVEEKLY. he dares to say, and he says it in the tone of philosophic spec- ulation. He has stood by other altars, and he remembers how early the ﬁre, pronounced sacred, went out, and could not be rekindled. He has participated in wooden, tin, silver wed- dings, and he approves them, if they be genuine, as signals of success in dubious and dangerous enterprises. He may have ground for believing them false shows; though, if well de- signed, they serve to encourage the many who have failed, with the belief that from the present there is still redemp- tion. The marking of progress is comforting. , When we have fallen behind, it is stimulating to know others have advanced. In the conjugal ﬁrm, man ordinarily supplies the capital, and woman is the active and responsible partner. Her inter- est is ten times his, and, incongruonsly, her power is ten times less. She is the mother—and maternity is seven- eighths of parentage—without an equal right to her children. who are the father’s almost by accident. Does the garden, owned in common, belong to the tiller, the fertilizer, who has put his life into it, or to the careless sower of the seed? Posterity looks to her. The fathers of the race may be infe- rior, if the mothers be worthy. Leaders. as a rule, resemble her who bore them. But the father, by his conduct, by neg- lect, suspicion, injustice, tyranny; may mar the mother and warp the children. He is disposed to domineer and oppress, to interfere with that which in no wise appertains to him. In order to incite her not to meddle with his duties, of which he is ever complaining, he perpetually invades hers. The stream of his domesticity ﬂows through his oﬂiciousness. He regulates by introducing disorder; exactsobedience, and secures deceit. The woman’s destiny being in the hands of the man, every- thing hangs on their compatibility. The doctrines of the Perfectionist might approach realization could generation after generation be ﬁtly mated. The famous bull, What has posterity done for us? might be seriously answered, What have we ever done for posterity? Not only through igno- rance of and indifference to N ature’s laws, but by open deﬁ- ance of them, we havegdone our best to worsen humanity. Nevertheless, so kind is N ature—never without restraints~— that she steadily improves what we , strive to impair. At the summit of creation are man and woman, the inheritors of time and its entire fruitfulness. Through them must future cycles be formed, and each individual, however humble, must discharge his inﬁnitesimal part. We are most of us mere automata, incapable of doing any appreciable amount of good; but we can refrain from a certain sum of evil. We should not retaliate for ourselves upon our offspring. If we be unhealthy in mind or body, ill-balanced, selﬁsh, gloomy, positively and palpably deﬁcient in any way, we need not fear that our imperfections shall not be redundantly repre- sented in population. There are a dozen crippled minds to one sound understanding. The maimed are always starting for some prize in life, and are so ugly from inability to win it that they decide to reproduce incompetent runners for the course. We should negatively beneﬁt our kind by refusing to augment its failures; or, if resolved on the risk of trans- mission, we should try to select as partners those who might measurably amend our inadequacies. The fact is otherwise. They who should never have been in the world, so far as we can judge, are the most active in ﬁlling it. Man, like a weed, grows in proportion to his worthlessness. He ﬁlls space that could be better used; chokes products of value by his rankness. He of whom Na- ture needs copies is slow to furnish them. Comprehending the full responsibility, the uncertain results of paternity, he practices self—denial; yields offspring sparingly. The average man is heedless of posterity. Selecting the most convenient woman—her who oﬁers least resistance—he becomes prac- tically an optimist, without knowing the meaning of his own act. His philosophy is condensed into “It is all right!” though on his conduct wholesome doubt might hinge. His children are born or die; struggle into wretchedness; slip into disgrace; have some good fortune with much ill. But whatever the warning, he takes it not. He solaces himself at the expense of his family. Its members seem less to him than a matter of dollars and cents. He would give more im- mediate attention"to his horses and cattle than to his own ﬂesh and blood. Those must be zealously looked after; these, as respects him, can look after themselves. It is a phenomenon of our civilization that the product of animals is more assiduously studied than the product of ourselves. Souls presumed to be immortal may not be harmed by neg- lect. Beasts that perish claim special consideration. Woman has ﬁner apprehensions, more conscientious prin- ciple. Maternity, with her, signiﬁes devotion, absorption. She will sacriﬁce herself instinctively for her children, but never her children to “herself. Her love renders her wise. She would practice an enlightened economy: she would not voluntarily bear what could not be ﬁtly provided for. Usually, however, this is not within her option. She makes the best of what she cannot help; becomes a shaxrer in impru- dence she is unable to check. So stuffed has she been, from her childhood, with fallacious lessons, that when she arrives at maturity she is afraid to hold opinions “of her own. . She can scarcely tell what she believes. The conﬂict between assertion and reason, convent-ionality and intuition, has created chaos in her mind. After many inward struggles. she accepts what is laid down for her: else she would be peculiar——that is, judge for herself———and peculiarity in her sex is not venial. One of her ﬁrst instructions is that she must be married——to What kind of man, and under what cir- cumstances, it matters little. If he who ﬁrst proposes for her hand be not attractive, she declines. Later, she learns that to expect to love a man before he becomes a husband is the wildest romance. After marriage, affection, interest, sympathy follow. She is rash to wreck her prospects by refusal. If she wait much longer, she will be an old maid. There is nothing terrible in the words; and she confesses she thinks it better to be such than to wed in cold blood. What a social heresy! Her rectilude is speedily set wrong. To be an old maid is to ﬂy in the face of Providence, which must be a fearful thing, since nobody knows what it means. 3 Seeing that those about her do not hold her opinions, nor act as she wants to act, she takes the next man who offers himself, and she is settled-in the saddest sense-—-for life. The aﬁection and sympathy that were to come retreat rather than advance. Her heart aches; her eyes grow red with unhappiness. She is so lonely and wretched and no one to tell it to. Maternity is prescribed as medicine for her griefs, and not too early. There is comfort in the little stranger, who does not frown, nor chill her impulses fast as they rise. It is her child. She wonders sometimes if it be really his. How frequently it is baptized with tears! Other children come, but the father is no tenderer. Their noise is excuse for ab- sence ; and absence would be kindness,were there no return. Children should be born of mutual love, the mother thinks—- not of indifference and anxiety, of selﬁshness and sorrow-— and she wishes, ‘therefore, there had been but one. Her beauty and her youth are gone; her spring and spirit broken. She has no hope of winning without these what she could not win with them. She has fulﬁlled, she is told, the Divine. command——as if Divinity were direct cause of wretchedness; as if the greater the misery the nearer heaven. Unregenerate being that she is, she cannot help thinking she would better have kept her unblighted celibacy; that humanity, on the whole, would have been the gainer. n Thus is won’1an’s individual ‘happiness subjected to gen- eralization. What is good fcr her under certain conditions is aﬂirmed to be good under all conditions. Undeniably, she is more contented double than single; her life is larger, her future fuller. But she must be mated as well as matched. Her husband should not only begin, but should continue her lover; should be her companion, and, dbooe all, her friend. Such combination is rare; can hardly be expected though. part of it should be demanded. If a husband may not be strong and tender, patient and chivalrous, he should, at least, not be coarse or stupid, selﬁsh or harsh. Every wife has a right to some of the negative virtues in exchange for positive excellence. Obviously, meniand women, in the bulk, are suited to one another, class to class, rank to rank. The evil . is in individual selection, and still more individual acceptance. The right man falls to the wrong woman, or the right woman takes the wrong man. This couple, so jarring, so dissatisﬁed, that pair so distant, so unimpassioned,would be new beings with new partners. Had each husband chosen the wife of the other, all four would be contented. This man may be good, that woman may be admirable; but thrust into the improper matrimonial place, he is bad for his Wife, and she obnoxious - to her husband. Patience before possession, affection in- stead of passion, knowledge tempering intensity, sympathy above sense, are the preventives of inharmonious wedlock. Harm results to woman, and through her to the race, not by marriage, but by her getting the wrong man for her———a man of the wrong class or kind. That she accepts inju- diciously is not at all surprising. Who tells her, “It is far better to stay single than to take ahusband you do not love ;” “ Marriage is good or ill. according to selection ;” “ It is not unalloyed happiness at best. but it is absolute wretchedneu at worst ;” “ It is often a blessing when it comes, it is oftener a curse if sought ;” “Never look to it for material support; any kind of honest labors is preferable to such expecta- tion”? ' On the contrary, the falsehood is steadily reiterated, that “ Marriage is the aim and end of woman’s existence:” and this without qualiﬁcation. She is forced to believe that it is woman’s duty to be awife, somehow or some time, unless she be a hopeless invalid or an incurable lunatic; that it is more desirable to be conjugally miserable than maidenly contented. She is taught, inferentially, at least, that she be- l'ongs in some mysterious manner to mankind; that she is the property of the generation; that she is a portion of the census. First and essentially she belongs to herself. Her individuality is more than sovereign, it is sacred. She has an unconditional right to her own disposal. When she gives herself, she does not surrender the liberty of recaption. She is a child of heaven not less than a daughter of earth. If custom has made her a vassal of conventionality, Nature has made her beforehand an independent, self-responsible woman. Every husband, from the character of the connection, is the keeper of his wife’s happiness; and how many men are ﬁt to hold a trust so precious? No man so unintelligent as not to be aware of the immense advantage——seconded by nature, habit, law and society—he has over woman. He‘ improves it usually to the utmost: its inevitable ten- dency is to render him a tyrant and an egoist. Knowing that woman, through false education, is anxious to marry, he imposes hard and unjust conditions after marriage. Algal’: entirely equal, he yields her a fraction of her rights, keeping the rest himself, and wants to be praised for his generosity. He even takes credit for the proper maintenance of his family, as if to be a buyer of food and raiment gave him aclaim to admiration. So accustomed is she to exactions and impositions that she is barely conscious of subjection to them. More than half the time he fails to suspect his gross injustice to her, and when he does he imagines it necessary to discipline, or that woman enjoys a goodly degree of op- pression. If she would rouse herself and think—~as she has begun to do—of what is justly her desert, he would lower his crest. Nothing is so excellent ‘foratyrant as resistance; and her gentle resistance would transform him to truer man- hood and higher husbandship. Her quiet self-assertion, her eloquent plea for equity, within the domestic circle, would alter his view as much as his conduct. Ignorance of what he owes her is the source of his undischarged indebtedness. He is juster than he seems, and would reveal his justice if the need were demonstrated. Marital culture is much re- quired. If he could have 0!, wife less on his terms, more on hers, and have her only so,—he would be for other than he is. Woman has already begun to consult her own mind, to listen to her own voice; the gyves of usage are slipping from her form, which, as they slip. is rounded to fresher loveliness. — To be the custodian of a fellow— creature’s happiness, particu‘ , larly when the creature is a woman,is an awful responsibility. The custodian should give bonds to humanity, in the form of 4 S ‘ I WOODHULL as OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. ..~( June 13, 1874. devotion, generosity, gentleness, not to abuse his trust; and he will ere long. _ The world moves rapidly. ‘We are applying new tests, ele- vating our standard. Quantity is less, and quality is more. We are developing the individual, and so improving the race. «To have offspring is rising from obligation to privilege. We are spiritualizing the doctrines of Malthus. We are conced- ing to the intuitions of woman, invariably above and in ad- vance of our lumbering reason. Advanced couples have fewer children than was their wont: they prefer ﬁneness to number; they think that two or three vigorous, bright, cheer- ful, self-poised, over-balance six or eight who are puny, dull, dejected, unsteady. Benevolence is commingling with ma- ternity, philanthropy with propagation. Povr'en1;s (we begin- ning to hold themselves accountable for them" progeny, instead of thrusting their personality upon Prrom'clc'nce~;. All this is the slow though steady triumph of woman, the gradual fur- therance of her cause. There is superabundant scope for continued progress; but that there has been so much is a cheering sign. Not many men are adapted to paternity, while woman is innately motherly. With the silent tuition they are receiv- ing from her, their suitableness will enhance. Her mental and spiritual growth is helping them; by it she is transfus- ing herself so as to create sympathy: they are learning to feel for and with her. She is unfolding herself in divers ways. They frequently fail to perceive it until love’s apoc- alypse is written in aﬂash. They have abode with her in mood so unappreciative that, looking into her weary eyes, she sees the tenderness so long delayed and answers with the gaze of a goddess. It has been said that if maternity were interchangeable, there would be only three children to a family. The woman would bear the ﬁrst, the man the second, the woman the third: the fourth would never be born. Many husbands need parturient experience to enable them to compassionate their wives (it is a pity it cannot be compulsory); but there are others—-the gods be thanked!- who suffer what their wives suffer; who in strength are all man, and in tenderness half woman. Even the stolid and insensible will come round to the light in this or another generation. The deities of the household are kindling so many ﬁres on the hilltop, that the reﬁection must extend to the lowest valley. The sexes are gradually growing into one another, each partaking of what is best in both; but woman is affecting and moulding man more than he is her; for she is the true_priestess of progress, the apostle of civilization. A vast deal is said in these days of the inferiority, equality and superiority of woman. She is inferior, equal and supe- rior to man, as he is inferior, equal and superior to her‘ Their equality in the plan of creation, in the scale of human- ity, in the affairs of life, in any ‘scheme of the future, is an essential and inevitable postulate. They cannot wisely be considered apart; for they are always together—alternate links in the chain of destiny, different phases of rationality. He presupposes and comprehends her as she does him. They belong to one another as ﬂesh and blood, nerves and brain. They are reciprocally creators both physically and spiritually. What affects him affects her. When he wrongs her, he strikes himself. She is nearer and dearer to Nature than he : Nature is a sort of stepmother to man, and any injustice to her is entailed upon the race. They cannot be enemies; ir- repressible instinct mutually attracts them. They only clash to close; quarrel to spice the kisses of reconciliation. Though the sun disclose them bitter as wormwood, the moon shall detect them sweet as honey. The countless wrongs done to her sex by him she divinely forgives and femininely forgets. He has only to make atonement. The barbarism in him is hard to quench; but he is gradually quenching it with the aid of his sister of civilization. Each generation makes them better friends. Earthquakes cannot drive them asunder. Their adherence is superior to convulsion; the estate of continuity is mortgaged to the universe. He or she (she is seldom guilty of such folly) who pretends to hate the other sex is invariably a dissapointed lover, striving to hide the desire to be loved in return. Misanthrope if masculine, misogynist is a contradiction. The holiest not less than the greatest men have owed their best inspirations and noblest acts to woman. Any attempt ‘to leave her out inaugurates chaos. The most constant and devoted companions of Jesus were women, especially Joanna, Salome, Mary Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. Tr ey com- forted him in his sorrows; cleaved to him in the darkest hours; were his true disciples. No swerving in them; no subjection to fear. VVhen the apostles ﬂed, they stood ﬁrm. They were earliest at the cross and latest at the tomb. But the apostles preached the gospel and told the story of the Prince of Peace. Even in that remote age the women ' silently endured, the men faltcred and eulogized themselves. Some of the best of these were rejectors and betrayers; but not a woman was perﬁdious; not a worm an denied her Master. The canonized sons of the Roman church have been so mor- bid, so inhuman in ecclesiastical zeal, that they, if any one, would ignore woman in their life and plans. But they have not, nor has their creed. The brides of the church have always been proliﬁc of proselytes. Rome, if bigoted, is supremely shrewd. She invites all women to her arms; impregnates them with theological enthusiasm, and consigus a few to the cloister and sterility. Chrysostom gained sustenance and strength from Olympias, who, a wealthy and beautiful widow (there is no use of being a saint without beauty), was wrought upon by his oratory to retire from the world. She renounced everything for the church, exempliﬁed by him, and expressed her worship by noble acts of charity. Forced into exile, she would if permit- ted, have followed him to the world’s end; in the midst of a desert, would have perished joyously clinging to his feet. His golden mouth would have been golden to her bad it been voiceless as the grave; for the man more than the bishop has captivated her. Long before cardinals had dreamed of it, her love had cannonized Chrysostom. She had made him the deity of her heart. Jerome was similarly infiuenscdby ;?a1.1;ta,and she by him, —~ jnrrx . , ———--5!. <. ::.~?5¢g ‘ -. ‘ «‘:-:~._ . ‘ V-— ..., ,g_».-'>,- _ >. The descendant of_ the Scipios and the Grracchi, she exchang- ed souls with him while he was her ghostly father—properly her spiritual husband. She built monasteries and prayed and wept, petitioning Heaven to explain, perhaps, her cease- less conﬂict between love and its suppression. His letter to her daughter after her death is panegyric’s para- mount. Doubtless sincere, it is a mixed rhapsody of affection for the woman and veneration for the church. It is the misdirected passion of a monk half smothered in the superstition of his creed. ’ Never was there a purer or more unnatural man than Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan friars. One of those mysterious voices with which hagiography is penetrat- ed called him to the service of his faith. Surrendering his inheritance, emptying his purse, giving away his clothes to the poor, he became an eleemosynary monomaniac, an ex- treme fanatic. He begged in the streets for money to repair churches and convents; he haunted hospitals, nursed pau- pers, consorted with outcasts that he might convert them. His pride was in his humility. He washed the feet of men- dicants, and kissed the ulcers of loathsome lepers. The sternest Spartan was a Sybarite to him; eating ashes with his scanty crusts; bathing in snow to extinguish natural desire; weeping so freely that he would have become blind but for painful searing of his face. Year after year he went from good-bad to better-worse. Zeal rose to rapture; piety to mysticism. His distorted religion killed him at last. His was a slow but deliberate suicide. Who would think a theologic madman like him would or could recognize sex? Even he had his attraction—monastic it seemed to him——to a lovely and splendid woman, whom his fanaticism had fascinated. Clara gave up rank, fortune, no- ble suiters, every secular delight, to be his disciple, his im- materialdaughter, his unwavering friend. His plaintive elo- quence, his sombre ecstasy drew her all to him, and to the priestly career he had espoused. When he received her as she ﬂed from her ancestral home, sheared the golden glory of her hair, _ covered her rich garments with his coarse habit, and led her to the altar. did not even he regret for a moment the world he had abj ured? Did he not inwardly wish it had been anuptial altar? Did he not secretly kiss the yellow tress he had retained? Did he not long to strain, though but for the fraction of a minute, that fresh and beautiful girl to his arid and starving heart? Emulating him, she established the order of Franciscan nuns, and vied with her beloved master in self-abnegation, ecclesiastic observances, and oﬁ"1- ces of benevolence. Long after when Francis’s corpse was carried by the convent where Clara dwelt, she begged the privilage of kissing the hands and garments of the dead, and with streaming eyes and throbbing breast prayed for the re- pose of his soul. The ﬁre of her life went out with his. 7 She still followed her lowly round of noble acts; but she had parted with herself. Ceaselessly she besought heaven to take her home——heaven was twice heaven since he was there; her crisons were answered in mercy and she went, as she believed, directly to God, with “ Francis” as her celestial password. . Frances do Chantal was another of the saintly spirits who, mistaking the divine for the human, dedicatedthemselves thereto. Her husband having been killed while hunting, she vowed, though still young and extremely handsome, never to marry again. A new drift was given to her life. She ﬁxed her pleasure in providing for the sick and poor; at the same time educating her children with the greatest care. Little more than thirty, she became acquainted with Francis of Sales, and placed herself under his guidance. Having been informed of his project to establish the Visitation, she con- curred in it so eagerly that she ﬁrst instituted the order at Annecy, and before her death had founded seven-and—thirty of those religious houses. Frances and Francis—the likeness of their names was mirrored in their nature—were complete correspondents. Their biography is as romantic as the tales of Scudery. They are asserted to have met in visions before they had met corporeally; their whole career, so intimately associated, is a series of temptations, struggles and self- conquests, the last accomplished by their burning devotion to their creed. This eventually subordinated passion, but only at the expense of moral sanity. She was Hecla beneath its snows, as so many ﬁne, highly-disciplined women are—a lake of ﬂame in a Min of ice. Her letters blaze with in-, tensity, throb with disappointment; but the intensity and disappointment are governed by the frenzy of consecration. They are more than instructive, they are illuminating. He who would learn of the contest of ﬁre and frost in awoman’s breas‘rr—the ﬁre all the ﬁercer for the frost in the air-—and of the ﬁnal triumph of the frost, should read the written secrets of Frances de Chantal. His self-chastisement had been severer, as may be seen in his “Devout Life ;” still, his cor- respondence with her evinces the ardor of his temperament, the ﬁerce needs of his nativity. He thought of her at the Eucharist; she was the miracle that changed to blood the sacramental ‘wine. She was to him, though unconsciously, the incarnation of the Virgin; she was in idea everything that woman can be to man. He carried her in his soul. She beamed through every moment of the day; she was the com- panion of his ecstacies. He called her fellow-worker, sister, daughter, saint: while every ﬁbre of his being must have told him she should have been his wife. Such examples -of cloistered women prove that love, how- ever hidden or disguised, is the pole-star of every woman’s heaven. From the cradle to the grave the line of affection is unbroken. It begins with the mother and the doll, and ends with man or God (these are easily convertible to her)—— often the God in man, or the man in God. She instinctively and involuntarily idcalizes, and from her id ealization ascends her worship. Supremely personal, she wants personality. If it be lacking, she creates it. Emblems help her to do this; hence she delights in emblems. She hates: a,hstrac€?ions; they are meaningless to her. The concrete is the food of her heart; she would not barter a flush of sentimeiit for a ﬁeld of science. A slight caress is dearer than a principle of devo- tion. She is a poet and an artist from her passion for beauty and her joy in form. Manners, modes, graces, co1.ors,pe;¢-a fumes, sounds, stir and intoxicate her. She is sovereignly sensuous, and yet profoundly spiritual. Full of outward in- consistencies, she has yet inner harmonies to which man is, in a double sense, a stranger. Her heart and conscience are such neighbors that the troubles of onerdisturb the peace of the other. Her friendship, reverence, worship, consecration, sacriﬁce, spring from the same source. Countess Matilda, of Tuscany, Mary Unwin. Sophie Swetchine, Bettina Brentano, the Princess do Lamballe were all sisters, moved by a varia- tion of love. Reltgieuses become such because disappointed, bereaved, or longing for a love they fancy earth cannot yield. They either incarnate Divinity, or, like Clara and Paula, divinize humanity. If women considered God impersonal, after the manner of philosophers and scientists, they could not cleave to theology; their creed, but not their faith, would be destroyed. With their mental eye they see Jesus, gentle, sad, beautiful, benignant, as Mary and Martha saw him, wandering and preaching in Judea, and are won to Chris- tianity by his essentially feminine character, by his reflection of their ideals, by his extreme goodness to women. For what they believe of him they accept any dogma they are bred to; remember the spirit of Love, and forget the tenets. There is no fundamental difference in cultured women’s faith whatever their sect. Roman, Mohammedan, Greek, Protestant, Hebrew, they adhere to the spirit, and glide over the doctrines easily and gracefully. It is said that Catholic women instinctively, insensibly, have Jesus in their prayer- ful thought more than the Virgin, while the men of the church appeal to Mary, which is at least natural, since affinity for sex is the principle of creation. Divinity generally suc- ceeds humanity in the feminine mind, or is a substitute for it. Scarcely any woman can contain more than on% strong, engrossing affection at one time, unless it be the maternal and uxorial; and that is prone to interfere with, if not to modify this. When spontaneity is in the retort, the distilla- Lion is sexual love. It has been a complaint of theologians than an enamored woman neglects her ecclesiastical duties. A clever abbe has affirmed that he could tell when his sister had quarrelled with her lover, by her renewed interest in the mass. She was in attendance every morning during the estrangements; but when she had made her peace with her gallant, she stayed away altogether. He has further re- marked that any woman under the caress of a man grows heedless of the goodness of the Lord. Lisette Lebrun ex- plains the trespass by saying that Man is here, while God is so very far away. , Go where you may, in or out of civilization, you will always ﬁnd that love in some form or other, secret or avowed, is the impulse and incentive of woman. Herein conjoin the squaw in the wigwam, the queen on the throne, the nun in the cloister, the radical on the platform, the ﬁne lady in the drawing-room, the peasant in the hovel, the pariah of the street. The dullest or commonest man seems conscious of woman’s susceptibility to amatory madness which shall become, in an ideal state, the sweetest sanity. Affectionateness is her strong-weak side, and he unremittingly attacks it. She has a haunting apprehension that in some great prevailing love, thrilling her blood and brain, her nerves and heart, lie her safety and her peace. But she can never anticipate it, or measure its force. It may not come. To many it does not; to others it comes too late; whence agonizing repression or broken vows——~tragedies without end, sometimes without name. Voluntarily she would wait, vaguely feeling the dan- ger of mistake. But there are so irrational reasons for as- suming to be fond. Marriage urged on one hand, proposed on the other——and the price of it the slightest show of prefer- ence, or a despondent “Yes.” Comparatively few wives who are not disappointed. Still. they are wives——yea, the wifeliest of wives. No matter. It is a turn of the wheel, a plunge in the dark. The wheel breaks; the dark holds unsuspected harms.’ After all, it might be worse; and yet, ah, dream forever ﬂed! it might be so inﬁnitely better. The man announces his love, believing the announcement enough to insure reciprocity. The woman tries to think she hears a faint echo in her own heart. She cannot catch it. The original sound is repeated: it is sweeter than before and grows sweeter each time she turns it over in her mind. “ I love you!” in every language, to any woman’s car, is ravish- ing music. The phrase never wearies———holds freshness to the last. The three monosyllables contain inexhaustible variety to craving consciousness; they are the quintessence of Beethoven’s symphonies. She is liable to mistake the long: ing for the thing longed for. Still, she cannot discover the inward response. Haply, it is there, and she incapable of understanding it. But she is loved. Of that she is assured; and love, she has heard, begets love. She cannot be indif- ferent. The hour of her fate may be on the point of striking. She yields from indoctrination, against her intuition; her mould is taken, her future twisted. Woman does not comprehend, in her innocence, that often the love man professes is libidinous; that what rivets her releases him; that dedication with her is to him indulgence. Sad experience frequently fails to teach her. Each new talker of love is likely to be hailed as the atoner of his pre- ceders. In spite of warning, she refuses to distrust fair words and fond promises. All men, she thinks, cannot be false and licentious. Oh, no! but so many of them, from viscious training, are without principle respecting women. If the epic of all who have been unfortunate were written, the argu- ment would be: “ He swore that he loved me, and I was so foolish as to believe him. I suppose, too, I should believe him again. Perhaps he meant better than he did.” ‘ It is melancholy as amazing that nearly 30-? lllﬂated fellow can conjure w0man’s heart with “ I 10V6 YOU !” until it shall open like the rose, exhaling its earliest freshness and its last perfume. As love is the fountain of her h.i;:jhest and only permanent happiness, it is, immediately or meciiately, the source of her woes. Romantic as it rings, her burdens grow light; her griefs are ﬂeeting while Eros stands at her side. Leaning on the god, her strength returns and she dcscries the blue beyond the cloud. To love and be loved is _ the answer to her questioning of tfategit is her ideal real.‘ ~' -’—‘e"*‘_—5:;,_,i j June 13, 1874. woonnutifa CLAFLIIWS WEEKLY. . s ized, her problem solved. With such possession her lasting discontent is simply impossible. Man’s satisfactioiJ—if he ever attain it—comes through many channels and goes through more. He wants wealth, power, fame, position, outward worship, inward tranquility. Having these, he hankers after distinction in new ﬁelds; scorns what he has and values the ungained. Love is sweet, precious——to his vanity——but no given amount is enough. All the love of mature womanhood would barely content him; he would be found impatiently waiting for, fondly expectant of the rising generation. Sometimes he discovers the woman; then his ﬁdelity is insured. She is sparse, however. There are but a few of her, and so many are in quest of her, that she is not equal to the desired distribution. The class of men who can ﬁll and hold women is twenty times as large as the class of women that can ﬁll and hold men. Woman is satisﬁed with little if she can have it long; man is resigned to much if he can have it short. Life goes ill with woman in the main. Nevertheless, her original stock of hope, elasticity and cheerfulness is so greatly in excess of ours, that in the third, fourth and ﬁfth acts of the tragic-comedy, hers is the ampler residue. Nature, who allotted her the larger share of suffering, in mercy granted her superior endurance. It is particularly hard that she should be beset in her youth by the hunger of the heart, and persecuted through man by the hunger of the senses. As respects her, no sin so sinless as her fall, and none so in- humanly punished. On him who betrays her through her deepest trust and holiest feeling, the world yet refrains from placing the responsibility. So foul an injustice cannot with- stand much longer the advancing wave of progress. Woman is continually accused of severer judgment than man has for the cunningly-contrived frailty of her sisters. It would be insolent, indeed, if he whose kind were guilty of the wrong should be the louder in denunciation of the be- trayed. Woinan’s harshness springs from her sense of self protection. She regards her_ sister’s lapse as a possible im- putation upon herself, and her indignation, always over- stated, is an impulsive effort to avert suspicion. The vestal law was not of her making, nor has any outgrowth of it re- ceived her sanction. The‘ enactments and fulminations against violation of chastity came from man, as is evident from his assumed impeccability in a matter in which he must always be the chief sinner. The gentle Nazarene has given his judgment on this subject, and the justice and beauty of his teaching render it immortal. It is sinitular how Hebrew savageness, Roman barbarity and monkish superstition have perpetuated .an iniquity, and inﬂuenced the nineteenth century to their indorsement. Woman knows how man selﬁshly prizes in her what he is perpetually striving to rob her of, and feels bound to denounce his victim lest she should appear by charity, or even silence, to lay the fault where it belongs. This is the entire cause of her spoken acrimony; and only upon ordinary women can it be honestly charged. Those who are strong and broad, fine and pure, have no gibes to hurl at the fallen or betrayed. They are the ﬁrst to shield and the last to condemn. Their lenity to the error is usually in exact proportion to their power of resistance. They who are themselves above suspicfon seldom suspect or are ungen- erous to others. We are least forgiving to that which we feel ourselves likeliest to commit. Men of the world say that women of inﬁrmest reputation have least measure to their wrath against members of their sex in the same category who have been incontestably exposed. Copious revilement is always a bad sign. The feminine smircher of character is apt to be thought indebted to her own garments for the abundant soil she handles so freely and malignaiitly. Nature seems cruel to woman in more ways than one; quite overbalancing her kindness of another sort. If the sharper the thorn, the brighter the crown, she must be some time superbly diademed. Why should she, after falling a prey to a dissolute rover, be forsaken in her misfortune, all the responsibility and result resting on her injured head? That is one of the many problems of destiny which must be reserved for a clearer future. Let us presume it is for the best. The inducement is powerful to any one not a. pessi-‘ mist. because it now appears decidedly for the worst. One thing is plain everywhere——Nature’s prevision and provision for replenishment. In her determination to insure the race, she is careless of the suffering or sacriﬁce of individuals. Our (man’s) feeling is for the individual, especially the Ego, with relative indifference to the race. Perhaps. in some of the worlds to come, by way of compensation, women will be the race and we the individuals. Then we shall ﬁnd how we like it. How, in such case, we shall ﬁll the new sphere with maundering and hubbub, and protest against the decrees of the gods in another Titanic rebellion! Could woman get rid of affection and “maternity, as we should desire to under her conditions and limitations, she would be emancipated from the greater part of her trials and sorrows. But since with those would go likewise her conso- lations and her joys, she would prefer to keep the bitter with the sweet. She has graceful resignation, notwithstanding her reﬁned sensuousness, her fondness for luxury, to hair-. cloth shirts, lonely vigils, punitions of the ﬂesh and tortures of the spirit. We are not, in these self-indulgent days, of the martyr brood or sacriﬁcial school; and we marvel she should be. We declare it is because she is not logical (it is always safe, having no other fault to ﬁnd, to, censure her for lack of logic); and we are ready to admit, besides, that a woman under provocation, may do anything. Oh, yes; she will even love us; though perfect self-knowledge and candor might compel us to confess the provocation extremely slight. It were better for woman, in present being, if love were less to her; but, ultimately, she who has held love highest and ﬁrmest must be the richest reaper. To lose faith in love is to despair of humanity, to distrust the universe. VVhat— ever there be of immortality must spring from love, which is creative, and hence continuous. Haply, woman’s vision is clearer than our own. While we draw chords and measure arcs, she may have taken the circle in. The logic which we ' insist she so sadly needs may be superﬂuous. Its very ab‘ '; sence attests her intuition; denotes the superiority of spirit- ual wings over material feet. That she so engenders and clings to love, through fortune fair or foul, is testimony of its ﬁnal excellence for her. Love ﬂows through her in a thousand channels, each stream reﬂecting the sky under which it glides and glints. That which she‘ pictures she rarely meets with here; but when she does, she breathes though. in a desert, the amaranths of Paradise. Howbeit, in its stead, aﬁections come, which, less exalted and distracting, more fairly ﬁt the mediate mood. These are expressed in kinship, friendship, maternity, acts of benevolence, oﬁces of gentleness, worship of the unknown, cultivation of the good, appreciation of the beautiful, or, all else denied, in the enjoyment of others. The wretched beggar, old and outcast, will forget her ugli- ness, her rags, the biting blast, her hunger and her hopeless- ness, in watching from the frozen street, by the window’s flashing light, the pure and happy bride who nestles to the heart the can truly call her own. The poor vagrant is a woman still; all her misery has not quenched the instinctwof her sex. She beholds herself, her possible self, in the fair bride who seems nativeto another sphere, and is drawn to her by the yearning for beauty that no suffering nor degra- dation can entirely destroy. She drinks in the scene until she is for the moment puriﬁed; and when the rude police- man drives her away with an oath, she lifts her hands to the howling night and says, “ God bless her!” The might-have-been, even going beyond prenatal causes, never dies in the feminine breast. Woman, losing the love that is her birthright, accepts the poorest substitute with resignation; and yet believes against reason and analogy, be- lieves, too, in her inmost soul, that what time has deprived her of, eternity shall certainly restore. J UNIUS HENRI BROWNE. PROST.lTUTION—ITS NATURE AND CURE. PHILADELPHIA, May, 1874. Prostitution of the sexual functions is incontrovertibly the legitimate offspring of our present Christian system of an indissoluble monogamic marriage. When monogamy, as a sexual system, is more scientiﬁcally considered and more fully developed upon that basis, with the divine principles of wisdom and love ramifying the structure of human develop- ment, then and not until then will sexual prostitution in all its forms be diminished and ﬁnally cease to exist. Under the present existing social conditions, built up under a false idea of religion, prostitution is demanded as a necessity of the times by both sexes, and this lecherous demand will be naturally supplied so long as the present unbalanced condi- tion of the social nature in man exists. Man, in his proud and imperious estate, manifests his sexual wants and dictates the terms of gratiﬁcation, when lo and behold numbers of the opposite sex arise to gratify his sexual desires, perverted into sensuality by the decrees of the priesthood. V Moral reformers I Anti-prostitutionistsi if you desire to arrest the progress of sexual prostitution, slacken the wild and inharmonious intellectual development of man as it now exists—mainly the result of enforced undeveloped mono- gamic relations, founded on a strict, unyielding and indiss0- luble basis—-and institute a system of education, wherein the emotional or aﬁectional nature of the sexes will be harmoni- ously developed side by side and degree by degree with the intellectual faculties of the soul. Nature demands this sym- metrical unfoldment of the human soul, and disaster will follow its non-observance, resulting in an increased strength, vigor and growth of the gigantic system of prostitution commensurate with the manifestation of a strictly observed Christianized marriage system. It is a natural condition of the unbalanced creative powers of society, and can only be remedied by a radical change of the social and consequent sexual relations i.iow existing, nur- tured and controlled by the church, a power which is and always has been inimical to a practical realization of human progress. The religion of humanity-—the god—given religion of pro- gression and freedom—the best and most soul-satisfying reli- gious system extant, had its birth, as every one knows. out- side of the church, and has nobly and fearlessly battled against the errors, superstitions and hypocricies engendered by the priestly inﬂuences through the past ages, until by its repeated struggles it has attained its present strength and power, even to the undermining of the existing status of Christianity and its bastardly creation, the modern moloch- serving marriage system. When it becomes more fully established, then will the immatured customs of society dis- appear, and the beautiful light of science be discernible in the construction and regulation of the people in all their political, social, sexual and religious relations. The power of expansion dwells in the spontaneity of our natures, and when restrained and crippled, our growth is arrested and the ﬁtness of things destroyed, leading to a state of anarchy, revolutionand ﬁnal reconstruction—-to the credit of God, let it be said. The power of contraction, on the other hand, is the force of selﬁshness permeating our natures and dwarﬁng our spirituality. Eternally man must expand, otherwise he becomes a burden and a clog to the de- velopment of his race. Give man and woman entire free- dom in the sense that individual sovereignty or the freedom of each individual terminates where the freedom of all other individuals commences, and _the germs of progress implanted within every soul will germinate, grow, and in time produce fruit that will bless humanity. Restrain the functional activ- ities of individuals in whatever direction you please, and you will inevitably in time make monstrosities of them; for nature tends to harmonization, and any effort to thwart her action produces a condition of discord and consequently an unbalanced development, the bane of a progressive society. No human law can eradicate the natural system of prosti- tution, as it is termed—though a child of the so-called divine institution of marriage—-for it is in accord with the divine laws of nature, and was not created by any human enact- ment; neither can it be consigned to the shades of oblivion, except through the processes of na..ture.whicli. alone are pow- erful for puriﬁcation. The tone of society must be changed, and instead of condemnation being the absorbing and ruling passion of the _anti-prostitution party—-only in name, however, for they are really its only defenders and supporters—the spirit of benevolence and charity should rule through the love element all the actions of its constituent members. The power to destroy resides alone in the source to create, hence the fruitless attempts of «self-righteous men to destroy the idol raised up for them to worship by the undeveloped and unreﬁned conditions of society. True lives, unrestrained by law, will eradicate all the imperfections of our natures and promote the growth of the all good and divine principle within us. DAVID S. CADWALLADER. “DROPPED DEAD.” All royal strengths in life, until the end, Will beartheniselves still royally. Degrees ~ Of dying they know not; the muddy lees They will not drink; no man shall see them bend Or slacken in the storm ; no man can lend To them. Those feeble souls who crouch on knees That fail and cling to shadows of lost ease, Death tortures. But, as kings to kings may send, He challenges the strong. Such death as this O"ei'takes great love; a lesser love will miss Such stroke; may dwindle painfully away, And fade, and simply cease to breathe, some day. But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead. "WEARY OF LIFE.” Such is the heading of an article in the Chicago Post of a recent date, which is the sad record of the sad ending of. the life of a once joyous girl, who was seduced, whose affections were trifled with, the male wretch deludin g her with repeated promises of marriage. She was not the only one he has ruined; others there are whose hopes have been blighted and blasted, who have become pariahs, while he has retained his respectability and walked unblushingly through the streets of Chicago, as though he was not a moral leper. He held a responsible position, being ticket ,‘,agent':at Chicago for one of the principal railroads. The young girl, who did not dare to face a frowning world, but cheated society out of its scandals and denunciations, had once before committed abortion through his solicitation and aid to avert that dark and terrible doom she knew society would heartlessly pronounce on her and his offspring. He kept up his relations to the girl all the time, holding out the lure of marriage, in the end disavowing the often repeated promises he had made. Then the horrid truth ﬂashed up that she must be ostracised, and henceforth walk 1ife’s avenues under a shadow. She dared the “dread unknown,” and by poison, in the frenzy of her soul, went to the angels where she will receive the justice denied her here. A sweet life ended prematurely by reason of man’s heartlessness? Ah, the hellishness of this rotten compound of religion and society. The Church anathematizes, and society pours out vials of wrath on the female who may “sin” as it is said, but leaves the real culprit, the man, alone, if it does not coddle and fete him. Wlience comes such rank injustice? Why this partiality? Why this cruciﬁxion of the woman, this condoning the man! The essential root of the whole matter is in that wicked subordination of woman which is recorded in Genesis as the ﬁat of the Almighty, runs all through the Jewish scriptures and has been interpolated in the so-called Christian system. Here is the cause of that terrible shadow which rests on the path of wo- man, and is the excuse of the inequality which runs through our laws and usages, and tinctures soﬁdarkly public opinion. It has a religious basis, and that religion which stands on such an unmitigated wrong must be overthrown. That church which preaches the subordination of woman and makes possi- ble the tyrannies of sex must be blotted out of existence; not by force, but by the use of pen, press and tongue, which ' shall teach a better and purer philosophy, and introduce a new gospel according to the needs of the age. While the church teaches and makes God sanction so monstrous an error that the woman is the inferior of man, a semi-ehatel to become at will the sport of his vagaries or the minister to his lust, we shall continue to have such tragedies, just such men as this Guy Harrington to riot on the youth and beauty of the land. These things and many other rank injustices are pos- siole, because they are the legitimate outgrowth of the Bible and theology. The more I see, the more I study, the more I contemplate man in his manifold possibilities and relations, the more clearly do I see the necessity of tearing away from the Bible and the church the authority and sacredness which have been wrapped around them. The treatment of the disorders of society must be radical; we must go down to ﬁrst principles and there bare ourselves to rear the new ediﬁce of freedom, political, industrial, and social. Noth- ing can be too radical. so be it that justice and equity are attained, and men and women stand forth in the sovereignty inhering in each individual of the race. The watchword must be: Up with humanity and down with everything which stands in the way of progress. WILLIAM Fosrnn, JR. PROVIDENCE, R.‘ I., May 25, 1874. FREE LOVE AND ITS ACCUSERS. No. 1. HENRY JAMES. Editors of the ‘Weekly: I propose to conﬁne myself to some strictures upon some of the censors of social freedom. But I do not propose to notice at any length those who make the R. P. Journal their mouthpiece, for the reason that such, as a rule, need a great A of the subject upon which they are expending so much bitter- ness of spirit and so many foul epithets. The soulin whom the crude-sap of the passions has been gs. deal of cleansing before they can ascend to a comprehension. cultured, reﬁned and ripened into a state of pure innocence, or one who is born to such an inheritance, does not cherish ’ this, and nothing more and nothing less, is the aim of all free /together in peace somehow, of which he knows not. LI and the spirit subservient. He doesn’t believe in the social destiny of man, and disposes himself to reconstruct the world simply by overturning it, or substituting universal discord in place of partial order. He holds that man is ab- solutely free, in respect to outward compulsion and inward constraint; that he is essentially devoid of obligation, either to his fellow-men or to himself——in a word, he is his own sole law, and hence is never so unmanly as when he obeys the voice of conscience, in preference to that of appetite or passion.” - Is it any wonder that, after having crammed into a single paragraph‘ such a solid mass of falsehood without a single rc- deeming truth, Mr. James feels called upon to tell his friend that he is not a chimpanzee? And I am bound to believe it. For no chimpanzee or other ape, not even the most savage gorilla, would be guilty of such wholesale and unmitigated misrepresentation. And had it been written by some igno- rant blockhead, I could have found somewhere an apology for him; but in the cultured, enlightened and scholarly MR. JAMES, this mode of dealing with a conscientious, sincere and, I hold, enlightened, clear-headed and pure-hearted class of his fellow beings, who, in their own way and under the strongest sense of right, are doing their best to reform exist- ing abuses, is altogether reprehensible, and his shame is all the more shameful. And all this and much more of the same character and quality Mr. James has said in defense of marriage and against free love, which is its antithesis. Are the advocates and de- fenders of marriage, or the opponents of social freedom, under the necessity of resorting to such wretched shifts? When full deliverance comes to the soul—when the pas- sions no longer rule and control a man, he no longer needs the strait-jacket of marriage. And from long experience profane thoughts or imaginations, nor deal in gross or ob- scene epithets, nor is he ever on the watch, in the hope,‘ desire or expectancy of d.iscovering sin, profanity, licen- tiousness or any evil whatsoever in another. Both the grossly carnal and sensual, and the spiritually cultured and reﬁned, must see and contemplate all things through the media of their own particular states of passion; and if the medium be foul with unchastity or only with crudity, how can the seer see anything clear in the object? Even the purest snow seen through dirty glass wears a dirty aspect. Hence, when those who go over conventional boundaries in the pursuit of a broader, purer, freer and higher life are charged with being “ licentious,” “ seeking the gratiﬁcation of their ﬂeshly appetities,” “ prostitutes,” “ bawds ” and the like, Iknow the kind of fortress from whence these missiles are hurled. And whosoever hurls them does thereby make proclamation of his own uncleanness. So I let them pass with the remark, that while striking outwardly at Mrs. Woodhull or some one else, these all are ﬁghting the devil of lust and sensualism in their own souls; and at present they cannot understand and so are unﬁt for any other criticism than what comes of their own self- ncourgings. But there are others who have deeper insight; being un- folded to that state where they “see men as trees walking,” and have some strong glimmerings of truth on this subject, and one of the most noteworthy among these is Henry James, whohas appeared in the character of censor upon the doctrines of free-love in several late numbers of the WEEKLY. In the number for April 18 he speaks of marriage as “ the divinest boon imaginable to our race.” And then again he says: “The end of marriage as a civic institution is the family. But the family is now blocking the way of society, which is God’s family.” So he would have us ease oil‘ a little “ by greater freedom of divorce.” If I should say the landscape with all the varied objects of nature and art is a divine boon, would not some one have the kindness to tell me. that the gift of sight whereby I am enabled to see and enjoy all these things is a greater? But given the eyes and all the objects. suppose some one should propose to bandage everybody’s eyes in such a way that they could see only one object, on the plea that we abuse our light and it may become a source of danger to the public wel- fare; and it is done, and even worse; everybody’s eyes are shut fast up, and none are allowed to see at all lawfully, except such as wear the bandages, and they look at the one object through the small hole until their eyes ache; while some refuse to have their eyes closed or even to wear band- ages, and they are sinners. prostitutes, etc. And some, believing that the full use of the eyes is the essential to their right use, and on the whole it will be the best thing all round, propose to remove the bandages alto- gether. “‘Nol” says Mr. James; you can see now all that you ought to see through an opening made on purpose; the bandage “is a discipline and a chastening to your sight, and is the divinest boon imaginable.” “It is true, the bandage blocks the way to your seeing, comprehending and enjoying God’s universe—his family; and so I am in favor of greater free- dom to take it off, only on condition that you wear it all the time." The illustration, I grant is no way up to the reality, never- theless it helps. But really marriage is not the divinest boon, even if it be any boon at all more than relatively. The divinest boon to our race is the social affections, which have their root in sex, by which we are so bountifully and beauti- fully adapted to the highest and holiest enjoyment of society, which is as Mr. James, truly says, God’s family. Now, mar- riage he also tells us, “is blocking the way of this family.” How then can it be such a divine boon? The social affections which ﬁnd their highest expressions through the ministry of sex are the natural endowments; the gifts of God to our race which draw us instinctively into fellow- ship and communion one with another. And Emerson truly says: “The universe is the bride of the soul; all private sympathy is partial. Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and while they remain in contact, all other points of each of the spheres are inert; their turn must also come; andgthe longer a particular union l-alts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union ac- quire,” and this describes marriage exactly. This statement rests upon this broad ground, that as each soul. has an inﬁnite kinship and relation with all souls, so they seek for sympathy, and can ﬁnd no permanent rest, but in fellowship and communion with all in the deepest, most interior and sacred forms of expression involved in the relation of “ bride.” N ow, these affections include not only the eyes, but the ears, and all the senses of the soul. And these are all band- aged by marriage in such a way that all their native cur- rents are barred and obstructed. And there come eddies, 'WhlI‘lp0O1S, cataracts and ﬂoods in consequence. And all these come naturally enough. . Two globes, by the law of marriage, are kept in constant Contact at only one point. And the longer aparticular union lasts, the more hungry the parts not in union become. Now, what is wanted is, that we shall become so tnsphered in a true society that the whole of each soul may feel the contact, sympathy and support of its fellows at every point. And I am fully satisﬁed that a large share, if not the whole, of this constant abuse and misrepresentation of the character and aims of those who aspire after aifectional and social free- dom, comes of disturbance in the souls of these accusers; rectly, they ﬁght him by an indirection, smiting outward, at what they fancy to be him in other people. It was my purpose to notice Mr. James’s more recent let- ter to Mr. Andrews, but this article has already run to greater length than I intended, and so must defer that to the future. LORING MOODY. LET US LOVE. Love, let us love! What have we else to do, Who cannot count one hour of life to come; Who only know the present to be true, The voice that now we hear to be not dumb? To whom, as on a barren beach we stand, The past and futuze are the tide-whelmed sand. Love, let us lovely For love and life and death, (What else?)—-we know are real; and as we must By naturels force both hold and yield our breath, So let us take, not forced, but as in trust, _Upon ourselves the third reality, And love so long as love, life, death shall be. AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM. Mrs. Woodhull——I was very much pleased to see that Challis had been bowled out in his ﬁrst innings by the jury, and in his future efforts to injure you for speaking the truth I think and hope he will have as little success; for people must see that it is the truth that is hated, for that bites the keenest, as he would never have troubled himself about your ex- posure of the present social system if you had not mentioned names, but only done it in general terms, though he might have indulged in a few hypocritical expressions of horror at your principles. . The exposure of the real workings of the present social system by women, who are so well able to do it. as being its worst victims, though its evils to men are but secondary to those it imposes on women, is one of the most powerful weapons of attack that can be used, and will tell especially to cool the ardor of those unprincipled opponents of the new system who never honestly attempt to argue against it, but are utterly unscrupulous in the means they use to oppose it—— persecution, defamation, abuse, lies, anything that comes ﬁrst. This class hate the principle of free love because they see and feel its justice and truth, and know that then they would not be able to use women as playthings and mere in- struments of pleasure; for women, instead of being so igno_ rant on all sexual questions as they are now,would be properly taught, and knowledge would not only shield them from being ignorant victims of such unprincipled men, but would so elevate the whole tone of their minds that they would in- sist on holding a totally different position in society, and be the peers of men, and not content, and even proud, to be his slave and plaything, as too often now. Under the present system women have three courses open to them; ﬁrst, they may romaill Gelibateﬁ, when they are jeered at as old maids, and too often regarded as objects of scorn and contempt, though, from the point of view of the advocates of the present ‘system, they ought to regard them as the purest of society, and consequently the most to be respected. Yet there can be no doubt that celibacy is con- trary to nature’s law, and therefore" meets with an appro- priate punishment. _ . . The second course open to won an is promiscuous inter- course, and in this they are the co mon slaves of all men, and regarded as objects of disgust a d contempt; forit would not suit the present system and its dvocates to let any con- dition for women be regarded as onorable but the third course, where each one must be the gel slave of some man under marriage. But while men vnhold and insist that no lovers who are worthy of that name. Now, to this state of things marriage is truly blocking the way; and in order that “God’s family” may move on, marriage must get out of the way. And this is precisely the ground assumed by Mr. James, only he would have the two antagonisms dwell is WOODHULL’ a CLAFLIN’S ‘WEEKLY. and close observation of the character and conduct of people, . and instead of ﬁghting the lustful devil in themselves di- ' I hardly know to what extent I have a right to criticism of this letter of Mr. J ames, as he says subsequently it was never intended for publication. But on what ground had he war- rant for writing thus, even privately, to a friend? “The free loverwan.ts * *_not a reformation of men’s man- ger.’ but 3 revolution as vr whereby the ﬂesh shall be supreme state is to shield woman from conte mpt but marriage, they refuse to allow it to be a consideration in the estimate of their own social position, whether they are celibates, promis- cuous or monogamous. And while men can uphold these different views of male and female morality, th able to force women to June 18, .1874. marry them whenever they want a legal sexual slave, they being allowed a slight choice of master, but, like the wages slave, a master they must have or starve. and are also able to keep a full supply of promiscuous slaves both for married and unmarried men—the celibate woman being bidden to re- main so till an owner offers himself, and if poor“ and having to work for a living, kept at the verge of starvation, so that they are ready when called upon to choose; and, if no master offers himself, bad trade or a hundred mischances may force them into the promiscuous market. Thus, under all conditions while the present social system lasts, the greater proportion of women must be either legal or promiscuous slaves, or looked upon as contemptible old maids to be laughed at; ‘and while freedom for women is do‘ nied, it must be so, for it would not do to allow public oplmon to regard as honorable any condition for women but that of sexual slavery to some one man, and when some other con- dition is regarded as honorable the present social system will soon end, as the slaves will soon escape. / N ow this cannot‘ come to pass except by the efforts of the social slaves themselves, who must insist on freedom, assist- ed by such of the men as prefer justice to power, and can see that slavery is injurious to both master and slave, for slavery Of no kind has ever been abolished except the slaves were anxious to be free and willing to strive for freedom; for if some mas- ters were willing to abolish a slave system of any kind, and the slaves were desirous of havinga master, it would only result in a transfer of ownership, and it is impossible to S1.1P- pose that masters would be unanimous in wishing to.a_b011Sh a slave system, and the slaves still cling to it, in which 0389 the masters would have to educate the slaves for freedom. ‘ Hoping that you and your fellow-sister workers W111 E13111 push the work along, and believing that many men will be found to back your eiforts, believe me to be your Well-Wlshel‘. NOTTINGHAM, England. TFI0S- SMITH’ SELLING INDULGENCES. Our Protestant neighbors have been very severe in their condemnation of the Catholics for selling indulgence to 8111 and yet they have all been engaged in the same business according to their own interpretation of sin. It is a settled fact, well known to all educated Christians, that the original sin which, according to the old Jewish fable, brought knowl- edge, shame and death into the world, and gave total deP1‘3»V' ity as an inheritance to the race, was sexual intercourse. Eve ﬁrst saw this in the serpent, when controlled by Mr. Satan the enemy of God, who thus enticed her to coax Adam into what the Christian world and all civilized nations that derive their morals from the Jewish fables pronounce a 8111. when not permitted by authority of Church or State, each claiming the right to permit people to do Wrong by 8611198 them the indulgence to sin. The old Roman Church deﬁle‘ all other right but her own, as she asserts that it is a God- granted indulgence, and that God has not delegated to any V other power the right to sell it; and hence she holds all merely legal or Protestant marriages null and void, and the parties, if they have sexual intimacy under them, as adulter- ers, and committing the forbidden. sin which brought Shame and death into our world as well as knowledge of good and evil. . The Church early seized this powerful incentive to human ' activity and attempted to control it for her use, and she has largely succeeded; and the State, seeing her success, has attempted to divide it with her or to control it without her consent in some countries, and hence a conﬂict, and the lib- eralized marriage and divorce laws as a result of the conﬂict. The truth is the act is not and never was a sin, unless it was a trespass [or carried out some kind of deception, and then no marriage law or authority of Church or State could make it less so or less a sin. The authority of Church or State could in no case and no wise alter the moral nature of the act in which two persons alone are morally responsible. N 0 statute of State nor ordinance of Church can remove the criminality of an act that is a sin in itself, nor can they make an act sinful that is not so by nature and man’s constitution: hence we deny all authority of Church or State to ﬁx crimi- nality or penalty to any natural act of individuals. We deny their right to sell indulgences to men to commit rapes on women, or to take their lives by sexual trespass, or to Women to poison men with an unhealthy and polluted mag- netism. The proper business of Church and State in the relations of the sexes is to protect individuals, male and female, in their natural rights, and see that parents care properly for their children, which would be greatly lessened in numbers by changing our system to perfect protection of woman, and yet more would live, and those raised be much better generated and hence be better men and women. The Church and State should be compelledvto admit that sexual intercourse is no sin, or to stop selling indulgences to par- ties tocommit it. It is certain from the testimony of thousands of living and dead witnesses that under these indulgences called marriage certiﬁcates (or licenses) the act is oftener a sin or trespass than when performed without such license, and oftener re- sults in undesired maternity and unwelcome children, and far oftener in the death of one of the parties thus licensed to the trespass right. One-half the men that get marriage licenses (certiﬁcates) get them for the express purpose of sexual indulgence, and most of them pay little attention to nature or the condition or ﬁtness of the occasion, or effect upon the victim of their lust, as they have all the sin set aside, and having marital rights which control sexually the wife, they recklessly go on to the destruction of the weaker of the V two constitutions, and if the woman fails, as is oftenest the case, soon seek and ﬁnd another victim, which the 01111I‘0h 01' State, either, will give him an indulgence (license) 130 kill also, if he can, in the same way. Horrible stories of this kind are almost daily related to us. One is just DOW before us in a letter of a near relative who is spending some time in the house of a clergyman, a stout, healthy, plethoric, lustful man, whose lust is conﬁned by church, State and society to apoor, little, delicate, sensitive, feeble woman, with half a dozen little children born so near each other as to keep her \ "+z\_ June 13, 1874. constantly sick, and to destroy every vestige of sexual de- sire and make her marriage bed a rack of torture, as she as- sures our friend it is. It will soon send her to the spirit world and leave her vacant place and innocent little ones to be cared for by another victim, which the pious man no doubt will soon ﬁnd for her place. This sin does not make him ashamed nor give him a knowledge of right and ‘wrong, or good and evil, but it does give us a sign of vile depravity, if not total, at least enough so to need an atonement. All the clergymen are not so depraved, we are well aware, but at least as great a proportion of them as of any other class in community. How long our country is to be cursed with this theological depravity we do not know, but it seems almost impossible to get people to reason on this subject, in which so much of sexual passion is involved and so many slaves immolated. Those who own slaves ever have held tenaciously to the right to hold them, and continue the system by human and divine authority, and of course we must expect such to be in this issue enemies of social freedom, and such changes in the law as would release or protect women against lust, which now enslaves her both in and out of marriage, even to the almost utter extinction of love. Almost any one can see to what depravity and vice our present system is tend- ing, but few can see the beautiful and pure future of social freedom as we would have it. WARREN CHASE. MARRIAGE. BY DR. L BUCHNER, , Author of “Force and, Matter,” “Physz'ologz'cal Pictures,” “Six Lectures on Darwin,” “Essays on Nature and Science,” etc. Marriage, although it occurs also in animals (e. g., the storks), is nevertheless, in its present form and conception, essentially a product of human culture. It is therefore noth- ing rigid and unalterable, nothing given once for all by nature, but. must change and advance with the increase of culture. For our marriage of the present day this is all the more necessary, as in it the old principles of compulsion, which formerly ruled in State, Church and society, are still fully represented. For the progress of true humanity in the State and society scarcely anything, however, can be more efficacious than the liberation of marriage from these nar- owing bars, and its conversion into a proper relation of the two sexes, brought about by a free and unconstrained choice on both sides, and dependent for its continuance upon the continuance of mutual affection. In a certain sense, it must be admitted that the whole physical and intellectual future of the human race depends more or less upon the future form of marriage. For although the union of the best with the best, as in Plato’s ideal State, would not answer, the union of the most suitable with the most suitable will be the right method to produce the best possible race in the future. Darwin has already recognized what he calls sexual selec- tion as a mainspring of progress in animals, and Professor Hackel does not hesitate to declare, on the strength of his investigations, that the progress of the human race in his- tory is in great part the consequence of sexual selection, which is developed to a far greater extent in man than in animals. But it cannot well be disputed that this peculiar element, which has only been brought to light by natural history, can unfold its entire and most important eﬂicacy fully and un- obstructedly only when the union of the sexes is really the consequence of a perfectly free choice and of a full mutual agreement, with mutual liking and mutual satisfaction. In contrast to this, our present conventional and constrained marriage, as is well known, only too frequently presents mutual discords and incurable dissatisfaction of the most repulsive character, which is most injurious to the progress of the race. Even the emancipation of woman that we have urged, and her freer and more independent position with re- gard to man, will constitute a necessary condition for a dif- ferent form of marriage in the future ;» and the free love- choice which has hitherto, contrary to all justice and reason, been allowed only to the man, must in future form equally the right of the maiden. The young woman, having become independent, will no longer ﬁnd it necessary to allow herself to be treated like merchandise in the market, or under a half compulsion to seize upon anymarriage that may be offered to her, merely to escape the melancholy state of spinsterhood; but she will take the vows only when the future life seems to promise to her or her advisers greater happiness and greater satisfaction than the present one. The number of unhappy marriages, prejudicial to the progress of the race, which, unfortunately, is now so great, will then diminish, and that of the happy and beneﬁcial ones will in- crease. But where, in spite of this, adisappointment may occur, the necessary facilitation of legal separation will ren- der impossible the repetition of those frightful domestic dramas which nowadays, to the shame of humanity, are so often displayed before our courts of justice. From the indi- vidual horrors which obtain publicity, we may judge of the many still greater horrors which are borne silently and pa- tiently in concealment. Freedom, free-will and perfect reciprocity form the vital ‘air in which alone happy mar- riages can thrive; and this leads of necessity to the removal of all artiﬁcial obstacles which can be opposed either to the conclusion of marriages or to the dissolution of those in which a want of agreement prevails. Among the most foolish contrivances of political wisdom or political stupidity are the obstacles which in many States are still opposed to marriages in the lower classes, especially the laboring classes, in fear of over-population or the in- crease of poverty, even leaving quite out of consideration the fact that it implies the greatest and hardest of all injus- tices to render the unmerited poverty of the individual still harder and more sensible by seeking to shut him off compul- sorily from the most natural of human impulses, that of the propagation of his kind. By the increase of its number, a people becomes not poorer but richer, especially where im- proved social arrangements make it possible for every one to WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY7 A . *“ lead an existence worthy of humanity; and every new-born human being is a capital which beneﬁts the whole by aug- mentation of the power both of work and of consumption. The less populated a district is the poorer is it also, and the more miserable is the condition of its inhabitants; while, on the contrary, in the European civilized countries, the gen- eral degree of prosperity has everywhere risen with a corres- ponding increase of the population. For there can be no doubt that by the increase of cultivation and its innumera- ble aids, by increased division of labor and so forth, the general capability of subsistence increases in a much higher degree than the number of people; and although it must be admitted that under normal conditions a certain limit to the number of the population cannot be overstepped, we are still very far from the attainment of this limit. Great fam- ines occur most readily i.n thinly peopled regions, or in such as have been depopulated by war, pestilence, etc. ; while the excess of means of nourishment is nowhere greater than in the enormous capitals of European states, in which millions of men live together upon one spot. When the Spaniards conquered America they found that its population was deci- mated by frequent famines; at the present day America furnishes abundant nourishment for a far greater number of inhabitants, still possesses space and food enough for untold mil1ions.—Jl/[an tn the Past, Present and Future, p. 208. —————-——-———>———40v-—<—-—-—----- MISCELLANEOUS. HAS JESUS CHRIST ANY FOLLOWERS? BY W. 1‘. JAMIESON. This article closes the series on Jesus. For ages the world has listened to volumes of eulogy of Jesus. There is so little ground for such fulsome praise that I have felt the necessity of presenting the other side of the question, because of the tendency on the part of the mass of Spiritualists to join in praise to Jesus. The world, I think, needs to become free from devotion to persons at the cost of principles. Principles are impersonal. N 0 one person can represent all truth. The universe is needed for that. Those who claim to be followers of Jesus assert that the truth came by him. He himself claimed to be “the way ” and “the truth." Like other individuals, he had a balm for all human woe if the world would follow where he led, hear his voice! All who would refuse to be guided by him were, he said, not of the truth. Said he, “Every one that is of the truth hear- eth my voice.” Pilate asked him, “ What is truth?” That was a poser. It knocked down the sectarianism of Jesus. What is it to be a follower? In the sense of leadership it means, “to accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; to imitate as a forerunner; to copy after; to take as an example.” Those Spiritualists who are fond of calling Jesus pet names give him pre-eminence above all the sages that ever lived. The fault they ﬁnd with the churches is that they do not practice the teachings of Jesus, which would constitute them true followers of his. They either forget, or do not reﬂect, that his teachings are, as a whole, absurd. Some of them are impractical; some are immoral; only a few of them of im- portance, and those few are found in heathen literature. There is not, I think, a Spiritualist paper which has not something sweet to say about him, even down to a very rancid sheet out West, which would be horriﬁed, in theory, if “ our elder brother, Jesus,” were now living on earth on such tender terms as was his habit with Martha and Mary and several other aﬁinities. The Christians (say Spiritual- ists) are not followers of Jesus. Are the Spiritualists ?' 1 hope not. If to accept a portion of a leader’s teachings makes one a follower, then Christians can justly claim to be followers. Spiritualists, and other Liberalists, do not accept Jesus Christ as authority; do not adopt all his opinions; do not take him as a “rule of action,” at the sa_me time they recommend him to the churches “ to copy after,” to take as an “example.” This conduct on their part is most incon- sistent. Jesus Christ insisted that all the old Mosaic command- ments, including the law and the prophets, must be kept. “ Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least com- mandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be ‘called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” We have heard much about those who love Jesus. Has he a lover on earth? He laid down a rule by which we may know who loves him. “ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.” One command was to hate father, mother, brother, sister, wife, husband. Another command was to cultivate poverty on earth in order to secure bliss in heaven. Let him keep his bliss. Another was to “ resist not evil,” which would make plastic material of the race for a few tyrants to mould. People who poetically praise this maxim know thatit would be iniquitous in practice. But why enumerate. The sayings have been given in de— ' tail. To keep them all would plunge the world into a miser- able muddle. Practically, there is no one to do Jesus honor, for there is no one whose common sense would permit him or ‘her to keep his sayings. “ He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings.” “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Who are the followers of Jesus? “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father.” “ Whosoever heareth these savings of mine andldoeth them.” The early disciples understood these as we read them. James says: “ Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” John had the same understand- ing: “ Hereby we do know that we know him,‘ if we keep in‘ s commandments.” - To place the matter beyond all ,dispute, that it is not suffi- cient to say a person “believes”; in Jesus, in order to be a follower of his, John says; 4‘ He - that saith I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is liar and the truth is not in him." ' 2; ' ‘OJ If Jesus Christ had been equal to some of the heathen sages, he never would have sought for any to follow him, but would have enjoined on each and all, “ Be thyself.” The nearest approach he makes to this is in his address to hypo- crites : “ Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?” but he spoils even that by afterward saying: “He that believeth not shall be damned.” All the sects who claim his name have practiced this saying most faithfully by damning each other. * N 0 one believes in Jesus; no one follows him. The race is a sufferer because of the millions of his professed followers. What a poor, scraggy race it would be if his teachings were obeyed and he had actual followers! _ In my next I will reply to Mr. E. F. Boyd, one of my critics, for I favor free-disc'ussion with all my soul. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL ON THE PACIFIC COAST. The‘ lecture of Mrs. Woodhull last evening at Piper’s Opera House, Virginia city, Nevada, was well attended, the theatre being crowded in every part. Gold Hill certainly was pretty fully represented in that audience. and the dress circle con- tained a goodly proportion of ladies. Mrs. Woodhull has been written and abused into almost a national prominence and no- toriety, until now wherever she goes everybody is desirous to see and hear her. We have never seen the Opera House ﬁlled with a more interested and critical audience, seemingly dis- posed to hear and honestly judge of what this noted lady had to say. Mrs. Woodhull possesses a good stage appearance, a. full, clear voice and a deeply earnest manner, which gives full force and weight to her words. Logical and pointed in her argument and applications, witty, playful or pathetic at times, and again merging into the keenly sarcastic, she man- ages her subject with the most consummate skill and with striking eﬁect. She handled the political, religious and social status of the nation and society last evening without gloves, making numerous telling points, which drew forth strong and repeated applause from her audience.——News, Gold Hill, Neu, May 19, 1874. A Mns. WooDHULL’s LECTURE.-—-Plpe1"_s Opera House last evening was “crowded with people who had assembled there to hear “ the naked truth ” as proclaimed by Mrs. Woodhull. I They applauded the many telling points made in the matter of corruption pervading high political, social and governmen- tal circles. We believe it may be safely said that Mrs. VVood hull is, without exception, the best lady speaker ever heard on the Paciﬁc coast. She has a pleasant voice, enunciates clearly and distinctly, and she is unmistakably a logician of marked ability. Her readiness in repartee was very hap- pily illustrated last evening when interrupted by a disciple of John Barleycorn in the dress circle.—Vt'rg73nt'a City (N ev.) Evening Chronicle. LONELY TO-NIGHT, LOVE. Husband traveling-—Scene I.———Room in hotel. full of cigar stumps. for a night’s spree. home : V V _ Dearest Susz'e———My time is so occupied with business that I can hardly spare a moment to Write to you. Oh, darling, how I miss you, and the only thing that sustains me during my absence is the thought that ‘every moment thus spent is for the beneﬁt of my dear wife and children. Take good care of yourself, my dear. Feed the baby on one cow’s milk. Excuse haste, etc. ' Wife at home.—Scene II.—Parlor. All the gals lit. Thirteen grass widows; Fred from around the corner, with his violin on his arm; Jim, from across the way, with hisbanjo; Jack, from above, with his guitar; Sam, from below, with his ﬂute; lots of other fellows, with their instruments. Dancinggand singing, sideboard covered with nuts, fruit, cake, cream, wine, whisky and so forth. Wife in a hurry to dance, writ- ing to husband: _ ' Dear Hubby~HoW lonesome I feel in your absence. Spittoons Bourbon whisky. All hand-sequipped Husband in a hurry to be oﬁ‘, writing , The hours pass tediously. Nobody calls on me, and I a'lI]._(,3'nan- stantly thinking of the time when you will be home, and your cheerful countenance light up the routine of everyday- life. My household duties keep me constantly employed. E am living as economical as possible. knowing thatyour smam income will not admit of frivolous expense. But now, I will say good-by, or I will be too late for the cert of prayer. In haste, yours, etc.——Fz7garo, dear, monthly eon- SW3 Ffancisco. _.._.._.. REFORMATORY LE.orU;e3;R,g, 0. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass, J. I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. J .0. Barrett, Grlenbeulah, wig” Chas. Ga Barclay. 121 Market st., Allegheny City, Pa. Capt H- H~ B1'°“.'n, Brownsville, Mo. Addie 14- Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. VV3«1‘1'eI1 Chase, St. Louis, Mo. P101’. J. H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. Mrs. Amelia Colby, Winona, Minn. , Mrs. Jennette J. Clark, 25 Milford ‘st., Boston,‘ Mass, A. 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From Omaha, westward ﬁve hundred miles to Cheyenne, the Union Paciﬁc railroad is almost wholly devoid of inter- est, save for those who have never seen a vast expanse of uninhabited country; but of this, even, the most inquisitive, equally with the novice of any sort, will soon tire, especially if the journey be made when the sun pours down his scorch- ing rays upon the earth in the heated season. This intro. duction to the route across the plains, however, serves to whet the appetite for the glories that are soon to follow, and to make their grandeur and beauty still more impressive than they would otherwise have been. It is true we have passed up the valley of the Platte River, the most deceptive and treacherous of all American streams. As the valley of this river is ﬁrst entered, the eye of the traveler wearies searching out the boundaries of its vast expanse, involuntarily seeking some mountain’s peak to prove that the horizon is not the girdle that encircles it. The river itself is from three-quarters to one mile in width, and to a casual observer, appears to be proportionately deep, but if he examine it closely he will ﬁnd that it is usually little more than six inches; but if he attempt to test it in person, he will probably soon discover that what is, appa- rently, the bed of the river, is treacherous and unreliable and it would be a wonder, if in the attempt to ems; it, he do not suddenly sink out of sight in the quick-sands which form no small part of this bed. The river is unnavigable for any steamboat whatever, at all sea. sons of the year, and yet it performs a very important mis- sion in draining the fertile regions which bound its sides. Most of these lands belong to the railroad company, and are as ﬁne for agricultural or grazing purposes as any anywhere to be found in the great Northwest. If irrigation be neces- sary, there is suﬁlcient fall in the river and its tributaries to make it easy. It is claimed, however, that this is unneces- sary except in extraordinarily dry seasons. It is true, also, that we have already begun the ascent of the far-famed RockyMountains, having at Grand Is1a,nd__a town of one thousand inhabitants where the trains stop reg- ularly for meals—ascended about two thousand feet, and at from Omaha, thirty-four hundred feet, above the level of the sea. This last-named place will be long remembered for what occurred there during the building of the railroad. At one time it contained four thousand inhabitants; now there is scarcely a house to be seen, outside of the station. Cheyenne City is ﬁve hundred and sixteen miles west from and is the largest town between, Omaha and Ogden. Ii bers a thousand or so less. The “ roughs” congregated here at one time, and it was only after a vigilance committee had hanged several of the worst among them that they departed westward. During their reign it consisted principally of “ gambling hells,” A “ dance houses,” and saloons; murder W33 90 frequent 1311813 it came to be known - that no stranger was safe in the place who had any money on his person. It is now, however, as quiet and orderly a town as can be found in the States, and the inhabitants are enterprising and public spirited. Good schools are supported, and several of the school houses would do honor to many an older and larger, place. There is an extensive manufacture of moss agate jewelry carried on here. The rough material is obtained in large quantities in Wyoming; and of superior quality, es- pecially at Church Buttes and Millerville. Cheyenne is in the midst of the best grazing country in the world. The grass grows a foot high, and is sweet, rich and very nutri- cious, and remains green near its roots during the coldest winters. The standing grass cures during the summer, and all its peculiar properties are as well preserved, and the cattle thrive as well upon it, as if it were cut and stacked. It is sometimes covered with snow, but the cattle readily ﬁnd the grass beneath it. Westward from Cheyenne, the Black Hills, which stretch. far away in along, rugged line, begin to be ascended, and snow sheds and fences mark the road. Reaching Sherman, ﬁve hundred and forty-nine miles from Omaha, their su_m- mit is gained, and the traveler is eight thousand two hundred and forty feet above the level of the sea. Having reached this elevation, the scenery is peculiarly impressive. It is no longer the distant high peaks of the mountains that attract the sight, but dense masses of overhanging clouds, over- topped by the glistening sides of Long’s Peak. For some distance we seem to move along a level plain on the top of the mountains, which is covered with grass and shrubs; but far away to the south Pike’s Peak is plainly visible when the air is clear; and nearly as far to the north lies the noted Elk Mountain.) Sherman is the point on the road from which supplies of wood and sawed lumber are obtained. The hills are cov- ered with dense growths of ‘hard pine, resembling the yel- low pine of Northern New York, and makes both excellent wood and lumber for mechanical purposes, while the supply is seemingly inexhaustible. If the traveler remain any length of time in this elevated latitude he will feel the effects of the rare air If the lungs are at all weak he will suffer considerable inconvenience, if not actual pain. Such as have strong and capacious lungs - frequently suffer from intense headache until becoming fully accustomed to the light air of this high altitude. It is said _ that consumptives whose lungs have been affected for a con- siderably length of time, frequently die in attempting to make the passage of this mountain, by reason of the effect of the air upon the weakened organs. Such people who visit this elevation must approach it carefully, and gradually become accustomed to the increasing rise into the rariﬁed atmosphere. In this way undoubted advantage may be gained by a large class of invalids. Three miles west of Sherman is situated the famous Dale Creek Bridge, which stretches across the creek from bluff to bluﬁ', one hundred and ﬁfty feet above the valley beneath. This is one of the grandest scenes on the road. Numerous parties visit Dale Creek to ﬁsh for trout, in which it abounds. At the bridge there now stands a single house, where once there was a population of six hundred souls. In the valley there are almost countless varieties of wild ﬂowers, three "hundred of which have been classiﬁed. Of this country a person who visited it to describe it, says: “ At this elevated point, the tourist, if his ‘_wind is good,’ can spend a long time, pleasantly, in wandering amid some of the wildest, grandest scenes to be found on the continent. There are places where the rocks rise higher, where the sur- rounding peaks may be loftier, and the torrents mightier in their power, and still not possess such an inﬂuence over the mind as does the wild, desolate looking landscape around Sherman. Although the plateau is covered with grass and occasional shrubs and stunted trees greet the eye, the sur- rounding bleakness and desolation render this place one of awful grandeur. The hand of Him who rules the universe is nowhere else more marked, and in no place which we have ever visited have we felt so utterly alone—~so completely isolated from mankind, and left entirely alone with nature, as at Sherman, on the Black Hills of Wyoming.” Dale Creek is one of the tributaries of Cashe-a-La Poudre River, which runs through a lovely valley com- pletely nestled in the embrace of the wildest mountains. Near the conﬂuence of the waters is what is called Virginia Dale. On one side of the canyon the overhanging rocks are fully six hundred feet high, and furnish a scene of grandeur and sublimity rarely equalled in this or any other country. The highest point is called “The Lover’s Leap;” but for what reason we did not learn. It would certainly be an excellent place from which to end a lover’s career; and we presume it must have been used for this purpose at some time by somebody who had been made weary of life by un- requited love. ' The scenery along this portion of the road is sufficiently varied and beautiful to constantly occupy the attention of the traveler who has any conception of the majestic in na- ture, and so continues until Laramie City‘ is reached. Here the Company’s shops are located, where several hundred workmen are constantly employed, adding an im- portant feature to what would otherwise have been a com- paratively unimportant town. This, together with the fact that it is the county seat of Albany county, has caused it to make wonderful progress recently. Here the company have built a magniﬁcent hotel and made it a regular dining sta- tion. The management of the hotel is excellent,» and the traveler is treated to as good a meal as can be obtained at any of the hotels of the Eastern cities. It was here that the ﬁrst jury composed of men and women was empaneled. The ﬁrst case tried by them was that of a noted desperado, who was accused and con- victed of some crime. Even the men in Wyoming mostly regard the admission of -women to political equality and partnership, where they have so long been the sole power, as a general blessing, and would not have the act which made them possible, repealed if it could be. It is already accepted as a matter of course, and women take their part in all political proceedings accordingly. Passing westward from Laramie, the:“ sage brush,” which forms so prominent a portion of the scenery thence onward to the Paciﬁc coast, is ﬁrst encountered; and so also is “ Johnny Chinaman,” who performs almost all the repairs on the road to San Francisco. He is faithful and indus- trious, and, since he does not drink whisky, more reliable than “Murphy,” who has the monopoly of the business farther to the East. Here also the alkali beds, which are the arch enemies of the farmer and the grazer, begin to show their whitened. surfaces, sometimes extending over whole plains, and thus virtually forbidding all efforts at cultiva tion. Millions upon millions of acres of land, which, if it were not for this, would offer the most extraordinary induce- ments to the settler, are, so far as any known use to which they can be put, absolutely valueless. Two and a half miles west of the unimportant station of Creston, the summit of the great back-bone of the Continent —the Rocky Mountains——is reached. This point is seven hundred and thirty-seven miles from Omaha and eleven hundred and seventy-seven from San Francisco. A small ﬂag, planted by the wife of Captain Clayton, marks the exact point of the summit. This summit is not situated at so high an altitude as is that of the preceding range, at Sherman, being but seven thousand feet above the level of the sea——-more than a thousand feet lower than Sherman. Other points of the great “back-bone” are much higher. This pass was sought on account of its depression. Thirty miles westward from the summit the descent of the celebrated Bitter Creek is begun. It passes through a narrow deﬁle in the mountains, the bluffs in some places almost overhanging the stream. The water is strongly im- pregnated with alkali, and is utterly useless. The banks, and the bottoms where they occur, are ﬁlled with quick- sands, and many cattle are lost seeking for pure water amid this treacherous desert place. Absolutely nothing but “ greese wood ” and “sage brush,” in the line of vegetation, is to be seen anywhere near these bitter waters. At I-Iallville, some twelve or thirteen miles further on, there is a peculiar vein of coal, very valuable and possessed of superior burning qualities, being free from both sulphur and smoke——something that is unknown in any other coal that we have ever heard of, and which will, in the future, make this point a, great commercial centre for this article. The mine can now produce three hundred tons‘ per day. Evanston——thc half-way house, lying midway between Omaha and San Francisco, being nine hundred and ﬁfty- seven miles from each place, is a comparatively new, but thrifty and beautiful place. Here the Company have erected a good eating-house where all the trains dine. Near by are some sulphur springs, possessing rare virtues, which will at no distant day make this pleasant point a famous resort for invalids. Large quantities of coal and lumber are shipped from this place westward over the railroad toward San Francisco, the supply of each being seemingly inex- haustible. Nine miles from Evanston Wahsatch is reached, which takes its name from a celebrated range of mountains of that name, and immediately beyond, the road enters the head of the famous Echo Canyon, through the longest tunnel—~seven hundred and seventy feet——on the road. The approaches to this tunnel are also remarkable points of interest--the one from the east being over a long piece of trestle work, thirty feet high; and the one from the west over one still longer- four hundred and ﬁfty feet—and seventy-ﬁve feet high—— seemingly a most dangerous passage, and frequently causing the timid to shriek out with terror. Debouching from the tunnel into the north fork of Echo Canyon, the train plunges at a fearful rate downward over the heaviest grade on the road. The canyon is a very nar- row deﬁle which affords scarcely enough room, for the road. In many places it is blasted into the sides of the bluffs, which are from ﬁve hundred to two thousand feet high, rising abruptly and almost perpendicularly from base to summit. The grade here is necessarily very steep, as there are no sloping hills over whose sides the grade may fall easily, so the train pitches almost headlong downward into the narrow deﬁle, which soon becomes a gorge and then an awful chasm through which the train rushes onward until it reaches Hanging Rock, which forms a natural bridge from one cliﬁ‘ to the other, and is one of the most wonderful of the many wonderful sights with which this canyon abounds. So rapidly do they come into and go from view, as the train thunders along, that the traveler scarcely has time to note them singly, but they pass as a constant panoramic view with no intevening, non-interesting parts. A writer who has taken more time than we could have in the rapid passage made through this wild mountain gorge, writes of it as follows: “The only difficulty to the common tourist will be that he will hardly see all the beauties of this most beautiful canyon, as the cars thunder along, waking the echoes among /I /‘( June 13, l8’Z’4. Wt)t:I)HUl.li (tr: .()-I...APLIN’S’~‘WEEKLY. l 9 these castellated monuments of red-rock, whose towering domes and frowning buttresses gave the name to this remark- able opening in the Wahsatch mountains. Four miles be- low Hanging Rock the walls rise in massive majesty——the prominent feature of the canyon. Rain, wind and time ha-V3 combined to destroy them, but in vain. Centuries have come and gone since the mighty convulsions shook the earth to its centre, when Echo and VVeber canyons sprung into existence—twin children, whose births were heralded to the world by throes, such as the earth may never feel again; and still the mighty wall of Echo remains, bidding deﬁance alike to time and his co-laborers——the elements; still hangs the delicate fret and frost-work from the walls; still the pillar, column, dome and spire stand boldly forth in all their grand, wild and weird beauty to entrance the traveler and ﬁll his mind with wonder and awe.” “On goes the engine, whirling us past castle, cathedral, towering columns and rugged battlement; past ravines which cut the walls from crest to base in awful chasm; shooting over bridges and ﬂying past and under overhanging walls; on, on past the towering cliffs, a thousand feet high, where the rocks still lie, piled there by the Mormons to defend this pass against Uncle Sam’s army, under Johnston, sent out in ’57; and still on, rushing past Witch’s Cave, Pulpit Rock, where the Mormon Elders preached their ﬁrst sermon in Utah Ter- ritory, until it reaches Echo City Station, where we leave the train for a few moments to reassure ourselves that we are still upon this side of the boundaries of life.” ....___...p._.¢g,_.4____._._. THE CAUSES AND CURE OF IN SANITY IN HERITED AND ACQUIRED. ’ In a. previous number of the WEEKLY we spoke of the fact that scientiﬁc inquiries which have been made into the causes of “ The Skeleton in Modern Society,” had been pre- sented to the public in Hctr_pe7°’s rlfagaeme for May; also re- ferring to a second article whose tendency is to call atten- tion to the social question as advocated in the WEEKLY. The title to this last article is “The Defective Classes.” These two articles, written by different persons and pub- ‘lished simultaneously in the same magazine, speak awhole volume of meaning to the public. Not anybody can read them and not see clearly, if he take any interest in the facts presented, that “The Skeleton in Modern Society” and “ The Defective Classes” are one and the same thing. It is for this reason that we have chosen to make them the subject for several articles. The writer of the former article divides insan- ity into two classes—moral insanity and physical in- sanity. ’I'.te former, he says, is caused by moral degrada- tion, and the latter is inherited or is the result of acute sick- ness;bu.toi—lier cases “spring from pride, sensuality, de- bauchery and habitual vices, and have a previous history, a preparatory immorality, which ends in what is called ‘ moral insanity.’ ” \Ve think that this classiﬁcation will tend to conﬁrm what has already come to be regarded almost as established, that the causes of disease—physical sickness—are immoral equally with those of any other disease or failing. The false theology that has beeh enforced as a system of morals has divided the responsibility——so-callcd——of human frailty, making the individual responsible for what it denominatés moral sin; but leaving it to be understood that physical sickness is a visitation of Providence, as a punishment for some moral delinquency, thus virtually arﬁrming that there is no such thing as physical sin. The real truth is, how-‘ ever, that all so-called sin has a physical basis. Even those things that most clearly result from a lack of conscience, if traced to their real sources, would be found-to arise, primarily, from some physical cause. Take for instance the case of a person who has a propensity for stealing. Stealing is classed as a moral sin, but if the thief’s history were traced backward this propensity would be found to have been inherited. So admitting the writer’s classiﬁcation of causes in the magazine article as correct in the main, moral decrepitude may in most cases be traced to inherited tendencies, and is therefore substantially of physical origin. ‘ But behind this general statement their lies a truth which perhaps may be said to make the very reverse true. Wliile immoral acts may be traced to physical causes, these causes may again be followed to seemingly immoral sources. In the case of stealing, though it were an inherited propensity by the person who steals, the causes which transmitted this condition to him may rightly be termed immoral, since if the mother knew she were likely to endow her child with the proclivity she? should not have borne him, and if she did hear him without knowing she would be liable to thus endow him, or even that she could do so, it was moral ignorance, which is equally as direful in its effects as if it were willfully done. Hence, whether causes be denominated moral or physical, they are both,'really, being either ﬁrst physical and second- arily moral, or ﬁrst moral and secondarily physical, which is equivalent to saying that moral and physical causes and sin are one and the same in reality. Insanity is no exception to the rule; and whether it be acquired or inherited, the above statement is equally applicable. ’ = Quetelet, the great master of statistics, considers insanity under the “development of the moral and spiritual facul- ties.” If the different departments of human nature are considered relatively, and one called moral and another physical purposely to form a distinction, the various ques- tions that arise may be easily disposed of; but if morality is to be ascribed to the especial endowment of GrOd, inde- pendent of material causation, and physical disease to the frailty of Nature, then there can never be a reconciliation between the different departments of human character. Quetelet seeing this, wisely remarked that “ moral insanity has a previous history, a preparatory immorality, which leads to it.” ' The most carefully acquired and prepared statistics estab- lish the fact that insanity is on the increase, and most rapidly in the countries that boast the highest civilization; while among those people who are considered as semi-barbaric it is almost unknown. Thus in Germany the insane number two to the thousand; while among the Tartars there is one only to ﬁfteen hundred. The whole number of insane, in- cluding idiots, of Europe is three hundred thousand, the large majority of which are in the northern, central and western nations, and the small minority in the south and east. The majority of the insane are women; of the idiotic, men. This brings us to the causes of insanity, especially to the cases that are acquired. VVhy should the insane be largely women? An examination of the statistics will at least in- dicate the reason. Not only are the majority of the insane, women, but the large majority of women who are insane are unmarried or those who had been divorced or widowed when sane. There seems, then, to be something connected ‘with marriage that has a modifying effect upon insanity, and it ii‘s"kn0Wn well enough that this is sexual commerce. Those women who have never been married are liable to insanity, as compared With the married, in the proportion of three to .one; while those who have been divorced, or who have lost their husbands otherwise and who remain an- married, form quite four-ﬁfths of the female insane. _ From this it is evident, in the ﬁrst place, ‘bilat a condition of celibacy, or of sexual repression, is not in accoztdance with nature, and that those who defy its laws are liable to the greatest of all human losses~—the loss of mental control; and, in the second place, that those who, by previous asso- ciations, have been accustomed to sexual commerce, but who have been accidentally or incidentally deprived of it, are liable to insanity, as compared with others, in the pro- portion of ﬁve to one. If these terrible effects follow the want or the suspension of the natural intercourse of the sexes, in so large a propor- tion of the whole number of cases of insanity, what a variety of lesser ills must there be to a still larger proportion! In- deed, the known facts evidently establish the theory that a person, after arriving at a certain age, cannot abstain from sexual commerce without detriment; and that, having once become accustomed to it, any forced abstinence afterward is certain to work some baneful if not direful effect. These considerations lead to another very important in- quiry relative to the causes of inherited insanity. Undoubt- edly conception occurs with many females who previous to it had suffered from enforced abstinence. If the effects of repression pro re so serious in so many cases upon the per- sons themselves, and so many as we know there must suffer in our present social system constantly from this cause, is it a far-fetched conclusion to arrive at to say that, undoubt- edly, almost the whole of those who are born with insanity, or who have inherited tendencies in that direction, are the result of sexual repression upon the part of either one or the other of their parents? Assuredly not! We hold that this conclusion is not only reasonable, but, tested by what are established facts about insanity as shown by statistics, legitimate and inevitable. Moreover, would it not be plausible to class all cases of insanity as results of unnatural conditions, sexually‘? Since it is so evident that enforced repression outside of marriage causes so large a percentage of insanity in women, is it not reasonable to be- lieve, at least, that the remainder of the cases that occur among women who are married arise from the same or from similar causes? Who but herself can tell the history of the insane wife? And to whom can she, in our present social conditions, when sane, conﬁde it without endangering her social standing? It is considered as the height of impropriety for a woman, especially, to consult anybody about her-sexual relations; so thousands go on year after year suffering untold misery, not daring to seek a remedy. Many of these cases might be alleviated if there were to be a mutual conﬁdence between husbands and wives; but hundreds of women pretend a happiness, sexually, when really there is nothing but loath- ing and disgust present. Many fear to be true to their womanly purity, lest, by so doing, they shall cause their husbands to lose their attachments for them. But this is a serious, almost a fatal error, since we are knowing toa num- ber of cases where the reverse is true, and to none where it is false. The fact of faith and the giving of conﬁdence in such cases is a good foundation upon which to predicate a removal of whatever difficulties, while the withholding of conﬁdence and the constant affectation of something that does not exist, exerts aninﬂuence over the husband which is certain eventually, to lead to estrangement, sexually, if not otherwise. If these causes of insanity have a real foundation, do they not indicate clearly in what direction its cure must be sought? Nothing is more evident, that if insanity is caused by re- pressed or improper sexuality, its cure must be sought in the healthful exercise of that passion. Cases where this has proved successful, have been observed, but the genera. sentiment which it is supposed exists, regarding the fact,. has so far deterred any scientific statement of it, as well as- prevented any movement to thoroughly test the matter. In our opinion, however, formed only after a careful consider- ation of all the facts to be gained by inquiry and statistics, there are but a very few cases of insanity now existing that might not be cured, if the proper methods were resorted to to eﬁect a cure. But those who have the care of the insane, knowing the causes that have made them so, refrain from fear of public opinion, from suggesting publicly or profes- sionally, what they admit, privately,.to be true, regarding; their treatment. They know that a person insane from re- pressed sexuality can never be cured unless that passion be furnished its normal exercise. In one sense they are appar- ently justified in their silence, since they are like the physi- cians who, as a class, refrain from_making public what they know about the fearful effects of improper sexual inter- course that is almost universal in marriage, because they think that to do otherwise, that to tell what they do know, would cost them their practice and position. Thus a sham morality and a falsely educated public opinion conspire to- gether to perpetuate the increase of insanity, as well as to deny to those already afflicted all hope for a cure. We cannot close this article more appropriately than by a quotation from the article in Harper’3 “We may moralize over these things in the pride of our philosophy, or laugh at them invour self—conceit, but we cannot so easily get rid of them. We must allow that there is anunsound vein running through the constitution of the race, and that we are all exposed to its mischief and in need of care and discipline. Every family has irnembers more. or less delicate in nervous organization, and every person, however robust, needs to look well to his body and his soul. in seasons of peculiar trial or weakness.” ——-——-*—>-—+Q+-—<——-——..___. A.N IMPORTANT DECISION. The people are beginning to appreciate that human beings havega right to love one another without rel'ei'ring their aﬂectien-_to third parties for their sanction or approbation The following proves the truth of the above assertion: “The Bi-inek1iéy\,l;)ivorce Suit,which has so long been pend- ing before J ridge V9,_r1 Brunt, terminated. yesterday (May 27th) in a verdict for “tire plaintiﬁ, Mrs. Brincklev. The point involved in the case is\"o‘n'é.‘». Of i1¥1i{01‘t3,1},E§:~i«5f:‘i’ie:lT1I‘ﬂy believed that a contract of marriage was differed into by the parties, and that, although the ceremony was not solemnized under any of the legal and accepted forms, it was, neverthe. less, avalid marriage.”—-N. Y I-Iemld, May 28th, There is something revolting in the idea that two young people cannot love one another, or place conﬁdence in one ning to appreciate the fact of marriage or rather union they merit. -—-—~——~o-—+o THOSE TERRIBLE WOMEN. From an editorial ‘in the New York Nation of May 14,, headed “Suffrage in Michigan,” the following extract is; taken. The position held by the Protestant Clergy as a body" on sexual and social matters, is not believed to be generally‘ creditable, and any defense that can be made to cover the delinquencies of its weaker members ought to be made as»: public as possible, inasmuch as it is certainly greatly need- ed in order to re-establish them in the good opinion of the public. Here is the article 2 “The delicacy of the position which the pastor of a churcfr occupies toward the female members of his congregation is; one of the familiar facts of church history. Indeed we. mlght almost say that it is one of the most prominent facts of church history. It has constituted one of the great diffi- culties of church government. and has bred more ecclesiasti- cal scandals and disasters than all other agencies put to- gether_; and this although a pastor, be he priest or minister-,. is_a picked, highly-tra1ned_ man, and although the women! vsith whom he is brought into professional relations are, in the Protestant church at least, pretty sure to be women off more than ordinary moral and religious culture and delicacy‘ of feeling. Nevertheless, we venture to assert that there is‘ no minister who has not found these relations at times a» source of extraordinary difficulty and danger, and who lfas not often shuddered over the reﬂection that they constantly kept his character or his peace within a hair’s-breadth of’ rum, by placing him, whatever his own purity, at the mercy‘ of the impure. The application of this to the relations of men and ‘women in ‘political life is so obvious and so easy that we shall do nothing toward making it beyond the eita-- tion of the illustration to which We have referred. A minis . ter of a neighboring city. who is known and respected whereverthe English language is spoken. three or four years- ago went into the female— suffrage movement with his usual enthusiasm and with that somewhat wild faith in Providenc against which Providence is so constantly warning us and: was made president of an association. He at once fdund himself b1‘011Eht into contact with all sorts of people, as a. man who enters the political arena must expect to be. and of course more than half of them were women. He was emi-— nently ﬁtted both by nature and education to argue the- question out and persuade people into-supporting it. and there was every reason-for believing that the inﬂuence of sex Would_ not impede his labors or breed trouble between him and his coadjutors. Well, what followed? Why, he found among the most prominent of these coadjutors women who- thought about nothing but their sex, and whose interest in the suffrage was mainly due to the desire to try experiments with marriage and the family, and who, far from regarding the minister as an orator or reformer simply, regarded him, another, but that it is necessary to secure, themselves mu- tually against each others perﬁdy by binding their vows- with the chains of civil or ecclesiastical law. In generous. minds even the demands for such securities would be likely‘ to produce in many the state of feeling they are designed to- counteract. However, in these days, the people are begin-- whenever it exists, as in the case before us, and thus to- treat interloping lawyers and priests with the contempt. 19 - ‘ WOODHULL & CL.AFLIN’S WEEKLY. V simply as a man. and began to try to gain their ends of one kind or another by iinpugning his chastity. The result was that before very long the Womau’s Suffrage Society was re- solved into a great debating club on the sexual relations of its members. Some of the principal ones began to occupy themselves either in making or contradicting or withdrawing charges of unchastity. or carrying about confessions or de- nialsof adultery, and ﬁnally they ﬁlled the newspapers and the church and the courts with their clamors, and befouled American homes in all corners of the country with their dis- gusting pros and cons, and actually were the indirect means, before they wound up, of summoning a council of the Con- gregational Church to look into their allegations. If the allegations in the above attack upon women be cor- rect, how great is their delinquency? As it reads, no clergy- man’s chastity is safe even in the company of “women of p more than ordinary moral and religious culture, and delicacy of feeling.” If it be true that even clerics are at the mercy of impure women, what chance can ordinary mortals stand against them? Our young men will have a right to demand the protection of the law. Pater families must restrain his daughters from theirperegrinations. The peace of society de- mands it. As to permitting woman to vote—-—never—-it is a monstrous doctrine, and would leave mankind entirely at their mercy. If the above may be looked upon as a general charge against all women, there is also a speciﬁc attack upon members of the Woman’s Suffrage Society in the above ex tract. The members of it are accused “ of regarding a cer: tain clergyman as a man, and trying to gain their ends by impuging the chastity of a man, and this man a minister.” Verily, as Shakespeare says : - “ The wheel has come full circle." In ancient days the Romans raped the Sabines, in these days, it appears that the latter have commenced to return the compliment. But this is not the only crime The Wom- an’s Suffrage Society, or rather the members thereof, are ac- cused of ; they are charged among other items too numerous to repeat, with carrying about confessions or denials of adul_ tery, with ﬁlling the newspapers and the church and the courts with their clamors, with befouling American houses in all corners with their pros and cons, and ﬁnally with being the indirect means of summoning a Council of the Con- gregational Church to look into their allegations. _. These are terrible atrocities, more especially the two‘ lat- ter, think of it———befouling people’s houses with pros, and song’ What a villainy; then as regards the summoning of a Conn- cil of the Congregational Church—a speciesgﬂﬁf Churchjcide as it be termed. but 3. tithe above accusations be C01'1"eCt» not 0111)’ 01131115 the W.‘-3’ﬁ'ien of our country not to vet, _t0_ bgxeiftirpated as deadly enemies of the genus homo. .___.___._._,...¢ CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM. When it is remembered that, setting aside the Mosaic law, the great Nazarene refused to punish or even to condemn the woman who was taken inthe act of adultery ; and when we reflect that he more fully exp ounded his gospel to another woman (who had had ﬁve husbands and was at the time of his conversation with her living witha man who was not her husband) more fully than he did even to his disciples ; and when to that we add the statement that he honored the con- verted harlot Mary Magdalene above other sinners, because “she loved much,” we do not wonder that one of his simple followers, who rejects the traditions of the churches and priesthoods, delivers himself thus on the social and sexual questions in the paper called “ The Kingdom of Heaven,” which is published in Boston, and of which he is the Editor : “ Hence, in just such consociations, made perfect, there will be no monopoly, no law-makers, no courts to try causes, no prisons or almshouses, no master and slave, no landlord and tenant, no husband and wife; for each soul will be a complete individualization in God, male or female—a law unto him or herself, and a law of justice to each other. “We believe in a mating of the sexes by God’s divine laws of nature, in as much freedom, for those prepared to use and not abuse such a divine blessing. as is enjoyed bythe angels in heaven or the birds in the groves.” This tallies with the freedom which the great Naza- rene told the Sadducees existed in the supernal sphere; for there, said he, “they neither marry nor are given in mar- riage, but are as the angels in heaven.” b-49 EDUCATIONAL COMMUN ISM. The Public School is the ﬁrst footprint of Communism. It ~ is not right, according to the selﬁsh principle of British polit- ical economy, to tax Smith for the education of Brown’s children, but it is profoundly correct, notwithstanding ; and it is unquestionable that Smith’s interest as well as Brown’s is advanced by the operation. It is believed that the majority of the people of the civilized world admit the soundness of the above conclusion, they now only differ as regards the methods by which it shall be put in operation. There are a few individuals, it is true, who yet affirm the right of parents to injure the ‘communities in which they ex- ist by condemning their children to ignorance, but they really are in a hopeless minority among us. The only important enemy of the Public School system is selﬁsh Sectarianism, which, it is believed, endeavors to overturn it, not so much f or the well-being of the children as for the advancement of the interest of the religious speciality, in the welfare of which it is more deeply interested. But though, as a whole, the public will indorses our present system of general education, there are many details connected with it on which people disagree. One of these isthe question of nationalizing education. At present, in the jxiortn, it is a state aﬁair, but necessity has forced us to in- . tcction of which has lately appeared, and is here appended : u. itiate a wiser and wider policy in the South. Senator Stew- art, of Nevada, proposes to make this general, and has sub- mitted to the Senate the following amendment to the Con- stitution: Art. 16. If any State shall fail to maintain a common school system, under which all persons between the ages of ﬁve and eighteen years, not incapacitated for the same, shall receive, free of charge, Zsuch elementary education as Congress may prescribe, the Congress shall have power to establish therein such a system, and cause the same to be maintained at the expense of such State. , The N. Y. World comments upon the same as follows : “This is one _of the most important amendments that has ever been submitted to Congress. The Constitution imposes upon Congress the guarantee to every State of a republican form of government_. Now there can _be no such form of government, either in form or in spirit, without education. We are rapidly coming to the_doctrine. that ignorance is a crime, and certainly it is a crime against the State. It is more necessary to build school-houses than jails, and quite as important to send children to school as to preserve the quarantine at our ports. We trust'the Senator will press this amendment, or one similar to it in spirit, and that it will commend itself to the prompt and intelligent considera- tion of Congress.” National compulsory education is the meaning of the above article. It may be said to be based on the rights of the children of the nation which have been sometimes ignor- ed by parents and by States. The WEEKLY believes that the position taken in the above amendment is sound, but that it should be preceded by the admission by the» nation of the right of all children to a healthy existence among us. To give a child education that wants also proper food and shelter, is like presentinga naked beggar with a cravat when he wants a coat and pants. It takes us as Spirit- ualists to demand this; we leave it to our Christian brethren and sisters to refuseit to the, little ones of whom their God said, “ Sufferhttle children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” EQUAL RIGHTS. The Equal Rights party is not dead, it bides its time. In this era, as in the days of yore, events are stronger than ar- guments. All the revolutions advocated by the WEEKLY- industrial,ﬁnancial, social and religious-—are moving forward with far greater rapidity than the public are being pre- pared to receive them and to proﬁt by them. As a people we are just emerging out of the miasma of slavery. Indi- vidually we do not appreciate liberty, or our U. S. Constitu- tion would be a living thing and not a dead letter ; we should not be ruled by rings and corporations as we are; nor would our legislators be under the necessity of deﬁning for us, as they are doing now, the civil rights of American Citizens. S No reader of the WEEKLY need be told that it is cosmo- politan. It recognizes all human beings as one family (al- though it does not claim that they have proceeded from one pair as our Christian friends assert) and ﬁnds fault with none of their religions. It considers the savage who wor- sliips a toad as grading higher in development than the bushman who has no aspiration for the future; and asserts that there is no difference save in degree between the former and the radical spiritualist who stands upon the plane of perfect spiritual freedom. It is therefore with perfect can- dor it can venture to discuss any subject connected with humanity, having no likes or dislikes for any section of the inhabitants of the earth, or any special respect or honor for any part of the great circle of mankind. Fundamental rights such as it seeks to establish for women and men, are the same in all climates and in all countries, and the nation or the individual that refuses to admit the same suffers the penality for so doing. As in the case of slavery, a right, may be denied, but it remains nevertheless, and in due time will be established. Such is the belief of the WEEKLY, and therefore it claims to be competent to discuss the question of the Civil Rights of American citizens, a bill [for the pro- A bill supplementary to an act entitled “ An act to protect all citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means for their vindication,” passed April 9, 18(i6. Be it enacted, etc., That all citizens and other persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan- tages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres and other places of public amuse- ment; and also of common schools and public institutions of learning or benevolence supported in whole or in part by general taxation, and of cemeteries so supported, and also the institutions known as agricultural colleges endowed by V the United States, subject only to the conditions and_l1mita— tions established bylaw and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude. _ SEC. 2. That any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person entitled to the beneﬁts, except for reasons by law applicable to citizens of every race and color. and regardless of any previous condition _of servi- tude, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, ad- vantages, facilities or privileges in said section enumerated, or by aiding or inciting such denial, shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum _of $500 to the person ag- grieved thereby, to be recovered in an action on the case, with full costs: and shall also for every such_ offense, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction there- of, shall be _ﬁned not more than $1,000, or Shall be imprisoned not more than one year; Provided, That the parbv 3«g£1‘l9V9d shall not recover more_than one penalty: and when the of- fense is a refusal of burial, the penalty may be recovered by the heirs at law of the person whose body has been refused burial. And provided further, That all persons may elect to sue for the penalty aforesaid or to proceed under_ their rights at common law and by State statutes; and having so elected to proceed in the one mode or the other, their right June 13, 71874. ﬁr . F _ T this proviso shall not apply to criminal proceedings, either under this act or thecriminal law of any State. SEC. 8. That the District and Circuit Courts of the United States shall_have, exclusively of the courts of the several S193-.1368. Oognlzange Qf_all crimes and offenses against, and vio- lations of, the provisions of this act; and actions for penalty given by the preceding section may be prosecuted in the Ter- ritorial District of the Circuit Court of the United States, wherever the defendant may be found, without regard to the other party. And the district attorneys, marshals and deputy marshals of the United States, and commissioners ap- pqitlted by the Circuit and Territorial Courts of the U. S. with powers of arresting and imprisoning or bailing offend- ?“ against the law of_ the U. S., and hereby specially author- ized and required to institute proceedings against every per- .~ son who shall violate the provisions of this act, and cause him to be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be,_for trial before such Court of the United States or Terri- torial Court as by law has cognizance of the offense, except 111 th_9 respect Of the right of action accruing to the person aggrieved; and such district attorneys shall cause such pro- ceedings to be prosecuted to their termination as in other cases. Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deny or defeat any right of civil action ac- cr_uing to any person, whether by reason of this act or other- wise. SEC. 4. That no citizen possessing all other qualiﬁcations which are or may be prescribed by law shall be disqualiﬁed for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States _or of any State, on account of race, color, or previous conditions_ of servitude, and any ofﬁcer or other person charged with any duty in the selection or summoning of jurors who shall exclude or fail to summon any citizen for the cause aforesaid shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be ﬁned not more than $1,000. S1190. 5. That all cases arising under the provisions of this act in the courts of the United States, shall be reviewable by’ the Supreme_ Court of the United States without regard to the sum in controversy, under the same provisions and regu- lations as are now provided by law for the review of other causes in said court. The passage of this by the Senate seems to have roused all the ire of all the negrophobists in the country; even the New York Herald has devoted a column and a half to the re—pic- turinglall the old ghosts, fetishes and bogies, that were used to scare northeners previous to the war of the rebellion. We are told in it that it can bring no solid advantage to our colored population; that it is all in vain to declare by law that negroes may purchase boxes in the opera,or seats in palace cars, and to’ enact heavy penalties against those who at pre- sent draw the line between them and their white fellow—citi- zens.” Further on it says, “that negroes are too poor to purchase such luxuries; certainly if that statementbe correct; the N. Y. Herald might there have rested its case, but no, it continues by pointing out a line of con- duct to be pursued against any interlopers with black skins who dare demand equal public accommodations with their whiter neighbors in this wise. “ No law can regulate or punish social manners, and persons skilled in the art of ex- pressing ccntempt would have no diﬁiculty in surrounding disagreeable people with such an atmosphere of contumely as would be inexpressibly wounding to the pride or vanity of the few negroes who could bear the expense of asserting their equality.” This picture is not complimentary to upper tendom, and certainly ought to effectually repress any desire respectable negroes might have to avail themselves of such companionship. The next paragraph opens richly; we will comment on it as we go. “ With the law as it now stands negroes meet with no obstructions to the free use of ordinary railroad cars.” Very good, my lord Herald, ordinary cars for or- dinary folks. “ People who shrink from contact with them, have an easy refuge in the palace cars, which also protect them from disagreeable nearness to coarse-mannered, ill- dressed or bad-smelling passengers of the white race.” Very neatly put, my lord, a nice extension of the doctrine of class legislation; hear it, ye coarse-mannered, ill-dressed and bad-smelling white American citizens! Slavery having been overthrown, it is necessary to originate, in emulation of the old world aristocracies, some new method of discriminating between and arranging the citizens of our Republic. In Europe, people are graded by their blood, here the N. Y. Herald proposes to classify mankind by their smell. But the cruelest cut of all is that it will throw open the public schools to the negro. The educational policy advo- to come in, and to rule negro children out. It would, in this matter, have the nation treat the negro as the barber in Barnaby Rudge treated the coal-heaver. The latter, his face grimy with his professional duties, desired the former to shave him. The barber politely replied, “We don’t shave gentlemen in your profession-—herel ” “ How so?” answered the coal-heaver; “I seed a baker come in!” “True,” said the shopkeeper, “we shave bakers, but We draws the line at bakers!” As regards the public schools, our contemporary appears to draw the line at Irishmen. In summing up the Herald asserts—“ The negro claim to social equality is not a natural but a forced growth.” We deny this, declaring that it is natural, and the denial of such claim is aristocratic, or skin, tyranny. To proceed. “The negroes can rise ;in the social scale only by industry, thrift and intelligence ;”—-this is cool, after telling us that they ought not to be permitted to sit in an opera box, or ride in a palace car, or be treated as others in hotels, if they choose to pay for such privileges. It is useless to advise them un- der such circumstances “ to secure respect by their industries and virtues,” if as a class they are to be considered and treated as inferiors in these particulars. Lastly, the Herald errs when it ﬁnishes with the statement that “the laws have already done for them all that mere laws can accomplish,” because, if they had done so, there would then have been no necessity for the Civil Rights bill, or for the N. Y. Herald to have published the article at present under discussion. to proceed in the other jurisdiction 511611 be baI'r6d- But Instead of such balderdash how plain and simple is the cated by the Herald appears to be to compel Irish children - June13, 1874. woonHULL 85 CLAB‘LIN’S WEEKLY. 11 true course for the nation to pursue in regard to the negro population. If 1hey are to be considered as inferior to whites, deﬁnetheir inferiority by law. Hotel-keepers, Rail- road Directors, or even august Upper—tendom, are not our national law-makers. If, on the contrary, the law is to be, as we would have it, color-blind, it ought to protect their lib- erties from invasion,as it does those of their white male fellow- citizens. How people calling themselves Christians, who believe in a book that aﬂirms that all people are of one blood, can tolerate, much less seek to impose such burdens on their sisters and brethren, is a mystery; it is far too deep for the WEEKLY to solve, only the clergy can do ample justice to the delicate social questions involved in its con- sideration. .+—(—-———.——__.. ON THE ROAD TO ZION. The United States Brewers’ Association, as it appears from a call they have just issued, propose to meet at Boston, on Thursday, June 4, in order to form an anti-temperance, or rather an anti-abstinence, league, for they maintain in the same that they are all friends to real temperance. William Cobbett was of the opinion that beer ‘made from malt and hops and unadulterated was a healthy and invigorating beverage, far more so than either tea or coffee. Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, lately declared that he would not condemn a laborer for sclacing himself with a glass of ale after a day’s hard labor, so he seems partially to indorse the above given opinion. Whether ale, or beer, or cider, be whole- some drinks, ﬁt for the use of man or not, the WEEKLY does not propose to discuss in this article. It has simply taken note of the above-mentioned call of the U. S. Brewers’ Asso- ciation, as reported in the New York Sun newspaper, for the purpose of making an extract from the same, which reads thus: “ There is yet another and a higher than a mere ﬁnancial “issue which we propose to submit to the people of the whole country. It is that of personal liberty. The principle of the sovereignty of the individual was years ago announced by an esteemed Massachusetts philosopher, whose very deﬁnition of the term was accepted and embodied in his own system of philosophy by so eminent a. British thinker as John Stuart Mill. The spirit of that principle breathes forth in every line of our own immortal Declaration of Independ- ence. It is the same which urged on and fed throughout the Northern States the increasing agitation against negro bond- age in the South, and led to its ﬁnal abolition. Upon that same principle we make the issue now. A man shall own himself, be his own master, be owned or controlled by no- body else, have no master or overseer put over him, so long as he regards the like right to individual sovereignty in others.” This the WEEKLY fully indorses, and like little Oliver Twist in the poor-house, holds out its plate, and asks the U. S. Brewers Association for more. It demands the same in- dividual sovereignty for woman as well as for man, and, until Woman obtains it, would respectfully notify the brew- ers and distillers that she is justiﬁed in resorting to other means (viz: praying and singing in public if she pleases) in order to express her desires. The WEEKLY grants that her pre- sent deﬁant attitude as a Crusader would be in man illegal, but she is a pariah outside of law, wholly unrecognized as a legislator, and therefore it is her right to make use of any weapon she pleases in self-defense. When things are differ- ent, and she is asked to take a hand with man in lawmaking, we may justly expect and even compel her to obey the laws to which she has given her consent, but not till then. Now, she is simply ruled as men rule horses and other dumb brutes, except that in the city where this is written there is no good Mr. Bergh to protect her from injury and insult from her masters. This being so, we respectfully request the U. S. Brewers Association not to rest content with going only half way to individual sovereignty, for praying crusades or- ganized by women are only ﬁtting remonstrances against the barbarous political despotism to which they are sub- jected; and furthermore that, while they are thus unrecog- nized and unrepresented, their tyrants are not justiﬁed in punishing them for expressing their desires illegitimately, inasmuch as at present there is no other effective method open to them by which they can legally perform such operations. -———--—--->—+Q>—<-—---—-.—. WOMAN’S RIGHTS SIN LAW. People are apt to fancy that those who assert the doctrine of individual sovereignty, a doctrine that would simplify (and diminish the number of) the laws, are aggressors. This is a mistake. They are not. In social matters the opinions of the majority are forced upon free lovers both by the ecclesiastical and civil laws. We are on the defense. We assert our rights against the rulings of the past. We claim for woman her individual sovereignty, of which she has been deprived (unjustly and to the detriment of our race) for ages. In the name of woman we spit upon and scorn the monstrosities of man’s edicts so often applied in her case. Every woman knows that we are right in so doing, though, in many instances, prudence suppresses her open indorse- ment of our statements. But, though possibly the majority of women dare not speak their thoughts upon such subjects, we are profoundly thankful to ﬁnd that there are presses which are not afraid of upholding the cause of the op- , pressed, when that cause is the cause of justice and of right. It is therefore with profound satisfaction we republish an item from that high-toned and l.iberal paper, the Index of Boston, touching upon the above questions: “ WOODHULL & CLAELIN’s WEEKLY says: ‘ In cases (in our courts) in which both sexes are concerned, both sexes ought to be represented, not only in the jury-box but on the bench.’ And does not the common-sense of justice say—— Amen!” ' Verily, like our respected contemporary, we think that it does, and have enlisted for the war for such necessary refor- mation. ~——-—-—-o—-o+—<---————- CHAS. H. FOSTER IN AUSTRALIA. From 1726 fAge,§published in Melbourne, Australia, we learn that Mr. Foster, the world-renowned medium, is giving Seances in that city with his usual success, confounding the “wise in their own conceit,” and convincing the incredu- lous that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy. The paper referred to gives a full report—fair and candid we should say-of a seance given to members of the press, in which his nu- merous phases of mediumship were tested to the satisfaction of the reporters. We are indebted to Mr. Poster for copies of the Mel- bourne papers, and are pleased to learn of his health and prosperity. Long may he enjoy both. -—--—-——>-+o»—<— MISCELLANEOUS; MANIFESTATIONS IN TERRE HAUTE, IND. BY A. H. SUMMERS. To the Editor of the Empress: “ If a man die shall he live again?” I do not know. Mate- rialists say no, and ﬁtheir answer is worthy of respect, for they arrive at that conclusion by honest, careful and labori- ous investigation of all facts and principles upon the subject of which they have any knowledge. They also seek to dis- cover new facts and new principles, and by regular and easy --xx The cabinet is a. plain box ﬁve by three feet, and eight feet high, entirely separate and away from the walls of the room, and standing on blocks eight inches from the ﬂoor. The front is composed of doors, so that when open the entire in- side of the cabinet is exposed to view, and all so arranged as to aﬁbrd an 633)’ Opportunity to examine the entire inside and outside of the cabinet, which being fastened together with screws, any one who chooses is at liberty to take to pieces, and examine each piece separately. _ At the close of each seance I have always found the me- dium tied exactly as I tied her or as I saw her tied two even- ings when others tied her. The medium and her husband, Dr. Pence, and all who encourage people to come and inves- tigate, are very kind, accommodating, and unselﬁsh in their efforts to bring these facts to the minds of the people. N 0 charge is ever made for attending the seances and witness- ing the phenomena, and it requires a person of very keen perceptive faculties to detect the motives of Mrs. Stewart, her husband, or Dr. Pence, in gulling honest people day after day and year after year. Materialists, there are some facts in Terre Haute that it would well become you to investigate. After the change which we call death, I do not ‘know whether we will enjoy a conscious, happy life or not, but I am strongly inclined to‘ think we will; and I have found my best reasons for thinking so at Mrs. Stewart’s seance room.—-Terre Ha-ute Erpress. ._.i..._. The Iowa State Association of Spiritualists will hold their Second Quarterly Convention for 1874, in Berry’s Hall, Fort Dodge, commencing Saturday. J une 27, at 10 o’clock, A. M., and continue over Sunday. Believing that the agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom, and that all subjects are worthy of a candid inves- tigation, we cordially invite all seekers after truth, of what- ever name or creed, to attend and participate with usin our council. - ‘ As usual, the platform will be free for the discussion of all kind.‘ Friends from abroad will be entertained by the citizens of Fort Dodge as far as possible. The speakers will be: Warren Chase, Dr. C. P. Sanford, Mrs. H. Morse, Capt. H. H. Brown. deductions arrive at certain conclusions. He who believes the Bible to be true, says yes; after a man dies he shall live again. The Bible contains many accounts of persons having died and returned. through the instrumentality of witches, or persons who had certain peculiar powers, enabling the de- parted to assume the semblance of physical bodies, clothed and in their right minds. There are so many statements in the Bible, however, that are so absurd, contradictory and wholly unreliable (the reader may look these up for himself, for in this country persons are arrested and imprisoned for publishing obscene extracts from “ God’s word.” None but the American Bible Society, and agents, are protected by the government in circulating obscene literature.) that the Bible to me is not an infallible book, and consequently the stories of the communication of Samuel, and others of the departed, with persons remaining in this life, I cannot believe true, merely because they are in the “Holy Bible.” But I am very glad that their being related there does not prove them untrue. Socrates addressing those by whom he had been con- demned, spoke of his death as a departure to the society of the good in another world, and asked, “If this be true, oh my judges, what greater good can there be than this? At what price would not either of you purchase a conference with Orpheus or Musacus, with Hesiod and Homer? What would not any of you give for an interview with him who led that mighty army against Troy, or with Ulysses,’ or ten thousand of others, both male and female, that might be mentioned? For to converse and associate with them would be an inestimable felicity. Truly I should be willing to die often if these things be true.” Dr. Allen Pence, of this city, says these things are true. Says he can prove it, and will, to any reasonable person who will come and investi- gate the evidences which will be given. I came 130 miles to learn if possible the answer to the question at the beginning of this article. I have attended some of Mrs. Stewart’s seances. I have at ﬁve of these seances tied a three-eighths rope tightly around her waist with a hard square knot, and a succession of the same kin d of knots as close to- gether as they could be tied, making a piece of knotted rope six inches long from her waist, then with the ends of the rope put through two holes in the side of the cabinet have tied them as tightly on the outside as possible, with ﬁve or six hard knots after the last knot on the inside drawn closely to _ the side of the cabinet, the medium occupying a chair inside. The doors being closed, after waiting a few minutes, all in the room could see faces and hands at the aperture in the middle door, and so distinctly as to distinguish the features, and we could hear voices there quite different from theme- dium’s. We could also see the door of the cabinet opened, by what are claimed to be materialized spirit forms, usually dressed in white, who would walk out into the room, being plainly visible to all, from head to foot, one at a time, and all differing from the medium and from each other in size, some of whom would touch persons in the room, move benches. chairs, etc. Saturday evening, May 16, after I had tied the medium as above described, spirit forms came out of the cabinet dressed in white, leaving the door open so that we could ‘see the medium at the same time, sitting in the cabinet and tied as I had left her. The spirit would stay out of the cabinet eight or ten seconds and return. This was repeated eight or more times. Saturday evening the spirit of an old lady came out of the cabinet dressed in white and with a White cap on. While the spirit was out in the room and visible to all, we could see the medium through the open door, sitting tied as on previous evenings. The spirit walked to a table about six feet from the cabinet and took a small flower—pot therefrom. holding it above her head so that we could see what she took, and then carried it into the cabinet and in a few minutes returned it to the table. EDWIN CATE, President. Mns. J. SWAIN, Secretary. MAY 28, 1874.. United Order of Internationals, were adopted: I WHEREAS, The national debts of all countries have been wholly or chieﬂy incurred by kings and privileged classes, for the purposes of wars, spoliation, oppression and murder, and not for the beneﬁt of the working and wealth producing classes; and WHEREAS, The people who pay the debts also pay the hu- man suffering, necessary in the persecution of wars, in their limbs and lives, and are now enslaved with taxes to pay in- terest on those wicked and unjust debts which press so heavily upon them, driving the poor into pauperism and its concomitants, and causing corruptions still more ﬂagran the following resolutions ‘ in the ranks of the wealthy; and WHEREAS, It is as unjust and foolishto demand the present generation to pay for the ignorance of the past, as it would be to demand the present living man to pay for the sins of his grandfather; therefore ‘ Resolved; That we demand the appointment of national boards of arbitration, who shall have power to adjust upon an equitable basis, all claims, demands and bonds held by in- dividuals, and if found to have been paid in interest or prin- cipal once, the same shall be cancelled as against the nation ; and if over-paid, then the parties shall be holden debtors to the nation to that extent. Attest, A W. A. CARSEY, Pres. Gr. W. MADOX, See. —a-._._.....- CLIPPINGS. AN electric light of new invention has been put in the tower of St. Ignatius College, San Francisco. The apparatus cost $5,000, and weighs about as many pounds. It consists of agreat number of coils of copper wire revolving close to magnets, in such away that sparks of electricity are pro- duced in unceasing streams. These currents are concen- trated and carried through heavy copper wires to the illum- inating point in the tower, where the focus gives a light equal to four hundred gas jets. “LAUGH and grow fat” is quite a venerable adage, and Sterne tells us that every time a man laughs he adds some- thing to his life. An eccentric philosopher of the last cen- tury used to say that he not only liked to laugh himself, but to see and hear laughter. Laughter is good. for health, a provocative to appetite and a friend of digestion. Dr. Sy- denham said: “ The arrival of a Merry;‘Andrew in a town is more beneﬁcial to the inhabitants than twenty asses loaded with medicines.” AN instance of rare honesty, and showing how a. dog may desire to pay his beard bill, recently occurred in Fitchburg, Mass. A lady saw a dog frequently about her house picking up odd bits which had been thrown out, and one day she called him in and fed him. The next day he came back, and as she opened the door he walked in and laid an egg on the ﬂoor, when he was again fed. The following day he brought his egg to pay for his dinner, and on the fourth day he brought the old hen herself, who, it seemed, had failed to furnish the required egg. ' FIRST RU1l‘FIAN—-“ Wot was I hup for. and what ’ave I got? Well, Ifloor’d a woman and took her watch, and I’ve got two years and a ﬂogging.” Second ruﬂian-—“Ah, I ﬂung a Woman out o’ the top ﬂoor window; an’ I’ve only got three months.”_ First ruﬂian--“ Ah, but then she was yer wife.” . subjects tending to the progression and elevation of man- At a secret session “held in the city of New York, by the I stive. Under these circumstances Mrs. 12 WOODHULL dz cLArLiN's WEEKL Y . June 13, 1874. A WOMAN'S VICTORY IN KANSAS. BY J.‘H. COOK. Dear Weckly——I cannot forbear giving you a, brief sketch of an affair that has made much excitement and struck a strong and effective blow for justice and truth in this region. Mrs. F. A. F. Cook is a graduate of Dr. Trall’s Hygeo- Therapeutic College of New York, with a practice of ﬁfteen ‘years. In the intensely cold January of 1873 she went to a cold, open house in the prairie, three miles from home, to doctor and nurse a widower and his three children sick with the smallpox. He had seen her treatment of a case, was highly pleased and told her if she would come and take care of him and his family she should be well paid. The man had been badly crippled by accident and was suffering from in- guinal hernia. One daughter was very frail and consump- Cook went to this house and was there twenty-three days and nights without undressing or getting any sound sleep. (There were but two beds and these occupied by the patients.) Two brothers of the sick man living near were afraid to go into the house, but would come within speaking distance, and were too penurious and cowardly to do much or provide much for its inmates. The man and his daughter died. He would have no other physician and none could have saved him. Mrs. Cook had but little help to lay out the dead and was almost dead herself. His brothers did not come near when he was buried. The other two children recovered. She begged of them to let her go home to resuscitate and save her own life, but no one else would go there, and so she staid and did what few women would have done. It would ﬁll a volume to describe all she did and suffered. One of the brothers was appointed administrator. Mrs. Cook only charged ﬁve dollars per day for her attendance upon the sick ones.’ The administrator offered her but two. The case was tried in the" Probate Court and the Judge awarded her three dollars a day. She appealed to the Dis- trict Court. She had all the doctors and nearly all the lawyers, and all the ignorance and prejudice of the people against her anti-poison, anti-drug treatment; had the com- bined inﬂuence of drugopathy and church and State against her, also the prejudice against her short dress which she has worn twenty years. She was kept out of court three terms and put to much trouble and expense by these brothers, who preferred to give their money to lawyers rather than pay her the one-third of what she ought to have had. At the last term of court 1 determined if possible to have the case tried, and employed the ablest lawyer in Southern Kansas. They tried to keep the case out of court but failed. “ They tried their utmost” to make out a case of mal-practice by perjured and interested witnesses, and by ridiculing and disparaging her school of practice, and call- ing her a murderer, slaughterer, etc., but the jury allowed her seven dollars and a half a day, and some wanted to give her eleven. Thus, at last, “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” in a moral sense at least. VVe have estab- doctor’s book shall secure careful and humane treatment for these invalids it is well it has been written. The greater good, however, will be to rouse girls to a proper resentment Of the implication that they are invalids because of sex, and set them conscientiously to work to correct such habits of Dad heating: dressing» Sleeping. bathing and staying in the house as keep them seemingly feeble and rob them of their natural heritage of perfect health and joy. During several years connection with different boarding-schools I noticed that girls suffered much more frequently from disordered menstruation in the schools which were exclusively for girls than ‘where both sexes were together, and remember one case in which the menses having disappeared during the 8011001 term, returned when the girl was restored to the society of her brothers. A professor of mathematics in one of our Eastern colleges for boys, who previous to his connection with that institu- tion had been instructing girls in higher mathematics, as- sured me that with one exception the best mathematical minds he had ever found had been among the girls; he said the ease and delight with which they “ walked with him through calculus and mathematical astronomy made their in- struction a very pleasure.” - . Habits of exact reasoning cannot be too early formed, and if there is in woman a natural capacity for their acquirement let it by all means be improved. _ ~ President White, of Cornell University. states that “the young women average about ten per cent. better on the examination than do the young men, and present a less number of excuses on account of sickness. If that is true, with the great disadvantages of woman’s dress against them, what might they not do with an equal chance? The relative capacity of the sexes for continued mental work cannot be fairly estimated until they have equal opportunity for physical development, and this will never be until girls put on the trousers or boys go back to petticoats. A noble brain in a disordered body is like a well accoutred locomotive with a scant supply of fuel, the wheels may turn but it will hardly draw a heavy load. How long would patrons of the turf retain their conﬁ- dence in judges who would dare decide noon the relative capacity of horses, if he allowed one to be driven with blankets ﬂying round his legs. tight leather straps about his ribs and heavy weights upon his loins! Woman suifers constantly from such impediments as these; she cannot breathe or walk or talk with freedom; her blood cannot cir- culate properly nor her brain. work freely. Let us have at least the honesty and fairness of the race—course applied to the treatment of young men and women. FREE DRESS AND PREGNANCY. A lady is reported as saying that the kind of dress reform she wants to see is “ new dresses and more of them,” which strikingly reminds me of what men say about temperance reform, that the kind they want to see is “ more whisky and lished the fact that a woman has some legal rights, and that aman who employs a physician of any school thereby ac- ‘ cepts its practice and must pay for it. Our lawyer showed up things in our case as ably as Brooke did in yours. As a climax to, the whole affair the spirits of the two deceased persons came while the jury were sitting, and, through a medium, conﬁrmed all we had proved, condemned the course of the administrator, said they had been with us in the court- room andtwith the jury, etc., etc. One spirit said it was the greatest blow that was ever struck for equality and justice in this region. N O T E S. BY 0. F. s. sEx IN EDUCATION. I think we may ‘well doubt whether a doctor who has no faith in omping girls,” can prove his claim to our respect for any.of his talk about the sex. Is Dr. Clarke in league with Holland and other literary men, who plainly tell us “woman is to be subjected?” Full well these doctors know that if they can persuade girls to believe that only naughty lasses romp; that the true type of womanhood is a very proper quiet person in corsets, narrow shoes and pinching gloves, and that she is inevitably sick, they will become as graciously submissive as their lordships choose to say is best. If it be true, as Dr. Clarke avers, that under the present our- riculum only the romping girls can live, the fact simply proves that nature is in earnest in her protest against preju- dice which withholds from girls the sturdy muscular devel- opment which they as well as boysmust have to support a vigorous, hard-working brain. Girls like as well as boys to leap fences, climb trees, swing on limbs, row boats and roll down hill, and should be always dressed to be ready for such I exercise, if we would have the merry laugh and bounding step and rosy cheek take the place of novel reading, languid movements and pale faces. Girls have “learned the alphabet” and are thinking for themselves; it cannot now be very long before they don the short loose jacket and long loose trousers, and we shall see to which they will take most kindly then, the doctor’s doses (,1. the bloodainspiring romps. Of course the doctor will be shocked, and will be more than ever certain that the race is going to the bad from “ non-selection of the ﬁttest.” V The girls will be great gainers by the fun and vigorous ex- «ercise, and will handle Virgil and the conic sections with as anueh greater ease and safetyas the boys are known to do for theirs. The want of logic which enables Dr. Clarke to call “period- ﬁcity ” sickness, ‘eat the same time that he pronounces it the “ ﬂood-tide ” of a girl’s being, is astonishing, to say the least. Women are accustomed to speak of menstruation as high’; tide from consciousness of the increased physical and mental vigor which it brings; it is on the side of strength instead of weakness, and the healthy girl may safely count on. her .¢a,pacity for motherhood as a reserve fund of unfailing powerln college life. That excessive and abnormal mens- aturgeticn has its victims among girls all are aware, and if the of better quality.” Some Women are as drunk with fashion as men are with liquor, but both are beginning to do sober thinking in their sober moments. A correspondent asks if trousers suit the use of pregnant women. Most emphatically yes. It all other women pay the penalty of prejudice which shuts woman from enjoyment of real outdoor life by reason of her dress, let not the ex- pectant mother be so wronged. Too many invalids have been already born; let humanity have now a chance for physical improvement, and this can never be until woman is emancipated from her present style of dress. Corsets, bands, whalebones and skirts, heating, cramping, and down- dragging as they are, are suicidal to all women, and are doubly fatal to the one with child, since they invade the rights of two. There can be no reasonable question that much of the languor and debility which men seek to relieve by stimulants is caused by the pressure of corsets on the foetus, and their interference with the mother’s circulation and respiration. Women are thus making drunkards by the thousand, awork they ignorantly weep over when it is ac- complished. Prospective motherhood should have a conscientious care for the child it is developing, and society ought to respect its sacred trust. Free air and motion are indispensable in the development of healthy offspring, and they are not available to the wearer of a cramping dress. If any man believe that he can walk and work as well in skirts, let him wear them, but not ask women to. I am asked how women are to conceal the fact of preg- nancy if they wear trousers without skirts. That it should ever seem to need to be concealed is a fearful comment on our marriage system. That motherhood should ever come without woma.n’s hearty purpose in its work is indeed a cause of shame, but motherhood itself can never be. The chiseler of marble feels a noble satisfaction in the successful progress of his work; how much more ought the expectant mother, on- shriner of a richly-pulsing life, in the accomplishment of hers! Only love and hope and joy should be permitted to complete the work which sweetest love began. Most chil- dren are unwelcome children, hence the possibility of shame; to the first great wrong the mother adds the second of con- cealment by bad dressing, and the result is children of dis- cordant spirit, clothed with maimed and suffering bodies. 1 am asked whether it is not possible that the wearing of a dress which would excite derision on account of its unusual- ness would have a worse effect upon the unborn child than even hurtful clothing could. The race is sadly wanting in ability to practice truth while yet it is unpopular, and needs nothing more than an infusion of unﬂinching loyalty to its demands. Women who hold to truth will ﬁnd it has no power, except to bless. Who would not rather choose his veins should be ﬁlled from the life-blood of a scorned free woman than a pampered, cowering slave? All right-minded thinking men see and admit the need of pants by women; those who do not see the need, either have not thought or want to keep us sexual slaves. Even Worth, the world’s great arbiter of fashion, is humanely waiting to help women into pants. JOSIAH WARREN. Who gave the world the boldest thought, That ever has by man been taught, . And set the pride of wealth at naught? Josiah Warren. Who gave the parlor lectures best, From glowing love in his own breast, Which is to be by nations blest? Josiah Warren. Who made the good of man his prayer, And did to all around declare, The glory of a millionaire? . Josiah Warren. Who taught the best industrial law, Which wit or wisdom ever saw, That after him shall millions draw?- Josiah Warren. ' Who set the usury laws aside, And did for honest wealth provide, By equity which must abide? Josiah Warren. Who taught the boys industrial plays, While emulation was their praise, To light their steps in pleasant ways? Josiah Warren. VVho taught thcvlads in his own town To set the court, and try the clown, And thus put rowdy custom down? Josiah Warren. Who made a juvenile police, And taught his class the power of peace, And bade contentious strife to cease? Josiah Warren. Who vised to give when he might call, A friendly tract to great or small Which said to us, “ Swear not at all? ” Josiah Warren . Who taught the faith that “ works by love ”~ And whose escutcheon was the dove Which speaks his claim to realms above? Josiah Warren. And now, when thus his race is i'un—— His true cxistence just begun— The Angel voices shout Well done! Josiah Warren. —-The Millionaire, Boston, lllass. COMMUNITY CIRCULAR No. 1. To all earnest reformers, thinking men and women, who are striving to become morally, socially, religiously and politically free—and who can use freedom, not abusing it———and who have become fully satisﬁed that the present system of society is entirely inadequate to meet the wants of the most progressed minds of the age, this “ Circular” is addressed, with an in- vitation to unite with us in an effort to establish a new order of industrial and social relations, founded upon the following general principles of equity and brotherhood: 1. Unity of interests, instead of “ opposition of interests.” 2. Community of property, instead of individual owner- ship. ‘ 3. Equal rights for all men, women and children. 4.. Religious, political and social freedom, which we deﬁne as individual sovereignty, at the individual’s own cost. 5. Government by “free criticism”——without compulsion and without arbitrary restraint, cultivating goodness by ap- pealing to the good within the human spirit. 6. All labor to be voluntary, with choice of occupation, rendering it attractive by the most favorable conditions and pleasant associations—men and women engaging in the same pursuits, as far as practicable——enjoying equal reward. 7. Membership to depend upon character, adaptation and ability for usefulness, rather than upon money or any earthly possessions, but each contributing what they can in talent, in labor, in money, in property, or anything that can be utilized for the general good—all having an equal interest in the community, without reference to their material contri- butions to it. 8. The very best facilities for a thorough and integral edu- cation that the community can command will be guaranteed to every child and member of the society, including every species of healthful and pleasant recreation and amusement, vocal and instrumental music, and everything that will make us healthy, happy, pure in body and spirit, doing good to all -—.as our interests being united, it will be our greatest pleas- ure to do. 9. We shall have no creed, constitution or by-laws, which, ., like the laws of the Medes and Persians, “ altereth not,” but through the government of free criticism, change our methods and regulations in business, or in social relations, as increasing wisdom shows us a better way. Our object in issuing this Circular is: ﬁrst, to attract the attention of those who have grown to a recognition of the same necessities for a change in the foundation of govern- ments and societies, inviting immediate correspondence, with a view to co—operation; and also to inform them that we have been offered an extraordinary opportunity to or- ganize and establish abusiness which would centre in San Francisco and cannot fail of becoming very remunerative * on condition that we make it the “ nucleus ” and beginning of an organization for community life, to be established somewhere in the State of California, than which there is probably no place in the world combining so many favorable - conditions. The business referred to will be fully explained in Circular’ No. 2, but, for obvious reasons, we shall withhold it from general publication. . . i V Let those who feel inspired with this “ shadow ” of coming’ events lose no time in communicating with us, and we will immediately forward to their address Circular No. 2, and, they can act as a committeein their several localities to in- 5 I i v ,. 4- June 13, 1874. wooDHUi.i. as ULA1I‘L1N>S-WEEKLY. 13 terest their acquaintances known to be favorable to our prin- ciples and ready to participate in our work. All communications should be addressed to the Secre- tary of the Ceresco Community, San Francisco, Cal. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION Held its annual session in New York in the week terminat- ing May 23d. George W. Curtis was in the chair. Many subjects were discussed, ﬁnancial, religious and social. From the reports of the same We make the following ex- tracts. The ﬁrst is from the address of President White, of Cornell University: “ There was more money invested in so-called colleges in this country than in all the great institutions of Germany, but they were nearly all petty sectarian establishments. If the money had been given for the endowment of one great university, to be conducted upon non-sectarian principles, no one could doubt that America would have aninstitution second to none. President White was entirely opposed to denominational colleges. Sectarian prejudices should be swept away, and students of all denominations obtain the higher branches of education from the same source. A pub- lic endowment, properly bestowed, gave method and direc- tion to a hundred private gifts or legacies, which otherwise were irregularly given to a score of minor institutions, and, so scattered, lost all their utility. Thus one college had re- cently been given a magniﬁcent telescope, which could not be used for want of an observatory, while another institution had a superb observatory without a telescope or any other instruments.” “ Dr. Nathan Bishop did not think compulsory education would be successful. He spoke of what he called the street schools, academies where children learned to repeat a fearful catalogue of home suffering. The lessons thus learned were repeated to sympathetic listeners, not educated persons, but to warm-hearted servant girls, who believed every word they listened to, and gave aims to relieve suffering which had no existence.” As children and servants are both ostracised classes in our Republic, our readers, We trust, will excuse the insertion of the second extract. SUSAN B. ANTHONY’S FINE REMITTED. The House Committee on the Judiciary have made a re- port sustaining the petition of Susan B. Ant ony, praying that the ﬁne imposed upon her by the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York, for G the act of voting, be remitted, and have recommended the passage of a bill for that purpose. CASUAL CONCEPTIONS. All things possible are possible with God. God did not create matter out of nothing; therefore did not create it at all: nor was it created at all. If God had created matter, and imparted to it its peculiar character and qualities, he would be responsible for all that has occurred or can occur. The activity of matter and its forms only are attributable to him in natural conditions, and it was not possible with him 0 do any other thing with it than he has done and is doing in continuance, because of its uncreated inherent qualities of susceptibility and adaptability limiting him to possible uses. Matter, per se, is the opposite and negative of spirit, and although passive in its connection with spirit, in some un- measured degree, is absolute with regard to its own unde- rived conditions—and this fact is the root and base of the ancient and still existing doctrine (so called) of total de- pravity. All good, all power, all wisdom and activity are attributa- ble to spirit or God, and all opposites to matter, and in these are to be found the basic ideas of God and devil, or good and evil. Yet the status of matter may be so changed by the former as to impart to the latter the semblance of selfhood and importance, which, after all, only consist of the qualities above stated in activity. Matter is not a contributing power or existence in the universe, save as a means to an end. The close and deep thinker will ﬁnd this even so, in his own sphere with regard to himself. God is all in all, and I am nothing but clay in the hands of the potter, and this will be the ﬁnal experience of all sane men, sooner or later; and then all egotism, self-conceits and importance will be crushed out of existence——nem. con. STEUBEN. Huron Co., 0., May 21, 1873. s, LET ’ElVI VOTE. The women want to vote. I’m in favor of letting ’em do it. , The woes and hardships of woman are terrible. For thousand.s and thousands of uncounted years they’ve had a devil of a time. Nothing is good enough. Trouble and vexation are their portion; worriment and distresstheir lot. . Even the serpent in the garden had to go for the woman when he tried the little fruit (lodge, and a nice mess they made of it. What don’t we owe to woman? _ If Eve hadn’t eaten the apple, you and I might never have . seen the light of the sun. I wish to be put on the record as a woman’s right’s man. / I had a woman for a mother and wouldn’t have any thing else. . Candor induces me to admit that I voluntarily tied myself to a woman, for better, for worser, and here I am at half- past 12 o’clock working for her like thunder. while she, poor injured thing, sleeps the sleep of the peaceful and snores the snore of the just. '- Woman has a hard time and has to bear a great deal. Also children. ~ And she has to put up with much. She also puts up sweetmeats. Business improves most women. It makes their noses sharp. It also helps their temper and <‘«0I!<1\.M}6 s,_ materially to clean skirts and stockings unspotted from the world. A woman is vastly superior to a male pedagogue. She wears a thimble and knuckles the children over the head. Women as sales ladies are a. big thing. They are generally all cheek. Sometimes they develop an amount of sass and independ- ence of most astounding proportions. , And eke some castles in the ‘‘hair,‘’ which are indeed a sight to behold. I love to meet them on the pave, and am charmed when they sit behind me at the play. Woman, lovely woman, what could we do without thee? We couldn't have any daughters, sweethearts or wives. Or puddings. Or boiled shirts or potatoes. I’m going to have it rain like thunder next election day, and if my women folk want to go and vote, I Go and vote they shall but the carriage will be charged to me. The dear creatures can talk the tail off from a stone monkey, but when it simmers down to “ I want some money to—day, dear,” and the man has to shell out, the theoryipar- takes of a soap-bubble nature. And, by the way, it’s rather a curious fact that all the cash has to come from the men. If there’s any giving to be done, the men do it. They give the home, the house, the togs, the rhino and everything nice. The women, God bless ’em, give sass. Let ’em vote. If any female is anxious to pay my paper bills I’m ready to turn ’em over. Show me the maiden coy who yearns to write my daily contributions—she shall do them if she can. Who ever saw a man with a bustle on his back and an ostrich feather in his hat? And whoever saw a woman without both? Women would make bully good soldiers. Thcy’re so nice to discipline. And they would look so sweetly in uniform—uniformly so. Far be it from me to make fun of women.’ 1 daren’t. A leaf from my experience convinces me that the only way to manage women is to give them their own way—-and then they don’t want it. If your wife wants to go to Europe, acquiesce at once and she won’t go. But argue with her, show her that you can’t afford it, and you raise such an amount of feminine Ebenezer in her beating booz as all the water this side the Euphrates can’t squelch. Does she want to vote? She thinks she does, but she don’t. Give her the chance. Let her vote. Take no notice of it, and ten to one she’d be sick of it on the instant. Opposition does no good. If the baby yells like a cayoot in the middle of the night, make believe you’re going to get up to take care of it, and the good lady will insist upon your retiring to bed. But if you pay no attention to the baby’s cry, and selﬁshly permit the partner of your joys to go it alone, ten chances to one she calls you a brute, swats the infant over the jaw, wishes she’d never seen you, and con- signs matrimony to the Court of Hades below. Why they start in when they are babies. Try it. Put a hot teapot on the table, and ..ell the baby she mustn’t touch it. In less than ten minutes she’ll burn her ﬁngers. If, on the other hand, you give her full permission to handle a h.ot teapot, she won’t touch it, and you can’t make her. Queer, isn’t it? Perhaps they’d like to be stage drivers. And wouldn’t the horses be happy. They’d be jerked into the middle of next week before they had trotted a block. I think these breeches-women would do well as jurors, especially in breaches of promise, and cases calling for damages. _ If I were a lawyer I’d be perfectly delighted to plead be- fore a jury of women. How a fellow could ﬁatter ’em. They’d take it all i11, and then decide against me every time, just for spite. I know ’em. Think of the great women in history, from Eve to Mrs. Stowe. Don’t you remember Rahab? Of course you do. And Rachel and Jezebel and Herodias the Tetrarch and Sapphira ? And Joan of Arc, Mary Magdalene, the Scarlet Woman and Jenny June? Why cert. I know lots of men, and I never saw one yet who didn’t think more of a woman than a fellow. Take Sartoris for example. Would he give Fred Grant his heart and hand? I guess not. But he was glad enough to give them to Fred’s sister. Oh, let ’em vote. . Voting may be a cure for all their ills. It’s cure-ious then if we don’t let them have the cure. I’d say more on the subject if I had time. I haven’t. ' I want time too. Most men do. It’s late. I’ve but just returned from making my adieux to the fair couple, whose Siamese ligature is to bind Britain and this blasted land tight, tight together. , Grant and I got tight together ﬁrst, and liked it so much that we induced the countries to follow suit. I Hence the suitors. We have arranged to have a very pleasant passage for the young couple. They are to have amusement all the time. And an occasional basin. The Captain will stop the working of the propeller every evening, so that there shall be no jar when they go to sleep. The sailors will belay their pipes. The cook will douse his glim at 4 bells. And the “members of our representative Fifth. avenue wealthy fa.mi.1ies.” described by the Herald. will softly chant their lays. No sea-sickness will be allowed on board; it must all be done over the stern. For once the steamer will be all bows. * I rather like Mr. Sartoris. He says that although he is an Englishman he is convinced that in Union there is bliss. So there is. Let ’em vote.—-M. T. Jugg, N. Y. Star. “KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP.” There has something gone wrong, My brave boy, it appears, For I see your proud struggle To keep back the tears. That is right. When you cannot Give trouble the slip, Then bear it, still keeping “ A stiff upper lip.” Though you cannot escape Disappointment and car e, The next best thing to do Is to learn how to bear. If_when for life‘s prizes You’re running, you trip, Get up-—start again, “ Keep a stiff upper lip! ” ' Let your hands and your conscience Be honest and clean; Scorn to touch or to think of The thing that is mean. But hold on to the pure And the right with ﬁrm grip, And though hard be the task, “ Keep a stiff upper lip! ” Through childhood, through manhood, Through life to the end, Struggle bravely and stand By your colors, my friend. Only yield when you must, Never “ give up the ship,” But ﬁght on to the last With “ a stiff upper lip.” THAT INCREDIBLE TREE STORY. EDITORS or THE WEEKLY: Ordinary readers are like Falstaff, they want “ mine ease in mine inn.” When they put their feet upon the towel rack and quaff from what has so far been a nutritious cup, they have an indolent habit of believing its contentspure and drinking without examination. Such readers are gener- ally roused upon discovering they have been drinking “lime in their sack.” I once swallowed two columns of a New York World hoax, whose style led me to expect an important disclosure from the scientiﬁc world. Then the joke appeared, and it was announced that the suicide brewer’s brains were carefully put into the lawfully executed soldier’s skull, and upon ap- ‘plying a “galvanic current” the soldier’s organs of speech began talking of beer hogsheads, &c., &c. Ne w, if I were an ezttraordinary reader and knew volumes of botany or had botanical libraries to quote from, I would consider it a task herculean to prove a negative, such as : There is no such tree! If I failed I would suffer disappoint- ment as well as blame. If I succeeded I would he laughed at for taking so much pains with a mere joke. I rest myself upcn the fact that the New York Wbrld has a writer “ smart” enough to understand the methods of in- vestigators, their language and much of their lore, but who makes no better use of these advantages than to tickle a few mature minds at the expense of wasting the time of others while misleading altogether the young and immature. Let some one prove this affirmative, that the half skeptical half corroborative W. Mercier exists at Doylestown and has those wonders in his possession, and I will get off of My easy chair and begin to investigate. ~ JAsPER_ MRS. WOODHULL IN SALT LAKE CITY. SALT LAKE CITY, May 14, 1874. Editors Weekly——Our city has been in a high state of excit- mentfor two weeks past, by the arrival of the Woodhulls among us. First came Tennie Claﬂin, who seemed well pleased with our people and surroundings, and the good prospect of a brilliant reception for Victoria. Tennie made arrangements for the theatre at the earliest day it could be had, Tuesday 12th, for Victoria’s lecture, and then amused herself in calling on our citizens to subscribe to the WEEKLY, commencing with President Young, a.nd getting the name of every one she approached; she is just irresistible in that line, and I judge she is the same in anything she undertakes to manage. Victoria came in Saturday evening, and thus had an oppor- tunity of attending the closing services of the semi-annual convention of the Saints in the great Tabernacle, on Sunday the 10th. Although Victoria tried to be somewhat exclusive she could not avoid being overrun with company, and every- one who met her came away convinced that she was terribly in earnest in the great cause of perfect freedom. On Tuesday evening our large theatre was crowded with as intelligent and respectable an audience as ever gathered inside that building, and in almost breathless silence listen- ed to her grand lecture “ Revolution or Reformation, Which?” Occasionally long continued cheers would ring out at some of her brilliant points, and when the audience dispersed, expressions of astonishment and satisfaction could be heard on every side. On the following evening she gave an intensely interesting lecture in the Liberal Institute building, and after the lecture, almost the entire audience crowded around the platform to obtain sets of her speeches‘ to read at home and circulate among their acquaintances. All seemed to feel that Victoria had uttered important and sublime truths, waist should. be heard by every sane person 14 WOODHULL &oLAEL1N*s ‘WEEKLY. H June 18, 1874. In our land——truths which heretofore have been kept in the background, in fact totally ignored. The world owes her a great deal, for; by her persistent ex- ertions, at a terrible sacriﬁce of peace, comfort, money and almost life, the vitally important subject of sexology is now occupying the thoughts of nearly the entire intelligent por- tion of society. I pray that she may be as successful wherever she goes as in our city. Yours respectfully, T, REDWOOD, J eﬂersonCo., N. Y. Dear S7Isters——Far away from your busy city, in a con- servative town in Northern New York, we, a “ rem- nant ” weak and small, send you greeting. Wefhave followed you anxiously yet ever hopefully through all your trials and persecutions, and now that you are vindicated. we rejoice with all friends of truth and justice at the glad tidings. As I said, we live in a conservative town. I can see from where I write four tall spires pointing to that heaven so far away from the hearts of its people. Spiritualism is here lit- tle known and less understood, but that does not save its followers from persecution and misrepresentation by any means. We meet them on every hand, just as the followers of light ever have and ever will when they seek to overthrow error, priestcraft and hypocrisy. Over two years ago a kind friend sent me your inestimable paper, of which I;_ have since’ been a constant reader and warm admirer; and I send them broadcast where I know they would not otherwise be known on their own merits. We feel me have done the cause as well as themselvesfa great injury in the course taken in regard to the so-styled Woodhullites. We are ashamed to have outsiders know there are any who advocate our beautiful philosophy, so full of love and charity for all, who will stoop to such vitupera- ',;ion and abuse as have the opponents of Social Freedom. Were those who denominate themselves conservatives actu- ated by the right spirit, they would endeavor by sound argu- ' ment and logical proofs to show the radicals their danger; but instead of this, the spirit of malice and envy is too appa- rent to a careful observer not to disclose the ruling motive. Did they see themselves as others see them, I am sure they would desist or resort to a more honorable method, if sin- cere, to defend what they claim to be the better way. But let us hope that they will yet ascend so much above their present condition as to be able to distinguish the dlﬁcfunbk between free love and free lust, for as strong fool is for those of full growth so are your ideas in advance of minds governed by low and groveling propensities. Go on, dear friends, in the way appoi..tcd for you. Bear the banner under which you ﬁght to l e summit, and when you have gained the victory full and complete over sin and death, may the angels and t o ascended millions greet and reward you in that realm n f love and peace—the land of the S0u1_ MRS. A. J. COLE. co-+——--—'—-—-= BUSINESS EDITORIALS. R. W. HUME, Associate Editor of WOODHULL at CLArLIN’s WEEKLY, is prepared to deliver lectures on Radical Spiritu- alism, and on all the reforms of which it is the base. For further particulars, list of lectures, etc., address box 3,791 New York City. DR. R. P. FELLOWS. This truly gifted healer, who has gained such a. wide popu- larity in the last few years, is now permanently located at Vineland, N. J. For those who are unable to visit the Doctor in person it would be well to send $1 for his Magnetized I Pellets. We could ﬁll columns with accounts of cures per- formed through the agency of these Pellets. The attention of the aﬁlicted who swallow bottle after bottle of poisonous drugs without experiencing relief is called to these simple,‘ but efficacious remedies. NELLIE L. DAVIS W111 speak in Syracuse, N. Y., June 7; in Waverly. June 14; in Bay City, Mich., during September. Address 235 Wash- ington street, Salem, Mass. DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD Will lecture in Putnam, Conn., during June. Would like to make other engagements. Address for June, Putnam, Conn. Permanent address, Greenwich Village, Mass. THAT staunch and able advocate of Freedom, Our Age, Battle Creek, Mich., will be sent, ten numbers for 250., to trial subscribers. Send for it; you will get twice your money’s worth. NOTICE. Celebration on the 4th day of July, by the Spiritualists and Naturalists, at Eden Mills, Vt. Oration by the gifted , orator, Mrs. Emma L. Paul, of Stowe. Dance to commence at four o’clock P. M., in William Scott’s Hall. A general invitation to mediums and all concerned to attend. SABIN SCOTT (for the Committee). The legal rate of postage on the WEEKLY, addressed to regular subscribers, is twenty cents per annum, or ﬁve cents per quarter, payable in advance. Subscribers who receive their copies by letter-carriers will please hand the annual or quarterly postage to carriers, taking their receipts. If any higher rates are demanded, report the facts to the local postmaster. The‘;,postage;:;on copies directed to subscribers in New York city has been prepaid by the publishers. PROCEEDINGS or THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION or THE AMERICAN AssooIATIoN or SPIRITUALISTS. 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR or LIEE ; OR, WHY DO WE D;E? 8vo, pp. 24. A11 ORAILION delivered before the above-named CONVENTION, at GRow’s OPERA HOUSE, CHICAGO, by VIOTORIA C. WOODHULL, September 18, 1873. The above “Report of the Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention of the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said 1 and done at the above convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from he hands of the able reporter employed by the convention. The orations of the members, on both sides, discussing the question of “Free Love,” or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. ‘ In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit the generous testimony of ‘Judge Edmund S. Holbrook, who so ably defended the posi- tion of the conservative Spiritualists at the above conven- tion: “I have seen the report you have published of the doings and sayings of the Chicago Convention, and I take pleasure in saying that, in the publication of such a report, so full, so accurate and impartial as it is, you have done a work worthy of high commendation. Some could not be at this conven- tion, either for want of time or means; but now, such of them as may choose to read, can :almost imagine that they were there; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence, in the eye, and the ear, and in soul-communion, yet whatever of principle has been evolve- they may well discover and understand; and also, as I nope, they may proﬁt thereby.” Price of the “Proceedings”. and the “Elixir of Life” 50 cents; or the “Elixir of Life” alone 25 c-n.s. Orders for the same addressed to Woodhull 82: C13» mm, P. 0. box 3,791, will be promptly ﬁlled. The First Primary Council . l Boston, of the Universal As- sociation of Spiritualists, meets every Thursday evening, at Harmony Hall, 181/, l. cylston street. First-class lectures every Sunday aflei noon and evening. Seats free. JOHN HARDY, Cor. Sec’y. THE WORD, A Monthly Journal of Reform—Regarding the subjection of Labor, of Woman, and the Prevalence of War as unnatural evils, induced by false claims to obedience and service; favors the Abolition of the State, of Property in Land and its kindred resources, of speculative income and all other means whereby Intrusion acquires wealth and power at the expense of Useful People. Since labor is the source of wealth, and creates all ‘values equitably Ivendible, the Word (not by restrictive methods, but through Liberation and Reciprocity) seeks the extinction of interest, rent, div- idends and proﬁt, except as they represent work done; the abolition of railway, telegraphic, banking, trades union and other corporations charging more than actual cost for values furnished, and the repudiation of all so-called debts, the principal whereof has been paid in the form of interest. E. H. HEYWOOD, Editor. Terms—75c. annually in advance. Address The Word, Princeton, Mass. .—_._n._ Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his oﬁice, No. 25 East Twenty-ﬁrst street near Broadway DR. L. K. COONLEY is speaking and healing in Newark, N. J ., the present month, and can be addressed at 277 Mul- berry street, that city. 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JOSEPH J oHN’s GREAT WORKS OF ART, engraved on steel, ‘ ‘The Orphan’s Rescue,” price 83; “The Dawning Light,” with map of Hydesville, $2; “Life’s Morning and Evening,” $3, or the three pictures to one address, $7; are mailed to any part of the United States, postage free. Warranted safely through and satisfaction guaranteed on receipt of prices above speciﬁed in post office order or registered letter at risk. Club rates given on application. Address R. H. Curran 8t Co., Publisher, 28 School street, Boston, Mass. FREE COUNCIL. The First Religio-Philosophical Society of Hillsdale Co., Mich., will hold their eighth annual council on Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21, 1874, at Camden Station, on the Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw R. R. Benjamin and Marion Todd, Lois Waisbrooker and other able speakers are engaged. The Camden silver band and choir will enliven the meeting with choice music. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend, and hear the social and religious shams, political con- spiracies and ﬁnancial frauds of the day freely ventilated from a free platform. Refreshments will be furnished by the society in the grove. Friend from a distance will be pro- vided for to the extent of our ability. _____m FARMINGTON, Mich., May, 1874. The First Society of Spiritualists of Farmington, Michigan, will hold their Eighth Annual Meeting in the Union Church in Farmington, Saturday, the 4th and 5th of July, 1874, com- mencing Saturday at 2 o’clock, P. M. Good speakers Vt ill be in attendance. Also, the Quarterly Meeting of the Oakland County Circle will be held in connection with the yearly meeting. A general invitation is hereby extended to all. Our platform is free. Homes will be providedfor those from a distance. NORTON LAPHAM, President. E. L. RoBERTs, Cor. Secretary. THE next quarterly meeting of the Henry County, Illinois, Association of Spiritualists, will be held in Cambridge, June 27 and 28, 1874. T. B. Taylor will speak before the Associa- tion. JOHN M. FOLLETT, Secretary. @“'Send Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- phlets on Free Love and Marriage. He has been sixteen years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est and most logical writers. You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. You who are able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, AUsTIN HINT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. P. S-—-I will now mail “Free Love,/” in paper cater, “Mrs. W~»t (null and Social Freedom,” and “True and False Love” or 75cts. I will add two more of the “ Woodhull ” and “ So- cial Freedom” Pamphlets for $1.00, or I will mail ten of the pamphlets for 81,00. In buying these you greatly aid a phy- sically helpless man. AUSTIN KENT. E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh street, New York city. Specialty, artiﬁcial dentures. SARAH E. SOMERBY, Trance Medium and Magnetic Healer, 23 Irving Place, N. Y. WARREN CHASE LECTURES In Des Moines, Iowa, during June. Address, Colfax, Jasper county, Iowa. He will receive subscriptions for the WEEKLY. PROF. E. WHIPPLE Will speak during the Sundays of May in Springﬁeld, Mass. Address 896 Main street, Cambridge, Mass. PROSPECTUS. WOODHULL 85 CLArLIN’s WEEKLY. [The only paper in the World conducted, absolutely, upon the Principles of alvlrree Press.] It advocates a new government in which the people will be their own legislators, and the oﬂicials the executors of their will. ' It advocates, as parts of the new government- 1. A new political system in which all persons of adult age will participate. 2. A new land system in which every individual will be en- titled to the free use of a proper proportion of the land. 3. A new industrial system, in which each individual will remain possessed of all his or her productions. 4. A new commercial system in which “cost,” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of every- thing and abolish the system of proﬁt-making. 5. A newﬁnancial system, in which the government will be the source, custodian and transmitter of all money, and in which usury will have no place. 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any inducement other than love, shall be the governing law, individuals being left to make their own regulations; and in which society. when the individual shall fall, shall be responsible for the proper rearing of children. 7. A new educational system, in which all childrenborn shall have the same ‘advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral cultui e, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which every person in the world will be a member. Criticism and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-06-13_08_02
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 03 (June 20, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2024
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-06-20
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT 2 UNTRAMMELED LIVES: I BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. r Vol. VIII.—No. 3.—Who1e No. 185. NEW YORK, JUNE 20, 1874. M_._.._.._4 PRICE TEN CENTS. . : LOANERS’ BANK THE OF THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER sTATE CHARTER,) W r n R U 5 Continental Life Building, THE GREAT 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL ................................. ., $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . .; . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturersand Merchants ‘will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. _ DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. * JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, N o. 59 V7 all St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Ce...
Show morePROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT 2 UNTRAMMELED LIVES: I BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. r Vol. VIII.—No. 3.—Who1e No. 185. NEW YORK, JUNE 20, 1874. M_._.._.._4 PRICE TEN CENTS. . : LOANERS’ BANK THE OF THE CITY on NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER sTATE CHARTER,) W r n R U 5 Continental Life Building, THE GREAT 22 NAssAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL ................................. ., $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . .; . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturersand Merchants ‘will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. _ DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. * JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, N o. 59 V7 all St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. The Most Dangerous Man in America! The Independent Tract Society solicit orders forlhe above startling Tract-—a real bombshell, at the rate of 75 cents per hundred, or 50 cents per half hundred. Working-men and women, send for it! Let a million copies be sewn! INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Clinton, Mass., or Rochester. N. Y. N0’l‘ICE.—0wing to our books having been lost through the rascality of enemies, we are compelled to ask members to send names and P. 0. addresses again. 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Claﬁin . . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die?. . . .. . . .. 25 The Scare-Crows of Sexual. Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tried as by Fire; or the True a nd the False Socially, 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Photographs of V. C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Col. Blood, 500. each, or three for . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 00 Three of anv of the Speeches 500., or seven for... . 1 00 One copy of Books, Speeches and Photographs for 6 00 ' A liberal discount to those who buy to sell again. SCIENTIFIC SERIES.—N0. 8. SIMPLE BODIES. Translated from the French Revue Spirite. BY EMMA A. WOOD. The author of the following paper had published in the Revue Spirite an article on consumption, in which he gave a letter of advice, on decease of his sister, received from a spirit who signed himself Dr. Demeure. After going over the ordinary ground of respiration, introducing the proper quantity of oxygen for the combustion of the carbon ab- sorbed by the body through the digestion, and that if the lungs are not in a state to perform their work properly there will remain too much carbon unconsumed, thereby destroy- ing.the equilibrium between the variou.s elements destined to form the corporeal tissues, the Spirit goes on to say that, although science may have perfectly deﬁned the role of oxygen, it has not yet told us what becomes of the carbon after it is burned. It must undoubtedly possess properties it did not have before the combustion—properties that per- mit it to exercise a different inﬂuence on the other elements of the organism, or there would be no reason for the com- bustion. Combustion, you know, is the combination of a body with oxygen, disengaging heat, light, and sometimes electricity. Carbon burning in the blood maintains the vital heat of the body. But if you take the pains to go to the foundation it will be perceived that this is not the sole result. After all combustion there remains a residue of matter which could not combine with the oxygen: this residue in organic bodies that are burned is" called ashes. Then a residue must remain from intra—organic combustion. This residue, you have already divined, is azote, for you have been told that carbon sufficiently elaborated in the organsjis converted into azote. Breathing brings about this transformation. In subject- ing the various elements that constitute the body to a chemical analysis we ﬁnd azote in great proportion. If, on the other hand, we calculate the quantity of this gas taken in with the food, We ﬁnd it inferior to the quantity existing in the organs. Now, as this gas cannot be taken in by the respiratory organs, as it -is not respirable, we are led to the logical conclusion that it is fabricatedin the organism. Study and serious experiments will soon show this to be the truth. A certain part of the carbon introduced into the body with the food is not ready to undergo this transformation by con- tact with the oxygen. This is thrown off by expiration in the form of carbonic acid: it goes to plants to receive further‘ elaboration until the time for it to re-enter the human or- ganism. From what has been said we may deﬁne respiration, the act by which the oxygen, introduced into the blood by the lungs, burns a sufficient quantity of carbon to produce the azote necessary to sustain the organs. If from any cause the ' lungs relax their functions, the tissues of the organism being «no longer fed with a ‘substance indispensable to them, decay, leaness, consumption, in fact, follows and death ensues from this trouble in the organic functions. - Consumption is usually caused by an hereditary constitu- tional defect by which the lungs are prevented from attain- ing suiﬁcient development, and are therfore powerless to furnish the blood with enough oxygen to burn a proper quan- tity of carbon. It happens sometimes that this disease has quite an accidental origin by the introduction into the lungs, through the respiratory organs, of a morbid germ which is developed at the expense of that organ. The want of azote makes itself promptly felt throughout the whole organism, but more particularly in the lungs of which it is, in the normal state, one of the chief constituent elements, and it. is more indispensable there than elsewhere, by reason of its well-known properties for arresting combustion, and con- sequently preventing the other organic elements from com- combining with the oxygen which would carry them out in the act of expiration. This explains, how, lacking azote, the lungs are so easily used up and decomposed by contact with 0X)7ge11- . From these observations it is easy for you to deduce the remedy applicable to this disease. There being an insuﬂi- ciency of oxygen to burn enough carbon, you must endeavor to impart to the organism the greatest possible quantity of , burned carbon, that is azote; for this purpose we recom- mend to consumptives an alimentary regimen of white meats eggs, milk, butter, all substances in which azote predomi- nates. When the disease has reached a certain extent, this regimen no longer snﬂiees for the cure; ﬁuidic treatment must intervene directly. Indeed the pulmonary organs hav- ingattained a certain degree of decomposition, all the atoms of azote carried into the circulation are infected by the dis- ease, and instead of acting against the evil, they excite it by furnishing it fresh food. To obtain a satisfactory result the ﬁuidic action must in- intervene withthe greatest energy. The azote. free and un- combined with other bodies, must come directly to the lungs to cauterize them, if we may so express it and arrest their disorganization. You may for this propose, draw to any ex- tent on the ﬂuidic reserves of the ‘Society Demeure. At cer- tain appointed moments during the day project, with the whole force of your will, the azotic gas toward the lungs of of the invalid. If you are careful to work with sustained at- tention the azote will penetrate the pores of the organism and go itself to the sore spot it is destined to cure. At the same time take care to make the invalid follow the prescribed regimen. You may convey azote to the lungs also by magnetized water. - A To some parts of this communication objections had been made, to which the following answer is given: We do not deny the difficulties of the task nor the weak- ness of our intellectual resources and scientiﬁc attainments to discuss a subject of so great importance, and attack the principles science has laid down as indisputable axioms. But seeing only the end to be attained——the elucidation of the great question of the ﬂuids——we do not fear to direct our studies toward matters still so obscure, to endeavor to throw some light upon them; walking always with prudence and caution, never for an instant letting go the precious thread destined to guide us, the principles which the Master, Allan Kardec, has left us as the foundation of his doctrine. it is in this spirit of prudent research which we feel sure also animated our correspondents, and which we truly hope will conduct us together toward the end, that we shall take up the principal objections made to us, or rather to the theory exhibited by the spirit signing “ Dr. Demeure.” If we do not solve them in an exact and peremptory man- ner, we shall at least have the satisfaction of having tried to place some guide-boards on this still unexplored route, and if -our demonstration should result in disipating in any de- gree the doubts of our brethren, We render in advance all the merit to our guides of the invisible world, whose mission it is to distribute the light in proportion to our capabilities of receiving it. This said, we win begin by reproducing, textually, the.prin- cipal objections, so that our answers may be the better judged. The ﬁrst in chronological order is that of M. Amaleto Mateos, of Barcelona: “ We all know that carbon in the actual state of science is considered a simple body, so also in azote; consequently azote does not contain carbon, neither does carbon contain azote. How, then, is it possible that car- bon elaborated in the organs can be converted into azote? How explain this change of nature? How can the carbon cease to be carbon in order to transform itself into another simple body? That a simple body should be modiﬁed, there needs the combination with another body; the result is a compound, but never another simple body. Further, the com- bination of the carbon with the oxygen ,produces carbonic acid, a compound of two simple bodies that have been com- bined. “ From the combustion of the carbon with the oxygen no res- idue remains, as has been demonstrated by many experi- ments, and the ashes deposited in our stoves after having burned coal, are earthy substances which the various coals held in combustion as organic substances.” And further on: “ But at present I cannot admit, ‘without demonstration, that azote is fabricated in the organism; we cannot understand that simple bodies are formed therein, but that there are combi- nations, which we are still far from knowing, of various simple bodies to form naturally compound bodies.” Such are the questions and doubts of M. Amaleto Mateos. The fact affirmed seems to him impossible to realize, or at least incomprehensible, and, to combat our theory, he rests on the scientiﬁc labors that have discovered the various combi- nations of those bodies analyzed by chemistry. _ Our second correspondent, neither denying like the ﬁrst nor admitting the conversion of carbon into azote (he does not examine the question from the standpoint), addresses us the following observations: “You say azote is the remedy for consumption, but the azote of_ the air does not answer; there must be a special azote formed in the body.” We are not told how this azote is formed in the body of those who do not become consumptives, nor how it ceases to be formed with those who do become so. Then, to replace this azote that is no longer formed, you are told to draw from the perisprits of the disincarnated, who possess an ample supply of the best. Draw? How? By sentiment, instinctively. When shall we reach this knowledge? And again he says: “There exists a. disease called chlorosis, which has been many times very rapidly cured by iron ;” yet we see that iron does not always cure it. When homeopathy explained the pathogany of diseases, it was observed that many diseases could produce chlorosis, and this conclusion was arrived at; that the blood could be changed in many ways; sometimes by the want of action of one or several organs, sometimes by the over-excitement of the function of one organ which despoiled the others. Might not the same thing happen for azote in consumption? The best scientiﬁc process, then, would be to study the con- currence of each organ in the transformation of carbonic acid into azote, and especially that azote which is neither that of the air nor of the food. Will your guides clear up this question? Then another question I propound to Spiritist and homeopathic doctors: Could we notexperiment with azote as with so many other medicaments, and com- pare its properties with those of the remedies we apply in consumption ?--DR. D. G. We begin by answering that we accept with the whole heart this last conclusion; and we should be glad to see sci- entists turn their investigations in that direction, to en- deavor, by that means, to arrive at the cure of that fatal di- ease against which their eﬁorts have hitherto remained almost powerless. We are more at ease in discussing these objec- tions because they come from two Spiritists, who will follow us willingly in the path of the doctrine from which we shall take the starting point in our deductions. The ﬁrst ends his letter speaking of our beautiful doctrines; the second, Dr. D. G., is one of the most valued correspondents of the Revue, who is working with much zeal for the elucidation of the great question of the ﬂuids. We make this observation be- 031156, We repeat, we shall take for our base the principles professed by Allan Kardec; and it is clear that we could not hope to persuade, in this way, those who disbelieve Spiritist teachings, admitting neither the existence of the soul, nor its survival of the earthy body, nor the individuality it retains in space after its separation from the corporeal organs. To these skeptics, also our brothers (we should not be Spiritists could we forget it), we can only say we hope the light will shine as brightly for them as for us when they seriously study the very real phenomena of Spiritism which have been dis- closed and explained to us. , . Let us speak, then, to Spiritists, and recall, ﬁrst, some gen- eral facts which spirit revelation has evidenced to us, and from which its principal teachings have been deduced. In various passages of the fundamental works left us by the master (“Book on Spirits,” “Book on Mediums,” “Genera- tion ”) it is established that the spirit, once freed from the bond of corporeal matter, dwells in space, at our sides, in the midst of ﬂuids that constitute our terrestrial atmosphere. and which he uses for his principal manifestations, by com- bining them with his own perisprital ﬂuid. It is by this action of the perisprit on the ﬂuids that the ﬁuidic appari- tions are explained, also the physical manifestations of rap- pings, bringing material objects, and other very frequent phenomena, whose reality no Spiritist will deny. (To be continued.) ————% SOCIALISTIC. THE TEMPLE OF SCCIALISM. No. III. If, as the great scientists of Europe and America are every- where teaching us, there is such a thing as social science, then the ﬁrst law which that science should teach us is the one which determines what parts society should be composed of, and the arrangement and function of those parts. When we wish to build a house, the ﬁrst thing necessary to be known (aft er we possess the required materials), is the number, form and arrangement of the rooms composing the house, and the different uses to which these shall be put; which shall be kitchen, which parlor, which bed-rooms, etc. If we were going to make a horse, we should need to know that he would have to possess a body, with two pair of legs on the under side of it, a head at one end and a tail at the other; in other words, we should need to know what parts make up a horse. In any science which deals with organization, the,ﬁrst law must give us a classiﬁcation of the organs or parts and their functions. I suppose that no one ever thought of denying that social science deals with the organization of society. Nor does any one dispute that the laws of such a science are natural laws. Yet here are Warren, Andrews,~ Spencer and others, writing books, pamphlets and newspaper articles, year after year, upon the science of society, and not one of them has made any statement of this ﬁrst natural law. They have not even given us a false statement of it. Gentlemen, is it less necessary to exercise your common sense" in .the work of re- constructing the whole fabric of society than it would be in building a house? Josiah Warren, and after him S. P. An- drews, told us that the ﬁrst great law was that of “ The sovereignty of the individual, to be exercised at his own cost.” A law which gives us the relation of parts before we know what the parts are! This was scientiﬁc method with a vengeance. Besides, the statement itself was a narrow ab- surdity; it pointed us to an organization in which each organ, each part, was to receive the whole results of its own action. What sort of a connection was that? How could the parts aﬁect each other? What would we think of a physiolo- gist who should describe the structure and action of the heart and lungs separately, and who should never hint that the heart sends blood to the lungs, and that they could not act without each other? VVe should certainly think him ignorant of his subject. I am more charitable. I think that our social scientists have been bemuddled by the false and vicious methods of the politicians, until normal thinking on that unless we know this ﬁrst law we can never build the new Temple of Humanity. The structure of society should provide for those wants of society which cannot be met by private or isolated action. To obtain any certain and deﬁnite classiﬁcation of these wants, we must trace them to their sources in the mental faculties. It is evident that each faculty gives rise to a class of wants. Thus the organ of appetite originates a class of wants in regard to food; from the organ of friendship springs a class of wants in regard to friends; from integrity a class which relates to justice; and so of each separate faculty. A distinct organ for every distinct class of functions is nature’s law. The units which compose society are persons. From these units society derives all of its rights and properties. Therefore society as a whole has classes of wants which cor- respond to each faculty in the individual. An officer is an organ of s0ciety—-the instrument which society uses to ﬁll a deﬁnite want or function. In a complete and true social structure, therefore, there should be an oﬂficer to correspond to each mental faculty. In my last article I asserted that taking all of the various kinds of societies which make up our ‘civilization, only one-half of the twenty-four leading faculties are represented by officers, or the wants arising from them provided for in any manner. After six thousand years of experiment, our sapient statesmen have discovered, classiﬁed and made some provision toward sup- this subject is almost impossible. Yet I strenuously insist ‘ -s.-. ..-.,« .~....- 4 / WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY‘. June 20, 1874. plying one-half of the great common wants of society! Do they want six thousand years more to discover the rest? They turned their eyes backward to history to make the dis- covery, as Herbert Spencer is doing to-day. Gentlemen, you are looking in the wrong place. Why not analyze the nature of man itself, in order to ﬁnd out what institutions, what social forms will be most perfectly adapted to its wants, its vast possibilities? In the town of six thousand inhabitants where I live, there are twenty-two different kinds of societies. Instead of all this confused structure of our civilization, I think that the natural plan is to have one kind of society only, with an oﬁicer t3 represent each one of the twenty-four leading fac- ulties and of the two brain centres. Let this society sup- plant all of the existing ‘ones. This would immensely sim- plify our institutions and yet accomplish more than all of them. ' Nature has connected all of these faculties and functions in the human brain by one system of laws; their relations and actions are all compatible with each other. It follows as a logical and necessary couclusion that if we represent the functions of each of these faculties by an oiﬁcer of society and relate these officers by such laws as relate the faculties to each other in the brain, then there will be no necessary discord in the social structure“ The constitution of society’ would correspond to that of man, for which it was designed. I The structure of society should be just as complex as that of _ the individual. “ Man is the archetype of society,” says‘ Prof. Draper, and he devotes the whole of that profound and highly praised work, the “History of the Intellectual De- velopment of Europe,” to the proof and elaboration of this idea. In the table below are given the names of the organs and the corresponding ofﬁcers. There are three classes of facul- ties, with four groups in each. For the social structure I would retain the same names as are given to these classes and groups in the brain. In each group are two leading organs. One of these dominates in man’s and the other in woman’s character. Accordingly, one is represented by a male and the other by a female officer. The male is placed ﬁrst in naming each pair. In most cases I have modeled the names of the oiﬁcers directly from the faculties, except where there were good and well—known terms already in use, like Treasurer, Recorder, Purveyor and Sentinel. The gen-g eral term Leader is applied to each of the twenty-four. I - j Strelatum. - %/Center. . c 1 n s. Brain Centres ,ThalamuS_ So 1a Ce tre GentreSs_ ° CLASS or INTELLECT. (moors. FACULTIES. LEADERS.‘ czsocrs. §réoUL'rrE's. LEADERS. - § Form . . . . ..Formator ‘ . , » _ ease); . ...Reasoner Perceptlom l Oolor . . . . ..Colorist Refsonft 11‘ (Premszon.v.Previsor - S Meznorg/. ..Rccorder -_ - Iflrazfernity.Fraternor' Retentlon" ? Attention . .Attendcr ' Socmtlon " i Iﬁcjform. . ..Reforn1er CLASS or AFFECTION. . .. Unizfion. . . .Unitist . - Warenity ..Pa1-entor Ummmon " jelfzomaazvity .Hu1nanist [ Palentlon" lgiiezfut. .t.. “gietist - Devo{éon...Devoter —. - - _ ppeia... urveyor SeXa“°“'-- i Fédesion. ..Fidelist |*"’n““°”--* 1 Taczfatz'0n..Sentincl CLASS or VOLITION. . - ’It,*'t'...I t*g"st - D, - “.....Df l Vigoration. -3 5327:,-%§,5{ _ __%%,.:n1%1E;t ‘ Defension. :Def:""°/ D6 in‘ 9’ . . DY H7 igni is . _ es rucﬁn. es r0 =- ‘Ambmon " i‘ L:/c7dzaiio2L.Lai1dei' I Impulslon" (Ba5cne5s. . .Debasé’ivm Such would be the oﬁicers of an individual or town society. And I would have the county, State and national societies each consist of the same number and kind of oﬁicers, because the wants of a town, a county, a State and a nation are alike in kind, differing only in the degree of detail. * ARTHUR MERTON, M. D. SACRIFICES TO THE HOLY MARRIAGE INSTITU- TION. Printed and unprinted stories of human sacriﬁce on the altar of lust to this God-given power of man over the per- sons and passions of woman greet us daily. We take up the pen to record a well authenticated one just related in our ears by one who knew the circumstances, Whose eyes are opened and whose voice is ever heard in favor of right and justice. In the not long ago lived a stout and plethoric or- thodox deacon, like many we have and some we do know. He had a slender, delicate wife, who bore him children accord- ing to Scripture, and unto whom he had a right to “ go in ” by Bible authority; but as times had changed since the days of Jacob and David he had no right, at least no legal right, to “go in” unto the maids and other men’s wives a la David and Mrs. Uriah, therefore he was virtuous and lived a, strictly moral and religious life, as many who fear hell and Mrs. Grundy do, and sacriﬁced his own victims. His deli- cate little wife had borne him a child, it was ﬁve days old when “his desires were unto his wife,” for he was a vir- tuous and prayerful man who hated promiscuity, free love and all such wicked abominations of the opponents of mar- riage and marital rights of husbands. The old lady nurse who took care of the sick wife and babe slept with and waited upon her. He notiﬁed both that he wanted his place on the ﬁfth night, and as his sick wife knew for what he wanted it she remonstrated, assuring him it would kill her, but her entreaties were in vain. Then she got the old lady to remonstrate with him, and she warned him it would cause the death of his wife; but he was enraged at this interference with his domestic affairs, and told her he could manage his household without her advice, and if she could not stop meddling with such matters she might leave the house as he would not submit to any interference with his domestic management. He of course conquered, as the wife had promised to obey, and both church and State said she must——and she did. He occupied ‘the bed with her that night, and the consequence of which was a fever brought on by sexual abuse, followed by the death of the wife. As the grave closed over her the deacon felt his loss and soon hunted up another to legally and religiously supply the place. This is one of hundreds of such cases, varied in some little particulars, but resulting in death; and yet the man or ‘ I Acq'z/.ése't’n .Treasui'er ' tyranny is stigmatized, abused and slandered to the fullest extent churches and social tyrants can do it. WARREN CHASE. SUGGESTIONS. The reasons are many and powerful why husband and and wife should not sleep in the same bed or even the same room. It is a familiarity that I in time extinguishes love. Even by day,absence a good share of the time is necessary to the life of love. What is the cause that brother and sister have no love for each other? It is not because they are brother and sister; it is because_ they have lived from earliest childhood in the same family. Sleeping in the same bed is too much temptation to intemperance in sexual intercourse, the most-ruinous to the constitution of all kinds of in.temper- ance. That kind of intemperance is very common with men and their wives. It is an arrangement of Nature that the night should be devoted entirely to sleep and rest. At night, after the fatigues of the day, the body and mind are in an un- suitable condition for sexual intercourse, and especially for begetting children. If the parents are fatigued at the time of conception, their child is born fatigued. Never should a child be begotten in darkness; the light of the sun at the time and a full view of each other by the parents are neces- sary to the perfection of the child. Men should go to the beasts and learn wisdom. Sexual cohabitation without love has the ruinous effects of masturbation, although in a less degree. It exhausts the sys- tem without satisfying the mind. When people are obliged to live on food they don’t like, they never feel satisﬁed and don’t know when to leave on‘ in eating. They are more apt to eat too much than when they have food that suits them. lntemperance is more likely without love than with it. If promiscuity is cohabitation with or without love indifferently it is condemned by free love, because free love is love always. No wonder that the people are old at seventy years, and so many die in childhood. . It is according to Nature that pee- ple shall live four or ﬁve times as long as it takes them to grow, which would extend human life to about the age of one hundred and twenty-ﬁve years. If they were born right and always lived right, they would undoubtedly reach that age in health. In that case nobody would die in childhood and there would be no orphans. The fools that make the laws have made one to punish for indecent exposure of the person. If nature produces anything indecent, then of course she is guilty of obscenity; if she does not then the authors of that law are guilty of 1ibe1 upon her. ;The custom of exposing the whole person, each sex to the other, is not only modest and decent, but is necessary to morality. It is the intention of nature and a proof of her wisdom, that men and women shall see each other naked. Concealment causes morbid contemplation and curiosity which stimulates passion. People have a propensity to ﬁnd what is hidden. Freedom of bodily exposure causes indif- ferencc; undoubtedly if it was the custom to go naked, there would be less of lust and less of sexual cohabitation [than there is now. If Nature produces anything that ought to be consealed she is not much of a workman. ELIPHALET KIMBALL. OXFORD, New Hampshire. FREE LOVE CONTROVERSY.—CONTINUED. HENRY JAMES TO STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. S. P. ANDREWS, ESQ.: Dear Sir: I should say after reading your comments on my letter, that it was your idea of marriage, and not mine, which is obscure. But, at all events, I can relieve mine of that imputation in a very few moments. Marriage means at bottom the rite initiatory of the family. It is a certain voluntary compact between a man and a we. man to live together. in the exclusive possession of each other’s person, upon the basis of which they are legally raised to the status of a family, and become invesLed—themselves and their children—with the sanctity inherent in that insti- tution. It is very important to bear in mind this essentially objective character of marriage. A man and a woman may propose to themselves what incidental advantages they will; the theory of marriage is, that they are conjoined in wed- look. not in any selﬁsh end, nor even with a view to the pro- motion of their reciprocal subjective comfort, but in a strictly social end, or with a view exclusively to the honor and proﬁt. of the family institution. What is the origin ‘of the family? It originates in the social instinct. The family constitutes the social nm't—is society in its least form, in its most concrete, most minimized and lifeless manifestation. It is society in its acorn stage, so to speak, or before men have the least spiritual npprehen. sion of their social nature and destiny, and arecontent to regard themselves therefore as essentially different and hos. tile inter se. As individuals we are purely selﬁsh or grega_ rious ; and, consequently, if we were not born into a home, or paradise, which frees us from outward tyranny, or the bond- age of organic want, and where our infantile affections may be shaped or moulded upon the family unity, and trained to expand in all the freedom and security of that hallowed bond, there would be absolutely nothing whatever to separ- ate us to our own perception from the animals. We should totally lack the opportunity of social cu1ture—lack every chance of reﬁnement out of our native dross—and hence never attain even to that quasi unitary consciousness we now enjoy under the institutions of church and state, but remain an unorganized and ignominious herd of ‘men until the day of doom. Thus the family is the veritable root and anchorage of our social evolution in harmony with the cre- ative perfection—the sole earthly germ or rudiment of that immortal society, or brotherhood, or fellowship, or equality of all men with each, and of each with all, which will consti- tute God’s coming spiritual kingdom in our nature, and cover the earth with his renown as the waters cover the sea. It is palpable, then, why the family bond has been so highly prized among men, especially in Europe, where in the case of certain leading houses men have been, and are still, content woman who raises a voice or pen against this accursed to pay it practically divine honor. It is because the interests of our own existing elaborate civilization, and thence of our ultimate social enfranchisement have been indissolubly bound up With it. . But now, why is the family conditioned upon marriage as a base instead of concubinage? It is so conditioned by the law of its typicality; the law which makes the type an exact correspondence and counterpart of its antitype. The family is the type of society, the egg out of which it is painfully and elaborately incubated. It is the rude and crude husk in which that spiritual divine life of man lies sheathed and sheltered from all profanation, until the day of its deﬁnite epiphany. The family in fact ‘ is society itself in its least vital or most outward nucleated, and inconsiderable form. Now, how is society spiritually constituted? What, in other words, does society mean when livingly or philosophically conceived? ‘ It means a fusion of interests between its members—all and singular——so very intimate and thorough as practically to make all men. a pledge for the material welfare of each, and each man a pledge for the spiritual welfare of all; and it is this perfect fusion of the homo and the ctr, of man universal and man particular, of the public and private, cosmical and domestic, secular and sacred, ﬁxed and free, in short male and female elements of our nature, which is inherent in all true social form and order—that demands to be symbolized or reproduced in marriage, regarded as the basis of the family institution. Anything short of marriage as such basis would vitally misrepresent the purely typical character of the family bond, or falsify its prophetic contents. Society itself is the issue of a divine reconciliation effected in interior realms of being between the two otherwise irreconcilable elements of human nature——self and the neighbor, freedom and necessity, inclination and obligation, ﬂesh and spirit——and not of any chance or ﬁtiful accord between those interests; hence the family in symbolizing society and so gradually informing the heart and mind of man to its acknowledgment, is bound. to insist upon the marriage of its principals, and stigmatize con- cubinage accordingly as at once the symbol and the focus of their inveterate enmity and inequality. Such, fairly stated as it seems to me, is marriage when viewed in itself, or abstractly and apart from any concrete or speciﬁc manifestation. It is the authoritative scourge of concubinage among men, or the consecration of human love to higher than propagative uses. The loves of the animals have apparently no higher end than the reproduction of their kind, and in that no doubt incidentally the advantage of a higher kind, man. And man himself doubtless so long as he remains an animal, blind or indifferent to the dignity of his proper nature, betrays the same brute subserviency. But love with man is essentially shamefaced, and never attains to the open brow of innocency until it becomes trans- ﬁgured by marriage lineaments: the manifest reason being that the norm of human nature, by virtue of the divinity of its source, is society not self; and that man’s organic instincts therefore, unlike those of the animal, are never to be regard- ed as constituting their own law, but are to be held in rigid abeyance to his social necessities. And now let me say that after having dulyconsidered the long and curious commentary you append to my letter I remain Very much ﬂattered to be sure, but still unconvinced by the allegation you make of a substantial agreement be- tween us in regard to the interests of love and marriage. it is too bad that I should have even for a moment shocked your conservative scruples by seeming to concede an exces- sive freedom to the former interest. But when I reﬁect that I am always so careful to represent our subjection to appe- tite and passion as necessitated, and therefore as being no freedom at all but a cunningl y masked bondage in the inter- «st of a higher or spiritua‘ freedom, I cannot but hope that your misconception was temporary. But I am persuaded our agreement is neither substantial nor formal, neither ab- stract nor concrete. Your peculiar philosophic pretension- which is to construct what you call a “ universology ” or symbol of universal knowledge—strikes me to begin with as fundamentally vicious; violates every canon of the intellect, There is no such achievement possible to the human mind as a strictly universal formula of knowledge; and this not only because man is not omniscient — human knowledge being essentially limitary—~but also and much more because the universe itself is not a ﬁxed or real but an essentially in- deﬁnite or apparitional quantity, varying according to the measure of our culture. The universe is not a thing, but a mere mental personiﬁcation under which we group or gener- alize our conﬂicting sensible impressions; so that to aim at constructing a universal science is simply to mistake thought for thing, or make our subjective logic the measure of objective truth. It is no discredit to fail in such a pursuit, because no one in the nature of things can succeed in it; but it isa great waste of energy to embark in it. It is practi- eally, in fact, to pursue the same will-0’-the-wisp in phi- losophy that i1l—starred inventors pursue in mechanics under the name of “perpetual motion ;” the misery of the mistake being in both cases alike, that the pursuivant has not the con- solation of reﬂecting that he has been wasting his strength in the chase of an honest natural shadow even.* What then? Do I mean to infer that there is no issue practicable out of these contradictions in human experience? That no harmony will ever be attainable to us between inﬁnite and ﬁnite, truth and fact, spirit and ﬂesh? Far from it; for I myself devoutly believe in that reconciliation as consti- tuting man’s strictly providential destiny upon the earth or his social evolution. 1 only mean to say that the reconcilia- tion in question will be a spiritual or inward one, realizable primarily in the sphere of life or consciousness, and only by derivation thence in the sphere of thought or science. In This very childlike, and, in that sense, very natural objection to Universology, has been anticipated, discussed and refuted in “The I’rimary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato,” pp. 22-24, and will be again replied to in the answer to this communication next week. It belongs to that class of objections which is easily suggested and cheaply urged by those who know nothing of the subject, and which is_dispelled at 011cc and never again entertained, on the slightest in- vestigation.——S. P.A. - June 20, 1874. WOODHULL a CLAFLIN’S wEEKI§y.‘ " 5 short, we shall realize it only in the ratio of our distinctively natural regeneration, or the measure of our elevation out of selﬁsh or voluntary in.to strictly social or spontaneous form and order. And as to the present concrete application of your phi- losophy, I am apparently at like, or, if need be, even greater intellectual odds with you there. That is to say, free love means to me, logically, free conc ubinage; and so long as this mind holds I should shrink even more from the logical con- sequences of your philosophic creed than from the creed it- self. Observe I arrrdealing only with the logic of the free- love doctrine, not the least with the life of its professors; ~ which I doubt not is just as conscientious as that of any other body of professors. And this logic, I repeat, is to my understanding free concubinage, inasmuch as it denies the rightful subserviency of love to marriage in the human bosom. “Free.-love” is indeed a pleonasm; for love is of its own nature free as not obeying outward coercion. A sentiment of coerced affection, of enforced love, is imprac- ticable to the human bosom. So far accordingly as the pas- sion of love itself is concerned, it is just as free in marriage as it is in concubinage; just as free when it restricts itself to one object, as when it diffuses itself among a thousand. And if all you mean by free-love is free-ma'r'riage—if all you mean is to make marriage-partners no longertwo but one in affec- tion,by removing every existing legal impediment to a separa- tion of their material interests (within the reserved rights of the family, of course), whenever such separation might seem seriously desirable~—I, for one, should be heartily with you i11 aspiration, if not in speech. But this is not what your docrine means. “ It is simply and wholly,” say you, “the doctrine of hands 01?", or of remitting the jurisdiction of the subject to the parties concerned;” whether they choose to marry or to live in concubinage. Again, you say, “Free love with me is a special application of the doctrine of the Sovereignty of the Individual.” Sovereignty over whom, pray? Over himself, of course, since the very terms of the dogma exclude his sovereignty over any owne else. But he who is sovereign over himself excludes all other sovereignty, collective or individual, and hence can be no proper subject, even of society. As he is his own exclusive sovereign, he is his own exclusive subject necessarily. Can anything be plainer, then, than the anti—social force of your doctrine, even by your own showing? You hold that love is not free so long as the lover is not his own ex- clusive law in respect to it; that is, so long as he is under socialobligation, or the obligation of his own nature, so- licitously to shun concubinage and follow marriage. You do, indeed, put an apparent limitation upon this ruling in the case of men who are still so “undeveloped” as not to respect the rights of others. Thus you would have no man free in his amatory relations who does not himself “abstain from encroaching on the rights of others.” This is all very well, but it does not in the least qualify the rightful freedom of love viewed in itself, but only the claim of certain un- worthy persons to enjoy that freedom, or appropriate it to themselves. Drop out, then, this inﬁrm subject and replace him by a true subject, and free love means, by your own showing, a man’s right to indulge his sexual inclinations without restraint from his social obligations. Now, one’s social obligations in respect to love are all summed up in the interests of marriage. Free love, then, obviously means, under your logical manipulation, a just man’s right to in- dulge the sexual instinct uncontrolled by the Obligations of marriage-—that is, in the way of simple concubinage. No one has ever disputed the freedom of love to convert itself into marriage at any time. The only freedom accordingly which is to be desiderated for it is that of converting itself into concubinage Without incurring social reprobation. Reduced to these logical proportions, according1y—the pro- portions of a conflict between marriage and concubinage- our controversy stands instantly adjudged, as it seems to me, by its bare statement. It was adjudged in fact before the world was, or in the constitution of human nature itself, which——being created in the divine perfection, both male and female, or universal and particular, public and private, ma- terial and spiritual, real and personal- absolutely exacts the marriage of" these opposing elements, in order to ensure the ﬁner or feminine and qualitative element a free supremacy to its proper mate. It is in truth and practically a contro- versy between what is animal in us and what is man, and there can be no doubt in your mind any more than in mine how every such controversy is bound to end. Men will listen to any judicious project of reform in the administration of marriage by which its practical sanctity seems likely to be enhanced; but they .will never confound the honor of marriage itself with concubinage. The deepest of our distinctively human instincts in fact is the shame we feel at our gregarious tendencies, or the sub- jection we are under in common with the animals to merely organic appetite and passion: so that whenever any divinely- freighted Eve swims into vision, to relieve this subjection, to socialize these base gregarious tendencies, or lift them up to an inwardiand inﬁnite power, by determining them to one object, we spontaneously cleave to her as to a literal divine presence in our nature, feeling her to be very bone of our bone, very ﬂesh of our ﬂesh, and freely renouncing father and mother or heaven and earth, to possess her. I say what is notorious to every man’s experience, when I say that the mariage-sentiment, or the sentiment a man feels toward a wife, is as different and superior to the ordinary sexual sen- timent, or the sentiment he feels toward 9. concubine, as the sky full of vernal light and heat is diﬂerent and superior to the wintry earth. Why? The women are assuredly no way different in themselves. The concubine in truth is very apt to be more attractive to the sense than the wife. And yet every cultivated man feels that the one relation is inwardly full of heaven to him, the other inwardly full of hell. Why is this? Obviously and only because the one is a person, mask- ing a divine and inﬁnite substance to his imagination, and hallowing him therefore to his own regard; while the other is a thing, renouncing her race traditions, or the savor of humanity, and degrading him therefore to the level of the animal. The wife effectually humanizes him to his own eon- sciousness, by sociallzeing his affections or making him the father of a family, and so delivering him from the base bond- age he had been under to his carnal and egotistic self; while the concubine eﬂectually hardens him in brutality by per- sistently ﬁxing him in this bondage. Please observe, then, that what alone I recognize and rev- erence in marriage ‘is, that it is a divinely-given pledge of our ﬁnal and plenary redemption out of brute into human, -out of selﬁsh or gregarious, into purely social, consciousness. ‘Ne may modify the practical administration of marriage to «our hearts content; but we cannot dishonor the institution itself without affronting the fundamental law of our nature, and so forfeiting our spiritual manhood. For marriage is a natural, not a personal distinction of man; and no man can deliberately or upon principle dishonor it therefore without undermining his own best inheritance, and to that extent prejudicing his immortal spiritual fortunes.‘ I observe you make frequent mention of “ spiritual” marriage, as of some- thing conventlally superior to ordinary marriage. But all marriage is spiritual in itself, and whether the speciﬁc parties to it be well or ill matched. The essence of it is the desire of the parties to conjoin themselves in exclusive reciprocal possession; that is, for actual better or worse, and not merely ole bene ease. Wherever this mind prevails between the par- ties, they are ipso facto spiritually married to all intents and purposes, and will reap the immortal fruits of marriage, al- though their speciﬁc tie should have been without public or out- ward consecration, and even although they themselves should incidentally give each other a good deal of honest conjugal clawing. Hell in relation to love and marriage is not consti- tuted primarily, as much of your language would imply, by a condition of extreme unhappiness between married partners, though doubtless this consequence follows; but by the par- ties themselves ceasing to cherish the marriage-sentiment, and giving themselves up to an habitually selﬁsh temper. I can’t imagine a baser hell than that disclosed in the bosom of many a pharisaic prig who, under pretext of seeking a “spiritual ” melioration of his lot, doesn’t hesitate to for- sake the faded wife of his youth and the mother of his chil- dren, in order to possess himself of fresher charms. And what.I condemn in the free-love logic accordingly is that it tends to breed this inhuman or anti-social temper in men, by practically debasing marriage in their regard to the level of concubinage. Apart from such logical justiﬁcation, the move- ment so far as I can see has not the least locus standi; and unless therefore you can relieve it of this retrograde aim and‘ tendency, you will, in my opinion, never succeed in com- - mending it to men’s acceptance. I am, dear sir, yours truly, CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 20. »—<Q HENRY J AMES. MISCELLANEOUS. FINANCE AND THE INDUSTRIAL BROTHERHOOD. BY A. w. ST. JOHN. When that true and earnest labor reformer, Horace H Day, labored with a wealthy railroad king a few years ago to induce him to build a railroad from some point in the West to the Eastern seaboard, that should transport the produc- tions of the West to the consumers in the East at cost of tran- sportation, and thereby build to himself,-.a lasting monument and endear himself to the hearts of the people, he received this reply: “ D—n the people, what do I care ‘for them? I’ve got money enough; I can live where I have a mind to.” This is but an open expression of an almost universal feel- ing that exists in the minds of those who by sharp practice and class legislation have been enabled to steal the surplus productions of the country and are now usingthis stolen wealth to more effectually and surely enslave the people. Seeing this, earnest and true men and women all over the country have been organizing the people that they may by concert of action resist the encroachments of organized cap- ital and monopoly. The farmers are already pretty well organized and the Grange is becoming a power in the land; but large num- bers of honest toilers are excluded from membership in the Grange, and the best minds among them have long felt the want of a similar organization and are now rapidly uniting together in the Lodges of the Industrial Brotherhood. Arrangeents have been made and conﬁdential price lists are being prepared, offering members of this order many articles of manufactured merchandise and imported‘ produc- tions at lowest wholesale prices. As the Patrons of Husbandry have been making war- fare against railroad monopolies, the I. B. is turning its attention to the money monopoly, believing that it underlies or is the foundation of all the rest. It is now pretty gener- ally understood that the capitalists of the East are draining the Soulh and West of all their surplus productions, they being enabled from the protection afforded them by our national banking laws tocontrol the volume of the currency of the country, keeping it so contracted that people are obliged to pay high rates of interest, thus building up 21. mon- eyed aristocracy. It is also alamentable fact, and one that the people are but just Waking up to that European capitalists control the ﬁnan- ces of our government and are, leech~like, sapping the very life-blood and vitality of this country, taking the sweat and blood of laborers and producers to build up and sustain a moneyed oligarchy in Europe. The whole system that is now robbing the people, hinges upon the idea of “hard money,” —'of gold and silver being the basis of money or currency. There never has been hard money enough to transact the business of the country, and there is not enough now to pay taxes demanded of the people to support the government. But the holders af the wealth and bonds of the country de- mand a return to specie payments. Why? Because it will make money more scarce and give them a more complete control of said money and enable them to demand and ex- tort from the people higher rates of interest. But the people are fast learning that dear money means cheap labor, and cheap labor means the degradation of the laboring masses. When Senator Schurz, of Missouri, said in Congress, that if we would put our currency on a specie basis, Europe would pile her capital into this country mountains high, he un- doubtedly told some truth. But did he tell why Europe’s capitol would be sent to this country? Not a bit of it. We all know it would be sent to this country to be loaned upon interest, that the possessors thereof may live in idleness and extravagance from the labors of their slaves in America. Senator Jones, of Nevada, has been receiving the oncomi- ums of the subsidized press of the country, for his brave speech and bold stand in Congress in favor of hard money; but a Washington paper explains in a few words why he is in favor of hard money or a stringency in the money market, thus: “ Senator Jones, of Nevada, has an income of $125,00 per month, and he smiles, a sweet, sad smile when the paper go for him.” Yes! He can afford to smile for what need he care for the people, he, too, has money enough to live where he has a mind to, and why should he be expected to assist in making laws that would beneﬁt the millions of toilers and wealth producers who have been walking the streets of our large cities during panic times of the past winter asking for work-—work to earn bread! President Grant in his veto message placed the ﬁnance question squarely before the people; and it must be met. Every manufacturer, merchant, farmer, mechanic, miner and laborer of the Southwest are as directly interested and should understand the questions at issue, so that as rulers they may be prepared to secure such legislation as will make a happy people and a prosperous nation. Dear Weelclz/—lf the blood in my veins ﬂows too tamely since my illness to admit of my sending you an article of my own for your colum ns—from which I hope I have been missed in the last long -weeks since the middle of March—I can at least do something more proﬁtable, andpsend you a grand sermon, evoked by the Swing trial, from a Methodist church. Who says the world does not move? Who will war against the crceds, when the so-called most bigoted of them all, the Methodist, notwithstanding its “room-for-all” tenet, can evolve such rare, free, truly Christian doctrine as this con- tained in the inclosed sermon? I’m enthusiastic to be a Methodist this morning, for my soul is all aglow with the Christ love for humanity kindled by the truly divine spirit of this sermon. What strides Christianity could take in popular favor if all pulpits would cast such sweet bread of life upon the hungry waters! - Has not the Swing trial been a perfect godsend to the Church, stirring up its stagnant depths, and bringing the pure Christ-love face to face with starving humanity? Love is what the world is dying for, and here is a rich, loving ser- mon fresh from the fount of inspiration. Thank God for such Methodism! and God bless the Rev. Dr. Thomas of the First Methodist Church of Chicago! God help him to preach such a sermon each sweet Sabbath, and possess his soul in grace not to feel misrepresented in the columns of WOOD- HULL & CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, where I hope to see his sermon reproduced, for each glowing thoughtis a gem from the throne of God. X HELEN NASH. ‘ A SERMON BY REV. DR. THOMAS. "The Rev. Dr. Thomas preached an able and eloquent ser- mon upon the result of the Swing trial, selecting his text from 1st Corinthians, 3d chapter, 4th to 7th verses inclusive. He spoke as follows: i In the opening of Prof. Swing’s trial I devoted a discourse to a review of some of the doctrines which he was charged with not believing, and to the general aspects of the case. I may now say that the review and conclusions then reached, from an outside stand-point, have been at least partly vindi- cated by the plea of the accused and the action of the pres- bytery, both of which admit and claim that thd peculiar doc- trines of Calvinism are most unfortunate in their statements, and should either be revised or else not insisted upon as the belief of the Presbyterian Church of the present time; and that the whole bulk of charges and speciﬁcations were un- founded and false. Now that the case has been decided it is still deemed of suﬂicient importance to demand our con- sideration as to the results. » A deep interest grew out of the general feeling that no only was Prof. Swing on trial, but that truth was on trial. The love of truth is natural to the human mind, and wher- ever it is at stake there will not be wanting friends and friendship, heroism and sacriﬁce. In the present instance this love of truth as a principle was intensiﬁed by the fact that thousands had listened to the preachings of the accused and had been blessed and comforted by his words, and his printed sermons. had been read and admired throughout the whole country. Now to all ;these minds and hearts the question was, can that which had been life and food and blessing to them be false? Many devout Christians from other denominations had also found comfort and help under this ministry, and the question on trial was nothing less than the reliability of all these hearts in their judgments and feelings on the subject of religion. It is generally felt that in educated communities like this there is a public judg- ment that is to be trusted in questions of criticisms in art, literature and music, and that the same culture and taste and experience should be worth something in matters of religion. So convincing and satisfying is experience that those who attended this ministry felt assured that they had not been deceived, and in this security were ready to follow this teaching on even unto the Very shadows of death, and through. the opening gates into the future world; but the question was, Would the church in solemn assembly pronounce against all these convictions and feelings by saying that all these souls were deceived, and I being led down to death by false and dangerous doctrines? The public mind has not only felt that truth was on trial, but that in this issue there was a conﬂict between the old and the new theology and religion, and in this sense the in- terest, true to the genius; of our times, has become world- wide. There are, and probably always will be, those whose: .Iune“’20, 1874. \ ,§zooDHULL 63 oLArLin’s%rwEEKLY. faces are set toward the past, and who regard the old-think- ing and the old creeds as containing the highest and the best and ﬁnal statements of all truth, and leave nothing for com- ing generations to do but accept these statements on pain of heresy. Then there are those, and their number is daily in- creasing, who, While not setting aside the ‘experience of the past, and being anxious tolconserve all its valuable state- ments, nevertheless feel that each generation has something to doin building the great temple of truth and righteous- ness. Those who regard the life and civilization and religion of mankind as a divine growth look for clearer visions and higher and better statements of truth. Such persons are quite willing to look back to Calvin and Luther and.Wesley and accept their best statements, but do not feel bound by them norjby anything else short of the word of God. This issue between the old and the new was most plainly involved in this trial, and most happily decided for the new. Such a decision does not say the past is all false and useless, but rather, recognizing all its good, says that out of this imper- fect past and this still imperfect present we hope to build a better future. N 0 one age has ever had a monopoly of truth, and none but inspired men can speak for all ages. The doc- trinal formulas of the past were not free from the prejudices and inﬂuences of the times in which they had their growth. Many of them in their incipiency took not a little of their shaping from the feelings and pecularities of their authors. Nearly every system or view of truth was partial and one- sided, or when consistent enough are found to have started from a false premise. The question between the old and the new is whether we are compelled to accept these old state- ments as ﬁnal, or whether we, as they of the past did, have a right to think for ourselves. Augustin and Calvin so exalted the almightiness of God as to dwarf mankind into utter nothingness and leave no rights or powers in their hands; while Pelagius so exalted man as to have little place or need for Christ in salvation. Because men of the past saw God only as a great angry ruler, ready to punish His hapless creatures, and being turned aside from this purpose only by the death of His son, shall we say that no Bushnell shall ever arise and say that our Father is that great ruler, and that our Father so loved the world that He came in the person of His son to save His children? Because in the past governments were enforced by standing armies, and man carried to church by the law, shall we say that there shall never be a govern- ment so manifestly just and for the good of the people that their own love and appreciation of its worth shall be its strongest support, and churches built and supported, not by State levies, but from the free offerings of a glad people? It seems to me unreasonable to think that the church having been a progress all the way from the object lessons of Juda- ism on to the clear announcement that “ God is a spirit,” and all the way from the dark ages to the Reformation, that its advance should suddenly be arrested in the sixteenth century. God’s great book of nature lay‘unread through all‘ the ages, and men toiled on without steam and electricity. Healing remedies abounded in ﬁeld and garden, but the sick were uncured; men went to the surgeon’s table unsoothed by anaesthetics until a few years ago; and are we so certain that God’s other book, the Bible, has been read in its highest and deepest meanings, and that it has no new truths for the future ? There is nothing more certain than that a silent and blessed change is coming over the minds of the people on the sub- ject of religion. The old view of God sitting on a high throne is fast giving way to the thought of a loving Father immi- - Dent in'jﬂat11I'e, and even tender and kind in His care over all men, and with this view a dark Calvinism and the awful hell of Edwards or Dante are impossible. Men are every day seeing more of love and less of satisfaction to justice in Cal- vary, and more in the life and less in the creeds of Christi- anity. It is being daily demonstrated that pure and good lives are found under all shades of belief about us, and that coming from the shepherd’s ﬁelds or the wiser east, men follow the star, and ﬁnd the manger and the cross. With an open bible and a living experience, orthodoxy is not in dan- ger, and it is a hopeful sign of our times when Drs. Patterson and Swazey and other leading men of the Presbyterian church in the northwest express their willingness and desire that the confession of faith should be revised. It is not often that we are permitted to Witness such a scene as that ob- served at the presbytery last week. There stood these strong and venerable men uttering their grand words for charity, for liberty, for progress—looking forward from the autumn time to the world’s great summer time—and there stood the young, cold, fossilized Patton, with his back to the future, and with all his intensiﬁed narrowness and bigotry trying to turn the fresh life and growth of the present into the dark past. The old men standing for the new, and the Ymlng man standing for the old! Another result of the recent decision is the recognition of a broader catholicity, and in this all but the most consum- mate bigots must rejoice. It belongs to large culture to be liberal, not loose -nor indiﬁerent to one’s own opinions, but charitable toward those who hold different views. Professor swing boldly announced a warm good will and a broad charity among men as the only true basis of society, and on this the Chicago presbytery joined hands. A There is and gh5u1d be a. fellowship of heart where there may not be a full fellowship of belief. It has been too long the spirit of the past to condemn those who differed from us, to hold a difference of opinion as a crime. This feeling was at the foundation of nearly all the bloody Pe1'Se0uti0n3 that have so disgraced the church since the third century. The perse- cutions of the ﬁrst three centuries were from the Pagan I world and were largely incited by S17-P6I'Stiti011 and bi’ the , _ . civil authorities; but those of later date, which ﬁlled the long centuries with blood and horror, had as their grand thought “Land inspiration the idea that a mistaken view.of religion was a crime and that it was right to punish it. With the coming of a better civilization in which the bodies and properties of men are protected from harm by the law, this old feeling has lingered in the shape of unfellowship, of os- tracizing and maligning. It is only within a very few years that there is anything like a decent courtesy, much less a Christian love, between the sects calling themselves orthodox. They have stood apart eyeing each other like pugilists, rather than rushing to- gether like brothers. And still there is left to us a feeling to not in any way fellowship the churches called liberal. The liberal churches open their pulpits to us Methodists at our conferences, and to the Presbyterians at their synods; but we cannot return the kindness. Brothers Collyer and Ryder have lived long and blameless lives in this city, and have labored hard in every good charity and patriotism, and from their view of truth have striven to lead men into the better life; but not one of us dare invite them to our pulpits. Our good Methodists can go, and do go occasionally, to hear them preach, and do not backslide either; but should I invite one of them into this pulpit there would be another church trial in Chicago. The same feeling has led to harsh judgments upon all men outside of the churches, and upon all heathen. It was not a pleasant task to damn Socrates and Penelope, and to send Charles Dickens to hell, but the courageous Patton did the former, and a Baptist divine came all the way from Boston to do the latter. The whole American nation has no tears too sacred to shed over the death of the good Lincoln, and the long way from Washington to Springﬁeld witnessed the nation’s deep love, and the whole African peo- ple rose up to call his name blessed; but because there are some.,doubts about his belief, and the fact that he died in a theatre, make it necessary with not a few, for the sake of their theology, to told his salvation doubtful. 0 how our hearts rebuke our heads, and how the facts of life cry out against our narrowness! Oh, when shall we pass the bondage of this bickering and strife over our little differ- ences, and stand in the broad light of God and the blessed- ness of the brotherhood of man! “ I say to thee, and do thou repeat To each man thou shalt meet Upon the lane or highway or street, That we all do move Under a canopy of love, As broad as the blue heavens above.” But you may ask what would I have the churches do? Shall we disband our organizations and give up our semi- naries and throw all our creeds away? Not at all. As long as there are wide differences of opinion as whether all men will ﬁnally be saved or whether Christ is divine or only human, men will organize around these ideas and build churches and schools to support them, and this is right. We are all learners in theology, as in other things. There have been different views on astronomy and geology, but these different views have not disturbed the solar system or the earth. We need not be either jealous or fearful about truth, but let each one cast up the highest and best way he can’, and where our paths are to- gether, let us travel in peace, and where we separate, let us part in love. Suppose, even, that some of the distinctive fea- tures that differentiate the several denominations should disappear, and that we should ﬁnd ourselves one in Christ, and ﬁnd our inspiration to labor coming from his love, and not from ambitious rivalry between the branches of his church, would not this be a great gain. and should his prayer that his people be one have been answered too soon? What all the churches need is more song and prayer and love and sacriﬁce; more of the inward transforming power of re- ligion and its outward life of usefulness, and less wrangling about its forms and statements. What society and religion need is not tearing down, but building up. Every orthodox church torn to pieces is pos- DA.NTE’S EXILE. _ A strangely solemn feeling, says a writer in Jlfacmvillaxrfs Magazine, must come over the mind of any one who, wan- dering through the grass-grown streets of Ravenna, comes upon the tomb of the greatest of many mighty sons of Flor- ence, in that last resting-place so far away from all he loved with an intensity of patriotism which at the present day we ﬁnd it hard to understand. Dante in exile has always been an example of the terrible irony of fate upon man’s short- sightedness. Of this, however, I will say nothing; it has been my purpose to speak only of the occurrences of Dante’s life so far as they inﬂuenced the development of his genius. To this his exile gave the crowning seal. It came at the time when in mature life, and with, mature powers, he felt his whole oul recoil before the grossness of practical life, with its degrading pleasures and no less degrading cares; it came when he had recurred with deliberate purpose to the imagi- native ideal of his youthful days, and of his boyish 1ove—an ideal now ampliﬁed and gloriﬁed by his developed thought, even as all that was ﬂeshly had dropped from the image of his loved Beatrice, and she was a disembodied spirit who watched heedfully from on high his sou1’s progress. In such a condition of mind, Dante, living comfortably at Florence, engaged in public affairs, a citizen among his fellow-citzens, would still, no doubt, have lived an inner life of rare no- bility, but would have lived it to himself, or only in the sightof a favored few; he would never have left us the ma- jestic picture of the world as transformed by his mighty mind. Dante in Florence would, no doubt, have become a great name in Florentine literature, but never could have had the same signiﬁcance as Dante, the undeserving exile. It was adversity that brought him face to face with the reali- ties of things; from the furnace of aﬁliction his beliefs and thoughts came out reﬁned and puriﬁed; his ideals endured a ﬁerce conﬂict with calamity, in which they could prevail only by their own inborn strength. Dante’s love tended to make him a dreamer, Dante’s learning tended to make him a pedant, but exileycompelled him to bring his knowledge into use, to take his dreams as guides for life, or else aban- don them for ever. Dante was startled into self-knowledge by the blow that fell upon him.-—Ea;change. DAWN. Very many who are interested in the successful establish- ment of communities, are of the opinion that eight or ten families areasuﬂicient number to risk in the commence- ment, and that to increase the number beyond that point is simply to increase the possibility of the ﬁnal dissolution of the enterprise. In the experience of the past this may be assumed as a reason for so many failures, but the assumption may not be well based. I think that a large number grouped in one family would have a greater tendency toward discord than a few, because of the dangers resulting from the great diversity of opinions on questions that might arise in their daily experience. But in the other extreme it might be equally as hazardous to risk a few, who would be subjected to the continued force of public opinion, that will be per- petually directed against the establishment of such associa- tions. I think a larger number (say from forty to one hun- dred families) will be more likely to succeed, if they are properly organized into associative groups. This gives the opportunity of classifying the divergent mental elements that would prove discordant in one group, and under this system, as you increase the number of groups, you diminish the causes of inharmony by increasing the number of chances for each individual to ﬁnd a congenial home. A few families, hedged in by the world’s cold prejudices, will become monotonous and tired of their limited associations, while a number of groups, with continued accessions to their num- sibly a gain to the liberal churches; but is it the best way to advance by tearing down one to build up another? The world is growing both in the direction of liberty and conservatism ——the orthodox becoming more liberal and the liberal becom- ing more conservative, and precisely this is what both should do. It is none too soon that these self-styled orthodox in- quisitors be taught their place. They would do well‘ to think of what is just to other men’s reputation. It is surely no light thing to circulate a falsehood and seek to weaken or ruin a minister’s inﬂuence. Such persons are usually so bigoted and self-righteous that their consciences carry little power of rebuke. They are so orthodox that they cannot be wrong. Another inference I make from the text and the subject is the peculiar gifts and powers of different ministers. They are many and different, but in their places are useful. Noth- ing was more distinctly recognized in the early church than this difference in the gifts of religious teachers; and when the Corinthians would make these differences the cause of divi- sions in the church, Paul corrected th_e evil by rebuking their carnality, and assuring them the church owned all these diversiﬁed gifts, and was the richer for the possession. We would do well to study this lesson in our day. Dr. Patterson made a generous and just allusion of it in Prof. Swing’s case, saying that his mind is “ half poetic and half philosophic.” It is just from this combination that we get that loving heart and subtle thought which constitute the charm and enchant- ment of his style. It is not just to judge such a man by a cold criticism, nor to follow him with a remorseless logic. Let him be himself and do his own work, and reﬂect the light and love of God through the mind and heart that God gave him. The church needs Paul and Apollos and Cephas; it needs the strong reason of Paul, the impetuosity of Peter, the oratory of Apollos, and the love of John. Let Swing preach and Patton teach logic, let Moody exhort and Sankey sing, let Spurgeon dogmatize and Talmage declaim, let Beecher rouse the world with his bold, strong oratory’. and Chapin set truth like gems of beauty in his polished essays; let all churches use all powers for good, and let the Metho- dists never give up their peculiar life and methods until the world is ﬁlled with song and experience, and in this way shall God be best revealed and the greatest good done. The only man we don’t need in this short earnest life is the fault- ﬁnding heresy-hunter. bers, will give the required diversity of associations, and wean them effectually from any longing desire to return to the false conditions developed in the present order of so- ciety; while the greater the number of groups, the more power we have to command respect and control the preju- dices from the outside world. This is the advantage that I claim for the grouping system over the many attempts that have resulted disastrously by attempting-to harmonize too great a diversity of mentality in one family. Our location is amply sufficient for the accommodation of 100 families, and I consider that number much safer than any less number for the reasons given, and further. that numbers well provided with a diversity of employment will preserve the extremes in mental and physical development, so essential in the conjugal relation. A small family, with limited. associations and a similarity of employment, will in a few generations develop such a sameness, as to utterly destroy the conjugal relation and produce degeneracy in the offspring. These reasons I deem sufﬁcient to account for the many failures in the past, and a sufﬁcient guarantee of suc- cessiin our mode of organization. JOHN WILLcox. THE GENEROUS RUSSIAN PEASANT. It is impossible, even at this distant period, to reﬂect without horror on the miseries of that year known in Lower Wolga, by the name of the “ Famine Year.” I remember the sum- mer, whose scorching heats had dried up all the ﬁelds, and the drought had no relief but from the tears of the ruined farmer. I remember the cold comfortless autumn, and the despairing rustics crowding round their empty farms, with folded arms and sorrowful countenances, pondering on their misery, instead of rejoicing, as usual, at the golden harvest ;_ I remember the winter which succeeded, and I reﬂect with. agony on the miseries it brought with it. Whole families left their homes to become become beggars on the highway. At night the canopy of heaven served them as their only shelter from the piercing winds and bitter frosts. In those days I lived on an estate not far from Simbirsk, and, though but a child, I have not forgotten the impres- sion made on my mind byvthe general calamity. In a village adjoining. lived Flor’Silin, a poor, laboring peasant, a man remarkable for his assiduity and the skill and judgment with which he cultivated his lands. He was blessed with abundant crops, ‘and, his means being larger than his wants: L I i ‘I I , . June 20, 1874. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY3 “C his granaries even at this time were full of corn. The dry year coming on had beggared all the village except himself. Here was an opportunity to grow rich! Mark how Flor Silin acted. Having called the poorest of his neighbors about him, he addressed them in the following manner: “My friends, you want corn for your subsistence. God has blessed me with abundance; assist in thrashing out a quantity, and each of you take what he wants for his family.” The peasants were amazed at this unexampled generosity; for sordid propensities exist in the village as well as in the populous city. The fame of«Flor Silin’s benevolence having reached other villages, the famished inhabitants presented themselves be- fore him and begged for corn. This good creature received them as brothers, and, while his store remained, afforded all relief. At length his wife, seeing no end to the generosity of his noble spirit, reminded him how necessary it would be to think on their own wants, and hold his lavish hand before itiwas too late. “It is written in the Scriptures,” said he, “ ‘ Give, and it shall be given unto you.’ ” The following year Providence listened to the prayers of the poor, and the harvest was abundant. The peasants who had been saved from starving by Flor Silin now gathered around him. “Behold,” said they, “the corn you lent us. You saved our wives and children. We should have been famished but for you; may God reward you—He only can. All we have to give is our corn and grateful thanks.” “I want no corn at present. my good neighbors,” said he; “my harvest has exceeded all my expectations; for the rest, thank Heaven, I have been but an humble instrument.” They urged him in vain. “No,” said he, “I shall not accept your corn. If you have superﬂuities, share them among your poor neighbors, who, being unable to sow their ﬁelds last autumn, are still in want. Let us assist t em, my friends; the Almighty will bless us for it.” “Yes,” replied the grateful peasants, “our poor neighbors shall have this corn. They shall know that it is to you they owe this timely succor, and join to teach their children the debt of gratitude due to your benevolent heart.” Silin raised his tearful eyes to heaven. An angel might have en- vied him his feelings.—Karamsin. PLURAL WIVES. How woMEN TAKE To POLYGAMY. Mr. John Codman has published a book in New York on polygamy in Utah. We make the following extract: The women themselves are not adverse to polygamy. Among the working classes in the country they say it pro-- motes a division of labor. The Utah farmer’s wives do not have the overworked air of the women in our country dis- tricts, who are obliged singly to bear all the children, and do all the work of the family. I was astonished to hear polygamy advocated by ladies of education and reﬁnement; among them a. school teacher Who strongly favored it, perhaps because she was no longer young. At a hotel where I was staying, I met a young married lady of one of the dﬁrst families of Salt Lake. Two of her inti- mate friends were with her. One day, when they were out of the room, she asked me, “What do you think of A—— ?” “ She is a charming girl,” I replied. “Indeed she is,” ex- claimed Mrs. B. “ I do wish B. (her husband) would marry her. I should so like to have her with me all the time.” The Mormon women believe that in the other world a mar- ried woman arrives at a higher sphere than an unmarried one, and that one who is willing that her husband should have another wife has a still higher place. The men share in the same belief, and think that the more wives they have the happier they will be in the future. Strange as it may seem, the arrangement appears to work better when the wives are sisters. It is not uncommon for a man to marry several of them. Perhaps it is for the sake of having only one mother-in—law. Unless a visitor takes up his residence in a family for some time, he cannot be a judge of its domestic happiness or misery. I was never inquisitive while visiting Mormon families. Sometimes conversation was volunteered. A very respecta- ble gentleman in Salt Lake city remarked: “ The only dif- ference between our people and yours is, that we marry our concubines—you don’t.” One argued against Gentiles, that there were many unmar- ried young men in Utah, and yet no houses of prostitution there, while in other communities, where the same propor- tion of married and unmarried men existed, all of them were infested by brothels; therefore, those houses must be mainly supported by the married. A Gentile lady asked a Mormon lady, with whom she was on intimate terms, how she could bear the knowledge that her husband was passing his time with another woman? She replied: “ Certainly it is not pleasant to think of, but we have this advantage over you, we know where are husbands are, you don’t 1” The other might have well retorted that in such a case “igno- rance is bliss.” A gentleman catechised me in this way: “ What do you think of the majority of women in Salt Lake city? Do you think that they are virtuous or not, it being understood that polygamy is justiﬁable ?” g I “ With that exception, I believe there is no city in the world where they are more so.” “ How does it compare in this respect with New York or Boston?” “ Most favorably.” , “ What are the average wages of shop girls in those cities ?” “ I believe about $3 per week.” “ Doesn’t it cost them about that for boardand lodging?” “ I should suppose it might.” “ Where do they get their silk dresses, then?” “ Well, there are many of them who don’t have silk dresses; and some of them who do have them get them ’ honestly. A great many of them undoubtedly do what they ought not to do.” “ Yes, and wouldn’t it be better for them to be No. 2, 3 or 4 in a good family than to earn money in that way ?” “ That’s a matter of taste for those young women to con- sider. I don’t think it is polygamy that keeps your women virtuous. It is their simple habit of dress. When fashion asserts its authority in Salt Lake, and takes charge of your decks, look out for breakers. ’ ’——The Lincoln (N eb.) Blade. THE FINEST SILKS IN THE WORLD. N 0 one would have believed some few years ago that our fashionable ladies would have worn articles of domestic manufacture, and yet at the present moment the most beau- tiful and popular silks are those proceeding from the looms and dyes of the Cheney Brothers. They are fully equal in texture, ﬂexibility and weight to the very best from Antwerp, Lyons or Spitalsﬁelds, and it is only fair to predict that with the steady advance in science, our home manufactures will fully equal in every requirement the most exquisite fabrics of Europe. For durability the silks of the Cheney Brothers are superior to all those of foreign make, and their last manu- factures justify us in the belief that they will achieve that brilliant lustre which is so great a feature in the best manu- factures of Lyons. The success of Cheney Brothers in reach- ing the ﬁnesi; shades of color is perfectly wonderful. ‘ We mayinstance their ﬁne shades of the principal positive colors and their blacks. Their indeﬁnite and fashionable colors are also a remarkable success. In the drab and Quaker shades, the fashionable grays, the wood-colors and the browns, as well as the long list of neutrals, Cheneys’ American silks are particularly handsome, combining the depth of a velvet list with the lightness of the ﬁnest cashmere. We are not only glad, but proud, to record the success of the Cheney Brothers in a department of manufacture which public opinion had considered as pertaining to the more antique looms of France and England. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coi., May 28, 1874. EDITORS or THE WEEKLY: , I would like, through the columns of the WEEKLY to call the attention of speakers who contemplate visiting the Paciﬁc Coast during the year to our young and thriving town, located on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, seventy-ﬁve miles south of Denver. Your readers have probably heard of our beautiful scenery, and health-giving atmosphere, so I will conﬁne myself to stating our spiritual needs. We have Spiritualists among us, of all shades of belief, from the most ultra-radical to the milk and watery kind who call themselves “ Bible Spiritual- ists,” but we are without organization, and, consequently, have but little inﬂuence. My impression is, that if first- class speakers would come here they could accomplish a grand work among us and at the same time ﬁnd themselves reason- ably remunerated. This would also be a good ﬁeld for a good test medium. If any of the friends want fnrther informa- tion about the place or people, I will gladly communicate with them. The copies of the WEEKLY taken here are kept in active circulation, and their inﬂuence will be felt before long. Fraternally yours, MRS. A. F. SMITH, P. 0., Box 166, Colorado Springs, Col. THE Central New York Association of Spiritualists will hold their third quarterly meeting in Putnam’s Hall, in Waterville, on Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28 inst. A. E. Simmons and other good speakers will be present. THE Spiritualists of Herkimer Co., N. Y., will hold a two- days’ meeting at Fairﬁeld, on Saturday and Sunday, J une 20 and 21 inst. Lyman C. Howe and Geo. W. Taylor are en- gaged to speak. 2? MILECEI) ST., BosToN, June 7, 1874. Dear Weeltly—-Through some inadvertence my name was omitted in your last issue from the speakers’ list. Please correct the errror, as I am not only in the ﬁeld, but never felt more keenly the necessity of earnest eﬁort in behalf of the cause nearest our hearts. The meetings conducted under the auspices of Primary Council No. 1 are well attended, and Radicalism is triumph- ant. The interest felt by all the friends of freedom in the work Victoria is doing on the Paciﬁc Coast, and that accom- plished upon her route thith er, is intense. The “ godspeed ” of all true souls goes out to her in her new ﬁeld of labor, and the malice of her enemies is utterly powerless to estrange from her the love and gratitude of those who recall the mighty impetus she has given to the emancipation of woman, from the bondage of social slavery. I would say to the Radicals of the country that my address for the month of June is 27 Milford st., Boston; permanent address, New Haven, Conn. ; and that I shall be happy to respond to calls for Sunday or week night lectures. Your friend always, LAURA CUPPY SMITH. CLIPPIN GS. THE vicinity of Seventh avenue and Degraw street, Brook- yn, is very lonesome at night—so lonesome that the cats go out and wail piteously for company. The wailings annoyed Mr. Bamber who wanted to sleep. He loaded his revolver, and just as he was about to take aim at a me—o—w-ing cat on the rear fence, the pistol was accidentally discharged and the '- ball entered—not the cat, but a calf—the calf of his leg. While a physician was hunting for the ball, Mr. Bamber playfully observed: “ If Mrs. Conway hears of this, she will say that I have been performing a new version of “ ‘Lead Astray.’ ” THE mother-in-law of J aspar J ennison made herself very ofﬁcious regulating affairs in his household. She inﬂuenced her daughter in deciding not only how Mr. J ennison’s money should be spent, but where; so our married friends may imagine his position in his own house. Last Wednesdaya messenger from his wife hastily entered Mr. .’s oﬂice,an5d excitedly informed him that his mother-in-law had fallen down stairs and broken her leg. wasn’t her neck.” to himself. AT a well-known Roman Catholic Church in Liverpool, lately, it had been arranged by the choir to perform Haydn’s Mass N o. 1, but owing to an unforeseen occurrence, Haydn’s Service N o. 4: was substituted. Afterward the blower of the ‘organ, who has held the situation for many years, remarked to one of the singers: “I say, Miss, that there service went very bad, didn’t it? They never told me they were going to sing Haydn N o. 4, and I was blowing Haydn No. 1 all the time.” A SAN FRANCISCO masked ball was attended by a young lady who personated Nicotine. Her dress was made of to- bacco leaves, her necklace was cigars, and she carried a fan and parasol constructed of the weed. Wonder if she suc- ceeded in getting a match, and if she did, did it end in smoke? UNCLE JAMES, won’t you perform some of those juggling tricks for us to—night that you learned in China?” “ N o, my dear, I’m not in the vein.” “What vein, uncle?” “Why, the jnggler vein, of course.” A soMNAMBULIsTIo dry—9roods merchant out West, recently‘ rose from his couch, neatly cut the bed-quilt in two ‘with his The latter part of the sentence he spoke pocket—scissors, and then asked his terriﬁed wife if she ” couldn’t be shown something else. A GERMAN named Baker attempted to commit suicide at Ottawa, recently. He had nothing more to live for, having whipped his wife until the thing became monotonous and unsatisfactory. 7» WHEN a devoted. wife holds her husband out at arm’s length by his sore ear, and says she wouldn’t crush a worm, he realizes, all at once, how fearfully and wonderfully women are made. HAIR-CUTTING is one dollar in Prescott, Arizona, by licensed barbers. The apaches charge nothing, and make a clean out. THE St. Louis papers are reported to be in a controversy as to which of Shakespeare’s plays the Ten commandments are from. WAYNESBORO, Penn., has a haunted distillery. Just the place for spirits. KENTUCKY has introduced a new feature into its schools. When one of the girls. fails to spell a word correctly, the boy who spells it right has permission to kiss her. Several girls are fast forgetting all they ever knew‘ about spelling, while the boys are improving with unexampled rapidity. IT is now ascertained what became of “Hannah binding shoes.” She married and gave up trying to bind, because she learned that the act of a married woman was not legally binding. ‘ I “ PM so thirsty I” said a boy at work in a corn-ﬁeld. “ Well, work away,” said his industrious father, “You know the prophet says, ‘ Hoe, every one that thirsteth.’ ” THE ‘Michigan University college paper is conducted by masculine students, we believe, and they make these very gallant allusions to their feminine competitors: “They per- tinaciously keep their health and strength in a way that is aggravating, and they persist in evincing an ability for close and continued mental labor which, to the ordinary estimator of woman’s brain power, seems like pure willfulne ss.”— Christtan Union. A YOUNG clergyman being about to preach for a father in the ministry, was asked whether he would not like “to be by himself” awhile. “No,” was the prompt reply, “I am already cocked and primed.” The old minister afterward A remarked that he “ ﬂashed in the pan.” A COUPLE of neighbors became so inimical that they would not speak to each other; but one of them having been con- verted at a camp-meeting, on seeing his former enemy held out his hand, saying, . “ How d’ye do, Kemp? I am humb]e enough to shake hands with a dog.” A NEGRO philosopher discussing the relations of the races, said: “You know de turkey, he roost on do fence, and do goose he roost on de ground. You pull do turkey off de fence and he will git up again. You craps his wings, but somehow or nudder he gwine to get back on de fence. Now, you put do goose on de fence an’ he will fall off; he don’t belong dar. De turkey am de white man. He’s down now, but is gwine to get up again. De nigger is do goose. He bet- ter stay whar he b’longs.”—Chm’sm'an- Union. :-————-—>—«Q+—<-——.__. REFORMATORY LE-CTURERS. C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. J . I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. J .0. Barrett, Glenbeulah, Wis.. Chas. G. Barclay, 121 Market st., Allegheny City, Pa. Capt. H. H. Brown, Brownsville, Mo. Addie L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Prof. J . H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. Mrs. Amelia Colby, Winona, Minn. Mrs. Jennette J . Clark, 25 Milford st., Boston, Mass, A. Briggs Davis,Charlton Depot, Mass. Miss Nellie L. Davis, 235 Washington st., Salem, Mass. Lizzie Doten, Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. A R. G. Eccles, Kansas City, Mo. _ Dr. H. P. Fairﬁeld, Ancora, N. J . James Foran, M. D.,. Waverly, N. Y, ' I. P. Greenleaf, 27 Mllford street, Boston, Masp,. . L. ,A. Griffith, Salado, Bell Co., Texas. , Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. 1 E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. D. ’W. Hull, Chicago, Ill. ' Charles Holt, Clinton N . 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Having fully examined the country about Echo City, and being rested from the long and exciting ride down Echo Canyon, we again take seats in the cars and roll off to new scenes and even more wonderful sights, soon entering Weber Canyon, through which we are to debouch into the great Salt Lake Valley. Echo Canyon, to the tourist, may, as it is the ﬁrst to be seen, apparently possess more attractiveness; it may seem to be more wild and grand, most soul-stirring and wondrous, and from the speed with which one is ﬁrst- dashed down and through its narrow deﬁles, unapproachable by anything that may follow; but that into which we now pass, if not so awe—inspiring in its general‘ features, is more beautiful in its special attractions, and will live in its effects upon the observer long after the more general features of “The Echo” have faded. - Leaving Echo City in the direction of Weber Canyon, the train moves down the Weber River, closely following its serpentine course for about ﬁve miles, when it suddenly entersthe narrow deﬁles of the Canyon, as if about to plunge into the very bowels of the mountains, which rising hundreds of feet perpendicularly toward the sky, seem as if they had opened their ponderous jaws only wide enough for its entrance, and as if luring it on to swallow it ﬁnally, when far enough entangled to forever hide its mysterious disap- pearance from all that is left behind. Here, again, the train increases its speed as if impatient at the ﬂight of time, and as if itcould not brook the delay between the present and the fate to which it seems to be invited. With scarcely space for a “foothold” it dodges around a sharp, rocky projection, and then, as if it were the only wayto maintain its course, it jumps to the other side of the river, and rushes onward in its uncontrollable career; and anon back again as though dis- satisﬁed with the change, or in wild dismay at the in- creasing diﬁiculties, which, at every moment rise to bar its further progress. Thus the train rushes headlong down the narrow pass until it seems to have become accustomed to the wild career, and suddenly emerges into a somewhat clearer and broader way, where a single tree stands, sentinel-like and alone to say to the passengers that they are a thousand miles away from Omaha. This is known the world over as “the thousand mile tree,” and apparently informs the trav- eler that the dangers of the remarkable deﬁle over which it presides, an ever vigilant and faithful sentry, are purely of the imagination. Leaving the solitary tree behind to tell its tale to other thousands who weekly pass that way, one would suppose that the regions of hell are being entered, since the points of in- terest here begin to assume, or have been given, his satanic majesty’s commonest appellation. Whether it is “ The Devil’s Slide” because it is through it that the traveler slides out of “ Christendom” into “Mormondom;” and whptlier it is “ The Devil’s Gate” because through its portals one passes from the former into the latter, we were not able to *earn; but left to our own solution of the matter, we could , be laid, conjure nothing so consistent out of the names by which two of the most remarkable sights on the whole line of the Union Paciﬁc Railroad are known. The Devil’s Slide is really a remarkable freak of volcanic power. The slide consists of two tiers of immense rocks set on edge, reaching from the summit to the base of the mountains, which here are many hundred feet high. The space between the tiers is regular and about ﬁfteen [feet in width, and for the most part is as smooth as if it had been largely used by some one, if not himafter whom it is named, to slide from the tops of the mountains into the torrents of Weber River, into which the slide enters and there ends. The stones of which the slide is composed are from ﬁfty to two hundred feet in height——vast ﬂat slabs—standing as if forced out of the sides of the mountain by some internal power. As the train approaches this place the engineer ap- plies the brakes (the Westinghouse being in use on this road, as it is on all well regulated roads), and its headlong pace slackens almost to a halt, in order that the passengers may have a “ square look” at this most wonderful sight; but not many seconds does the “iron horse” cease his breathings. The brakes are “ whistled off” and by the aid of a few ter- rible snorts, which sound like thunder within the narrow walls of the deﬁle, the train is again hurrying down the Canyon, as if eager to reach and pass the gate, which at one time barred the way into what is now virtually Brigham’s domain. . At some time unknown in the past, the Devil’s Gate, through which Weber River now ﬁnds a passage down the gorge, was not opened to accomodate its waters. Perhaps the “genius” which presides over the destinies of this region foresaw,_that there would come. a time when the civilization of the East would require “ quick connections” with that of the West; and, perhaps, it snuffed from afar, the "enterprise based upon the Credit Mobilier and sighed for a few of its promising shares, as a premium for its forethought in opening up a way through which this might be made. Let this be as it may, some power, for which no human mind can now acccount, by its magic wand, parted the ponderous mountains just enough to permit the roaring waters to tumble into the vortex be- yond, and by the aid of a little tunnelling, the iron bands to over which civilization may pass hither and thither. Having forced the barrier,the train almost ﬂies down the tre- mendous grade until glimpses of the open country beyond be- gin to be gained, and with decreased speed, as if weary from‘ the terrifﬁc labors of the last hundred miles, the train passes in- to Great Salt Lake Valley, and the eye of the tourist, for the ﬁrst time, rests upon the surface of the celebrated lake, from the character of whose waters the valley takes its name. Uintah stationis the ﬁrst stopping-place after having fairly left the Wahsatch Mountains, and is twenty-ﬁve hundred feet lower than the station, bearing the same name as the moun- tains, only ﬁfty-eight miles to the rear. It was near Uintah station that one of what are known as “the Mormon atroci- ties” was enacted, this one being designated “The Morrisite massacre.” The Morrisites were dissenting Mormon, who followed Joseph Morris, an apostate Mormon—who claimed, against Brigham Young, the title and position as “ The true Prophet.” The. parties whojwere the subjects of this massa- cre were about ﬁve hundred men, women and children. Those who escaped death at the time of the capture, were condemned to hard labor, and such as were not disabled by age, were “ balled and chained,” and with these appendages were compelled to work for the new Mormon Temple. They were, however, quickly released from this bondage by the interposition of the pardoning power exercised by Goveriior Harding, who, soon after the sentence, arrived in Utah as the new territorial Governor. Eight miles beyond Uintah the Union Paciﬁc ﬁnds its western terminus at Ogden Junction. The train having ar- rived at a few minutes past six in the afternoon, the confusion begins. Everything——passengers, baggage, expressage and the mails—has here to be transferred to the cars of the Cen- tral Paciﬁc, which are in waiting upon the opposite-—thc southern—-side of the depot. This business of transferring is no inconsiderable task. Sometimes there are as many as three large cars loaded to their fullest extent to be dischar“ged of their contents. The passengers are almost exhausted by the terrible stretch to which their minds have been put by the scenes just passed, and their stomachs are craving for the choice eatables, whose delicious ﬂavors, issuing from Mr. Erb’s well-loaded tables, tickle their palates, and they are eagerly anxious to be “ on hand” when their baggage shall make its appearance, so that the rechecking may be done in time; all this, combined with the persistent applications of the “runners” for the hotels at Salt Lake City, which all tourists are supposed to visit, and the eager solictations of “ticket speculators ” to buy and sell tickets to San Francisco, is quite enough to set the most quiet and self-possessed indi- vidual by the ears; and, if words prohibited by the (which ?) Mosaic commandment be not freely indulged in, as ﬁrst one and then another of these “ accommodations ” are encoun- tered, it will not be because.the will is not good enough to send forth a perfect volley of them. But the forty-ﬁve minutes in which it was expected that the transfer was to be made, at the . end of which time the train would leave for San Francisco, stretches into an hour and a half or longer, giving every one ample time to attend to all “ the necessities ” of the occasion. In the meanwhile, however, those who were to visit “ The City of the Saints” have departed over the Utah Central road for that place, June 210, 1874. where they arrive about nine o’clock in the evening. All “ Gentiles” who visit this place of course stop at the Walker House—a new hotel, recently erected there, in the southern portion of the business part of the city, by the Walker‘,broth- ers, the great Gentile merchants of Salt Lake Valley. The hotel building is a ﬁne work of art, the ﬁnest, perhaps, in the place, while its internal arrangement and conduct would do honor to any Eastern city. The gentlemanly proprietors of this house are rapidly gaining the conﬁdence of the public which travels in this country, by their attendance to all the needs and comfort of travelers, always worn and weary when they arrive within its hospitable shelter. The long journey of eleven hundred miles made from" Omaha in sixty hours, though as comfortable as travel can be made in everything that pertains to the railroad, is not as well furnished with good eating-houses as it ought to be. The charge of a dollar ought to secure a ﬁrst-class railroad meal everywhere, and it does at several points; but at others there is a lamentable deﬁciency, which puts the travelers out of conceit of endeav- oring to live from the eating-houses and drives them to the lunch-basket. After a long, dusty and weary ride of six hours or more, for the hungry passengers to hasten to the table expecting at least a palatable meal, and to ﬁnd nothing but a villainous cup of slop-cold coffee and a tough and unmanageable “ chunk” of antelope with which to sat- isfy the demands of the stomach, is by no means an agreea- ble thing. One, schooled in the effects of satisﬁed and un- satisﬁed hunger upon people, can, by going through a train immediately after it leaves an eating-house, tell whether the passengers have enjoyed a good meal or whether they have been treated to a “mess of stuff.” The dietists may talk, scientiﬁcally, about the advantage of a “ spare diet,” and.ex- hibit their sparer-faced illustrations of good health, but we believe in a stomach that requires a generous amount of gen- erous food, and that can rebel in earnest when its demands are not fully supplied. We haven’t the slightest doubt but in the future the preparation of food, merely aslregards ﬂav- ors to please the palate, will be one of the most highly e's_ teemed as well as necessary arts. It is a great mistake that charges the almost universal dyspepsia of to—day to unhealthy diet. It is true that, when the dyspepsia is acquired, certain kinds of food will irritate the stomach more than others, but the causes of this disarranged digestion lie in entirely differ- ent and, perhaps, remote directions. . If, however, a person arrive in Salt Lake City and stop at the Walker House, after, perhaps, being half starved for nearly three days by encountering bad eating-houses one- half of the time, he will not catch the dyspepsia there, but on the contrary will soon regain all he may have lost. But as we did not intend a dissertation on dietetics we will permit “ the arrivals” at the Walker House a sound night’s sleep and speak of what they saw in the morning in ournext. .?._?,._4.,._4%___.__ THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. If there is onefact in modern society, more horrible, and at the same time more sorrowful, than any other fact, it is that one which relates to the death-rate among the young from the time of conception up to ﬁve years of age. It is one of those things against which almost everybody willfully shuts his eyes and professes to think that it does not exist; and everybody pretends to everybody else that he knows nothing about it; while on every hand—in every household- the young drop off like leaves before the autumn wind. Perhaps many assume this pretended ignorance from the fact that, knowing they can do nothing to remedy the ter- rible condition, they do not wish to be annoyed with the inevitable, and put it one side as the most consistent thing to be done under all the circumstances. But this enforced ignoring of one of the horrible facts of modern society is engendering in society itself a morbid condition of mind regarding children which, if not speedily checked, will prove fatal to civilization itself. The present tendencies cannot continue a score of years longer, increasing in vol- ume and strength as they have increased for the last score, without wiping at least the American race out of existence, or else eradicating from its conscience all scruples in regard to human life. It is with this fact in our experience as it is with all other facts. Its ﬁrst effects are visited upon the innocent young ——its objects; but, secondarily, the effects react upon their subjects and work their utter demoralization. This law of compensation is operative throughout the universe and in all its various parts. If the sphere of its operations are in the physical world or among human beings-—in their mental, moral or spiritual natures—~the re-action is as certain as the action itself. It is like the positive electrical current which speeds to the utmost parts of the earth and returns, whether there is a prepared conductor or not, negatively, to its source. No matter how much is gained, for the present, by any act, if it be not in accordance with the law of justice it will come home to its subject and be repaid with all its ac- cumulated mass of inhumanity. Whoever really compre- hends this law of compensation cannot afford to do any me a wrong any more than they can aﬂ.’ord to do themselves a wrong primarily. Humanity when it comes to a knowledge of this law, will be ready to become a common brotherhood. It is from this view of the subject that the treatment given by the present generation to its children is to be specially deplored. It not only slaughters them with unthought of rapidity, but through its reactionary inﬂuence it is causing an involuntary suicide to settle over the fair face of hu“ “V”/“* ~-», ' : .’‘~ + . '. --._._l I... N»-n_ T, . ..,+. > ‘ . . ...., _r An. __._4«;;., if *V*" . .-, < ---n V-‘rt 7-. - June 20, 1874. WOODHULL & c“LAFLIN'suwEExI,Y. '9 inanity, which will eventually sweep off the race as though a pestilence were holding a high carnival. Such will be the compensation which humanity is preparing for itself in the not distant future. But it goes on its course rapidly nearing the precipice as if there were no legitimate results to ensue. It is seemingly indifferent to the life or death of its young. Its practices cut them down like grass before the scythe. Parents de- posit one-half of their young in the grave-yards before they reach the age of ﬁve years. What a commentary is this on the social condition! One-half of all the children born, dying before they reach the age of ﬁve years—victims to the ignorance and to the sexual debauchery that prevails among women! Childhood ought to be the healthiest period of life; but in our condition it has degenerated until it is ten times more fatal than any other period. And yet we talk of the sacredness of human life as if it was so regarded at all ! A human life is a human life and equally to be held sacred whether it be a day era century old; and that custom which cuts off one-half of the young almost in infancy, is as virtu- ally murder as would be the same death-rate among adults resulting from compelling them to the use of life-de- stroying food. Children die because they are not properly cared for. If adults received equally improper treatment as children receive, they would die at the same rate; but adults, being capable of judging for themselves as to what is proper and what is improper, by choosing the former, decrease the death-rate ten times below that which obtains among the classes who depend upon others for their treat- ment. ' Let society ignore and repudiate these facts as much as it may, there can be no escape from the verdict that the children die because they are murdered——not deliberately by the knife of the assassin, but not less deliberately, through the ignorance and willful carelessness of mothers. There may be an excuse for the murderer who, in the heat of pas- sion, provoked beyond the capacity of his nature to endure, strikes down his tormentor; but for the mother who will permit herself to become the means of giving life to children only to see them drop off, having never come to a realization of what life is—-if there is an excuse we have not yet been able to ﬁnd it. If parents should fail to send their children to school when there are good schools provided for them, and as a consequence they should grow up in ignorance, and be in- capable of entering upon a proﬁtable citizenship, such parents would justly be responsible for the fact; then how much more should they be made responsible for this failure to so rear their children——when they know they have a right to life, and that by proper care they would have it—tl1at they may enjoy the blessings of health and acommon length of life. But this fact regarding the indifference to life that exists among parents is not perhaps the worst feature of modern society. It is not only a fact that this terrible death-rate persistently continues among children, but that there is still another death method not included in its horrible details, which, if possible, is still more revolting, and which is none the less a slaughter of the innocents. It is a well authenticated fact established by statistics, that as civilization evolves-—that as enlightenment becomes the rule among the people—abortions increase. Wives de- liberately permit themselves to become pregnant of children and then, to prevent becoming mothers, as deliberately mur- der them while yet in their wombs. Can there be a more demoralized condition than this? It shows a contempt for human life which degrades it to the level of what is neces- sary for its support and stamps the brand of Cain upon every woman who attempts or is accessory to it. Why should the birth-rate decrease as the people become more enlightened? Is it to be supposed that sexual com- merce is less frequent among this portion of the human race? No! Is it that conception is less liable to follow with educated women than with their more ignorant sisters? No! Why then the fact of fewer children with them? Sim- ply because with increased knowledge comes increased individuality; and with increased individuality, ‘increased repugnance to submission to the slavery that child-bearing almost necessarily entails in our society as at present organ- ized; and with these also the knowledge that pregnancy can be broken up, sometimes with little present evidence of evil to the, otherwise, mother. , Some wives procure a half dozen abortions per year. On the island of Manhattan, with its million population, it is calculated that there are not less than one hundred thousand abortions procured annually. This does not lessen the number of births by that number, since as we have said, some women procure several, during the natural period of gestation, when if that period were not interfered with there would be but the single pregnancy. If this practice prevail so widely among wives, who have no need to resort to it g“ to hide their shame,” but merely to prevent an increase in ‘the number of their children, how prevalent must it be among the unmarried class who have social death staring them in the face when they become pregnant without the consent of the canting priest or the drunken squire? Nor must it be inferred that the crime of abortion is con- ﬁned to the large cities. Aknowledge that pregnancy can be “cured” has spread like a simoon over the country and apparently enveloped the whole female population. This knowledge, coming to a single woman in a country town, soon spreads to every other woman; and thus this pestilence runs riotous everywhere. Not lo11g since we were in a small town——a county seat—of ﬁve thousand inhabitants in Michigan, where a prominent physician—a reliable man—in- formed us that upon that day he had been importuned by six different wives of» the place to procure abortions. Six different wives in a single day in a small town desiring to rid themselves of the results of undesired sexual commerce ! What a comment upon modern society is this! It must not be supposed that this is exceptional; on the contrary we have the best of reasons for believing that such wholesale desire is the rule with all women who have learned that abortion is possible, even at the risk of life. “We have heard manvwomen declare they had rather run the risk of losing their lives than to endure the certainty of mother- hood. _ The last census of the city of New York discloses the fact that there are 12,000 childless families there; not such as have had and lost children, but such as have never had them born. Can.the world look on such a fact and not realize that nearly every one of these twelve thousand wives resorts habitually to the abortionist; or else has learned the trade herself ? It is useless to try to escape the fact. Wo- men know that they can be relieved of their prospective children with very little immediate danger to their lives; , while remote consequences, even when realized, have no preventive effect. We are aware that many women attempt to excuse them- selves for procuring abortions, upon the ground that it is not murder. But the fact of resort to so weak an argument only shows the more palpably that they fully realize the enormity of the crime. Is it not equally destroying the would-be future oak, to crush the sprout before it pushes its head above the sod, as it is to cut down the sapling, or to saw down the tree? Is it not equally to destroy life, to crush it in its very germ, and to take it when the germ has evolved to any given point in the line of its development ‘B Let those who can see any difference regarding the time when life, once begun, is taken, console themselves that they are not murderers having been abortionists. But horrible and revolting as are the facts of abortion, per se, they are as nothing compared to the evil that is wrought in cases where it is attempted without success. Notwithstanding the fact itself is so common, the desire for it is many times more so. It is safe to assume that four in every ﬁve of the children of whom mothers become preg- nant are not desired; that is, they would not have exposed themselves could they have helped it and have known that it would ensue. The more horrible results of abortion than are the facts themselves, are those that fall upon the chil- dren. No mother can have a desire spring up in her mind to be rid of the child she carries in her womb without im- printing the thought, the possibility of murder, upon its facile mind. The power for good or ill that the mother pos- sesses over her unborn child, is too well established to need veriﬁcation by us here, and hence it is certain that mothers may make their children just what they wish them to be, they themselves being possessed of the capacity to comprehend the desire. The only limitation to this propo- sition is that the father may contribute tendencies in certain directions which the mother may not be able absolutely to overcome, and which may therefore resist the mother’s inﬂu- ence. Outside of this single modiﬁcation, mothers are wholly responsible for the degraded, demoralized, half- made—up race of children with which the world is blessed or cursed. It is their mission to bear the children, and they are responsible for the manner in which they are born. True, men have the responsibility of the support of women in our society as organized at present, and so far may be said to be equal responsible with the mothers; but mothers are primarily in fault since they have it in their power to pre- vent becoming the mothers of unwanted children.. It is no excuse for them to say they are compelled to undesired com- merce and thus become pregnant against their wills and mothers of bad children, from the fact that unless they sub- mit themselves, sexually, to their husbands, as commanded by Paul, there would be no "peace in the house. We ask the women of this country to consider carefully the subjects thus hastily presented, and see if they do not ﬁnd in them an unanswerable argument for sexual freedom for themselves, so that they may have the control of their maternal functions and thereby be able to bear children only when they desire them, and such as they desire. But if their consciences have already become so scared over and their natural instincts so blunted, that the future condition of their children has no effect upon their actions, let them remember that every unwomanly act of theirs, visited upon their children, is certain to come home to them in its own good time. In fact the penalty is already being fearfully repaid by a very large portion of womankind, in their degenerate sexual condition, their weaknesses,aches and pains, never known until the methods of nature were begun to be tampered with. An ignorant infringement of any of nature’s laws produces the same results as if it were done willfully. So women, though they may triﬂe with their ma- ternal functions, and not be aware of the direful. results that are sure to ensue, suffer equally with those who do the same, knowing them. But ignorantly or willfully, the women of this age are preparing a fearful reckoning for the race, by their submission to the slavery of sex to which present cus- toms and social systems have committed them. A sexual degeneracy is being insiduously disseminated among the people by the unnatural repressions and the excesses perpe- trated in the name of the sexual instinct. Naturalness is almost blotted out of the experiences of this instinct, morbid excess on the one side} glutting itself in the ﬁeld of utter inanity on the other, while adaptation and natural selection are utterly ignored as if they should have no place in the relations of the sexes. So much stress has been placed upon legal correctness that ‘nature has either been smothered or perverted so that law might have full sway. - We speak of these things in connection with the subject of child-murder, because originally they are the foundation for it, since if there were no sexual commerce except that which is natural, there would be no reason for this crime. And yet there are still to be found apparently intelligent people who seem honestly to think that the social question ought not to be discussed publicly! The cause of almost all the evils from which the race suffers, and not to be dis- cussed as if it were a factor in modern society! For our part, so long as the terrible effects of our unnatural sexual system continues to desecrate humanity, there is no other general well-being of the race is so intimately involved. But we will leave the matter for the present by quoting again from the article in Hm'pe7*’s ll/Ictgaeme for May, enti- tled “The Skeleton in Modern Society:.” “The statistics show _a constant increase in the number of still—born children; and the records show what is still more alarming, arelative increase in the number of legitimate children who are still-born—a fact which seems to indicate evil designs in the married parents. It is remarkable that while illegitimate children die far more frequently in the ﬁrst year, those of them who survive the ﬁrst year, live longer than the offspring of married parents.” ~ “ We need not look abroad for the horrors of child-mur- der when our own newspapers are fullof its shocking details. The mortality in foundling asylums is usually frightful, amounting to about seventy-three per cent. of the children admitted. It is still more strange that when the foundling basket is at hand, child-murder does not decrease.” >-<Q>—« OUR BOOKS, SPEECHES AND PHOTOGRAPHS. By reference to the head of ‘the third page of the WEEKLY, our readers will see that we have revised the list and the prices. The speech, Tried as by Fire; or, The True and the False, Socially——just published—has been received by the large audiences to which we have been speaking recently, with the most complete approval. It is believed that no unprejudiced, inquiring mind can fail to be convinced of the necessity for social—sexual—freedom, after having care- fully read this speech. Both at Salt Lake City and Virginia City, Nevada, where it was delivered as the second night’s lecture, it was declared to possess more food for serious thought than all else that has been said on the social ques- tion. It is also a complete refutation of the idea that has obtained considerable ground and that is persistently in- sisted upon by some interested socialists, that Free Love as advocated by the WEEKLY and its Editors, means nothing beyond the mere fact and statement of freedom. We trust that our friends who have not already obtained these several speeches may do so at once. They contain, together, a careful elaboration of all the principles and posi- tions that we have advocated during the several years of our reform work, and will give to the careful student such an insight into Social Freedom and Industrial Justice as will prepare him or her to safely take up their advocacy. The price—seven speeches for one dollar—puts them within the reach of all people. To such as will order to sell again a very liberal discount will be made from even this low price. The readiness with which these speeches sell may be in- ferred when we state that we frequently sell ﬁfty packages to the audience after a lecture. Such of our friends as are able ought always to have some copies of these speeches at hand to give to skeptical people with whom they may have conversation. Much good may be done, generally, even in this small way, to advance the cause of general reform and to wake up the people to a realization of the fearful condi- tion into which the race is settling, sexually and industrially. Read the list carefully over and order as your ability will permit. 0 GLANCES INTO A PIT. When Cardinal Wiseman was nominated by Pio Nono, Archbishop of Westminster, the see of‘ London being then oc- cupied by Dr. Bloomﬁeld, he assured the latter, in one of his admirable lectures, that their labors, though in the same dio- cese, would not be likely to conflict, “for,” said he, “my main work will lie in the alleys and by-ways of this great city, where your lordship’s carriage is rarely or never seen.” Like him, the WEEKLY can afford to leave to the J enkinses and J eames’ the task of painting the doings of the fashiona- ble world, its duty is to report the wailings of the wounded, and to picture the agonies of those who are -ground into pow- der under the wheels of the car of what is called modern civ- il.ization. Some three years ago, in Washington, a band of brave wowen determined to see what they could effect in order to improve the condition of the “female rottes” of that city. (Out of respect tothe large number of male prostitutes that exist among us the WEEKLY declines to use any harsher term in reference to their mode of existence.) These brave Women before-men-= tioned meant work, and not being of the Pardiggle order, their visits to their sisters in houses of assignation, etc., were largely productive of good. Among other efforts they have question to be considered in which the health, happiness and 0 10 V WOODHULL & 0LA,FLIN’S WEEKLY. June 20, 1874. $4 succeeded in founding a “ Girls’ Reform School,” and lately Mrs. Sara J. Spencer addressed the “ Congressional Commit- tee on Public Buildings and Grounds,” asking for national aid for the-purpose of carrying forward the great work they had undertaken. In the course of her admirable address she tells her experience as a visitor to what are called houses of ill-fame thus: In one house of ill-fame in this city I found, as the chief attractions for visitors, ﬁve children of ages ranging from - twelve to sixteen years. ' Upon expressing my horror to the keeper of the house, she said: “The gentlemen, even white-haired old men, pay the highest prices for ‘tid—bits.’ It don’t pay to keep old girls.-here. The youngest one here was seduced by her mas- ter, a respectable married man, at her service place, and ran away from her mistress. If I should turn these children out I should like to know who would take care of them? You can take them all if you choose. I;jwon’t stand in their way. I shquld like to get out of it myself, but nobody will trust me.’ The other day I was sent for to come home in haste. In a little room at the foot of the stairs, upon the ﬂoor, lay a little ﬁgure, with a white, chiid—like face, bearing traces of mortal agony. We placed her upon a cot, gave her so e nourishment, for she was nearly starved, sent for a la y physician, a member of our board, and before the evening was over learned her history, which has since been conﬁrmed by those who knew her. She had been “ on the town” since the age of twelve, having been at ﬁrst lured into a den and locked up for three weeks. The night before she was brought to me she had been turned out of a little room because she could not pay her rent. She walked up and down the street, with a tiny bundle in her hand. penniless, hungry and cold. Late at night she earned a dollar at her usual trade. Fifty cents of this she was obliged to pay to a woman for the use of a room, and she was upon the street again with ﬁfty cents in her hand, and sickness coming on. She asked awoman to let her stay all night, and to give her apiece of bread and but- ter for ﬁfty cents, which she did. Pain would not let her sleep, and at ﬁve o’clock in the morning she was frightened at her condition and started for the station-house. She was too late. The mortal agony of motherhood had come, and she lost her child upon the street, and_not daring to look be- hind her, lest, as she said, “a ’pliceman might knowit and ’rest her,’.’ she hurried; on to the station-house, and asked an offi- cer if he would take her to the poor-house. She said he told her “he didn’t take none ’o them there no more; she’d bet- ter go to the Woman’s Christian Association.” This was two miles away and she had not a penny. So she dragged her suffering body to their door. They asked her if she had a letter from anybody. “No, nothing at all but the d’rec- tions from the police-station.” Then she must go to some one whom they named and get a letter. Another mile and back. It was now late in the day, for she had moved very A slowly the long way out, and she had eaten nothing since she bought the piece of bread and butter the night before. She Walked half a mile further, and then dropped upon a door- step where aman was smoking a pipe. She asked him how far it was to the lady to when she had been sent. He told her. and she said, “ I can’t get there then, for I done give out.” He told her “ she had better go to Mrs. Spencer’s; that wasn’t far off.” She does not know how she came to be lying on my ﬂoor. This was two weeks ago. When, even within a few days, my heart has grown faint with the long, weary struggle to secure help for these poor girls, I have thought of that suﬁering little girl dragging her way through the nation’s capital, and I have grown strong again. These are sad pictures of the moral condition of the na- tional capital. Such effects are not without causes, and, in all human probability, if we looked for the latter we should ﬁnd them tenanting gilded halls and marble palaces. It is not believed that such would be found, except in rare instan- ces, among the working classes, for labor protects her vota- ries from such meannesses. The sexual purity of manual labor- ers is proved in this and all other civilized countries by their increase; the vices generated by idleness are the bane of aristocracies whether of blood or wealth. There is little doubt but that, traced home, we should ﬁnd supporters of such houses as those described above in the halls of legisla- tion, notwithstanding that the members of the Senate and House of Representatives are daily instructed as regards their moral duties by chaplains of all Christian creeds, with the occasional variation of a Jewish rabbi to aid and assist. After the exposes that have been lately made -the J oss wor-j shipers have a right to rejoice that their bonzes or priests had nothing to do with the formation of the moral or immoral characters of the members of our halls of legislature. No doubt they point out what may be termed our national de- linquencies to their people, in order to warn them against ex- changing Buddhism for Christianty, or say, with Shylock, in contempt, “These be the Christian statesmen,” and add a codicil to their wills giving more explicit instructions with regard to the removal of their bones to their beloved China; rejoicing that such immoralities are not the order of the day in Pekin. » This is not too strong language in which to describe the dis- - gust that all right-thinking people must have in reading the descriptions above given of the viciousness and the gross in- humanity existing in Washington. It is not more pungent than the statement made by the Hon. A. G. Riddle, Solicitor of the Board of Trustees of the Girls’ Reform School before the Congressional committee on the subject, viz.: If what Mrs. Spencer has said to this committee has not convinced your judgment and moved your hearts, no words 1‘ ‘ can avail. 0 Inllilanvee been a personal witness to the long, fearful strug- gles of this lady, who, with_a few other brave_souls, three years ago began this enterprise with the whole tide of popu- lar prejudice and ignorance and moral evil against them. When they visited the women whom they Smlght t0 SW92 there was no opposition there. The outcry was nearly all from our “respectable” citizens. _These lost women and ‘girls met them gladly, came out without entreaty in large Iiumbers, and placed themselves under the protection of this little band of women, willing to be instructed, glad to be saved glad of the promised opportunity for honest labor. I am ashamed to say our Christian community utterly failed to sustain the noble work-—1gnominiously failed. Work money, promises, everything failed, except the boundless courage and faith and hope of these brave women - to on. - WI1? £30: 1dIsY§ra}d§11?o ci5vilization, a disgrace to the name of Christianity‘ but I am compelled to say there is no place in the capital of the nation wherein these outcast girls can re- ceive shelter instruction, honest employment, human kind- ness Nobody will take one of them. No family will risk it. The stain‘,is too deep, too dark, because it is a woman who has fallen. The term “fallen” applied to such sexual error, is an in- sult to the majority of men who lie ﬂat on their backs in that particular. That is the only exception that can be made to the above statement. Indeed, as regards both extracts, all that can be said of them is that they are both effective and necessary. Our Christian readers will have reason to rejoice that there are two human beings bold enough to speak the truth on such subjects, and take comfort in the knowl- edge that so many out of the necessary ten good people are there to save our capital from the fate of the cities of the plain. —?— ON THE RIGHT TRACK. The Catholic Church is the true opponent of Spiritualism. The battle lies between absolute authority in religious affairs on the one side, and absolute freedom on the other. But there are courtesies in war between honorable opponents. Irving tells us that when Queen Isabella joined her husband who was then encamped before Granada, the gallant Moors de- clined to ﬁre upon the ten thousand knights or ‘cavaliers who formed her retinue, but permitted her cortege to pass unmo- lested. It is therefore with pleasure that we dip our colors to our ancient foe by making an extract from the Catholic Irish World, which represents over one hundred thousand subscribers, by reprinting one of its leading articles in its last week’s issue : ' “ The Civil Rights bill was passed in Congress on May, 1st. This bill does not infringe on the rights of any one. It is a simple act of justice, making all men equal according to law. No country can be said to be free where disabilities exist in consequence of either creed or color. There was considerable opposition .to the passage of the bill, but, of course, such opposition was expected. There are yet some people who do not believe that colored citizens ought to possess the same rights as white people. There are those, too, who do not believe that some white men should possess equal rights with others. Besides, no achievement of any importance was ever attained without having to encounter considerable opposition. But every man who believes in the doctrine of justice and equality to all men, irrespective of creed or color, will hail the passage of the Civil Rights bill with welcome.’’ , This kind of talk is worthy of the countryme n (and the des- cendants of the countrymen) of the great Daniel O’Connell. It will prove more efﬁcient for effecting the freedom of Ire- land than the monster guns England is new manufacturing will ever be to prevent such achievement. When Irishmen, to use the words of Emerson, hitch their wagon to the star of human rights, it will not be long before Erin will see the Green ﬂoating above the Red. ——-—-—-—>-—<0+—-4—:—-—— LIVE AND LET LIVE. This is a good motto for traders. And if the Ohristidn Union is any authority it is likely to be introduced among the churches; only a few days ago the Rev. Stephen Tyng, J r., at the dedication of a Method ist Church, complimented that sect at the expense of his Episcopalianism, and the above-mentioned paper carries out the idea at the expense of the Bible in this wise: The Presbyterian laments that “beyond all doubt a large element is yearning for the inclusion of Unitarians and Universalists within the pale of recognized evangelical fel- 1owship.” To this the (Universalist) Leader replies: “Perhaps it may sooth the grief of our neighbor to be as- sured that the yearning is not all on one side. The Univer- salists and Unitarians reciprocate the feeling; they have beenyearning for the inclusion of the ‘evangelical’ brothers for a long time.” - And they cast down every man his rod. and they became serpents. But Aar)n’s rod swallowed up their rods.” (Ex. xii., 12.) This is all very well among snakes. But for any Christian sect to try to swallow‘ all others is poor business. There must yet be churches that shall be Christian enough to retain members who do not limit their philosophy to the creeds of men, and gentlemanly enough to let other churches thrive without a desire to swallow them.—Chrt'st13a,n Union. It is evident that the editor of that paper does not belong, nor even desires to belong to a “ Catholic” church. His motto appears to be, “the more (sects) the merrier.” The WEEKLY can excuse the levity with which he treats the “ Blitz business” he refers to, for in truth the whole story of the Pentateuch, as proved by Bishop Colenso, is rather snakey. Coupling the Um'on’s joke with the nick-name of Ormuzd, which 0. B. Frothingham lately gave to his Deity, we can perceive that the work of disintegration is going rapidly forward among the churches around us, and like brother Paul, when he came to the “three taverns ” in the Appii Forum at‘ Rome, we feel inclined to go in and take courage. ' »-40>-4~———-——~ CLERICAL CRUELTY. The Rev. Charles Voysey, the London correspondent of the Index, of Boston, whose letter in condemnation of the social movement has been so liberally, or rather “ illiberally,” quoted and commented on by our opponents, has just sent another missive to the above-mentioned paper commending the use of the cat. ' He says: Now at present the opponents of “ﬂogging” have not raised a single objection to the other modes of punishing criminals. They all admit tl_1e_morality_ of_ as well as the necessity for depriving the criminal of his liberty, compell- ing him to hard labor, making his heart heavy with silence, and lowering his whole tone by prison fare and prison disci- line. . p All these forms of punishment are degrees of torture, le_ss acute, probably, than the inﬁiction of _a ﬂogging, but 813111 very painful. _ _ _ Rightly or wrongly, then, the principle of torture is admit- ted, and the only question left for discussion is where the line is to be drawn between allowed and forbidden tortures. Were the reverend writer in New York he would learn -V .9- even in the case of the brute creation, much less in that of man. As to the punishments to whichhe refers they are not, strictly speaking, “ tortures ” like those of the rack or the cat. True, he afterward tells us that the limit to be put upon the degree of torture inﬂicted on criminals must be determined on purely humane principles. It is also denied that “humane principles” can have any- thing to do with the tortures of human beings. There is no doubt that the Spanish Inquisitors did not roast heretics, or permit them to be roasted, merely out of a desire to witness human suffering; nor did the Episcopalians in Scotland use the steel boot or the thumbiekins for a similar purpose. No! both these Sparties inﬂicted punishment, with pious sorrow, on the most humane principles—out of love for humanity. According to the Rev. Charles Voysey the executioners of the law in both these instances must have been excellent men, for he adds: “Much has been said about the brutalizing effects of the operation upon the operator. I am informed that nothing is more il1—founded than this objection. The warders upon whom this wretched task is laid approach it with quivering lips and beating hearts, and leave it with swimming eyes and audible groans. Work, even of this excruciatingly painful kind, does not degrade, when done in the lawful discharge of one’s duty, and with only feelings of pity and commisera- tion for the criminal. I have seen something of these men myself; and, if there is anything more remarkable about a prison warder than about another officer of the same rank outside, it is the wonderful tenderness, softness and suscep- tibility which he displays, and which may be traced in a. great measure to the intensely sad scenes in which he lives and toils. The very necessity for a stern and ﬁrm demeanor toward those whom he pities calls into unusual activity sen- timents of tenderness and sympathy toward the unhappy creatures under his control.” Who ever before heard such wretched twaddle as the above. If it be correct, our young students of divinity, or even the reverend writer himself, ought to serve for a time as public executioners. Certainly, in the case of the latter, if it would soften his heart and teach him to love his fellow- beings, such a probation is very much needed. But the above deiﬁcation of the Jack Ketches of the prisons is not sufficient for the sucking Torquemada of London. We close with one more extract from his concluding paragraph: “ On the whole, I am inclined to the belief that ﬂogging for certain offenses is perfectly consistent with our holiest idea of punishment.” - That is, we surmise, that punishment by the cat comes as near an orthodox hell as possible. Well, we are glad such a spectre from the dark ages should have no affinity with our social movement, and also to note that the Index seems to think it necessary to season his letter “ cum grdno sales," by following it with an article headed “ The Lower Arch,” giv- ing the statistics of prison punishments. Its termination, on A the use or abuse of that punishment, though addressed to an American clergyman, may be proﬁtably submitted to the Rev. Charles Voysey himself: “It is respectfully suggested that, before again expatiating in print on the comfort and salubrity of the ‘ Lower Arch,’ the chaplain withdraw for a season to those ‘ sequestered shades,’ and thus, putting himself in the convict’s place, be enabled to write of it more feelingly and understandingly.” ..___.__.._..,._.__..__ COLLECTIVE VERSUS INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION. While we are as bitter opponents of individual aggran- dizement as the Great Nazarene himself, we admit the ne- cessity for, and the great use of, public wealth to a nation. We think Joseph was wise in storing up corn in Egypt against the time of famine, and believe British Christians would have been wise if they had instituted a like provision in India, a country which is now suffering under a grievous famine, of which the system of government there is be- lieved to be a prime cause. Neither a people, or a man, how- ever, ought to store up money when it can be beneﬁcently used to judiciously improve their condition; for in both cases money is like manure, spread over the land and well worked, it produces abundantly, but gathered up in heaps it is apt to breed pestilence and destruction. In nine cases out of ten the money is master of the millionaire, rather than the millionaire master of his money, and nationally the retaining of a large surplus only stimulates greed and cor- ruption among those who have the handling of it. There- fore when we desire that the nation should be rich, we qualify the remark by saying, that by riches we do not sim- ply mean money, but such wealth as is capable of producing the largest interest for the people who own it. Grand men, full men, and complete men cannot be pro- duced without proper education ; and this education is the result of the circumstances under which they exist. The British system recognizes this fact, and consequently class- iﬁes mankind. These to rule, those to traﬁflc, and the rest to produce. Though the traders and manufacturers there are now rising into rulers, it is only of late years that this has been the case. As to the masses, they are needed for producers and for nothing else, , the British system, which obtains here also, sacriﬁces them wholesale for the commod- ities they produce. Dismissing, therefore, what are termed in Great Britain the lower classes, we propose to take the British Noble, who is unquestionably the grandest production of that country. We do so, because if we cannot produce his equal, or his superior, republicanism here and elsewhere must eventually prove a failure. In other words, if we cannot place the masses of our people on his plane, our theory of human equality is a degradation to be shunned by humanity, rather than an example to be admired. I _ Born, in all probability, in a castle, which has been held “that the principle of torture ” is notadmitted. by Mr. Bergh I for centuries by his ancestors, from hisentrance into life I 2 " L”, ‘ﬁre’ \ an ” V-"J 4/ ‘I June 20, 1874. 'WOODHULL &: CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. . 11 he has been surrounded by whatever is grand and magniﬁ- cent. Added to this he is usually" well trained, physically, and accustomed to the sports of the ﬁeld. It is not expected of him that he should overtax his bodily powers, like the weaver, the miner, or the mechanic ; or degrade his soul by the daily and hourly meannesses which are usually demanded of the traiﬁckers. When he goes to Eton or Harrow, or afterward to Oxford‘ or Cambridge, he is expected to meet the commoner with equal weapons on equal terms, so that by the time he has ﬁnished his education he is an expert both in arts and arms, and ﬁtted to take and maintain an honorable position either as a statesman, or as a defender of the rights of his country. What the British Noble would probably set most store by, the WEEKLY deems of litttle account, viz. : his pure patrician blood. If my lord’s . plowman’s child were educated and trained from babyhood in the manner above speciﬁed, it be- lieves that, on arriving at manhood there would be but little difference between the son of the noble and the descendant of the serf. Queen Victoria seems to have been also of this opinion, otherwise the Prince of Wales would not have been wet-nursed by the wife of a Welch gardener. The doctors tell us that milk is merely white blood, if so, there is cer- tainly a plebeian mixture in that of the heir apparent of the British crown, and, in all probability, as there is hereditary disease in the Royal Family, the young man is none the _ worse for it. Byron, himself a nobleman, admits in Don Juan that a dash of the Moor in the family of a Spanish Hi- dal go “Ruined its blood, but much improved its flesh” and similar liaisons have, in thousands of instances produced similar effects in regard also to most if not all the old Nor- man families of the British nobility. But this is a digression. The question for us as republi- cans to solve is, can we educate our whole people in a way similar (or superior) to that of the English Noble. What we mean by education is not book learning only: it is the constant instruction of all the senses, and by such means informing the mind and building up the man. Well, we maintain that we can ; but not under our present imported system of political economy that sacriﬁces the general welfare for individual aggrandizement ; we must invert the terms basing individual progress on general welfare. We cannot individualize in our republic as great Britain has in the case of her nobles, but by concerted action we can do far more for the education of our whole people in what is beautiful, grand and excellent,}than any feudal family has been able in centuries to accomplish for the instruction of its children. We have a great book in New York that is more proﬁtable than the bible for the study of the people of New York city. We mean the Park. One such there ought to be in every city, aye, and in every township. Pub- lic zoological and botanical gardens ought to be introduced among us ; geology, mineralogy conchology and all ;:the other ologies ought to be studied by our people from books printed by nature. Lecture halls free to all ought to be in- stituted, and would be, if our rich men knew how to invest their money mostlproﬁtably for themselves and their descend- ants. As without such studies men can hardly be said to be men, but human labor machines, the time of work must be shortened for the general good. ' But, in order to provide the above institutions on a proper scale, it is requisite that the nation should be rich. The monstrous aggregations of individuals, out of all proportion to the services they have rendered mankind, must be pre- vented. Men must seek their individual good in the general welfare, and not depend upontheir isolated hoardings for their position in society. In the good time coming we trust that it will be disgraceful to be wealthy. Even now, in Great Britain, noble families which have preserved in their chateaus for centuries the c72.e_f—d’oem>res of masters in the art of painting, are sending the same as presents to the national gallery of London. They are merging selfhood for the eye—education of the masses. The old placard on the Queen’s Garden (N 0 dogs nor footmen admitted) is taken down, and instead of it notiﬁcations appear round the artiﬁcial lake in the same garden to the effect that, “ the public are respect- fully requested to take charge of the waterfowl.” This is an advance. We claim here also a share in the same. The ‘ .brutal notice, “Keep off the Grass,” is ameliorated to “ Please keep oﬁ the grass ;” and the railings are taken away from some of the public parks. The people are trusted, and being trusted, are educated. But both New York and Lon- don are yet behind Paris. In the revolution of 1880, the population of Paris having defeated the Swiss Guards of Charles the Tenth, mad with victory, rushed through the picture gallery of the Louvre, possibly the fullest and ﬁnest in the world. Excepting the portrait of Charles the Tenth and his sister the Duchess de Berri, not a picture was injured. The meanest gamin in Paris knew that it was his gallery, his property, and felt himself to be a constable to protect it, and not a barbarian to injure it. It is by such means that peoples are educated. And if our republicanism is to endure, such schools of art and science must here be commenced. The people can produce, for their general instruction, far ﬁner works than kings, much ‘less nobles, can individually command. One, if not two such, our young republic has already presented to the world, and they are rapidly making the circuit of creation. Al- though aristocratic innovations are usurping and aiming to deface them, they are and must be held essentially for the good of the masses. They are the world’s schoolmasters—- the railroad and the telegraph. It took the proudest aris- tocracy the world ever knew, that of Great Britain, eight centuries to produce the post-coach, and, by comparing its speed and power with that of the locomotive and the rail- cars, we can arrive at something like a conclusion as to how much superior, under a proper system, the educationof our people ought to be to that of the isolated nobleman of Great Britain. This is the work before us. We must conquer the individual by the collective idea, and the barriers that cir- cumscribe the former must be overturned and annihilated. ...___..._._,_+g+—4—-———————-- MISCELLANEOUS. THE HAUNTING FACE. I said: “ I will not know thee whence thou art, And, though thou livest, thou art dead to me; I seal thee in thy cofﬁn, far apart From all my life, from all my memory; I weight thee down with ﬁrm resolve and scorn, Within thy outcast grave to lie forlorn." And yet, thou hauntest me! I said: “ 0, face, I bring thee all my gold, With jewels, sandal-wood and spices rare; I bring the dearest years my life doth hold, To-build a royal tomb, where thou in state Shall lie, with guard of honor at the gate.” And yet thou hauntest me! I said: “ Thou art not beautiful, 0, face! Thy cheeks are wan; thy far-oﬁ': eyes are dim. But here is one with budding, youthful grace, Who proﬁers me a cup ﬁlled to the brim - With life’s elixir. See! I quaﬁ this wine; While love’s enchantment, to the full, is mine." And yet, thou hauntest me! I said: “ The wonders of the world are vast; Mine eyes shall see them,” Forth I go, in quest Of the red-belted lightning, coming fast From out the east,iand shining toward the west; I hunt the northern lights o’er icebergs high; I seek the star-cross in the southern sky. And yet, thou hauntest me! I said: “ My heart is failing me for fear; My schemes are shadows and my hopes a dream; I grasp them, and behold! they disappear- Nor love, nor friends, nor joys are what they seem. I will begin anew; I will subject Myself, and live the straightest of my sect.” And yet, thou hauntest me! I said: “ Art here again, 0, haunting face? Speak, then, and take my curse!” The pale lips part; “ Thy life’s one love thou canst not thus efface. I but reﬂect the image in thy heart; Thine own heart knows me, though thy lips may lie; 0, false to thine own self! it cannot die, This love that haunteth thee!” —0onstcmce F. Woolson, in Appletorus Journal. ANASTASIS. (From a Discourse, Aug. 8, 1872.) This word is solely rendered resurrection in the common version. The words are not synonymous in all particulars; resurrection, in its true sense and signiﬁcance—~rising again ——does not convey the full idea of Paul. The word in its en- tirety of compoundings and radical derivations, and in the sense in which it is used by him, denotes iteration——compul- sory departure straightway from habitation, re-establish- ment forthwith in a new and superior structure, and a per- manent situationon a plane above, higher and more ele- vated than the former. There is implied a fall of the physi- cal body and its death; then an immediate erection and building up of the spiritual entity, now escaped from the ruins of the old fallen body of ﬂesh. Paul’s illustration, referring -to a kernel of wheat, is limited to the sowing of the body or kernel of the grain. Hence, to sow (spargere) is not applicable to the other bodies referred to -by him, as they are never sown, in the germinal sense. The reference to animals and to man in particular, calls for a word cognate to that kind of illustration. Hence, the words beget or procreate (procreare) should be used to give the idea of the Apostle. How absurd is the current notion of sowing or burying in the earth the dead bodies of men, and hence expecting hereafter a crop of spiritual bodies! How fallacious are the reasonings that lead to such expecta- tion! How far away from it the analogies of Paul. At this point, a word of criticism and an anecdote con- cerning the phrase in the text, as it reads in the common _' version: “ It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory.” The translators seem not to have apprehended the meaning of Paul, and hence they use the word dishonor in its common acceptation. It will have been observed that, in my version, I have not rendered the word ateimia. into English, having had regard to time, place, persons and possible offense to “ ears polite.” I will venture to say, however, that it should be rendered in the sense in which Dryden uses the word. The Latin scholar will see its meaning in the Roman words, impudicus, impudicitia, etc. An eloquent clergyman, a doctor of divinity, with whom I was acquainted,.now in the spirit realm, not apprehending its signiﬁcance in the original, and conceiving the language to teach a sewing of the human body in the—-ground, and such disposition thereof to be a dishonor, was accustomed on funeral and other occasions to speak of the dishonors of the grave!——a. use of language and expression of idea more un- pardonable in him, a scholar, than the mistake of the igno- ramus whose sermon sought to establish a just code of morals for oyster men by citing these words and elaborating them as his text, not discerning any difference between an oyster man and an austere man: “ I feared thee because thou art an austere man; thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.” Do these doctors ever examine the Scriptures in their original? And, if so, when will they tell the people how they are imposed upon by what they call the Holy Scrip- tures? I $4 These remarks are intended toe apply to the accepted ver- sion—that “appointed to be read in churches.” It is pain- ful to listen," on occasions of burial, to the reading of that portion appointed to be read at funerals, uttered in a kind of mock-mouthing and mournful intonation, that has its origin in the gloom and sadness which its false sentiment casts over the scene. Rightly interpreted and apprehended, how largely might it contribute to lessen the grief of a be- reaved group! It would forever drive hence the idea gene- rated by the teachings in Sunday schools and churches, of a mysterious somehow burrowing of the body in a burial place, bound by a somewhat relation of the soul thereto, till" Ga- briel’s trump shall announce the dawn of a day, when the body, though impalpable dust, shall no longer sleep in. death; but shall be re-organized and become re-animated with its own proper soul, in re-established self-hood; thereafter to be together, never more to break companionship. To illustrate and show what these teachings are, Iwill here make a quotation. Listen a moment to a parade of rhetoric, a paragraph borrowed from a bombastic pulpit per- formance, variant from and in contrast with the views I ad- vance on this occasion: The resurrection—what a glorious and blessed prospect it will be! The glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs, starting from their graves, glisten- - ing as the stars in the sky; constituting together a glorious church, without spot or blemish, or any such thing! Some shall come from the precincts of the inquisition, from the dungeons of Spain, where so many have suffered and were silent and passed away, because they would not give up the blessed hope of the gospel of Christ; some shall rise from the caves of Italy, from the snow-drifts of Cottian Alps, where their bones, in the language of Milton, are still bleaching in the rains and Winds of heaven; a glorious group, shining in all the splendors of an immortality that shall know no interruption and experience no decay. Some shall come forth from the village churchyard, the green sod rolling aside to let them rise; and the rude forefathers of the hamlet, that have slept for a thousand years, shall meet the buried dead of the catacomb and the Cottian Alps, and join together in the worship of God and the Lamb. The great ocean, that sepulchre of buried nations, shall hear quivering through the deepest depths the accents of the Son of Man and rising from the desert aid the silent sea——what a spectacle!—shall be myriads of ransomed and glorious ones, who shall meet the rise of that sun that will never set, and join with those that preceded them, and enter into rest, and sit on thrones, and live and reign with Christ 5,, thousand years. Austerlitz, Jena, Waterloo, Magenta, Balaklava, shall all throw up their buried dead; and every atom of their dust, quickened by the breath of Christ, the Resurrection and the Life, shall feel instinct with immortality; bone shall come to bone, and shall live and reign with Christ a thousand years. This is the ﬁrst resurrection. The pulpit is not alone in such contributions of extrava, gant conception. Some of the ﬁne arts have been made to contribute their forces to perpetuate such psuedo—sentiment- among the thoughtless masses of men. The artist has de.. picted upon the canvas the impossible scenes presented by the preacher. I well remember the appearance of an old picture that once remained in the show window of a shop in Nassau street, which vividly illustrated these unwarranted ideas of old theology. High aloft in the skies, among the clouds, stood the ﬁgure of a man of majestic mien, from whose head went forth rays like sunbeams, forming a. halo round about. On either side of him were creatures, in all their. appearance resembling the human race, except in the matter of wings attached to their shoulders, poised in the air as if in ﬂight. Prominent in the foreground of the picture, stand- ing alone, one of these nondescripts held a trumpet placea against his mouth, with cheeks distended almost to burst, ing, Eolus-like. Beneath him was a landscape, from the grounds of which, emerging, were haggard human bodies, in all possible positions, some only extricated from the clods. Scene of confusion indescribable! .. Oh, believer in the Apostles’ Creed, alas,» alas for thy ere- dulity! Thou sayest,“I believe in the resurrection of the body!” I commend thee to a reconsideration of thy belief, in the light of _Paul’s Scripture and this discourse. Amen.——Dr. Horace Dresser. No'rE-.-—Pure and consistent Spiritualism rejects the creeds of Chris- tianity and holds a. higher and holier faith than they teach. The late Hon. John W. Edmunds, for many years, was ranked as a receiver and professor of Spiritualism. At the conclusion of this life,while sensible and intelligent as ever, he directed how he wonld have his obsequies conduct- ed. He chose burial of his remains at the hands of the greatest foe of his professed faith, the church and its formulary for such occasion was followed. Was he a sincere exponent of spiritualism? and did he renounce it in “ the inevitable hour?” What need of the church? Hon. Robert Dale Owen, S. B. Brittan, M. D., at al., able eulogists, were at his command. H_ D_ ._.._....-.. THE LAST RUN OF SHAD. There is no doubt of it. The American race is dying out Look at the size of the Fifth avenue noodles. Observe the Lilliputian physique and intellect of the coming father: Notice the namby pamby gait, body and talk of the coming mother! For forty dollars you can buy two—thirds'of 3 modern woman at a “ make-up store ” in Broadway. One- ﬁfth whisky,§one-ﬁfth tobacco, one-ﬁfth Vanilla ice cream, one-ﬁfth cheap muslin, and the balance oysters, diseased meat and French candy, are the component parts of a modern Murray Hill baby! - Ridiculous and cowardly cariaillel Who jeer and ﬂout the ﬁne inﬁrmities Of noble minds! Whose nature’s mean and vile, The lion’s courage, the bull’s strength despise, And sneer at all ye cannot reconcile ’ , With trite discourses! Who can claim your prize? No creature ever known to run or royster— ' Ye bid me name your chief; I name the oyster. ~—T/‘Le U7’iiSaders, How much our home comforts are dependent upon the capacity of our servants, ﬁnds daily illustration. Old lady lat a dinner party (old lady deaf and provided with car- trumpet); old lady interrogated by well-meaning waitress - “ Will she have some squash?” Old lady irresponsive and extends ear-trumpet toward waitress, who deposits squash therein and passes on. .2‘ 3 ~~m.-.»._.‘3ms . ... ‘\, “‘-a\»‘.M‘ -1 WOODHULL & .CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. June 20, 1874. IS IT LEGAL ROBBERY OR ROYALTY? Do the merchants of this country realize that the United States Government is paying to the National Banks ev..ry six months about $20,000,000without equivalent compensation? The question will be asked how is this done? Answer, easy enough. The bankers deposit in the Treasury of the United States about $400,000,000 in United States bonds, upon which the Government pay them an interest of six per cent. in gold, payable semi-annually; the bonds are free of taxation, the taxes and the premium on gold equals four per cent., making an income of ten per cent. One would think these money aristocrats would be satisﬁed with this princely income, but notﬂa bit of it. They new demand and obtain. of the Govern- ment a permanent loan in currency/(called National Bank notes) of ninety per cent. of the amount of the bonds which constitutes the stock of the banks, which money the bank in turn re—loans to the people at an average rate of ﬁfteen per cent., according to the report of the Comptroller of the Cur- rency. The bankers go down. to Washiiigton and deposit $400,000,000 of United States bonds in the Treasury, which cost them $200,000,000 in gold, and draw back of the Govern- ment $360,000,000 in National Bank currency, making these bankers just $360,000,000 richer. This operation costs the Government and people just $40,000,000 in currency every year. N ow we ask the farmer, the manufacturer and the merchant (the only classes who can ever effectually oppose this banking power) why these $400,000,000 could not just as well be paid off in greenbacks to the banker, and thus save this $40,000,000 annually, as to leave them on deposit in the Treasury, and then issue, free of interest, to the bankers ninety per cent. in bank notes? If the banker wants the cur- rency, let him take it in legal tender and give up his bonds, and so stop the interest upon them. Do the merchants, man- ufacturers and farmers have any idea of how much of the products of their sweat and toil has been transferred from them into the hands of these bankers during the last eleven years? The sum is, according to the Comptroller of the Cur- rency, over $800,000,000, as ﬁfteen per cent. compounded every six months for eleven years upon »“£320,000,000, the aver- age amount of the free loan by the Government to the banks, would net more than $800,000,000. N ow merchants, manufacturers, farmers and mechanics what have the bankers given to the people or the Govern- ment as compensation for this $800,000,000 of the people’s property, which eleven years ago they did not own? Answer, nothing! nothing! Is it not quite time, then, that you wake up to a realization of your situation? How long will it take at these rates for a few bankers to bankrupt and own the whole country? Sleep on, sleep on, until you are manacled hand and foot !—~Sunday Trcmscrzipt, Buf/’alo, N. Y. VINELAND, April, 1874. Victoria and Tenm'e.‘ I may appear familiar by thus addr

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